Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1866-06-06

The f,,low.ng article from he New York
Herald will be read with interest at this
time:
In the p:cn':ar facts and circumstances OF
tb.. l..e oni,..us speech uf Napoleon, II
Auxerrc much more than in the speech IL
sill. the Eurbeean kings and money chai!ser'
~. ils..tiad in their acceptance ol it as DE-
claratiou o,' war.
Frs., the Mayer Of Auxerie, in wrlcomln.
the Emperor, tells him thst h''y one Years
ago. the Emperor NapoleunIi was received
in this town with sach proofs OF drvoi edness
and ioy that he retained vivid recollection
OF th.ln. which he expressed on his death
bed lat St. Hvienu) in the most affecting
t.rs,s." and tl,t the same devotion of the
town has no more been found wanting to the
nephew " iu the days Of tria! and adversity..
than IN those of prosperity aud trlumpL.
Ror, il good foundation, and tue Emperor
imi IS upon it. He sayssto the Mayor: :. BE
u..t.in that on my side nave Inherited the
se.,tinsnts of the lead of my family FOR thu
energetic and patriotic populations who sup.
ported the Emperor in goo'l and in evil FIR
time" H.nce he Stands as party leader,
Ysllying his supporters from the n asses Cf TIE
Freac.' peuple, the adherents Of the Emperor,
peace or wsr, against B,,urbons, commercial
conservatives and intractable republicans.
Next he tells bis friends what is conirg il
telling them that they elected him to Tie
French Assembly of the republic of lS46,
because they knew that his interests were
those of France aud tlat "lke ;he E.aj3rity
of the French natico. l de:ested those treaties
of ISIS witch some parties of the preSeul
day wish TO mako the sole basis of our foreign
p Icy"
rnis means war-a revival of the gloire'
and rictoircn of Austerlitz-a revival of the
empire as it stood before its expulsion and
,ne hurullations inicted upon France By thc
Holy Alliance, and mainly through the per-
fdy Of Austria.
A financial war panic instantly follows
The shop keepers and stockholders OF Paris
are thrown iRio high state OF alarm aud LII
dgnalion. il becomes eXpedient to soften
down their apprehen.ions; H.nce the semi
.SScal journals undertake to explain tif,'
ibis dreadful Auxerre speech was perfectly
harmless and that there was nothing in ii
that Napoleon had not often express; DC
fore. But, 10 addition to the suggestive cir
cumstances detailed, it appears that this
speech, after its delivery, was revised By the
Emperor and forwarded by him to the lHon'
tsur, With instructions for its immediate pub
lication, aud that it is much stronger var
manifesto as published than it was az deliver
ed. The conclusion is justified, that after
delivering the speech, considering the temper
OF bis audience and the Nspoleonic France
il represented, the time and the place were
dsencd proper tor Napoleonic declaration
ef war.
Hence the failure of the soothing explana-
tions attempted by the semi-o6icial Journal.
of the French capital. The Emperor himself
meaulme, having issued his manifesto, has
nothing more to say. A word of peace from
him would suffice, but he does not speak it,
In short, oil things being ready, he has given
the signal for war. The Paris correspondent
of the London Times says that the sentiments
of this Auxerre speech are the revenge Ia
ken upon the commercial and bourgeois
classes" the advocates Of peace; that the Empe
,or cannot "breathe freely" among them ; bnt
that he goes "among the working men and tn.
pessants to hod the true genius Of France
In other words, the France OF the Bouapartes
and the empire is among the producing classes
the bone and sinew OF The French people
1t is the France inherited by the first Napo-
leon from the first republic and by the presen'
Napoleon teom the second republic. 1t is the
empire by the will Of the people. Herein
ics The strength OF Napoleon. l. is the strength
ofthe many against the few; of the masses
against the aristocracy of Andrew Jackson
against the old United States Bank and the
old Wbig party of this country, and of Abrs.
ham Lincoln against the aristrcratic slave
hodiog Bourtous of tie South it is Cesar
against POmpey;it is Napoleon against the
Holy Alliance.
The Emperor first proclaimE his party, and
then be proclailns war, becauss be knows
that his party will absorb all other parties in
France in the revival Of the empire as the
armed dictator OF the continent.