Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-04-30

rampant, and General Hoche, who takes
the place intended for Bonaparte, will
find it hot work to reduce the iusurgent
Vendears to subsection. The prescience
Of Napoleon in refusing the command
lies il the question, What will become
of Hoche? Moreover, the rapid changes
in the military management of the Re
public lett little doubt in Napoleon's
mind that his services would soon be
sought. Finally, the striking of his
name from the list of general officers
was only from the list of those on dcttUe
duty. Thus his rank was preserved with
little injury to his future prospects.
On the 18th of September, 1894, Ma
poleon, partially restored to favor, was
given the command of tho artillery in
a proposed expedition to Corsica; and
this post no nominally held until March
of 1895; but the period was without
events. Meanwhile, finding himself
with 10 command at all, he conceived
what may be regarded as his first great
project of craftsmanship.
Bonaparte perceived that the ultimate
enemy of the ascendency of France was
England, and that one great arm of her
power was her influence in the Eastern
Mediterranean countries. This might be
broken, mark it well! by the agency Of
Turkey. The thought Of the Corsican
was this: Ii the Republican administra-
ton of France will send Nc to Constan-
tiIople, TO organize and discipline the
Turkish army, then the Ottoman power
will LIE sufficiently strengthened and
Europeanized TO renounce the influence
of Great Britain and, in full autonomy,
to become a member of possible coali-
ton of European powers against the
common enemy of all!
During the period Of his enforced in
activity at Paris, Napoleon prepared a
plan intended for the National Conven-
ton, outlining lis purpose. 1t was a
virtual petition that he be sent to Con-
stantinople, with six or seven competent
officers, to organize the military power
of the Turkish empire against Great
Britain in the East. Bourrienne Justly
remarks that if the clerk of the War
Office had only written the word grant
ed' on Napoleon's paper, that one word
would probably have changed the poiit-
ical fate of Europe for centuries to
come. Napoleon at this time was TWEEN
ty-siX years OF age. His scheme was
worthy OF Richelieu, of TalIeyrand, Of
Metternich, of Disraeli in his ripest
years.
The word granted" was not written.
The French Revolution rapidly worked
out its own results, and in doing so pro-
vided place for Bonaparte according
to the higher laws Of destiny. After the
| overthrow of the Terror the Convention
went on, rather teInperately, to COM
ple.e the new frame Of government
called the Constitution of the Year
III" That instrument was adopted on
| the 22nd of August, 1895. 1t proved to
be not sufficiently intense for the states
manship of the Faubourgs. The Partisan
centers OF agitation began to resound
with denunciations Of the latent aristoc-
racy in the new plan of government.
| For about month the broil was kept
up by democratic pamphleteers and or
| ators who made the Easements of St.
Antoine vocal and smoky with their o.
| jursations.
Then the mobs began torise in sacred
| right OF Instruction. Several Of the
Forty-eighth Sections took up arms
against the Convention; and that great
body was imperiled by the oDrushing Of
| a counter revolution Matters came 10 q
crisis in the beginning Of October. The
Convention had TO protect itself by force
o. perish. Swift, swift was the work
now necessary 10 be done. The stifed,
but not extinct, JacobinisIa Of Paris be-
gan TO below; and mobs from the dis
] affected quarters of the city came on tu-
nultuously to assail the Convention
Hall and overthrow the existing govern
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