The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1869-07-23

DEER L0D9E CITY, FRIDAY, JULY 20.
THE SHAD0WS BEFORE.
Apropos Of the unsettled condition Of If.
fairs in France. We have the following from
the nervous. magnetic pen If George Wilkes,
IN the Spirit:
"Napolconism has fixed bayonetsi The
Empire ia no longer Peace! The Emperor
has taken to military speech. making For
the last few years lie has had solid comfort
In talking to wcavers. winners, and the hus.
ban Imam. The first Bonaparte carried the
colors Of France into nearly every European
capital, and called it Glory! This one has
Carried the machinery and wares of every
capital into Paris, sad called it Exposition.
This was his victory, and he was fond of
talking about it. Austerlitz comes down to
pianos and spinning. jcnnics, and the much
coveted cross doing honor to fiddlers and
painters, and artifjccrs in metal. This might
suit England, or America, or quiet, stolid
Holland. 1t docs not suit France Napol.
conism is q fearful inheritance, and it. re-.
quires Austcrlitz, and Marcngo, and Tena to
make 1t t"lersble To take mighty nation
and make II dress ranks; to mould Z people
into thunderbolt and hurl it at all Europe;
10 take generation Of men and youths and
batter down kingdoms and principalitics,
and moss covered institutions Of church anc
state; to make France invincible, and give
her the pleasure Of trailing lier tri color over
Germany and Spain and Holland and Russia
all this people like the French will gladly
permit man like Napoleon to do. This
the First Napoleon did, and Trance wor.
clipped him! This the Third Napoleon
has been promising to do, and France has
trusted him. b. Napoleon" eaid France,
land take me. Yes, even with the bloody
hands OF the Lamardes, and coup d. esas,
with perjury and deceit and assassination
only BE- Napoleon, and am content"
Twenty.one years have passed and France
has waited, and no sun Of Austerlitz has
risen over the horizon. And yet this Bona
parte has not been without many strivings
after Napoleonism. He has lad q large
army. lie has sedulousIy fostcrcd the mill
'sry spirit. He has planned enterprises. 4"
lie has sought to be the arbitcr of nations.
IT he has not given France Napoleonism, it
las not been from q want of effort. He
fought Russia, and tried to "solvc" the
Eastern Question; but the Eastern Question
looks more loweringly than ever, and tho
Car seems about to put his frosty hands
upon the bright gem of Stamboul. lie
fought Austria, and thus "scttled" the Ital.
ian Question Yet all Italy is in alliance
With his foes, and the King upon whose
brows he placed crown may take the field
against him ut any time. He "decidcd" the
Roman question, and it is more undecided
than ever. and the poor Pope not much more
content with him than the Seventh Plus was
with the First Napoleon when in prison at
Font sincbIcau. He had conquered" China
into civilization, and China to-day comes to
bis palace an equal in sovereignty, and d..
handing fraternity and justice. lie has
enormous schemes about the Latin race o.:
this continent, and sent young Aus:risn
Prince to be the Mexican siberian of tn.
house of Bonsparte-thc champion of the
Latin nationality in America. His poor
Prince was shot like felon, and his armies
hustled out of Mexico as rapidly as village
maraudcrs in fear of the constable Twenty.
one years of Nspolconism aud no glory, no
vengeance, no renown, for the Grand Ma.
ton To be sure, France has Algicrs, but
Algiers was won by Lamoriciere, and Lam
oriciere has long been IN cxiled follower of
the house Of Bourbon. Only this-and yet
Bonaparlc is ON the throne, and Waterloo
unavenged; and just over the border the
grim English lion still crouches on the plat.
eau of Mont st. Jean Us monumental
memory and warning!
We cannot wonder that France should he
In ferment; that troops should again coun.
ter,narch in Paris; that the "hcroes" Of
the Boulcvards of 1851 should once more be
In line. The Emperor has fixtd bayonets,
and instead Of peace and grave declarations
on the subject Of bcct-sugar aud Lyons
weaving, We have him at Chalons, sdnon.
fishing his soldiers to preserve the rcmcm.
br"nce of the battles fought by their fathers
and themselves; for their battles are the
history of the progress of civilization"
"You will thus maintain" he says, 1.-THE
military spirit, which is the triumph of no.
bic over vulgar passions" In other words,
Napoleon appeals to the bayonet against the
pen Of Hugo and the press of Rochefort
He promises reform; he speaks of liberal
Institutions; he intimatcs he may withdraw
his troops from Rome; he will do anything
to save his crown pcaceably; but if the
worst comes, he has this camp 1t Chalons
y
But even France Gun weary Of this sham
Napoleon. France has ovcrthrown greater
dynasty than shAt of Donaparte. She did it
II spite of armed and united Europe. The
present Emperor should remember that les
son, and look anxiously At these gathering
and deepening shadows. 81