The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-31
John CLARK Ridpaih.


no" or never. The Terror came on: cha
teaus were flaming; the streets were slip
/ perry with red; the ak went always up and
/ down IN the Place de la Revolution; the
/ hand.
This condition Of things in the extinct
/ klhgdom OF the BOurbons brought the rev
/ olu.iohlsts OF France and those of Corsi-
| ca into closest sympathy: for Jacobinism
Is UNIVERSAL 1t is simply humanity in in
! surrectlon- Whether il be in France in
germany, In Italy, in the Mediterranean
Islands, in England. of the party-cursed
] clues OF the United States. it is all the
! same The only question with Bonaparte
| now was whether his destiny might be
/ better attained by the leadership of the
Corslcan revolutionists of by allying him
| sen with the Jacobins of Paris.
/ win skillful duplicity he did both
/ corsica, on his return, was in a ferment.
Inc popular party was at one with the
French democrats. The national con-
/ venuon passed a decree that the exiled
Corslcan patriots might return. Paoli
went home by way of Paris, where he was
| recognized as a hero and made lieuten-
ant general and military governor of his
native island. France was divided into
departments, and Corsica was declared %
be one Of these.
Meanwhile, the world was turned upside
tumnal equinox of 1892 as the date of
new era for mankind. 1t was an epoch
OF universal abolition The marvellous
thing was that while the old expired I'M
der the stroke of the destroyer's wand,
the new did not spring up in its place.
The King was brought to trial and death.
Inc proud daughter of Theresa went
swiftly after her lord
Moderate patriots throughout France
ana the world were alarmed and angered
Washington would follow Liberty no fur
ther- Paoh, establishing himself at Corte.
stood for moderation. He was too old and
conservative to be rebaptized in the mud
dy waters of Jacobinism. But Capt. Bona
parte, at Ajaccio was not of such mind
ana KIND. He found himself at this iunc-
ture on two military steeds, both going
in the same direction, but at different
rates of speed. He had never resigned his
commission as colonel in the Corsican
National Guards; but he now held a
commission as captain in the French
army, and was receiving pay from the
national treasury. His captaincy and his
colonelcy did not consist. He temporized
and intrigued with the revolutioniste
during the winter of 1928; had an inter-
view with Paoli at Corte; departed with
out satisfaction; broke with the gov
ernor, who ceased to be a hero in his
eyes; made a conspiracy to invade Sar-
DINA; tried to obtain an independent
command, fell under condemnation Of the
Paloists, and in June of 1898 was Obliged
to leave Corsica with all the family of
Bonaparte
Napoleon arrived at Nice on the 18th of
June, and there rejoined his company.
The Fourth regiment, to which he be-
longed had been transferred to the ex-
treme southeast, as a protection against
the menaces of the world along that
threatened coast The whole valley of the
Rhone was afiame with the revolution
Horror on horror had ben heaped through
cut France. In Paris the royal family
had been done to death; but on the from
tier the French republican armies of Gus
tine and Kellerman, the one al Frankfort
and the other at Valmy, after brave bat
ties, had been pressed back from the
border. Only that of Dumouriez had tri-
umphed over the Austrian on the bloody
field of Jemmapes, establishing a line of
defenses as far as Liege in Belgium and
the river Scheldt.
Meanwhile after the execution of the
king, the allied powers of Europe pledged
themselves to eXterminate the new French
republic-Terror and all-from the face of
the earth. 1t was a thing easily promised
but difficult to accomplish The Duke
of Brunswick, Notwithstanding his IA
nous proclamation against the French and
the liberties of mankind, found it so to
coalition against the enraged republic
the latter virtually declared war against
the world! Into the midst of all this con-
fusion, uproar and insurrection of an in
furiated people against kingdoms and
pr.ncipalities the hair-line of the solitary
Corsican captains life was now drawn-a
black mark almost undiscoverable among
the sketches and etchings which history
was cutting for the future civilization of
Europe.
Napoleon became a French republican
soldier. He was a soldier of fortune in a
sense more profound than that phrase had
ever before conveyed. 1t must be con-
fessed that the hardships and merciless
conditions through which he had passed.
bearing with relentless pressure on his
tremendous mind-infiamed as it was
with unquenchable ambitions-are better
calculated to excite the compassion and
sympathy of after times to kindle against
him that anger and consciousness which
a merely. logical consideration of his short
comings, failures. and unprincipled
schemes would suggest. The Judgment is
mitigated in contemplating such charac-
ter emerging from obscurty. under the
play of complex forces, into the fore
ground of light and action.
The regiment of Capt. Bonaparte con-
stituted a part of the army of the south
under command of Gen. Carteaux. 1t
was the business OF THIS DIVISION OF the
French national forces to operate for the
recovery of Marseilles and Toulon; for
these cities were held by the enemies of
France They had fallen into the power
of the English fleets, assisted by the local
loyalists. The situation was striking. Pa
triotism was afiame In both the cities but
the representatives. of the late monarchy,
protected by a foreign power, were not yet
down. 1t was out Of Marselles that, in
July of the preceding year, band of pa
triots, most unique and strong, had
marched to Paris, singing on the way and
to he very porches of the Tuileries, that
famous war-song which Claude Joseph
Rouget de Isle had given to the French
nation and to all free men.
So against Marseilles and Toulon, for
wrestling them from the English and
loyalists, the forces of Gen. Carteaux are, 4
On Oct g. 1898. divided and sent. Capt
BonaI4arte's regiment, with others, is
directed against Toulon. He is given com
mand of a section of the artillery, and is
at last in his element Now. for the first
time, he is able to direct a battery against
the enemy and to utter that tremendous
word, "Firew Here and now the cloud
of obscurity lifts from the life of this ex-
traordinary character, revealing him to
the world as one Of the greatest in the