The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-09-26

NAPOLEON BY APPlANl.
period of fifteen months His occupa-
lions at that place were much like those
at valence and Ajaccio He performed
his military duties in a desultory way,
but with more exactitude than the
French code of military ethics at that
time required. But military duty de-
manded only fraction of his time; the
rest was given to that intense but frag-
mentary study by which his mind was
trained and supplied with wide range
of information.
The winter of 17SSS9 was passed by
Bonaparte in his quarters at Auxonne.
As yet, Lieutenant Bonaparte had never
as soldier drawn blood, or seen it
drawn by others. His restlessness now
bore him rapidly on to action His pas
sion for doing something and for 'fol-
lowing his destiny''-a fiction which
he was always dwelling upon-led him
to commit himself (ambiguously) to the
Corsican patriots. His adroitness was
such, however, that he kept ever cord
to his purposes whereby he might re-
cover himself for France In fact, he
knew not what thing he would be called
to do, or in what cause his sword should
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pinnacles of all palaoes. and splash the
domes of all cathedrals
The effects of the extraordinary move
ment Tins begun for the reform of the
French nation were strikingly diverse in
the different norts of tbe kingdom
France was as vet homogeneous in moth
ing. The towns of the South, under the
loyal sentiments of the old Provencal
race. received the news in one spirit, and
the towns of the North in another.
On men themselves the news fell from
week to week with VARYING effects &C.
cordinp to their personal characters and
preiudice of race In general. they who
had imbibed the principles of the new
French philosophy either went after the
Revolution or ran before it waving a
flag Such a mind was Bonaparte's.
No doubt he was born reyolutiopist-
provided always he could himself con.
troll the revolution. His nature was fit.
ted in'eyery part for that state of fruit
| ful anarchy which tends again to order.
He was essentially man for the storm
and hurricane but suited best the after
stages of the tempest.
Would not this revolutionary fire in
France leap the sea and kindle itself in
Corsica? Does not occasion now offer for
the recovery of Corsican independence
Does not the path of destiny open by
way of Ajaccio rather than by way Of