Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-03-08
Il. WHITMORR.
Publisher and Pronrietor:
Gufzot ON Father Hyacinthe, Ma
pOIeOn and Bismarck.


Herald of recent interview with the
veteran French statesman Guizot, we
take the following interesting extracts
"I confess" said M. Guizot, " that il
does not seem as if Father Hyacinthe
would meet with any great success in
France. | regard him as a thoroughly
honest man, and in his new work in.
tensely earnest But the French mind
Graves logic. Frenchmen know well
that there is no haltlng place, no middle
ground, between atheism and Catholic
ism. mean that man must be whole
Catholic or none at all. A man cannot
be half Catholic.
"This is the position of Father Hya-
cinthe. Added to this there is a preju-
dice in the minds of Frenchmen against
the marriage of the clergy, and the mar.
riage of Father Hyacinthe has offended
public opinion greatly. 1t may interest
you to know, perhaps, that before he
married he sent to consult me upon the
adyisability of on act which, among
other things, would separate him for
ever from the Church of Rome. ! an
swered that he should think long time
before doing thing so radically opposed
To his career and calculated to embar-
rass his position as reformer in the
church. Furthermore, said that be-
fore marrying he must make up his
mind to 20 al lengths in opposition to
Rome, and to feel Gsspred that he was
really in earnest and prepared for all
the contingencies of his new situation.
Ny daughter went TO hear Father Hya-
cinthe preach the other Sunday at the
Oratory. She tells me she was more
impressed with his eloquence than by
any special depth or originality in his
sermons"
Your correspondent, alludiDg tp the
sudden death Of the Emperor and the
interest which mankind would feel in
the CRITICISM Of such character BY a
man Ike Guizot, asked the venerable
statesman what be thougAt Of Nepoleon
III, 1.-THE prominent trait IN his
obo -acteF," ssid N. Goizot, and
!. mo. an uncertain, deyions, contra
a I;otorv %~ eracteF, vas in9eGison. 1t
u.o.V ,nos aytraordin. .ary-his inability Ia RF-
rive at a eonclusleu or really make up
his mind. He toyed With politics, de
wonId turn a question around and
around. look at it from NJ sides and qn-
der every aspect, and yet bs, insapaole
of arriving at a decision wbeA " yks
TO act
at almost always happened that he
took the least decided course. Agaln,
like people who lack genuine decision OF
on some points he was obsti-
nate. and on occasions bold. We saw
that under certain circumstances. At
Roulogne and Strasbourg, for instance,
he could be rash. | cannot regard his
mind as frst-class. 1t ran into common
place expressions, and he never seemed
10 regard them as commonplace. lie
was a gentleman; | mean gentleman
in the English and American sense
Napoleon III. never willingly gave
pain to any human being. To those
about him, who served him, he was al
ways. kind and considerate. In some
respects he was even generous to his ad-
In this and in other respects
.he Emperor stood apart from his party.
His party often committed acts which he
lid not approve, and which grieved him
exceedingly when they came to his
kuoEledge. In his way-a way do not
approve-he loved France with sim
,erity." .,
Yoa made an allusion, Monsieur,
,aid your correspondent to Prince
Bismarck When speaking of Napoleon
.ud Cavour as eonspiFators. May ! ask
f you applied that criticism to PFinGe
Bismarck also?"
BY no means" was the response
Il do not call Bismarck a conspirator
n the sense would call Napoleon. He
mpresses me as the exact opposite of a
,Onspirator.
a. As a diplomatist he has his schemes
md plots and stratagems. But in the
main be seems to have been distin-
rushed by q certain brutal frankness.
i was this startling aud unusual quality
which deceived men like Napoleon Ill
men who, never meaning what they
aid. we're quite overpowered aud amazed
O find that Bismarck did mean what be
aid. il is because the German Chan
,ellor has not been a conspirator that,
lealing with eeRspirators, he has gained