New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-01-26
THE BONAPARTE MURDER.
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but no matter The Standards doctrine is one we
may he grateful for since 1t would certainly put an
end 10 duene if it once came to be understood that
second carrying message is liable to be shot down
by the man to whom he delivers it. The same paper
of the next day. Jan. IA. openly announces its ex-
pectation that the Prince will be acquitted If the
Court finds that he shot NJ Noir after having re-
oeived gross insult"
Inscriptions this is il is not so base as the Ian
guage Of The telegraph which finds it hardly cred
ible that any two Frenchmen belonging TO an honor
able profession having the slightest claim TO call
themselves gentlemen, should-unless they were mad
or intoxicated-kQre miruded Themselves. one Nth a
pistol ia ks greet coat pocket into the presence Of per-
tOnage Of HIGH rank"
The force Of funkeyism could no further go than
that. But read another sentence:
"On the other hand, adopting the hypothesis that
NJ Noir and NJ Fonveille had been breakfasting' too
copously. that they were excited by WINE, or that
acuaied by sheer rggqnism NOir had made mp his mind
10 strike member Of the Imperial House it is not too
much 20 say that the shooting down Of the aggres-
sor may have been, under the circumstances, jus
tifable act of self-defense"
Day after day this shameless comment has gone
Oh. There are columns OF it, but have no room to
quote more. and what have qnoted already is more
than enough am glad to say The Daily NacS is
Some Of them. The Times aud Telegraph especially
have suppressed and distorted the facts in their cor
respondencc as well as in their leading articles
II sou think my Judgment on them. that of an
American and a Liberal too severe. here Is from
source unimpeachably British and free from the
least suspicion Of Radicalism. The Pail Mall Ga.ehe
saws this morning:
There is writer in popular English ne ZylGss
md he Ia q :
rOT looking remarkably WELL and mounts his horse tOr
leans into ms carriaee) with quite astonishing On
Tuedays Thursdays and SATURDAYS the independ-
journalist regularly eXcaims that the Emperor the
most generous and kudhearted Of men; or that the
Empress has the melting soul IN the world or that
the Prince Imperial is the darling of all the young gen
temen who play with hun, and the hope OF the army
But II becomes more serious matter %nS 9i,, clg
facts III order to please people 10 please whom pays iH
t. doHe often by the Paris correspondent Of Ihe Dag
once more ne permitted in what pretends to
of the burial OF Victor Noir In fact II IL
aud about the starcase that lead to the Emperor
Dime rtable - II the publication Of tins KIND OF
be 10 possible excuse for u"
One we:d about NJ. Henri Rochefort, who is Just
now the best abused man in the English press. In
the first place. he is by birth NicOmte de LuGay of a
family going back TO the CTusades. For that ne is
neither better worse, only 1t is complete answer
to the common charge against him that his hostility
10 the Emperor is the hostility of man sprung from
rank If blood is to count, NJ Henri Rochefort is OF
older and better descent than the nephew of Corsi-
ran adventurer. He is hated in England because he
is the irTeconcable enemy of the Emperor and of
the Empire. If a Bourbon were on the throne
and Rochefort striving to upset the Bour-
bon the dislike to him would be the same
In England. Most Englishmen care little VINO
rules France. What they want, is that somebody
should rule it who is strong enough to keep the
people in order and their trade with England free
from disturbance. France to them is simply mar
ket. They denounced Louis Napoleon while contend
ing AGAINST Louis Philippe more vigorously than
they now denounce Rochefort contending against
Louis Napoleon; and for the same reason when Ma
poleon overthrow the Republic they went over to his
slde-after a time. When the Republic shall have
overthrown the Empire they will once more be on
the side of the Republic.
English journals complain that Rocheforts attacks
against the Emperor are personal and abusive.
Well have read most of what ROchefOrt has writ
ten since the LanterRe was first Published. He has
sad some things that might have been left unsaid.
Without applauding all he has written, it is possible
to make a sufficient reply to his English critics ;
which is this Nothing he has said of the Emperor
is more abusive or will adopt their favorite word
and say nothing Rochefort has said of the Emperor
is more seurrlous than what the English papers have
said and are saving of ROchefort. As to his personal
warfare on the Emperor, and his relent-
less enmity TO the Emperor. there is this
difference between Rochefort and the English
journalists. He is saying what they said in 1851
and 1852 while the atrocities of the coup d6at
yet fresh in English memories To him tTeachery
and assassination are none the less odious because
they happened eighteen years ago, nor because they
have been crowned with what the world calls
cess And if had to choose between what is called
u To- Il ,.,fr of
the English press to the Emperor would be Roche
fort thrice and four times over For his work as a
whole deserves cordial euogy and not apology, and
if there is ANY part of it which has been iudged,
had rather be responsible for all of it, and for all ne
has been falsely accused Of than for the articles
French politics in the English journals from which
have quoted sn this letter. Wv. 5.