The Red Cloud chief., 1874-01-29
Bonaparte-An English Criticism Of
Ms Character.
from Temple Bari

tTrom Temple Bari
He loved noise, movement, martiai
life, drums, trumpets and the destruc-
ton of life upon a large scale. Egotism,
jealousy, acquisitiveness, a passion Tor
mystifying others, falsehood, were
stropgiy-marked characteristics. He was
also a ~reviler; he insulted all whom he
feared or hated. Thus this old friend
of Robespierre, this whilom Jacobin and
terrorist, designated the sincere Repub-
licans as "chiens enrages" and as
brigands. He called the King Of Prus-
STA the most complete fool of all the
Kings on earth; Pitt an enemy Of the
human C the Spanish BOurbOns a
troop of sheep: Broglie, Bishop of
Client, a reptile; the emf Migrants who
were faithful to the monarchy, and the
priests who disapproved OF the con-
cordat, "scum of the earth" He calum-
mated the Due d'Enghien by pretending
that be had proffered him his services.
He accused Gronchy of the defeat at
Waterloo, Bernadotte of not having
come to his aid on the field of Eylau.
| He showed himself a true Corsican to
the last. It was a boast of his that he
had never committed any crimes pri-
vately. This was q lie. His Corsican
enemies, Arene and Cerrachi, fell into a
trap of his setting, and lost their lives.
| Pichegrau was strangled by his order ;
several former Jacobins were summoned
before a council of war, and by his pri-
vate command condemned to death. The
assassination of the Due d'Enghien
made a noise in the world because he
was a Bourbon. History will some day
relate many analogous cases hitherto
left in obscurity. Nero and Torquemada
destroyed fewer lives throughout their
entire career than did Bonaparte during
a single month of his reign. / believe
that, from 1904 to 1915, his victims Tin
GLIDING Frenchmen and others) num-
bered not less than six million men. 1t
would be important to know how many
deserters were shot. Each principal
town of the several departments had its
place dur tusittades, and many towns
of the second rank also. Probably
several thousand French subjects were
shot before councils of wal for mere de-
sertiOn.
France has lever had such an enemy.
If she perishes, it will be by the appli-
catlOn OF the NapOleOnlc 1uea-tnat IL
to say, by falsehood, audacity, despot-
ism, cunning, hypocrisy, war, luxury,
corruption. The eulogists of this man
have been Missionaries, INSCRIPTIONS
worshipers of brute force, soldiers,
priests, the ignorant and the servile-in
fine, all who venerate the devil more
than God, and who are incapable of re-
signing themselves for the good of hui
manity to the inconvenience of entire
liberty. He has been popular in France
because the French are imaginative and
have believed hitherto that their En-
peror defended France and their Repub-
lie against all Europe. Writer'S and
artists have encouraged this notion. In
exalting the Emperor, they have sold
their works and attained a success.
Next to the history of religion, the his
tory of war has most attraction for the
popular mind, and the apologists of
| Napoleon have followed the example of
religious writer's and artists, who repeat
the lives of saints and martyrs in poetry,
painting ana sculpture.