Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-01-15

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moned to acknowledge their legitimate COM
the soldiers had not yet learned theirs. The
first alighted upon post instead OF the
selected head, and the second charged upon
their rghtful sovereign and his adherents.
Plungng into the sea in his endeavor to
regain the steamer, Louis Napoleon was
dragged out, dripping and collapsed, and
forwarded a second time to Paris, where be
was tried before the Chamber of Peers, being
defended by NJ. Berger. On the 9th OF
October the Prince wes sentenced to
perpetual imprisonment. q At least, | shall
have the happiness of dying in France ~
were the words with which he replied to the
sentence, > not then foreseeing the coup
detat and Sedan He was imprisoned in the
fortress of Ham, gloomy place midway be-
tween Paris and the Belgian frontier. There
he re NAMED five years and a half, deyoting
himself to correspondence and literary pur-
suits, writing on history, politics and war.
escape, disguised as a workman and reached
England As be had returned from America
to Europe IN order to visit a dying mother,
SO be left Ham in order to visit dying father;
but failed of his purpose, as he was not al
'O"Cu W CutCl Ildly. LILO laeuOi NieN ~
Leghorn Just two months after the prince
effected his escape. Resumng his life of
pleasure and society, Louis Napoleon re-
manned in England The revolution OF Feb
ruary, 1913. opened the way for the return OF
Louis Napoleon to France, of which he avail
ed himself and being chosen to the As
sembly by four constituencies, he elected
60 sit for Paris, his birthplace He entered
the Assembly September %, 1913. There
was nothing in his career in that body calcu-
lated to remove the common, but very unjust
impression that he Was dull man. Dec. 10
he was chosen President Of the French
Republic. by a vote OF 5,434 ,226, all other
persons about 800 GOO. His term for which
he was chosen was to expire on the second
Sunday of May, 1852. The three years that
followed his Inauguration were passed In
constant struggle between the President and
his political aud personal foes, in which little
regard was had for the constitution or the
sanctty of official oaths TIE President was
determined to become Emperor, and the 6p-
position were Determined to rid France OF
him, though their success must have been
followed by the bitterest OF quarrels among
themselves. Victory remained with the
President, the famous coup etdt OF December
>, 1851 delivering his enemies into bis hands.
Before daylight on that morning, - promI-
nent men were seized, many OF them being
dragged from their beds, the National As
sembly forcibly dissolved (22O of the
! Deputies having been arrested and imprlson-
ed the same day. Paris declared in state of
siege, and the people called upon to elect
! President for ten years, with power to select
| his own Ministry and Government consist
! ing of two Chambers, with limited powers.
| All legal opposition and protest was crushed
under foot. Paris arose against the outrage,
aud until the night Of December 4 its streets
ran with blood. Entire quarters of the city
were given up to murder and plumber. Men,
women, and children, natives and foreigners
were shot and bayoneted lDdlscrlmInately.-
| The greatest pains have been taken to sup
press the dreadful details, but the number OF
persons butchered cannot have been less than
/ 5 600 and may have been twice as many.
/ Within the next month, according TO the
/ Bonapartist Granier deCassagnac, 20 SOC
persons were transp )rted to the penal colonies
of CAYENNE and Africa, where the greater
number of them died. 10 January, 1902, ne
ordered tie confscation of the property be-
longing to the Orleans family in February
the last vestige of liberty was taken from the
/ press, III May, lIt pm UNIV NN5ICS WIN
llstr buted to the army, and IN December be
became Napoleon Ill, Emperor, " By the
grace Of God and the will OF the French pee
pie"
10 perpetuate his dynasty. he sought ALI
ance with some OF the royal families by mar
ri4se, giving up his Eogllsh mistress. Fail
/ ING to obtain princess, he declared hi;
choice 10 be the Spanish CJuntess Fusenie
J At. e ~ do Mnntllf
and granddaughter of a Scotch merchant
named Kirk patrick Tall, handsome graceful
and %, Eugenie was probably quite a.
acceptable French people as any OF the (a'
thar time) inaccessible daughters OF royaI
houses. The marriage took place January
/ 1858. and the ht.e glri whom Washington
/ irving used to trot upon his knee became
Empress OF France.
! The marked events of his later life ar,
fresh in the minds of this generation. HI'
part IN the Crlmean war OF 1854 no dee BIT
added to his power at home and m European
politics. The close of this war in 1856, Wal
nearly contemporary with the birth OF an he'll
t9 tue empire. In 1888 OrsIni made an At
tempt to assassinate the Emperor The wa
of 1859 with Austria followed, and Magent;
and SJlfe1inu were nj, last military success
os. III lCU1 Tue -ICA Oesi "a lIDNRibi'h H'7 -
under way but SPAN and England withdraw
ing and the American rebellion tailln;
through the fnal result was disastrous. Ma
polean wished To aid the South but could no
yet Engl4nds help and was pretty sure o
Russia $ opposition.
HIS reisn was characterized b, the grea
material prosperity OF France, and the Ex
position of 1867 drew the world to witnes
it.
| But in 1866 Bismarck stepped to the from
in European politics, and quietly refuse
Napoleon demand for " rectihcatiUn c
| tue French frontier This doubtless grieve
; the pride of the French nation, and the E Il
: peror' s course got him no friends. At I'll
} same time he was beset by the growing lit
c eral tendencies 10 France, and IN the lar
e part of 1869 liberal ministry was forme
? by VI Olivier
i Victor Hugo says of the first Napoleon
e = he vexed God" That may explain w;
= terloo. But wnen he calls this man . \;
e poeon the Little he has underrated hin
5 and the explanation OF Sedan must
{ sought elsewhere Napoleon the Third W;
the Great Meddler Of the nineteenth centur,
l., From necessity in part, still oftener fro
e fancied necessity, but most OF all from cho il
d and his personal and family ambition.
J. meddled once too much. He seized as pr
g text the offer of the Spanish throne
o Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern; on the 49,
8 of July, 1870, declared war against PrussI,
g took part in a skirnish and wrote the dl
j patch about the Prince Imperial's g baptis
IT of fire. At SEED ~, on the 1st of Septel
al her, he surrendered to the King of Prussi
d He left Sedan the next morning, had
S. short interview with the king, and was q
ar signed the chateau of Wilhelmshohe, ne
or Cassel, as his residence during the remand
10 of the war. He was released in Marc
ID 1871, and proceeded at once to Englan
" whittier Eugene and the Pr ince had pl
q ceded him. At Camden House, Chiselhur
er he passed the remainder Of his life, enjoyi
II. the rem nant of a considerable fortune. a
r receiving many attentions from the Engli
BY nobility and royal family.