The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-01-24

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pl Ds6emhsr" having gone out with the
1Ainking about1hose chest laid plAns off
mice and men. which gang aft sRfee. y
Royalty in FIpnop, since DeLauhy sur
rendered the thttle to tho mob, has been
VERY unfortunate. Indeed, since that
day, French Kings and Emperors have
done we'll to provide places of refuge for
themselves on'foreign shores, where they
might die in peace in case OF accident to
ths machine Of government. ,ig
The tate Of Louis XVIfurniBhed them
with s-proper incentive to this 'couree;
for Kings, rs yell as commoners con sac
ridce O good deal to spared personal
acquaintance with the guillotine.. Louis
XVI, indeed, once tried to escape from
France in disguise. He made one nights
journey from Paris in q coach, but was
recognized and arrested at Varennes.
He wanted to die in exile; but they
brought him back a prisoner, to die a
year and half later on the scaffold.
Tho people gazcd at the captive King in
silence, which must have been very diff
cult for Frenohmen. But there was
reason. Placards were posted every
where with the laconic inscription:
whoever applauds the King shall be
whipped; whoever insults the King shall
be hanged" The obliterating wave Of
the revolution soon flung one mun on
the rock of power who had the ability to
stay there until the storm subsidized. and
who thon ra!ed the nov Franco after the
the glittering steel Of bis military genius.
The citizen consul became the citizen
Emperor, and Napoleon Bonaparto.
adored by the French and hated aud
feared by all else. was the nrbiter of
Europe. Then came the decadence.
France could not fight all Europe for
ever. Knocked out of time in 1914,
Napoleon was sent in exile 10 Elba.
Again he rose to try concl' ~IoHs. Water
loo was where the lost terrible round was
! fought, and the sound Of the great
gladiator's fall awoke an echo which ru-
| verberated rs far as the rock Of st. He
| lena. There it died ont, and Napoleon
I died an exile along with it. This is
No. i. Here we may look back to the
line direct. The son of Lonis XVI, like
his father, would not be permitted to die
in exile, so the poor Dauphin. the phan-
tom Louis XVII. disappears from prison
or dies there in 1795-blotte,l out any
how. Tho son of the Corsican, the
young, sickly King of Rome, is taken to
| Vienna after Waterloo, is made phan-
| tom Duke, and pines aud dies in exile in
the gloom Of Schonbrunn This is No.
2. Louis XVIII. Tho came into France
when Napoleon went to Elbn, in 1914,
ran into exile again for 100 days. when
| Napoleon returned in 1916, aud the
wayward fates, on account Of this tho
rough scare. perhaps. allowed him 10 die
in France in 1924. He was the only
French monarch of the century who got
the chance, and he availed himself of it..
Charles K, who succeeded his brother,
was sent kiting after "the glorious day q
of July" in 1880. He went to Holy
rood. in Scotland; then to The castle of
Pradchin, in Prague, and then to Goritz,
far away in Iilyria, where he died in
peace and piety in 1886. This is No. 8.
All this while "pear headed" Louis Phil
lippe, the citizen King, was working his
way along to 1848 in the odd manner
which has made him in his zenith and
bis eclipse always seem comical figure.
The year 1848 was shaking-up time all
over Europe, and when the barricades
his crown was shaken off his head. Glad
that his head did not follow the crown,
he fed, nnd another of tho 'apointed''
was added to the list of Gallo sover-
eigns whose light was snuffed out in ex-
lie. This is No L. He died quietly Mt
Clt remont, in England, in 1850, about
seventy miles from Chiselhurst. where
Napoleon III died, in pain and exile,
yesterday morning. This is No. 5. The
two men who wore their kingly or impe.
periai crowns for about eighteen years
each, had % my experiences in com mon,
early hardships, later luck aud final dis
aster.
We ca :, therefore, count mp five mo.
narchical wrecks from France alone in
the nineteenth century-three Nupo-
Icons, one Bourbon and one Orleanist.
Who shall DO the next2 Government by
the people is denounced by monarohists
and imperialists alike as unsafe; govern
ment by the anointed seems, however it
might be for the people, rather unsafe
for tho Kings Carlysle celebrates the
First Nspoleon's "whiff of grape-shot;" !"
Hugo tells us of the Third NaroIeon's &
coup d'elat. Were Waterloo aud Sedan,
st. Helena and Chiselhurst, merely re-
suits of these two events? We can only
point to the succession of events, and
leave the question to Providence. We
Gan be sure. however, that the sardonic
spirit OF history is just now counting on
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