The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1895-04-01


pie prison to the guillotine.
France had now become an ocean OF
molten brass scething, bubbins, pieah-
ing along the pillows into flames OF luila
light. The revolution was coming 'o us
crisis. Hunger and despair in the heatl9
of men had done their perfect work var
was on with Prussia and Austria a""
England The emigrant nobility across
the borders was in league with the enc
mics Of the French nation. Ihat nation
had sprung up an infuridted uSresa' ana
woe be henceforth to traitors! IheFe was
intrigue between the dying court anu thc
emigres beyond the Rhine. 1t was no"
or never The terror came on; chatesaS
were flaming; the streets were slippery
with red; the AK went always up aAi
down in the Place de in Revolution; the
day Of death and determination was ~
hand.
This condition of affairs in the extinct
kingdom OF the Bourbons brought the rev
olutionists Of France and those Of Corsica
into closest sympathy; for Jacoplmsm -
universal. 1t is simply humanity IN n
surrecton. Whether it be in France III
Germany, in Italy, in the Mediterranean
islands, in England, or the party-cuIsei
cities of the United States, il is all the
same. The only question with BohdpaieS
now was whether his destiny might ne
better attained by the leadership OIL lie
Corsican revolutionists or by any ms
himself with the Jacobns of Paris.
With skillful duplicity he did boJh.
Corsica, on his return, was i'm a fermehl-
The popular party was as one with the
French democrats. The national cOhFti-
ton passed a decree that the eNlled
Corsican patriots might return. faoh
went home by way Of Paris, where ne WIS
recognized as a hero and made lieutenant
general and military governor of his ma
divided
partments and Corsica WAS declared 70 Nc
one Of them.
Meanwhile the world was turned up
side down. The convention had taken
the autumnaI equinox Of liS2 as the u8''
of a new era for mankind. IL was "a
epoch Of universal abolition. The marvel
Gus thing was that while the Old expired
under the stroke Of the destroyer's wand
the new did not spring Up IN ITS place
The king was brought TO trial ana deaLh'
The proud daughter OF Theresa went SWIFT
~ after her lord.
Moderate patriots thought France and the
world We're alarmed and anSerei. w aSillils5-
toon would follow liberty no further. faol'
establishing himself at Cortc, stood for noA-
Grafton. lie was too old and conservative
TO be rebaptized in the muddy waters OF
Jacobinism But Captain Bouaparte aI
Aiaccio was not of such mind and klhd.
He found himself at this Juncture ON Two
military steeds both going IN the same
direction but at different rates OF speed.
He had never resigned his POSITION as co.o-
mel in the Corsican national guards, but ne
now held a commission as captain IN tA9
French army ana was receiving pay from
the national treasury His captalncy ana
his coIonelcy did not consist. He JempoilIed
and intrigued with the reyolutloniSJs uuitHs
the winter OF 1928, had an interview win
Paou at Cortc, departed without SatlSiete-
ton, broke with the governor VINO ceased
TO be a hero in his eyes, made a conspiracy
to invade Sardinia, tried 60 obtain an iE-
depcndeut command, fell under conuemHa-
ton OF the Paollsts ana in June Of 1898 was
Obliged to leave Corsica with all the
family of Bonaparte.
NaDoIcon arrived at Nice ON the latn Of
June and there reioiued his company The
FotIrtb regiment, to which he belonged, had
been transferred to the extreme southeast
as a protection against the mcnaceS OF me
world along that threatened coast me
whole valley of the Rhone was aHdme
with the revolution. Horror on horror had
been heaped throughout France. In Iars
the royal family had been done to DEATH
but on the frontier the French republican
armies OF Cuisine ana hcllcrman, the one
at Frankfort and the other at Ndlny, after
brave battles, had been pressed back from
the border. Only that of Dumouriez hdd
triumphed over the Austrians ON the
q
line of defenses as far as Liese IL Belgium
and the river of Scheldt.
Meanwhile after the execution OF the {
king, the allied powers of Europe pledged
themselves to eNterminate the new French /
republic-terror and all-from the fave of !
the earth 1t was thing easily |
promised, but difficult to accomplish. The /
duke of Brunswick, Notwithstanding his I
famous proclamation against the French I
and the liberties of mankind, found it so to
his sorrow. England having joined tbs CO. /
alition against the enraged remblic, the (
latter virtually declared war against the
world. Into the midst OF all this confusion,
uproar and instruction of an infuriated /
people against kingdoms and principalities,
the hair-line of the solitary COrSican cap
tains life was now drawn-a black mark !
almost undiscoverable among the sketches !
and etchings which history was cutting for !
the future civilization of Europe.
Napoleon became n French republican /
soldier. He was a soldier Of fortune in a |
sense more profound than that phrase had /
ever before conveyed. 1t must be con- |
fessed that the hardships and merciiess
conditions through which ne had passed, !
bearing with RELENTLESS pressure ON his /
tremendous mnd-infiamed as it was with /
ambiton-are better calcu- |
lated to excite the compassion and sympa- /
thy of after times to kindle against him |
that anger and consciousness which
merely logical consideration of his short /
comir gs failures and unprincipled schemes /
would suggest. The judgment is mitgated |
i'm contemplating such a character emers- /,
ing from obscurity, under the play of com
plex forces, into the foreground of light !
and action.
The regiment of Captain Bonaparte con-
sttuted a part of the army OF the south, |
under command of General Carteaux. 1t |
was the business of this division of the
French national forces to operate for the