New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-03-22
IMPERIALISM AT THE HUB.

| A few days since committee Of Boston
| ladies, engaged in the work of organizing the
| French Relief Fair in that city, undertook to
| select by ballot some distinguished Frenchman
| whose head, in the form of vignette, should
grace the columns of their proposed newspaper,
| Tho Balloon Post. The result Of! the vote
was, to say the least, rather surprise to the
| community. While few scattering ballots
were poled for such names as Gr6vy, Fayre,
Theirs, Mcmahon, and the COmte de Paris, an
overwhelming majority of the feminine voices
declared unhesitatiDgly that the proposed honor
should be conferred on his late Majesty Louis
Napoleon Bonaparte. Hardly had this desira-
bic result been attained when the fair voters
were informed by their terrified "mcn folks"
that no imaginable step could have been taken
better calculated to ruin the prospect of their
undertaking. But rs the unfortunate political
preference thus expressed by female suffrage
had been already seized upon by the ubiqui-
tons reporter, it became evident that tie least
humiliatng method Of taking the back track
must be Mt once decided on. The position
was in consequence boldly assumed of as
serting the whole affair to have been but
an innocent little joke or sell " on the
part of the Committee, and Of gently sneerng
at the credulity Of deceived public by whom
were manifested those symptoms Of furry
"and excitement which generally presage one
of those fearful tempests in teapot for which
the latitude of Boston Common is so renowned.
To avert the coming storm, it would appear,
moreovcr, that the leading breakfast and tea
table journals of the metropolis after the first
day received OF adopted the cOnsigRe of max
ing no further allusion to the unpleasant sub
ject, and Of refusing publication to all protests
or circumstances with which sentimentalists
or others might besieGe their columns. One
of these "rcjected addresses (whose name is
legion has accidentally come into our posses
sion, and we are willing to assume that the
disappointed writer may find some consolation
in its appearance in our columns.
HONOR TO WHOM NO Is DUE.
Rejecting in succession the name Of patriot states
man. soldier and prince Of royal blood as unworthy
rdbearers the crushed and bic ,dinS nation Tor
which our sympathy Is asked the ladies' OF Boston
organizing tho French Fair have adopted Tor thelf
orifainmo and thcir wntchwcrl the image ana the
emancipation OF Louis Napoleon Bonaparie' Ihi''
then Is tic 1s under which We who would send across
the ocean help and words Of cheer to the great nation
which once fought by the side OF our infant republic
this is the standard under which SIC are expected to aI
into line And this expression Of coincidence and admi-
ration for The monarch whose throne was founded on the
Ilseacres OF the comp dccl comes from the Oh Feoel
town. aud IA uttered within stones throw Of fanehI
Hal by the descendants Of those mothers of tho Revolt
ton who taught tlcir children that resistance To
tyranny IVES obedience TO. God. That the sclteXiled
J followers Of that fallen chieftain, Mr. Jefferson
| Davis should not object TO an enrolment
| among the toadies OF the Tuiioso5 always
appeared TO tho writer eminenty natural and proper
The Emperor was avowcd friend to Their cause, did
10 net Ind
TO As instances Who tell what might have been the
result But why loyal American women should now
take the trouble here TO bur incense 10 such an IDOL on
the ground that being Oyerthr0wn il IS deserving OF re-
publican sympathy passes the writer's limited compre
tension 1t is unfortunate IN another point OF view The
assistance o. those OF who believe that the righteous
cause was from the first that which las trunphod Is
asked for Expressly the ground of ignoring the merits
OF tie quarrel ogardng only the PROSTATE and SUI
ferug nation our former ally This Is doubtless the
Christian and proper yiow ana one IN which Germans
themselves are willing help along tie work provided
only that the heed OF the VINO set ont to march to
Berlin he not Haunted In their faces If rance
will induce the ladies TO reconsider their decision on this
point one would he compelled to conclude that the eff
OF the Court atmosphere of Paris can never he nou
trazcd by the republican broczcs from the Frog
Pond. BACK BAY.
! But those who hold the views of "BaCk
"Bay" DO not have it all their own way, even
in the press. a weekly paper in Boston has
| published communication from a lady, II
which she endeayors to defend the absurd ac
ton of her sisters in Imperialism. 1t is a
charming quality of that sex which gives to
! the artists their models for angels, that their
waImest sympathies always go out to the
beaten side. worthy old lady in Illinois,
! after hearing the Devil very roughly handled
by 4 Hard Shell eyhOrtcr observed with the
true spirit of Christian charity: Poor thing
"perhaps he meant well, after all" We do
not object to extending this charity Of
doubt 10 even so vulgar and uninterestng
criminal az Louis Bonaparte. But if the char
liable ladies of Boston do not want to destroy
their Fair in its bud, let them not attempt to
| force so maodorous an object upon the pub
! lie consideration. 1t ought to be too late in
the day to ask anybody to admire this con-
victed and contemplate charlatan, and he is
not in condition to claim our pity. There is
no call for sniveling over him. He has
escaped with a whole skin from the
! fight into which he dragged two millions
! ofbetter men. Thousands have lost their lives
| other thousands all they owned-in the storm
of war bis feeble and wicked will let loose
upon the world. In every hamlet from the
Vistula to the iron coast of Biscay there are
hearths desolate through him, dark with the
! absence of the unreturning protector done to
| death for this mans crime. lie is safe ut
| Chiselhurst. He has his wife and his child
sufficient relics of q stolen fortune to keep him
| in luxury and ease. If he knew how to behave
himself, the happiest days of his life would
be now beginning. If he were wise, his