The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1870-08-12

the death of Napoleoo. 1t can hardl.
be eredited-his death would be heralde'
By something more than . mere rumor
Bat be might % we'll be dead-better
perhaps, if be would not survive his owl
inter overthrow for the Empire whic b
he builded is doomed, doomed past all
r-demp'ion or repreive. 1t has died Of
too much Bismark and too little Napo.
isos.
A. between the policy and purposes
Of tho late Emperor 1--WE speak Ms of a
man Who has just lost bis regular EN-.
pirr) and those of Count Won Bismark,
there is little that need disturb the tran
qnility of those whose sympa,hies come
and 90 with what they believe to be the
advance or the repression of the right.
They are both able, selfish, uncrupul.
ous politicians each has been playing
bis game Of political chess to the best
Of bis ability; AMI Bismark has proved
himself the superior player. The theory
IL . good enough one, that Bismark at.
tempted to establish a quasi Prussian
monarchy in Spain ;-on Napoleon's
right f1ank-just as Napoleon tried to
establish Franco-Austrian monarchy
10 Mexico-ou- right flank and that
Napoleon caught him at it. It is very
probable, also, that Bismark invited
proposals looking TO the absorption Of
3elgium and Northern Italy and con-
,isucus States by France, and that be
gave = verbal aeIuiescence in the same;
shils be was guilty Of the sharp pract-
ice Of getting French proposals in writ.
ing which be could 6le away for refer
euce aud expos.l. All this, We say usy
be true ; and if it is, our sympatbies
are none the less for Prussia; for while |
we naturally give our admiration to the
successful one in a game of skill as we'll
as diplomacy, we specially admire and
applaud any man who proves himself
sagacious enough to beat Napoleon at
his own game.
1t Is easy TO kick dead lion, easy to
disparags a fallen foe. 1t is natural,
now that Napoleon is down, and We
-. Id of hat .h
Ooey crow over him, but be inclined to
belittle him. Let us be wary 10 COM
hitting this blunder. No weaklipg
EVER accomplished what he has done.
There needed to be courage ,sagacity aud
,lmos, the highest order Of judgment to
insure the successes which have made
am the central European figure ever
uses ls48-a period Of twenty two
vesrs. Il must be remembered that be
'sd no g cause" to serve-like that, in
his country, of saving the Union or
working its reconstruction hs had,
'sther. to nap out his own policy-to
maze politics and esen.s, and then +,
sperin,end their prosecution. And,
nth some mistakes, he achieved many
riumpbs. He brought France through
I'd out Of the Crinean war vith the Y
osrs-or rather the eagles share of the h
'osy-tsting quite the larger proper S
o. Of the lusire which fell upon French
I'd English arms. His Italian cam
aign was brilliant, and bis Algerian q
ara though cruel, we're successes. He
et With bis first and most grievons
lime 10 Mexico and that egregious,
Id bloodsd blander cost him not ouly
. Friendship and sympathy of the Il
si,ed States, but, doubtless, that of Il
sseriA ~ we'll. But it must not be On
rgs,tea that Louis Napoleon built
lria. isio the most splendid city OF y
NOPE 'hAs he made Cherbourg the el
raj oS Croastads and Gibraltar that "
esxs France . Navy that he made :,
0 Ieumeoicsl Council At Rome . pos fe
,ility, aod that be baAs the Suez re
aal. We may dscry him A. We will "
4 rejoice over his dosnfall, but We n
ssot look upon him in any other light AT
- the abless ruler that France ever "a
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