The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-08-29

of an imperial form Of government and In
disparagement Of republican. They ex-
tolled the soundness and stability OF the
former and the changeability of the latter.
But LOUIS NAPOLEON died an exile at
Chiselhurst, and republican IMAGINATION Is
now President Of France, while we are
electing our President.
At about that time some scatter-brained
fellows in New York started weekly
paper called the Imperidlist, and founded
an order with mystic signs and seals and
Haunting insignia, to bring about an
American empire on the Eapoleonic
model. The paper lasted few weeks, and
the order existed only on paper. The EN-
piro was not erected. But LOUIS NAPo-
LEON himself, dissatisfied with the results
OF rcpublicanism in America, set about
the task of establishing nm empire in
Mexico. The handsome MAMMALIAN, the
favoritc of EUGINIE, was picked out ms
the Emperor, and, surrounded by French
bayoEets, he started his court at the city
of Mexico, with the ambitious and impet-
uous CARLoTTA to aid him in imposing
on n people who did not ask for II,
an imperial Government set over them
by an impudent foreign usurper MAXI
MILAN was shot by the soldiers of JuAREz,
and CARLoTTA is now a hopeless lunatic
under the care OF the Queen of Belgium.
Empires have not been successful SO far on
this continent, though in South America
the BRAGANZA family have maintained
themselves in Brazil, where our late UNI
pretentious visitor, Dom PEDRO, rules with
u benefceut sway.
A new attempt ut an empire for us is
making by some idiots at Chicago They
have founded n paper, and also call it the
Imperidlist. They have gone so far Us to
pick out their Emperor. He Is a MIR. WILL
LIAM WASHINGTON of Nashville, said TO
be granddaughter of GEORGE WASHING
TON. Perhaps he IL. and perhaps If we are
to have an emperor we might as well take
him as anybody else. The Chicago impe-
rialists also propose to start an hereditary
aristocracy. To begin with, they endow
with titles Mr.. CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS,
Gen FITzHUGu LEE, and Mr.. PATTERSON
BoNAPARTE, and apparently turn over to
them the task of filling up the ranks of
that this conspicuous publication of the
fact will not too heavily swell these latter
gentlcmens correspondence with applca-
tions for imperial patents from the many
thousands Of our citizens who banker for
them.
The GRANT dynasty will soon be over.
Its sands of life have nearly run out, and
it is already in universal discredit; but
1t had gone on to third
term we might have had All imperialist
party at Washington which would have
gone in for making GRANT emperor, the
prudent FRED aprince, and BABCoCK, BEL
KNAPP, SHEPHERD, and Robertson grand
dukes. They have one qualification for
such distinction. A duke without money
is n sorry creature. This crew have stolen
enough from the public Treasury TO main
tain the splendor Of the rank in first class
ducal style. TWEED would also have made
fine American duke. He stole enough to
build palace and keep il going III a
fashion TO excite the admiration of all the
snobs in the world. But he is reported to
bs now abroad, with no intention Of I'M
mediately returning 10 the country which
well rs All earl. BY the judicous apphca-
tion of the principle OF Addition, Division,
and Silence he has accumulated Il sufficient
fortune to sustain the glorlos Of the title.
As to barons and baronets, we could easily
pick out for the Chicago imperialists as
many rs they wished from among the canal
and whiskey thieves. Though the court
might be rather motley and vulgar, IL would
not be worse than the crowd which infest Is
the White House under GRANT.
But let no one dream OF obtaining a title
other than that OF an American cltizon,
which ought IN truth to beeuough to satisfy
a healthy ambition. Tho only titled per-
sonage we have in the United States, or
probably will have during the lifetime of
oil who read these lines, is GEORGE, the
Count JoANSEs, OF himself amply able TO
sustain the hOnors and maintain the dig
nifty of American nobility.