The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-04-25
MtsrelIal1eu1rs.
THE FALL OF THE THIRD NAPO-
LEON,

Prince Napoleon has reappeared In French pol
llics with leading article in the first April num-
Der OF the Revue des Deub MOndes on 1.-THE Ali.
ance OF the empire in 1869 and 1870" the purpose
OF which is to fix upon the Clerical party" and
therefore, OF course, upon the Empress Eugenie,
the full responsibility Of the ruin of the Empire
and the disasters Of France In 1870. II has been
commonly believed that Italy was secured az An
ally by Prussia before the outbreak of the war In
1870 Prince Napoleon, who as tho son'inlaw OF
Victor Emmanuel Is in position to know what
ne aillrms, denies this CategoTicaly. He states
that In 1868 Italy began to negotiate with France
ior settlement OF the Roman question, and that
Austria, through Prince Metternich, her Ambas-
sador at Paris, favored the Italian proposition OF
triple alliance Of France Austria and Italy TO
prevent the consolidation of Germany under the
primacy Of Prussia, Francis Joseph and his min
lister, Count Won Beust, were entirely ready to
sacrifice the temporal power Of the Pope and
Napoleon ILL.,, his cousin now assures u.s. in his
own mind thought II must be abandoned. At the
famous interviews Of salzburg in 1867 the Prince
tells us, this subject had been vaguely but feebly
mooted together with the Eastern question, but
nothing was said or done to the purpose, and the
imperial palaver ended In ian unsigned record
"of some rather insignificant conversations drawn
up In doubtful French by Count Won Beust,"-
The Italian negotiations in 1868 were more vigor-
ously pushed. They were carried on for more
than year. the negotlatoB being NJ. Rouher and
the Marquis de Lavelette for France and Count
Won Beust 9nd Prince Metternich for Austria, and
Prince Napoleon representing the Italian Gov
ernment until the matter was so far advanced az
to permit the italian President Of the Council,
General Menabrea TO intervene. A triple treaty
was finally drawn up fora defensive alliance, and
II would have been concluded had not France
finally refused to withdraw her troops from Rome.
Napoleon ILL.,, his cousin tells u.s. faithful to his
instincts Of hesitation and of a proCrastnatingre.
lance upon Destiny, thought 1t was best to post.
pone committing himself while Pope Plus lived,
Little did he dream that long after he should
himself be laid at rest in foreign soil his widow
and his orphan in their exile would seek the
blessing Of Pope Plus at Rome
During the spring of 1870 these negotiations
were in manner renewed, The Liberal Impe.
rial Ministry of olivier was In power and the Wis
1t Of the Archduke Albert to Paris led to an ex-
change of views between France and Austria as
to the military aspects of an Austro' French ALI.
ance against Prussia The outburst of war in the
summer hurried Napoleon into an attempt to Sc.
cure the alliances he had dallied with a year be-
fore. On the 9th July, 1870, Italy signihed to
France that If the papal question could be settled
as she wished the Italian armies would be order
ed into the field. This most important message
was sent TO Paris by Nine. Turr, the wife of the
well known Hungarian general. one Of King
Victors aids. That selfsufiiclent dawder, the
Duke Of Gramont, then Foreign Minister, re-
piled: ut is impossible to do the least thing
"about Rome; if Italy will not march let her stay
at home" Yet at the same time Austria distinct
ly notified France that she would do nothing
without Italy and that Italy must bo allowed to
occupy Rome, At that time both Europe and
France believed the French armies to be more
than match for Germany. On the 1st of August
Prince Napoleon with an Italian envoy saw the
Emperor at Metz and implored him TO act as Aus.
tria and Italy required, He paints the indecislon
and dreaminess Of the Emperor with few brief
but terrible strokes of the pen. This Caesar trem-
bling to his fall actually objected to sign the Aus
tro Italian propositions because some of the
words we're not correctly spelled" On the Sd of
August the Italian Envoy left for Florence, the
propositions being still left open. On the 9th of
August Prussia closed that chapter of European
history forever on the heights of Woerth and of
Forbach