The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-11-21
HOW NAPOLEON TALKS.
He Denies that the Bonapartists are
Conspiring, and gives his Views on
tho Condition OF France.


[Frcm the London Times, October 2S
We have received from trustworthy source
the fq9ERg Of Waen
the Emperor Napoleon and our Informant,
who ia authorized to publish the statement.
His Majesty spoke as follows: ut Is contended
that the Bonapartists are consplring. do
not believe 1t. It is only parties who feel
themselves In minority In the country who
have recourse to occult practices. 1t is only
those who wish to impose their views upon
the larger number who consplre. When a
man has been as l have been, during twenty
three years, at the head OF great nation, and
when he has been animated by 8 single
thought-the welfare of the c0untry-he pre-
serves the sentiment of his dignity,
the conviction OF his rights, and casts
away from him the low intrigues which
degrade those who have recourse to them.
Without illusions and without discour-
apement, I rely upon the justice of the
French people, and am resigned to my fate,
whatever may be the DEGREES OF Providence.
Moreover, when one has fallen from such q
height, the first sentiment oAe experiences is
not the desire to again mount upon the pin
uacle but to seek the causes Of the fall IN order
to explain ones conduct and combat calumny,
while still recognizing ones faults. In doing
this one reviews the past rather than seeks
to read the future, and strives much more to
Justify ones self than 10 accomplish restora-
lion. Hence the legitimate desire to employ
public means of refuting unjust attacks and OF
rectifyIng erroneous appreciations. 10 en-
tighten public opinion by truthful statements
is q duty to those whom fortune has struck
down; while all agitation to attempt the re-es-
tablishment OF the Imperial regime would only
retard the moral reaction which has already
commenced. To all who have come from
France to visit me have held the same Ian
gIage: Il am opposed have said to them,
TO either intrigues or plots. France needs
repese to enable her to recover from her disas-
ters.' He would be most culpaole
who should seek to foment trouble LOT
the advancement of his personal in'
terest. The present government Is merely
provisional, and does not in the future exclude
any form of government. To attempt to over
throw it would be bad action; though my
rights remain still intact, and 80 long az the
people shall not have been regularly consult
ed, no decision of the Chamber can prevent
me from being the legitimate sovereign OF
France Many officers have written TO me 70
ask If they should place themselves at the dis.
position Of the present government, and If |
consented to release them from their oath.
have answered that the question being plainly
stated between order on the one hand ana
the most frghtfu anarchy on the other, tney
should not hesitate to serve their country;
but that I could not release them from
their oath until, by a direct vote, the
entire nation shall have chosen definite
government. Thus you see like the man 10
Horace. wrap myself In my right and my
resignation. Strong In my own conscience, l
reslT lin the impatence Of some and despise
the treacherg and the insults of others: | OBJ
serve, with certain degree of satisfaction,
that the Republic is forced to act with severity
AGAINST the very men who, during twenty
three years, attacked my government and to
adopt many of the measures which regarded
hut as am not man of party, this feeling
piyes place In my heart to another and a
stropger-the pain with which see the desti:
nies Of France delivered over to the hazard OF
events, the fury of factions, the weakness oi
the men in power, and the exactions OF the
foreigner