The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1871-03-01
Ante BeHuFn.

."Azanut Batuk," who .has7long
been corresp pondent of the Pail Mall
Gazette at the seat of war, supplies
the issue that Journal dated january
81, with an-intercsting article under
head, ftow Napoleon Went to War.
The writer had an opportunity of
spending fortnight among the. I'm
perialists, whom the fail OF Sedan had
thrown into Belgium, and he thinks.
an account OF what he heard and
saw there may not he worthless. He
then says: Truly. speaking stale
news Is often the only news worth
having: fresh news is seldom accurate.
So, for Instance, in July al the teie
grams and correspondence tended to
show that it was the Emperor who
began the war, and it was he alone
who threw France into the subsequent
di ,asters. Yet some day it will ap.
pear that such was notthe case. The
Emperor was one of the. worst rulers
that ever existed-one of the men
le ,st fitted both by his pers s5nal quail
ficati6ns aiid his origin to sit upon the
imperial throne ofoneof the first ia
lions in the: world. But as regards
The war, he is much more innocent
in it ttian the imperial courtiers and
the population of Paris. True,,n he
had created the shameful Tul-y
leries Court, and made the population
of Paris what it was four months ago
I-after twenty years of hperial rule
But then the trutharequires it to be
said that ifsthe elements for forming
such a Court and such a population
were not Inherent in the people itself,
the mali could never have made them
still less "A man with the capacities sof
Napoleon Ill otAtnost the same Ian
guage as the Countess of Pagerie
held was employed by the. Countess
of Pourtates, a thorough French lady
by birth, daughter of the same Baron
of Bassierewhoin the gPrussians still
keepein, prison for no ether reason
than, haying married the daughter Of
OF Ge. man, he did not himself be-
come a Servant for the German Cabi-
met. Now; thesC C6untesssofP Pourtales
has always been too near to the Tuii :
cries to remain silent, and her scele-,
brated letter to General Ducrot,
which the General quoted afterwards
when writing to Trochu, clearly shows
in what sense She must have spoken
TO the I'm press. q In one word, -NaPo
leon knew-at any rate, he had a
very confident. expectation : that he
would never see Paris again. He
had been urged into war by TIE Court
who constantly frightened him with
the, bugbear OF the growth of the Re
publican party, which had shown it
self so formidable at the time of the
pebiscite. He had been urged on
the other hand, BY the people of Par
is, from whom, after. King William
bad repeated to Bennedetti at Ems
tae celebrated word OF Cambros ne, the
preservation OF the Empire could be
bought only as the price OF yielding
to their cries. of .'a Berlin !" That
Napoleon was quite prepared for q
disaster. Is obvious not only from what
he was told, but fFon the prepara-
tions and the arrangements made
From the mouths OF those who saw
him every day, l head that in the.
M nth OF July he caressed his son
more than he had done in the whole
of the cllilds life He is believed tot
have taken him to the Army OIL the !
Rhine from u dread of being separa- /,
ted from him in any great DISASTER
1t MAS only when the command was
40 lenger in tho Eaperor,s hands 3
that he gave up $50 his friends declarcl
the idea Of carrying the, child with
under actual fire. This is
not the only proof, however, of the |
opinions as to the results
of tue campaign he was then entering
1pou. When the Tuileries bad been
Invaded after the proclamation of the
Republic, the absence OF many things
kno WI, to have been there formally =
showed. what measures had been TAX i,
on, Tne 50 called jewels of the
Cr3wn had all been deposited in the
Bank Of France, but not a single
piece Of jeweiry belonging personally
to the Empress waste DE seem ,iFhe :
Empress was supposed to- have TAKEN
all away, but then the silver plate
had also disappeared. The naagnifi-
cent gold and silver table services
IN tho Enpernr hy tho Sul-