The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-16

| for which he certainly held no breyet,
was seeking To enhance his position and
pave the way 81, 70 speak. for transition
! to the hisbes4 rank. Hardly had I pro-
| posed this when heard whispered about
me, IT'S one of his henchmen.' left the
committee and ct once returned TO the
convention then in session l began by
announcing that calm reigned once more
in Paris; that. invested with dangerous
Dictatorship. T felt the desire and need Of
surrendering the fasces by handing in my
resignation. introduced TO the conven-
ton as my successor my first aid-de-camp,
who had acted as nv chief of staff, Bona
parte and praised his military talents.
The convention. to whom the very name of
the man was proposing was unknown,
hesitated So youched for him personally.
at the same time consenting not 10 sever
my connection with the armed force, but
to continue as representative OF the people
with the army The convention assented
by large majority TO my two PROPOSE
tons. The title of general in chief OF the
Army of the Interior was therefore re-
tanned by me. So it came to pass that
Bonaparte, by decree of the 18th
Vendemiaire was appointed general sec
ond in command OF the Army of the In
terror, in spite of the committees. He
moved respectfully toward me in an atti-
tude expressive of gratitude, saying, You
overwheln me; all my family Were already
loaded with your benefits Later on will
be seen what the gratitude Of Bonaparte
and his family was worth"
Concerning Josephine.
1t is Enthusiastically true that, If any
man can be said 10 have made Napoleon,
1t was Barras. Not only did the Jacobin
noble give the young Corsican his first
noteworthy opportunities at Toulon and
on the 18th Vendeniaire and see TO it that
he was properly rewarded for his services
On those occasions but he it was who gave
to Bonapartc the command OF the army Of
Italy as the marriage portion of Nine. de
Beauharnais. An account of the latter in
cident will be found in the second of these
volumes, and while it reflects the utmost
discredit on the author it cannot be passed
over, especially because it was, TO some ex-
tent, confirmed by Josephine herself when
she was DESTROYS Of proving that she owed
nothing to Bonaparte, but that, on the
contrary, he owed her everything.
Barras begins his record of Bonapartes
relations with Josephine by recalling that
the young officer had heard him say: "Wo-
men have their uses in this world. They
are more obliging than men" Bonaparte
had noticed among the ladies who called
most frequently on Barras at the Luxem-
bourg palace the Widow Beauharnais, who
Is here described as "a woman Of rather
gentle manners, most kindly, and who oc-
casionally conversed with me in more pri-
vate fashion than did others. Mime. do
Beauharnais was reputed to have some in
fuence with me. Some there were who
believed she had been my mistress. Others
that she still was What is, however. Ger
tain is that she had been the patient mis-
tress, in the sight and with the knowledge
Of the whole world, of General Hoche,
di tutti quaint. "
Barras proceeds to explain the slur con-
yeyed in the Italian words by admitting
that it is not to be inferred that she did
not love General Hoche more than the
others. From motives of ambition rather
than love, since she deceived him like the
rest. Nine Beauharnais bad n"sh"-' -