Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-05-26

was warmed with enthusiasm. The bravest men and the most beautiful wo- men were gathered around him-the one to hatter, and the other to adore. If the Jaoobin was still fluid in his blood, 1t no longer expressed itself in demo- cratic mutterings and proclamations. Vhe long black hair of the whilom revo- lutionist was closely cropped The hag- gard Italian face of the pauper student had given place to rosy cheek and smil- ing lip. Except in tho lSnoongruous black cravat of the otherwise we'll dressed First Consul, the sansculotte vas no longer disooverable at his eyen- ing reoeptionsl
 But the project was already on for an extension and augmentation of power. Glory must be added to honor. The mountain devil'' was busy in the breast of Bonaparte. In tho alluring summer of 1909 the dream had already possessed him of life tenure of the Consulate. The victorious general and popular chief executive would be consul ad finem. The Senate oonourred in the proposal; and oonsultum was pre- pared. There was dispute whether it should Do for ten years or for life; and in this form the question was to be sub mitted to the people. A plebisoite was sent forth, and the French nation was asked to pass judgment on its favorite. Napoleon, sera-t-il Consul Viep" Such was the inscription prepared and put up over all the voting places in France. Napoleon. shall he be Consul for Life2"
 An extraordinary spectacle was wit messed. On the 4th of August. 1909. the election was held. The voters in France numbered 8,577, 250; and of these 8, 36S, 16o voted in tho affirmative, leav- ing only 209.074 in the negativel It was perhaps the most overwhelming popular decree ever registered by peo- ple True, the soldiers voted-voted for their idol. True the clientele of the Consulate voted-voted for the master. True, the Revolution voted-voted for its offspring True, tho New Order voted voted for its hope. But nevertheless. the people voted-yoted for their Mant Napoleon might we'll mutter, Whose are the votes opposed to me? Those of ideologists, Jacobins and peoulators un- der the Directoryi' What he said was truel
 But not all, in the meantime, had been well with the Republic-and with him. Fortune in some things had gone against the French. Tho coveted oooupa- tion of Egypt had tottered and fallen. General Menou, who succeeded to the command of the army in that country after the assassination of Kleber, had behaved with singular fatuity. Failing to perceive that eocentrioity Is not gen. ius. he had turned Mohammedan. and taken the name of Abdallah Boy. He sank into inaotion at Alexandria; and when, in March of 1901. Admiral Keith and Sir Ralph Aberoromby landed at Aboukir and came against him. he was defeated in battle, and the prospects of tho Frenoh in Egypt were ruined.
 Napoleon heard of the Egyptian dis aster with anger and modification. His chagrin was little relieved by the death of Aberoromby, who was fatally wound cd in the battle of Alexandria. or by the foolish assurances of Menou that all was
 
 French colony to evaouate Egypt. and this was done on tho B0th of August, 1901.
 The year 1909 has been cited as the most glorious in French history. It was certainly the most fertile in promise. Why should not tho treaty of Amiens become the happy date of new era for mankind? Franco was regenerated. England had gold and maritime glory. Italy had emancipation. Germany had experience-if nothing better. Russia had her pacific Alexander l.. her Suwar off. and her new provinces of Georgia.
 The fatal thing in the treaty of Amiens was that 1t promfscd-promised. and did not perform. There wero things to be done; and these were not done. Preternatural suspicion seized on the cabinets of all Europe. Note the oiroum- stances England in the preceding war had emaneipated the negroes of Hayti. Toussaint pOuverture, leader of the na- tives. had been made commander in- chief by the French, in l797. Independ- ence was reached under the patronage of France; but when Bonaparte became First Consul, an act was passed in the French Council for the restoration of slavery in the island; and an army under General Leclero, brother in-law of Bona parte, was sent to Samana to enforce the deoree Toussaint was put down. treaoh- erously seized and taken to France. where he presently died in prison. The civil conflict continued in Hayti; she yellow fever broke out, and an English feet appeared off the coast. Notwith- standing the peace of Amiens, here was aDdr.
 In the meantime, Sebastiani, Napo- Icons agent in the East, oame back to Paris. and published in The Moniteur report in which there was hint of the purpose of France to reoccupy Egypt Moreover, the First Consul proceeded to