Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-07-27

The NapolcOnic Dynasty.
France is the only nation on the face Of the
globe that could have produced such men as
the Napoloons. Her soil is alone fit for such
generation. No other would have adopted
the little corporal and followed him through
seas Of blood, that he might aggrandize him.
self and reflect his glory on her. She was
dazled by his genius and proves, and lent
herself to accomplish his ideas. II was the
endorsement Of France that made Napoleon
! Bonaparte, and rendered him alike the terror
aud the scourge Of Europe, till the nations
arose aud quenched his baciul star in the
blood and overthrow Of his followers. Nor
is there a nation in the world that would have
accepted the nephew Of Bouapartc, or per-
mittcd him to ascend the throne aud hold it
and follow him through so many conflicts and
peris lie has had the art to please French
vanity to tickle its passion for glory, aud to
dclude France with the idea that her glory
was co.incidcnt with his ambition. lie has
made her content under his empire by declar-
ing it ever to be what it never is, and by inn
posing upon the intellect Of the nation In
the name Of freedom he has suppressed it, and
with the forms of republicanism he has es-
; tablshel the worst and scycrcst Of autocracies.
He has cajolcd the people iuto popular errors,
by which they have surrendered popular gov
ernment, and to-day he stands, by consent OF
: France, the most absolute and feared Of the
rcigniug despots Of Europe. The empire is o
popular and representative government, just
as it is peace" i.c. by the will Of the En-.
t pcror We doubt if the Gar Of Russia is 50
C absolute in his power as the French Emperor
. and his absolutism is all the greater because
the French nation believes the will of Napo
leon to be only the expression Of its will. Il
- has surrendered itself to his domination and
q because the people have chosen slavery, they
: call it freedom.
, But whom the gods would destroy they frs
\ make mad Intoxicated by the result Of thu
t pleJiscHua, Napoleon aims to extend the are
. of peace and Of French freedom to tn
: banks of the Rhine Refusing to Germany tn
. right to lend prince to the Spanish throne h
II asserts for himself the right to annex Prussia
territory to his own dominion He arrogate
}. rights for himself that he impudoutly and i'm
= periously denies to others. To prevent Ger
Il many from disturbing the balance Of power
l. he hastens to disturb and derangc it himself
d lie is ready to plunge Europe into a wa
Is whose end 10 one can predict, and who's
" blood no one eau measure, and whose miscr
no one can compute, that he may win 70
himself the dictation that he refuses to Pru,
ID STA In the annals of human strife there la
o. likely to be none so bloody. Its only motiy
as is ambition. Its only legitimate end can |
k, overthrow As Butcher and St. Helen
ne confined the mad rage of the First Napoleon
-, so another Butcher and another St. Helen
must limit the vaulting ambition of the sc
ed ond Napoleon.
X 1t is hardly possible that the other nation
DC of Europe should remain neutral. 1t is trr
no the demands of civilization and of Christian
p. ty are all for peace. War is abhorrent to il
1t, dustry, commerce, wealth, and religion
or Only the most terrible necessity will fore
~, Europe into a general contest. Every Il
tempt will be made to limit the war. Mol
, ton and argument and threatening will /
he employed to restrain the contestants and lin
rs it the duration and misery Of the conhc
Is Such attempts may succeed We trust tn,
'u ac will. But we cannot be blind to the ia
ks that there is little probability of their su
to cess. Napoleon from the FIRST has be-
'es blind and deaf lie has been obstinate
"a bent on war. His object is the annexation
Wv the provinces of the Rhine We imagine tn
ed this can only be done by conquest. Nor
lnt we believe that such Il result can be acqr
las esced in either by England or Russia.
- know that commerce has made England pus
luminous. But she is not yet insensible
10 honor She is not yet willing to see the n
- poleonic dynasty become supreme in lluroT
&C. In this last struggle of the Latin race to 9
lth the supremacy on the Continent Of the o
90 ideas which have been kept alive and pr
m. mulgated at Rome to oyerwhelm the ideas
IN. Constitutional and Protestant freedom, I
g. Anglo Saxon must eventually bear his har
n.y. The Teutonic and Saxon races must al
" against the Latin. The real causes of t
40 war lie back of its ostensible reasons. Pl
cs violence may have used Prim and Lcopol
Or to ignite the train but the train has be
l. laid for years The civilization of Pag
5"' Rome, dressed in the ecclesiastical garb of
= corrupt Latin Christianity and reaching mo
in than its old imperial sensualism in the vic
lid and Injuries Of the modern Paris, has lo
Ter had an irrepressble conflict with the Teutor
- aud Saxon civilization of Protestant Chr
,w tianity The cause of the strife lies far ba
ems of the occasion of it, and we trust when it
has over, that the dynasty of Napoleon will
ne buried as deep as the Empire of the Casa
%, We hope that both Paris and Rome will
md occupied by the allied forces of Prussia RI
IN, STA aud England The greatest nation
to, modern history is England, and when the "
vi closes we trust that the feet of her soldi,
or may tread the places they have never trod
la fore, over the mighty ruins Of the great'
w nation of ancient history
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