The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-10-06
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NAPOLEoN's PLACE OF EXILE.
From the N. Y. Evening Post.

From the N Y. Evening Post,
r Since | commenced this letter q dis
patch from King William to the Queen
announces that the Chateau of Willhe1msl
hohe, near Cassel, has been selected as the
residence of his illustrious prisoner. This
choice-quite accidently, no doubt~-has
an American aspect curiously Interesting!
| visited the chateau a few weeks since
It is one of the lovliest and, after Yer
sailles, costliest country. places In the
world. 1t was built by the Elector of
Cassel, shortly after our Revolutionary
war, with the money he received for the
loan of some twelve thousand of his SUBJ
jects to aid England in resisting our in
dependence. The artificial structures,
waterfalls, lakes, towers, palace, etc, on
this property are said to have employed
two thousand men fourteen years in their
construction, and the cost was found to
be so enormous that the accounts were
destroyed. For these twelve thousand
Hessians sent to fight our fathers, and Eve
thousand more sent to resist the invasion
of Scotland by the Pretender, England
paid the Elector Of that day 22,000,000
thalers, or about SIS, 100000. of which
the palace of Wilhelmshohe is the most
conspicuous surviving memorial. 9ee
Dir. Bancroft, whose mind is by instinct
and training SO alive to the lessons of his
q tory, once called my attention to the strik
ing fact that every one of the European
States, including Cassel, that hired their
subjects out to resist our independence,
have lost their own. Not one of them is
any longer a sovereign power. In the
war of 1866 TIE late EIector of Cassel,
with the folly that ever takes possession
of those whom the gods would destroy,
took sides with Austria against united
Germany, and one of the consequences
was that his enchanting castle of Will
helmshohe has become the property of
his conqueror. The Elector with his wife,
= a woman of humble origin but of great
beauty, whom he bought of her husband
i for sixty thousand thalers, and her four
children, for whom he gave forty thous-
and more, are now living in. Austria up
on the wealth she accumulated by fair
means and foul-but more foul than fair,
they say--during her brief and degrading
reign ,asr 49, s 1e5,r i,s.-.agsS
Now, what in all this is most remarka
bic remains to be told All the States,
as have said, that made merchandise Of
their subjects to aid England in keeping
her American colonies in thrall, have been
swallowed up by Prussia, our earliest En-
ropean friend, with whom we never had
even diplomatic controversy, and whose
wealth and sympathy contributed in no
inconsiderable measure to sustain us
through our greatest national trials A4
Let us follow one step further the log
lie of Providence. This palace of Will
helmshohe, so lately and by series of
curious proVidences became the proper.
ty of our constant friend, is now to be-
come the prison or the asylum OF, another
sovereign who, unfaithful to the tradi-
tions of his people, among our earliest
friends, allowed himself to countenance
conspiracy which, if it did not contem-
plate, must, to be successful, have involY-
ed the destruction, in its maturity, of the
republic which had proved so fatal to
those of his order who had tried to stran-
gle it in its cradle. With his project TO
re-establish imperial institutions upon
the ruins of a republic in Mexico began.
the decline of his fortunes. Is itlnot a
curious vindication of the ways of God
to men, that this castle, built as ii, were
like the. palace of Tamerlane, though
with tho bones of our enemies rather
of his who was to first occupy it, should
be destined to afford to one who but yes
terday was erecting armed barriers. to the
spread of the ANCHORAGE in America, the
welcome shelter ofaaprison?3 Qatfals
In one sense the selection of Wilhelms-
hone for the Emperor's future residence
is. not complimentary though in all
senses most magnanimous. It is not
fortress nor a place of confinement 1t is
simply princely country residence 1t
implies no guards; no restrictions upon
the goings and the comingsiof it's new
guest. There is violent implication in
this choice that Bonaparte is no longer
name to conjure with. doubt if it ever
occurred to any of the, allied sovereighs
who visited Paris in 1916 to send the I'M
Gle to such place as Wilhelmshohe 9 81
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