Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-03-31

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 France had now become an ocean of molten brass, seething, bubbling, break ing along the pillows into flames of lurid light The Revolution was coming to it's crisis. Hunger and despair in the hearts of men had done their perfect work. War was on with Prussia and Austria and England The emigrant no- biaity across the borders was in league with the enemies of the French nation. That nation had sprung up, an infuri- ated tigress. and woe be henceforth to l traitors! There was intrigue between the dying court and the Emigres beyond the Rhine It was now or never. The Terror came on; ehateaus were flaming; the streets were slippery with red; the axe went always up and down in the Place de Ia Revolution; the day of death aud extermination was at hand.
 This condition of affairs in the ex- tinct kingdom of the Bourbons brought the revolutionists of France and those of Corsica into closest sympathy; for JaeobinisU is universal. It is simply humanity in insurrection. Whether it be in France, ill Germany, in Italy, in the Mediterranean islands, in England, or the party cursed cities of the United States, it is all the same. The only ques- tion with Bonaparte now was whether his destiny might be better attained by the leadership of the Corsican revolu- tionists or by allying himself with the Jacobins of Paris.
 With skillful duplicity he did both Corsica, on his return, was i'll fer ment. The popular party was at one with the French democrats. The National Convention passed decree that the ex- fled Corsiean patriots might return. Paoli went home by way of Paris, where he was recognized as a hero and made lieutenant- general and military govern or of his native island. France was di- vided into departments, and Corsica was declared to be one of these.
 Meanwhile, the world was turned upside down The Convention had taken the autumnal equinox of 1792 as the date of a new era for mankind. It was an epoch of universal abolition. The marvellous thing was that while the old expired under the stroke of the destroy ers wand, the new did not spring up in it's place. The King was brought to trial and death The proud daughter of Theresa went swiftly after her lord
 Moderate patriots throughout France and the world were alarmed and an gered. Washington would follow Lib erty no further Paoli, establishing himself at Corte, stood for moderation. He was toe old and conservative to be rebaptized in the muddy waters of Jac- obinisn. But Captain Bonaparte at Ajaccio vas not of such mind and kind He found himself at this juneture OH two military steeds, both going in the same direction, but at different rates of speed. He had never resigned his com- mission as colonel in the Gorsiean Ma tional Guards; but he now held con- mission as captain i'll the French army, and was receiving pay from the nation al treasury. His eaptaincy and his colo neley did not consist. He temporized and intrigued with the reYolutionists during the winter of 1792-93: had an interview with Paoli at Corte; departed without satisfaction; broke with the governor, who ceased to be a hero in his eyes; made a conspiracy to invade Sar dinia; tried to obtain an independent command; fell under condemnation of the Paolists, and in June of =1793, was obliged to leave Corsica with all the family of Bonaparte.
 Napoleon arrived at Nice on the 18th of June, and there rejoined his com pany The Fourth Regiment, to which he belonged, had been transferred to the extreme southeast, as protection against the menaces of the world along that threatened coast The whole valley of the Rhone was afame with the Revolu- tion. Horror on horror had been heaped throughout France.
 Napoleon became a French Republic an soldier, He was soldier of fortune i'll a sense more profound than that phrase had ever before conveyed. It must be confessed that the hardships and merciless conditions through which he had passed, bearing with relentless pressure on his tremendous mind-in- famed as it was with unquenchable am- bitions-are better calculated to excite the compassion and sympathy of after times than to kindle against him that anger and consciousness which a mere ly logical consideration of his shortcom- ings, failures and unprincipled schemes would suggest. The judgment is miti- gated in contemplating such Q character emerging from obscurity, under the play of complex forces, into the foreground of light and action.
 The regiment of Captain Bonaparte constituted a part of the Army of the South, under command of General Car teaux. It was the business of this divi- sion of the French national forces to operate for the recovery of Marseilles 1 l. .I