The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-08-13

CHOSEN.
II now remains to be seen whether the
honest voters of this city and State will take
advantage of the power thus given them, and
secure fair election this fall. The Repub-
lcan party has a decided majority in the
State; ii can elect its candidate for Governor
and a majority of the Assembly if its full
strength is brought out and the repeaters are
kept at home.
JUSTICE TO LOUIS NAPOLEON AT LAST.
From the NJ Y. Sun
The swift downfall of the Bonapartes will
teach the wholesome lesson that fraud and
crime, whether in high or low places, is sure
in the long run to be overtaken by punish
ment.
For the last twenty years the world has
been forced to witness the humiliatug spec
tacle of an unscrupulous bad man directing
the destinies of great and noble nation, and
aiming at universal supremacy. Counte-
nanced by Great Britain and other interested
powers, Louis Napoleon knew no bounds to
his ambition. His wild fancy believed that
he could make of Paris the centre of the
modern world, and of himself its dictator.
When the Rebellion broke out in the
United States, this bold adventurer labored
necessarily to destroy the Union, constantly
urging upon England the recognition of the
Confederacy, and hoping to convert the Gulf
of Mexico into French lake, with Louisiana
and Texas as the new transatlantic acquis-
tons of a Latin empire The unfortunate
and gifted Prince who served as the instru-
ment in this design was shot; his bereaved
widow became stark mad; the Bonaparte
legions were driven in shame and ignominy
from Mexico, as they have now been from
Alsace; and the hero of Boulogne and Stras-
bourg, who now caps the climax of the ludi-
crous by threatening to let loose upon the
crowned heads of Europe the pestilence of
republican commotions, saw his prestige ex-
tinguished in the wicked attempt to destroy
the only powerful republic on earth.
AS from the outset of his career, the ridi-
calous is mixed up with the sublime in all
| his doings to the very last. AS he approaches
his dissolution, the ridiculous seems to get
| the better of the sublime, and Don Quixote
himself is eclipsed in the baptism of fire of
the Prince Imperial, and in the shrieks of
agony of Eugene as she anticipates the arri-
val of the Prussians at the gates of Paris.
| What would have been thought of Lincoln if
after our Ball Run, he had, like Eugenie,
rent the air with cries of desperation, and
filed the hearts of the people with dismay,
giving place to revolutionary fury?
The fact is that Louis Napoleon and
Eugenie, and young Louis-he of the bap-
tism of fre-have trifed with France in war
as in peace, aiming rather at melodramatic,
theatrical effects than at solid blows for the
|
lowed by series of cOttps de theatre like the
Crimean and Mexican, and finally the Prus-
sian wars, all intended to divert the attention
of Frenchmen from their abject political
condition, and to dazzle the impressible
imagination of that enthusiastic people. The
ple6iScituna was another of these theatrical
displays; but it revealed the inplacable an
tagonism of the enlightened classes against
Bonapartism, aud made it manifest to the
Emperor that he was supported only by the
benighted and unintelligent part of his sub
jects. Hence feeling himself most weak in
the flush of victory, he was urged on to
this last desperate adventure. The pLe6is-
cituna was a moral Waterloo, goading him to
despair; and he rushed to arms to recover
in the clash of battle the prestige he had lost
in the arena of politics. The first result is
the disastrous defeat at Hagenau; the last his
abdication and the exile from France of all
the Bonapartes.
It is satisfactory to remember that ever
since 1851 Bonaparte has never ceased on
this side of the Atlantic to be held up to the
scorn of mankind. Long before his con-
spiracy against the integrity of the Union,
| American publicists branded him as male
factor, filter for the gallows than for the
throne; and while the English Parliament
and press bowed before him in abject sub
serviency the truth about him was told in
unmistakable terms by public men and jour-
nalists of the republic he sought to destroy.
1t is remarkable, too, that the most truth
loving Of all races, the German, has been
selected to castigate and lay low the great
demoralizer and impostor of the age. Thus
finally the justice of heaven is vindicated to
men, and fraud and folly receive the punish
ment that is their due.
OUR COMMERCIAL RELATIONS WITH
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA.
| From the N. Y. Herald.
About the close of the last session of Con-
gress the Senate, on motion of Mr.. Fenton,