The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-11-04
NAPoLEON,S HEALTH.
state influence OF the Empress.

Tho Paris correspondent OF The London
News writing OH the 18th ult., says:
Your readers may perhaps remember that Twas
the first person who, even at the end OF last win
never venture to resist the onward movement
that was then beginning. Almost all the press OF
alton, and atfecles to believe tor did bcilevc) that
the Emperor would consent 10 no notifications
OF the constitution IN liberal sense NY estimate
Emr eror's character led me to the opinion | en-
pressed, and you see that ] have not been
ion because he was afrad Or not doing so he
has ended by naturaIlzing al his first ,,,Is tmeo-
fear; tho fear Of yielding too much But ] do
not think that even ut this moment. after go
oven now you arc aware OF what tic strength OF
tho anti-dynastic sentiment here has grown to.
AZ no period OF modern French history has the
public feeling OF the country been so unanimous
or SO powerful II was nothing approaching 70
the July revolution tell you that 1t could not have
had chance OF %@ success %@ had the government had
sion likely to DC produced by the fatal ortton-
7adnceS. The movement OF 1889 was very cir
the country now, and If you read one after the
other the famous articles OF the Journal lies Dc
Roi j, and any leader OF the Rappe or other ati-
vanced newspaper OF the present day, you will sec
how immeasurably preferable wos the position OF
the already doomed Charles x to that OF the cX-
hausted Cesar, who still fancles he cnn dispose
ouSisa 81 the aEmS w1 cpSpc Sp& Victor Hugo alone
dared s; able debility of health OF
me Chief OF the State has virtually subjected him
who rules now, with the notion OF being cclc-
brated as second Maria Thercsa. The Empress
e very inferior person VIII IL as have more
This obatinaCy Is held by her to be Synonymous
With power-with real strength. The principal
banishment OF all her spouses old friends and as.
ssciates. She has always disliked them intensely,
forgiven any one OF them the attempts they one
and all made to prevent her marriage with Louis
Bst as nas the
stances gave her prcponderance In the govern
ment the Empress was friendly with everybody,
Rould and with AZ. Rouher. Her first act Of real a-
ana grca. sensation It creates. It is quite true
that one argument used by the Empress is n very
strong the notorious absence OF moral
worth or personal respectabIIity on the part Of
Louis Napoleon's private friends and out-andout
sasions; and there is now no defending the per
sons She condemns. But whom does she propose
IN their steady Men politically worse, because
which they arc required to uphold. Men like
General Fleury, who remember the early days OF
the country then was know what the present
4osement means, and what It may come to; be-
rank and wealth, they arc disposed to do what,
ever may be necessary to preserve their position,
anu their sight lS pron0rtlonatcly Gharpcncd.
THere would he no reason why the man who
mainly helped to commit the crimes OF the coup
detdt without whom Louis Napoleon never would
have ventured to commit it) might not become
ME inaugurator OF all freedom In France;
all he is aiming at is not losing the advantages
he possesses, and once prove to him that the
country will have It's old liberties, or throw
OF those who refuse them. and General FleprJ
would lndubitably, were he minister. do every.
thing that his own interests demanded. But the
Empress Ideas OF government tend In thorough
ly different directions. In the 1irst place II is In
her mind, humiliation for q sovereign to be die
tated to by the people, and she looks upon what
Is called "1rmncssn an o cardinal virtue ION the
eve OF Hs NJ. GuiZot, too, said that resistance
was the only form OF progrcss';) and added to
this, the first duty that the Empress holds to be
incumbent on France is that OF forcing the yoke
Of the Papacy more and more upon tile popula-
tion. Now, In all these attempts she meets with
the resistance OF the so-caled encourage, who
are by no means Papistcal. She has been for the
last two years trying to get rid OF General Flcury;
but, after the many deaths that have deprived
The Emperor OF his old companions, PcrsigiIy and
Fleury are about the only remaining ones, and
the Grand Ecuper endured.
Before leaving for her Eastern Journey, how
ever, the Empress achieved the virtual exile OF
her adversary. The General petitoned for Flor
ence; but the Empress insisted on N. de Maarct's
remaining there. To his perfect annoyance, then,
FlenrJ is dispatched 10 Russia and the Empress
has succeeded.