The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-05-30
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T The following article from the New
York Herald win beread with interest
Mt this time:
T In the peouliar facts and circuta-
stances of the late ominous speech of
Napoleon, at Auxerre, much more
than in the speech itself, the Eu-
ropean kings and money changers
are justified in their acceptance of it
as declaration of war.
First, the Mayor of Auxerre, in
welcoming the Emperor, tells him
that 'tffty-one years ago, the EN-
peror Napoleon T. was received in
this town with such proofs of de-
votedness and JOY that he retained a
vivid recollection of them, which he
expressed ON his deathbed lat st.
Helena( in the most affecting terms, )"
and that the same devotion of the
town has no more been found want
ing to the nephew tsin the days of
trial and adversely, than in those of
prosperity and triumph" Here is o
good foundation, and the Emperor
builds upon it. He says to the
Mayor: .sBe certain that on my side
Z have inherited the sentiments of
the head of my family for the ener!
getlc and patriotic populations who
supported the Emperor in GOOD and
In evil fortune" Hence he standsas
a party leader, rallying his support
ers from the masses of the French
people, the adherents of the EN-
peror, peace or war, against Bour-
bons, commercial conservatives and
intractable republicans. Next he
tells his friends what is coming in
telling them that they elected him to
the French Assembly of the republic
OF 1s4S, because they knew that his
interests were those of France and
that like the majority Of the French
nation, I detested those treaties OF
1916, which some parties of the
present day wish to make the sole
basis Of our foreign policy
This means war-a revival Of the
':gtot,r" and 'trictoire' of Austeritz-
revival of the empire as it stood
before its expulsion and the humilia-
tons inflicted upon France by the
Holy Alliance, and mainly through
the perfdy of Austria
A financial war panic instantly fol-
lows. The shop-keepers and stock
lobbers of Paris are thrown into a
high state of alarm and indignation
It becomes expedient to soften down
their apprehensions. Hence the semi
official journals undertake to explain
that this dreadful Auxerre speech was
perfectly harmless, and that there was
nothing In it that Napoleon had not
often expressed before But, in ad-
dition to the suggestive circumstances
detailed, it appears that this speech,
after its delivery, was revised by the
Emperor and forwarded by him to
the M0niteu,', with instructions for its
immediate publication, and that it is
a much stronger war manifesto as
published than it was as delivered.
The conclusion is justified, that after
delivering the speech, considering the
temper Of his audience and the Ma
poleonic France it represented, the
time and the place were deemed pro-
per for Napoleonic declaration of
war.
Hence the failure OF the soothing
explanations attempted by the semi
official Journals of the French capi-
tai. The Emperor himself, meantime,
having issued his manifesto, has
nothing more to say. 4 word of
peace from him would suffice, but he
does not speak it, In short, all
things being ready, he has given the
signal for war. The Paris CORES
pondent of the London Times saws
that the sentiments of this Auxerre
speech ARE the revenge taken
upon the commercial and bourgeois
classes, the advocates Of peace; that
the Emperor cannot ''breathe freely"
among them; but that he goes
among the working men and the
peasants to find the true genius of
France" In other words, the France
Of the Bonapartes and the empire is
among the producing classes-the
bone and sinew Of the French peo-
pie. 1t is the France inherited by
the first Napoleon from the first re-
public and by the present Napoleon
from the second republic. 1t is the
empire by the will of the people.
Herein lies the strength Of Napoleon.
1t is the strength of the many against
the few; of the masses against the
aristocracy; OF Andrew Jackson
against the old United States Bank
and the old Wing party of this coun-
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