Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-04-28
A RONAPARTE CARDINAL.

Napoleon the First, the foremost man
of all his time, if not of any time, came of
a great family The FIVE brothers were
all men of more than ordinary power,
eclipsed, indeed, by the respondent &C.
MUS of the great Emperor, but each one
possessed of gifts, that even without the
endowment of thrones and principalities
with which he ghaced them, entitled
them to eminence Their descendants,
too, are of no mean order, as witness the
present Emperor of France Attention
is directed afresh to this remarkable race
by the recent election Of Lucien Bona>
parte, the grandson Of Lucien, the
youngest of the FIVE brothers, to the Car
dinalate of Rome in his fortieth year A
London Catholic journal thus describes
him:
1t was impossible not to be struck by this
man amongst the clergy of Rome are
many men of singular fervor of piety, but
the one ambition of this man seemed TO be
to surpass them all in fervor. Rather tall,
and very slight of build, with a refined and
striking face, which, when once you knew
who he was, recalled the well-known por-
trait of Napoleon as First Consul-slightly
lame, and walking with stick, this man
had singulariy about his appearance
which arrested the eye instinctively. Al
ways simply, often carelessly, dressed, there
was yet something about him which sug
gested that he must be more than he seemed
to be. But the great feature about him
was his recollectedness. In a country
where the eye does much than in other
counties is done by the lips, where thought
ia rapid and yagrant, the recollectedness OF
this man, from the time he entered the
church till he left it, moved one TO remorse.
From the door TO the altar and back again
he seemed to have no sight but for God
and his fervor over his prayers shamed
every one who knelt near him. / can only
say that long before knew who he was,
and others will bear me out in it, the de-
voutness of this priest struck me exceed
ingly, and could not help saying in my
heart-this is a veritable man of God. 1t
helped to strengthed this feeling that
Monsgnor Bonaparte was apparently never
to be met with except at the tombs of the
martyrs, or in lone out-of-the way places
with sacred memories. For the last two
years he would seem to have been living in
France as quietly as he lived here and
one may truly believe that his new dignity
is true cross for him.
This dignity places the young cardinal
of royal lineage in the line Of succession
to the Papacy, and who shall say that
the world may not yet see two nephews
of the great Napoleon, filing two of the
most conspicuous positions on its surface
He made himself Emperor of France
and King of Italy, and had himself so
crowned by Pope of Rome. To feel
that his descendants-th heritors of the
magnificent success which his intellect
achieved, are ruling-one temporarily
over his beloved France, and the other
spiritually over the Catholic world, would
send thrill of triumph through the relics
lying beneath the dome of the Hotel des
InUabdes Cardinal Bonaparte is a native
of Italy, requisite established by Gus
tom, for the Papacy, and stranger things
have happened than the elevation of this
prince to the Vatican.