, 1873-01-19
The Career Of a French Po1iti-
cian---E:s Resemblance
to Fremont.
Raising Men Like Vegetables
Methods Of the EMPEROR
The Coup d'Etat'
Kaooleon's Moral Infucnce---1lls
Theatrical Royalty.
From Our Os:a Correspondent.


Where be had often lived the lie Of 3 politi~
clan with the Presidency on Tho brain, Napoleon
died, near the metropolitan district of tho Eng
1ish. He had met tho other and greater politi-
ciars Of his party there, md they had hntchcd
little couspiracics against the French people,
which pipBed OH the French coast, and hoped q
little, and perished. uo went into Franco at
lsst when the gate WEB wide open, and oyerlhreH
the Republic by judic;ons denaasoSery and BY
the weakness of French society.
Louis Napoleon was SUSTAINED BY nil the timid
sde4of the world in Fra,.ee, by the tradcspoople
Of the towns and in the provinces, by tho small
farmers. Ho was sustained in England by tho
commercial and banking elements, and by capi-
ta1iets, and, to great degree, by tho master
spinners. lie was sustained by tho Times, and
by Golden, and by the vulgar reverence which
:ana always existed in English operative life for
40 name Of Napoleon.
Ho WIS sustained by North Germany even
more than by England, and particularly by the
officers OF the rrus=ian army. Tho Germans OF
the Valley OF the Rhine looked to Napoleon as .
protector rather than.a covetonB uelghbor, and
hoped to stay the Prussians rapacity by the
jealousy Of tho Empire. In Italy, the Emperor
was at al periods popular with some one party
and, in Spain, with q part OF ALL He had 81
obligation to Switzerland which was steadtast
bond of courtesy; and, in Turkey, Egypt, aud
BaEbary, he WIS probably the most popular
Frank in Europe. We eli know that the Irish in
America, ns NJ home, lived in slmoEt personal
loyalty to his name; aud the Shareholders Of the
United States coye1tly admired his form Of Gov
ernment, and might probably have initiated it in
tho South had they achieved q nationality rent
from us.
And yet, there was nothing substantial in this
man's Empire, except standing army recruited
by conscription. uo ruled by repression, md
appropriated the genius and feryor Of France to
his own reputation. The best Of him was his
couraye, and he was at the highest when he sat
1t So1fe1ino, on the back Of his stallion. and
made both Vcrnet and Meissorior paint him
there.
4 PARALLEL.
have always associated him in my mind with
John C. Fremont, and I still think that Fremont
was more nearly like Napoleon than any politi
clan in Europe. To go into particulars would
throw me- OF MY thread. They we're both nd
venturera started in life under strong family
patronage botlr showily capable and fond OF
gimp; both with i,nmeasnrable claims, and both
refractory soldiers; in both, mankind vas
tnue t. be- be boh lad o y abtious @ s VICE. foa
and both headed the newest party in their ro-
spective countries. Mental pointsof resemblance
there seems to havo been also. They were sue
cessful, superficial, and versatile Bohemians,
plain IN adventurer,-the good that is in him,
tho dramatic that is put on by him, tho value OF
his momentsry in1pulsious, or what ho
might hnve done with his possibilities? But We
know that nothing is genuine which will not
stick. OF Fremont there is nothing durable; he
1raa 1rrAr in $t.a tar 0f
everything, and he petercd out about the tine it
came to get some real consistency. Dnt, under
Popular Government, there is no mischief in
such examples. 1t Is oaly whon they wear the 4
eclres with the farcicu oil left over to uz from
barbaric Judaiem, that they make girls, snobs,
and travelling Americans bkeptical on popular
institutions.
REMISlscEScE. =.
During Napoleon's mcridianal career, spent
thirty months in Europe. They were parts Of |
1s62 1864, 1s6G, and 1861, and the whole Of 1863
4: the time, I 7as diligenl newspnpcr-reader,
# nd OF locality. snd willing to walk twenty miles
t. aee something suggestive. was Radical
Napoleon, except when some advocate Of t long t
er line OF sovereignty abused him. From the |
Iorvisn OF kingfake nad the toadyigm Of Rus
sell, l stood equally removed; but it ,:as not
until abandoned the subject OF the Old World |
and settled i'll Washington amongst politicians
That could comprehend an apology for Louis
Napoleon.
He vas necessary to clique of unscrnpulous
politicians who wanted to master France 80 they
could get and keep the great offices. The whoio
game which Victor Hugo describes in Napoleon
e Petit, and which king1ake made his book
LOUDLY interesting by stealing almost bodily, |
was nearly identical with tho nature Of sone
frcsidcutial campaigns in America. The differ
ence in the mental robustness Of tho people Of
he two countries is vast. An American child
has that royal irEeverenee which is i'll perpetual
,bullition against auy effort to patronize him
French man is q child, and not By nature, but
= Thousand years Of vicioua culture, End the
most vicious Of all have been the years OF tho
Empire. The Empire raised men rs gardens
also celery, covering them from the Light in
military roWs, and undor watch aud ward always.
- Sec my citizen" says the Imperial gar
leneE, holding out his bleached stalk. g. The
'bject OF Government il to make m2n re-
pectahle vegetable. This is specific against
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The game Of the French politician has been
made eagy by tho preparation OF this kind of |
atizen for his victim. Tho politician is tho
anne in both countries, but tho mau Ao is to
lperate upon is not the same.
EApoLEoSs METHODS.
Even the vices OF the American character
a'e it from despotism. An arns-beartng race, ]
good shots with tho ride, and perfectly alive
md competitive in neighborhool-orga
identity supported bya vast ofice-holding cle-
ooent, which is virtually e1patriated from
be very neighborhood in which it lives,
nd looks md leans toward the
;apital. The postmasters, the tobacco-gellers,
tie licensed liquor shops, the te1egraph-ope11-
ols, the village gendarme7ie, the orthodox
'rlests, the sheriHaity,-aH these had passed
,nder Central Directory before Napoleon came.
! standing class Of oflica-holdors il always on
he watch for new hirer. and Louis Napoleon
'ecamo Napoleon III. when Pe1Mgny, St. Ar
laud, and De Morny had seen the Depart.
aent Game thing as al American State) poiiti-
ians, and given the local Journals some print
ng. The song which the peasantry is said to
lare been captured by WIS short and to the
Ftnncaise, voulez youa du bon7
Choikcz NapoleonI
The army, police, registry. ETC., we're all un-
ler central control, and acted their part. Tho
;c':p & Etat WAS Merely good deal OF murder
lone in the Capital in the namo Of the Prov
nces Otherwise " the Nation '); aud the same
machinery which maio q Is Princc-President ~
onfzmed m Emperor and acquitted > murderer.
SAPoLEnS's AMY,
Inc Coup q Etc! might have been impossible
20 tie eoidiefs been justly considered by the
1atlsian people; but Socialism murdered tho
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