The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-03-04

IL was wasted. The Emperor false estimate
Of its strength seduced him into bluuder
which cost him his throne, and brought upon
France train of the most humiliating dis
asters she ever suffered
The stupendous drain for military expenses
which was the essence of Bonapartism both
under the first and under the second empire,
was calamity to all Europe as we'll as TO
France. A nation with a great army is a
terror to its neighbors, who are also com
PEELED to maintain great armies as a precsu-
tion against sudden or waDton attacks. The
result has been to make Europe a vast
camp, each government squandering the
fruits of industry on great military esta-
blisbments rendered necessary by mutual
jealousy and distrust This tremendous waste
of resources is the curse which Bonapartlsm
brought upon France and upon all Europe;
and we trust that France at least begins to
realize its destructive folly.
No French statesman is so responsible for
the second disastrous experiment of Bona
partist rule as Theirs. He was, without in
tending it, the author of the second empire.
He made himself prime minister Of France
for the second time by catering to Bonapar-
tist prepossessons. This WAS the means by
which he effected the coalition of parties in
the Chamber of Deputies which overthrew
the ministry of Marshal Soult in 1910. AS
soon as he was fairly in power he applied to
Lord Palmerston for permission to remove
the body of Napoleon Bonaparte from st.
Helena to the banks of the Seine. Nothing
bas ever occurred which had so much
influence in reviving and intensi-
flying the old admiration for that
great warrior. The funeral pomp
and parade of the final obseques electrified
and intoxicated the French people, and
smoothed the way for the second empire.
Months before the remains had reached
France, Louis Napoleon was encouraged to
make his famous Boulogne expedition, and it
is q curious circumstance that in the procla-
nation which he published at that place, he
appointed M. Theirs as president of the
| Provisional Governmental recognition of
| the service he had rendered to the Bonapartist
cause. A few years later Theirs commenced
| the publication of his greatest work, ''Fne
| Consulate and Empire, the most magnificent
monument ever erected to the memory of a
hero. Without the powerful stimulus which
| Theirs gave to BoDapartist sentiment in
| France, the second empire could not have
| been inaugurated And now he Is President
| of the Provisional Government which sets
the seal upon it's final overthrow.
The star of the Bonaparte family has
| doubtless set forever, and we would fain hope
| that the expensive delusion that the greatness
| of a nation depends upon its military estab-
lIshment may be extinguished in the minds
| of Frenchmen. With the burden of debt
under which the nation must for a long time
stagger, there will be no place for its old in
| toxcating dreams; and as it's attention must
necessarily be directed chiefly to domestic
affairs, let us hope that it may come to per-
ceive that the true glory of a nation consists
in industry, commerce, art, civilization, and
the mental and moral elevation of its people.
If the diminished armaments OF France shall
remove the jealousy and fears of other
countries, and lead to a corresponding reduc-
tion of their establishments, the recent dis.
ssters will prove an ultimate blessing to hel
and to all Europe. Let US hope that INA.
poleonic ideas" will fall into the same ire
trievable discredt as the Bonaparte family
an Italian exotic which has exhausted the sol
of France to feed its poisonous growth.
THE MILITARY POWERS OF THE
PRESIDENT.
FrCn, the NJ Y. Tribune.
Has the President, under the Constitution
and laws of the United States, as expouuded
by the proper courts, any right in time o
peace, to use the military forces of the ma
tion in any State without the application OIL
consent of it's Legislature or Governor?
The present system of government under
which the republic has existed nearly cen
fury, should by this time have become, one
would think, so well known-certainly in 6
matter of such primary and vital importance
that its prominent men could never need tt
ask such question, or fail to answer it cor
rectly when asked. Yet in the recent deb ate
on the Deficiency bill, and i'll the latest mes
sages of the Governors of New York anC
PennsylvaDi we have most abundant evi
dence to the contrary. In the debate in Con
gress MIR. Randall said:-
| 81 am living witness to the fact that Untet
States marines were brought to the polls In my dis
trict without any authority OF law, and without an
request OF the Governor OF the State, as provided b.
the Constitution OF the United States"
In the sane debate, General Logan, Will,
asserting he did not believe the President hat
fused any power in his hands beyond wha
the law has authorized him to do" stated
Sand will say, too that the way 1 understan
the law It does not give the President any right Il
send the army or the navy into the States In time
peace IN order TO execute the civil law, except up0
the request the Legislature OF the State, OF tn
Governor, in the absence OF the Legislature"
And then we have the Governors of New
York and Pennsylvania emulating each othe
in their condemnation of the action taken b.
the President in the use of the land and nava
forces at the recent elections. Governo
Gesry says:-
"The employment OF United States troops a
elections without the consent OF the local an
State governments, has rec2ntly received consider
able attention and apprehension II IL regarded a
an interference with the sovereign rights OF tn
States which was not contemplated by the founder
October election United States troops were sta
, toned in Philadelphia for the av0wed purpose q
enforcing the election laws. This was done withou
the consent or even the knowledge, OF the clv
: authorities OF either the city or the State,
The proper and only time for United states mlltlr
forces to intervene will be when the power OF tn
Commonwealth is exhausted, and their aid is law
fully required"
} This is said with reference to the enforce
ment of an act of Congress which the Unite
States Circuit Court has pronounced consti
} tutional. The prevailing idea which under