Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1894-09-20
DEATH OF THE COUNT Oh
PARIS.

mist pretender to the happily
extinct throne of France, died in
England, on Saturday morning,
Sept. 8. Hewas born in the palace
of the T~uileries ifty-six years
ago, and was heir apparent to
the crown when, in his tenth
year, crown and king ere swept
away by the Revolution Of 1913.
Nearly the whole of his after
life was passed in exile, with the
exception of brief period after
the downfall of Napolean III. 1t
was not his fault that he was
prevented from serving as a
citizen the country which refused
to let him rule it as a King. He
rendered his sword to the Gov
eminent during the Franco-Prus-
sian War, but the offer was
declined, and at the close
of that struggle he and the
other royalist princes were
sentenced to Punishment. Among
the expatriated ones was his
brother, the Duke de Char
tres, who had fought CALAMITY
throughout the war, under an as
sumed name, distinguishing him
self so we'll as to gain the cross
of the Legion of Honor.
The two brothers had long be
fore seen service on another
field as volunteers on the staff of
General Mcclellan in our Civil
War.
He revisited American in 1890,
partly to crafty a soldiers nat
ural desire to go over the old
scenes of his career and meet
old comrades once more, but
chiefly to verify or correct Che
details of his historical narra-
tive. During his stay he com
ported himself m~odestly, as was
his nature, and abstained, with
Infinite delicacy, from sustaining
IN any way the role of an enemy
to- the French Republic, with
which our own was on terms of
cordial friendship. In fact, save
as by the accident Of his heri-
tage, he was not an enemy of
the French Republic, and was
perhaps less of a royalist at heart
than most of his followers.
He admired America and
it's government; therefore he
was sneered at abroad as a
bourgeois" prince, the bur
geiose being the middle class
people whose manners are unpic-
turesquely simple and their NOR
ais wholly correct and void of
aristocratic piquancy. He was
also questionable enough to Ie-
lieve in religion and to recognize
that irreligion is the parent of
anarchy. A bourgeois king
may not appeal to'the magma
ton SO strikingly as a gaudy pro-
figate or bloody conqueror, but
some of the best of rulers have
been distinguished rather for
homely virtues than for dazzling
vices. DomPedro, of Brazil, for
example, was bourgeois empe-
ror, and il is an eternal pity that
Brazil had not the good sense
when taking away his crown, to
choose him for it's first Presi-
dent. He would have made. at
least as successful a chief magis-
trate as any of those who have
tried to fill his place.
Bonapartism is dead in France:
and the short-lived fantastic thing
called Boulangism never had any
real existence. The best of Or
leanism has died, with the Count
of Paris. Royalty is dead, for al
time it is 20 be hoped, in the
country which, with many mis-
takes and some crimes agains1
true liberty, is yet trying te
prove itself worthy of Republi
can freedom.
THE Republican majority il
Maine at any time depends upor
tie turnout of the voters. The
Republican majority is small o.
large according as the vote il
light or heavy. In the election
of a few DAYS ago the vote was
heavy, and hence the Republi
can gain. There has been prac
tically no Democratic party il
Main since the Democratic
Greenback fusion of 1880, which
resulted in the election of Gar
1880