New-York tribune., 1873-01-27

seutment what cause what race what tradition; what
anticipation. what part of material or e shot i,
eress.what that men can spRReying round the dead
We cannot look around without seoe IN ali things we
great memory every something less than tho
Joveborn- the prodigy OF not absolHto
OF vrtuea cause not sacro osantations splendorin all
things deseentt still open TO ask whe,nen ,nu ,yia az
Soos not even exceed the purer and noDler ctaonS %
Ious Napoleon BOnaparte mas not liho -. ,r,,nh an
& Prnall gentry OF remote island 10 triumph III
% o hot jsd OF the Old World and TO- execute ven
geanee upon dynasties and arlstocfceS o n bas No.,
tolded an ancient dream OF conquest ne mas not oo9
snmmsted 131S on nations he has not
END END his country from a hated thradOm. or welded
g Tace into an Empire he has spread faith or
.1,h,isbed a nruciple The struggling Pretender the
fayori;e OF fortune the hual rccOVcfer OIL NJ JUST n
hertance the TO the world with his
last breath legacy truth and hOnOr-these are the
theme of poets aud the doatry OF historians Wha we
see in the career closed forever was composition
of a these things each IN measure and alloy. Hardly
ANYTHING is wanting To that medley OF quahles anu
that round OF ylscissitudes whch either uehd mihht
clam or enemy aScrloe-
A NEW NAPoLEoNIC DYNASTY WOULD REHABiL-
TATE TIE MEMORY OF THE DECEASED.
second resurrection OF the Nap0leOnlC
dynasty would doubtless serve more than any other ~
cident TO rehabitate the name of the late Emperor
but should he prove 10 he the last OF the Imperial
line impartial history Will refuse to he prompted by
smart pamphleteers much less by professed lampoons
An English pUetess, whose works certain TO i've If
for no other reason that no woman has equaled
her the vision and the faculty divine has embaimed
in generous the Emperors most soaring and most
successful adventure puts into his mouth apropos
of the Italian campaign so suddenly brought to close.
the words:
/ Unduestonsbly Napoleon ILL., man Of great
ideas He the sponsor. If not the parent, OF the
fruitful doctrine OF nationality and II ne had listened
only his Inspirations and not beeni led away by
the selfish considerations which sway oyer,str0ngy the
people he had TO govern he would nave eit more
exalted name. AS IL is, Italian nationality ana German
nationality have been realized; but II was has
rather than hls fault that the one seemed TO una IN MN
only part ia patron ana the otner oooess oPpone'
THE FAULTS OF PERSONAL GOVERNMENT.
From the Echo tLtbeTGl
| His career, illustrative OF much, perhaps DeSC
illustrates the immense power welded by one who IL
consistently governed by any political creed, good OF
bad in times OF commoton and breaking up like l8i0
when there King in Israel" We may presume,
| too, that this application of fatasm to politics
at the bottom OF ms T eTroTs ana m on
fancies that he called by destiny 10 RUE
To break the solemn vow of December 2O to spin
the blood OF December 1885, appeared to him 10 be his
/ destiny,
HIS WANT OF SUCCESS AN ENIGMA.
From The Saturday EeUteD.
By the peaceful death of the Third Napo-
leon in exile and on the verge OF old age one OF tne
stranges known the memory OF man has been
brought to close. Every variety Of good and Dad Ior
tune has been tasted by the late Emperor Born ana 10
splendOr he spent his youth ana prime III conspiracy
his maturity in regning and his closing years n oD
sistency and inequality as ms fortunes ne was tno
determined, the most obstinate. and YET W uloSs
vacillating and undecided OF men lie shOweu ainSoIi
now dreamy enthusiast, now unscTupuOus ana eher-
gec in action he believed in himself aud III MS star
he had divine mission, and yet spent many OF ns
years Of power III taking minute precautions against
! minute dangers lie could think and do great thngs'
but he never thought acted them out He won great
ness by excessive temerity and lost II by excessive
he adopted only TO relinquis them he probably dsap-
pointed no one bitterly himself; for he must have
Eeen conscious that he was constantly aiming az more
man he accomphed and that the nrmites OF his in
teect and character the real secret Of his failure
That he should have succeeded much ana so llte
/ must have been an engma himself well as 10 the
/ world.