The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1873-03-05
GUIZOT INTERVIEWED.
His Opinions About Father Hyacinthe,
Napoleon and Bismarck.

His Opinions About Father Hyacinthe,
Napoleon and Bismarck.
From long report In the New York Herald
of recent Interview with the veteran French
statesman Guizot, we take the following In
terestlng extracts:
"I contsss,n said II. GuIzot, "thaL 1t does not
seem as II Father HyacinLhe would meet with
apy great success In France. regard him as
a thoroughly hLnest man, and In his new
work lBtensely earnest. But the Frencn mind
Graves logic. Frenchmen know we'll that
there Ia no halting place, no middle ground,
between Atheism and Catholicism. l mean
that o man must be whole Catholic or none
at oil. Oie cannot be halt Catholic.
"This Ia the position Uf Father HyacinLhe.
Added to this, there is prejudice 10 the
minds of Frsnchmen against The marriage Oh
ina clergy, and the marriage Of Father Hya-
cinthe has offended public opinion greatly. It
NAV In crest you 10 know, perhaps, that be-.
tore he married be sent to consult me upon
the adyisablliLy oil an act which, among other
thinga, would separate him forever from the
Church of Rome. l answered that he should
think a long time before doing thing so rad
ically opposed to his career, and calculated to
embarrass his position as relormer In the
Church. Furthermore, said that before
marrying he must make up his mind to go all
lengths in opposition TO Rome, and 10 feel as
sured that he was really In earnest and pre-
pared lor all the contingencies OF his new sit-
uatlon. My daughter went 10 hear Father
Hyaclnlhe preach The other Sunday at the
Oralory. She tells me che was more impress
ed with his eloqnence than by any speclal
depth or originality In his sermons"
Yonr correspondent, aluding to the sudden
death of the Emperor and the Interest which
mankind would feel la The criticism of such a
character by man like Gulzot, asked the
venerable statesman what he thought OF Ma
noleon III. 1.-THE prominent trait In his char
acter," said NJ. Guizot, land II was an uncer-
tain, devious, contradictory character, was
| indecision. II was extraordinarily lnaoil.
ity to arrive at conclusion or really make up
his mind. he toyed with politics. He would
tnrn question around and around, look at II
from ali sides and under every aspect, and
brood over it for long time, and yet be In
capable OF arriving at decision when 1t was
necessary to act.
ut almost always happened that he took
the least decided course. Again, IKE people
who lack genuine decision OF character, on
some points he was obstinate, and on occas-
ions bold. We saw that under certain cir
eumstances. At Boulogne and Strasbourg,
for Instance, he could De rash. cannot re-
gard his mind as frst-class. 1t ran Into COM
monplace expressions, and he never seemed
to regard them as commonplace. DE was
gentleman; / mean gentleman ID the En-
glish and American seEse:
Napoleon III never willingly gave pain to
any human being. To those about him, who
served him, he was always kind and consd-
crate. In some respects he was even gener-
ous to his adversaries. In this and In other
RESPECTS the Emperor stood, apart from his
party. His party often commllled acts whloh
he did not approve, and which grieved him
exceedingly when thsy came 10 hla knowledge.
In his way-a way do not approve-he loved
France with sincerity"
"You made an ulluslOn. Monsieur" said
your correspondent, ITO Prince Bismarck
when speaking OF Napoleon aud Cavour as
copspirators. May ask II you applied that
criticism to Prince Bismarck also :"
"By no means,n was the response; NJ do not
call Bismarck a consplrator In The eense
would call Napoleon. He impresses me as the
exact opposite of q cOnsplratDr.
"As diplomaList he has hls schemes and
plots and stratagems. But In The main he
seems to have been distinguished by a certain
brutal frankness. 1t was this startling and
unusual quality which deceived men like Ma.
noleon IfI-men who, never meaning what
they said, were quite overpowered aud amazed
10 tind that Bismarck did mean what be said.
II ia because the German chancellor has not
been a consprator that, dealing with con.
spirators, he has gained his astonishing sue
cesBD