The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1866-06-14
The European War.

The following article from the New York
Herald will be read with interest at this
time:
In the peculiar facts and circumstances
of the late ominous speech of Napoleon, ut
Auxerre, much more than in the speech it
self, the European kings and money chan.
gers are justified in their acceptance of it
as declaration Of war.
First, the Mayor of Auxerre, in welcom
ing the Emperor, tells him that "iity one
years ago, the Emperor Napoleon III was
received in this town with such proofs of
dovotedness and joy that he retained q
vivid recollection OF them which he e1-
pressed on his death bed Cat St Helena)
in the most affecting terms,' and that the
same devotion Of the town has no more
been found wanting to the nephew "in the
days of trial and adversely, than in those
of prosperity and triumph" Here is a
good foundation, and the Emperor builds
upon it. He says to the Mayor: =" Be
certain that on my side l have inherited
the sentiments Of the head of my family
for the energetic and patriotic populations
who supported the Emperor in good and
in evil fortune" Hence he stands as u
party leader, rallying his supporters from
the masses of the French people, the ad.
herents Of the Emperor, peace or war,
against Bourbons, commercial conserva-
tives and intractable republicans. Mkt he
tells his friends what is coming, in telling
them that they elected him to the French
Assembly of the republic of 1S48, because
they knew that hisinterests were those OF
France aud that "like the majority of the
French nation, detested those treaties Of
1915, which some parties OF the present
day wish to make the sole basis of our for.
eign policy"
This means war-a revival Of the .gloire
and 'uicto ire of Austerlitz-a revival of
the empire as it stood before its expulsion
and the humiliations inflicted upon France
by the Holy Alliance, and mainly through
the peridy of Austria
A financial war panic Instantly follows.
The shop keepers and stock jobbers of Paris
are thrown into high state of alarm and
indignation. 1t becomes expedient to soft
en- down their apprehensions. Hence the
semi official journals undertake to explain
that this dreadful Auxerre speech was
perfectly harmless, aud that there was
nothing in it that Napoleon had not often
expressed before. But, in addition to the
suggestive circumstances detailed, it ap-
pears that this speech, after its delivery,
was revived by the Emperor aud forwarded
by him to the Moniteur, with instructions
for its immediate publication, and that it
Is much stronger war manifesto as pub
lished than it was as delivered. The con-
clusion is justified, that after delivering
the speech, considering the temper of his
audience and the Napoleonic France it
represented, the time and the place were
deemed proper for Napoleonic declaration
Of war.
Hence the failure of the soothing expla.
nations attempted by the semi-official
journals of the French capital. The En-
peror himself, meantime, having issued mis-
manifesto, has nothing more to say. A
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 correspondent of the Lon
don Times says that the sentiments of this
Auxerre speech "are the revenge taken
upon the commercial and bourgeois classes y
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
Franco" In other words, the France of
the Bonapartes and the empire is among
the producing classes--the bone and suew
OF the French people. 1t is the France
inherited by the first Napoleon from the
first republic 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 country, and of
Abraham Lincoln against the aristooratio
slave holding Bourbons Of the South; it is
Cesar against Pompey; 1t is Napoleon
against the Holy Alliance.
The Emperor first proclaims his party,
and then he proolaims war because he knows
that his party win absorb all other parties
IN Franco in the revival Of tho empire as
the armed dictator ofthe continent