The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1871-03-03
4hHrelIaneuns Selections.
ANTE HELLUM.
"How Napoleon Went to war"-A
Record of Untold Events.

How Napoleon Went to Wa1"-A
Record of Untold Events.
"Azamut Batuk," who has long
been a correspondent of the P0h
Nal Gazette at the seat of war, sup
plies the issue of that Journal dated
January q, with an interesting ar
ticle under the head, "How Ma
poleon Went to War" The writer
had an opportunity of spending q
fortnight among the Impelialists,
whom the fall of Sedan had thrown
into Belgium, and he thinks an &C
count of what he heard and saw
there may not be worthless. H,
then says: "Truly speaking, stale
news is often the only news worth
having; fresh news is seldom accu-
rate. So, for instance, in July all
the kilograms and correspondence
tended to show that it was the EN-
peror who began the war, and that
! 1t was be alone who threw France
into the subsequent disasters. Yet
some day it will appear that such
/ was not the case. The Emperor was
one of the worst rulers that ever ex-
exlsted-one Of the men least fitted
both by his personal qualifications
and his origin to sit upon the i'm
perial throLe of one of the first ma
tions in the world. But as regards
the war, be is much more innocent
in it than the Imperial courtiers and
the population of Paris. True, he
had created the shameful Tuileries
Court, and made the population Of
Paris what it was four months ago
after twenty years of imperial rule.
But then the truth requires it to be
said that if the elements for forming
such a court and such a population
were not inherent in the people itself,
one man could have never made
them, still less q man with the ca-
pacities of Napoleon III. Almost
the same language as the Countess
of Pagerie held was employed by the
Countess of Pourtales, q thorough
French lady by birth, daughter Of
the same Baron Bussiere whom the
Prussians still keep in prison for no
other reason than, having married
his daughter to a German, he did
not himself become a servant of the
Berlin Cabinet. Now, the Countess
OF Pourtales has always been too near
to the Tuileries to remain silent;
and her celebrated letter to General
Drucot, which the General quoted
afterward when writing to Tro, hu
clearly shows in what sense she must
have Spo en- to the Empress. la
one word, Napoleon knew-at any
rate, he had a very confident ex
pectation--that he would never see
Paris again. He had been urged in
to war by the Court, who constantly
frightened him with the bugbear o.
the growth of the Republican party,
which had shown itself so formida-
BILE at tlIe time of the plebiscite. He
had been urged, on the other hand,
by the people of Paris, from whom,
after King William had repeated to
Benedetti at Ems the celebrated
word of CambrOnne, the preserva-
tion of the Empire could pc bought
onIg at the price Of yielding to their
cries of "a Berlinw That Napoleon
was quite prepared for a disaster is
obvious not only from what he was
told, but from the preparations and
arrangements he made. From the
mouths of those who saw him every
day, heard that in the month of
July he caressed his son more than
he had done in the whole Of the
chiId's life. He is believed to have
taken him to the Amy of the Rhine
from a dread of being separated from
him in any great disaster. 1t was
only when the command was no
9Anger in the Emperor's hands that
he gave up $50 his friends declare J
the idea Of carrying the child with
himssk under actual fire. This is
not the only proof, however, Of the
Emperor's opinions as to the result
of,the campaign he was then enter
ing upon. When the Tuileries had
been invaded after the proclamation
of the Republic, the absence ofmany
thugs known to have been there
formerly showed what measures had
been taken. The so called Jewels
of the Crown had all been deposited
in the Bank of France, but not q
single piece of jewelry belonging
personally to the Empress was to be
seen. The Empress was supposed
to have taken all away, brE then the
silver plate had also disappeared.
The magnificent gold and silver Ia
BILE service presented to the Empe-
ror by the Sultan, the Car Alex
ander and the ViUeroy Of Egypt,
were all gone. The splendid cradle
of the Prince Imperial, presented by
the Town Of Lyons, was also not to
/, be found. The magnificent collec-
tions of treasures of art which Ma
p0leon had accumulated ct the pal
aces of St. Cloud and Compeigne
were also no longer to be seen. All
these had been removed long ago.
From the very day when the war
had been declared the railway sta
ions of the Nord, of Strasbourg,
. II of Orleans, (for Spain, were
"A lmmed with gigantic boxes bear
no away to various destinations the
,en 'onal property of the imperial
ami y, and one can not help asking
,ns'A self how it is that nothing OF
his bsa found its way to Publis ~