Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-10-07

in the days of their prosperity-and then
again no one wonders. fer all the world
expects sucll conduct from such charac-
tiers. r a2.F1@a ~
But, from those who have been born in
high stations and are the representatives
of noble and ancient lineage, the world
expects very different course NobleSseI
o5lige, says the chivalrous French pro-
verb; and when the great and powerful of
the earth are guilty of contemptibiesacts,
a double burden of shame attaches with
justice to them !, .
For eighteen years Louis Napoleon was
the firm friend and ally of England,
through good and evil, and often against
the inclinations of his countrymen.- Not
q cloud ever disturbed the entente cordtdle
between tho two governments, and Eng
land as we'll as France reaped abundantly
the advantages of this close alliance. Many
time the courtesies and festivities of the
Tuilleries, ST. Cloud and Coulpiegne, have
| been lavished upon varions members of
the royal family of England. In those
prosperous days after the Crimean and
italian wars, Victoria did not disdain to
rest her royal hand upon the Imperial
arm, or to exchange amenities, far beyond
the usual court etiquette, with the brilliant
and fortunate Empress.
Well, disaster came upon this i'm perial
family. One of those prodigious, almost
miraculous, disasters which al g enrolled at
once and forever among the great dramas
of history, fell upon tho Empress Eugene,
surely without her fault. If she was
blameless in her prosperity, she became
admirable in her adversely. TIE care for
the wounded, the alienation of their suf-
ferings, the anxieties for her country, her
Eer husband and son, filled up all the
thoughts of this noble wife and mother.
Even the viiest Of the Partisan raOble,
when tearing down the imperial arms and
showering excavations upon the Emperor,
uttered no word against that pure and
noble woman. Surely, ii she deserved
homage and courtesy i'll her prosperity,
she deserved it teu-fold after passing so
nobly through the furnace of adversely.
When this Imperial exile reached the
shores of England she met with nothing
but respect and reverence from the com
mon people, What q noble and proud
memory it would have been for the Eng lisll
nation if their Queen, true to the Instincts
of generosity and womanhood, had re
ceiyed her unfortunate sister with ut least
= the same hospitality that the "upstart,
usurper" Louis Napoleon, SO roy ally ex
tended to the fallen Queon OF Spain, while
declining to aid her cause. No State
reasons opposed such conrst. The
= whole nation, the whole world would have
epplauded it IA an example of true nobility
of mind and heart, and not merely oil
name. Victoria, thus magnunimonsly as
sociated with this historic wee, would have
gained new grace in The eyes OF all man
kind. But to her eternal disgrace, hel
conduct has, i'll this case, lacked the de
cency that would have been expected from
= the lowest plebeians; AID it will be recorded
that the snobbish Queen OF England had {
mind too narrow III lis scope to recognize
the majesty Of such a misfortune. She
"t0tCtlly ignore" the presence of the En-
- press and her son within her dOminions
: While her people in London are carryin;
) republican emblems in PROFESSIONS and de
4 handing the recognition Of the Frencl
Republic, she goes off TO Scotland, and
like Gallo, cares for none OF these things
Yet she should remember that more tia
one royal English exile received kingl
= hospitality from French monarchs, an
, the day may yet arrive when, :. Wales,
L dethroned by the English Republic, ma
= deem himself too fortunate if not I" e
1 nored by some other imperial Napoleoo
. Things more improbable have come t
pasa.
?. S.-Since the above was written th
following dispatch has come over th
?, cable
"Queen Victoria y@lljng to publ; sen!imen
Dc has written a letter of condoleDco to tn" ED
If press of the French. .
70 How much more noble and moro grac5
20 fpl, had this been done earlier and spol
a. taneously