The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-26
B0ULANGER- NAP0LE0N.
POINTS OF RESEMBLANCE IN THEIR
RESPECTIVE CAREERS.
Why the Modern Warrior Has so Strong
Hold Upon Certain Elements OF
the French Population--An Interest
ing Review.

The event OF the day, the question Bou-
LANCER, gives piquant actually to letter |
sold last week at the Hotel Drouot. Writ |
ing on the 14th of February, 1916, from
the fortress of Ham, where he was con-
fined, Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte |
says to his friend, NJ. de Vatry: 81 con-
fess that expected little more generos-
ity from the men who are now in power.
Having solicited leave to 90 10 the bedside |
OF my sick father, took it for granted |
that my request would have been favora- |
bly, considered, and therefore engaged my
gratitude in advance. The contrary is the |
case / am resigned, but feel sure that
sooner or later my oppressors will blush
for their useless persecution" Louis Ma
poleon, political prisoner, was not allowed
to 90 TO death bed; Gen. Boulanger, un-
der political suspicion, was refused per-
mission to go to his wife's sick bed, and
say the masses -he went there without
permission the government, which is
alarmed by his popularity, seiles upon
that fault OF discipline to "obey the orders
OF Germany" etc. There is n remarkable
Of 1913 and the supposed pretender Of
1888, and in connection with that analogy
quote short summary from very rare
work that was published at Turin in 1868
under the title Of Revelations Concerning
the Napoleonic Propaganda in lSiS" The
author, who was relative of the banker
]. Laffitte, Of Paris, had dabbled,
praify cuaaagcfullv too In cavarol bit
financial enterprises, before he became the
promoter Of this political enterprise, the
triumph OF which is greatly attributable
TO his intelligent activity but from the
loaves and fishes OF which he seems TO
have been kept away, rumor says because
he asked too high price for his services.
Louis Napoleon was very grateful man
to those who had been his friends in need,
but gratitude has its limits, and the pre-
tensions OF NJ. J.. were excessive. NJ l..
wanted-as Victor Hugo did-a minis
terial portfolio, and as that could not be
given, he rushed into the opposition.
Nj. l.. s book, naturally, is tinted with n
sentiment OF hatred for the man who had
wounded his self-loye and disappointed
his great expectations, and vet through all
OF this pierces a tone Of proud exultation
that, thanks to him, this out.at-the-elbows
adyenturer, this thought-to-be grotesque
fraud" became, first, representative,
then the President, and finally the En-
pcror OF the French nation. In lSiS
Prince Louis looked 90 bc an utter out
slider; lac had made himself ridiculous at
Strasbutg and Boulogne he was up 30 his
ears in debt in London, the Bonapartes
themselves sneered at him, casting much
sihr upon his birth, denying that he had
drop oil Corsican blood in his veins, II,
putnUvely, the son OF the ex-King OF Hol-
land. lie was lampooued and cdricaiurcd
numerically and everywhere; he had no
powerful hackers behind him, no parti-
sans, and no money Ia buy votes when his
name went before the country ut the gcner-
in all composed the list which NJ. dc Per-
signy gave TO VI. l.. Us being the persons
ON whose support the prince could count
absolutely, aud those persons were trades
men and artisans, cual-heaycrs, stonecut'
tcrs, tobacco vendors, saddlor and n
bOotmakcr, with, strangely enough, the
tragcdan Iagicr. and those yestigcs OF the
firt empire, Gems. Sound and Muntholun,
Col laborde and NJ. Picirc.
This was while the prince was In Lon
don, but aiterward, when the result Of the
elections was known, the situation did not
look more rosy. VI. H., in his "Reyela-
tions, neglecis 10 tell how Prince Louis
managed 10 get out OF London where
there were writs by the bushel against
him, and q ne cxcat that made foreign
travelling difficult ! think | can supply
The deficiency: Mr.. Poole, the great tailor
Of savillc row, took up all the judgments,
becoming his sole creditor, and, being
PRESIDENT, helped his customer 10 get across
The channel, while Mrs. Howard a demi.
mondaine, pledged an annuity Of GOO,
which she had nom Lord Cliidon, and her
diamonds with a jew 30 give him the
Whcrewithal 90 make the journey 10 Paris,
where mt the Hotel du Rim, he was ~.
rcivcd 10y his electoral committee OF five,
io-wiE Clapier, upholsicrcr; Deyaux boot
maker Nadal, shoemaker; Louis Trcvcy,
ladies' shoemaker; I.abuyat, coal dealer;
Not one Of the descendants Of the great
dignitarics Of the empire Of the marshals
who owed everything 10 the Napoleons-
was present. The Duke OF - on. l.
names him, but prefer TO call him th,
Due dc ~ refused to compromise him
self M an Impcrialist." Money was cX
ccedingly scarce, and, although the report
was industriously spread among the people
that the prince had n private fortune o
10000, 600 francs, there was scarcely enough
on hand 10 pay the most important
expenses. A few days before th,
June elections the printers refuse,
20 strike Off the electoral ticket
miles, paid in advance, and only
consented 10 go on when VI. L..
from hisown pocket, gave them 500 francs
Nobody, says NJ. L., would swallow
the Nap0lconic idea; neither fould no
Pcrcirc, nor any other serious banker
would adhere 10 IL until after the .,
Of December" NJ. l.. proposed 20 thl
prince 10 solicit n "icw millions Of th,
Gar 20 aid the advent Of the empire, whicl
would chockmate tho revolution that wa
Europe's bugbcar." NJ. l.. went 10 81. Pc
torsburg, went 10 Berlin, failed everywhere
and, coming back TO Paris, appealed 4
Baron Roihschild, who, while LOUIS Nnpo
leon was nj Ham, had made him prcscn
Of 100 shares Of the Great Northern o
France railway, Of which he had just oh
tanned the concession. But the baroi
would have naught 10 do with th
prince: the baron believed that Gen. Ca
yaignac had the best chance, and was IN
lignant that the "prince should have m
piled Ia him for loan without any guafan
ice, especially as he had never yet rendcrc,
any service 10 his country, whereas III
general had siincd dangerous insurrcC
Ion" In vain did VI. l.. urge that thcr
we're guarantees; the advent d The prime
vas anything but probable; more tina
az.