The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-26
Xv.-sERA-T-IL ENIPEREl

Establishment in the consulate was mem
s.e 10 all that survived of the eighteenth
century. To the princes of Christendom
the Man of Ajaccio appeared at first as
an ambitious adventurer. Risen TO power.
they esteemed him a peavenu and political
bastard. Now they beheld him confirmed
hv the almost unanimous voice Of a great
people For him the Gallo enthusiasm
burst out in wild applause BY the Treaty
Of Amiens he was recognized as the fell
low of kings and emperors. The greatest
portent Of all was this-that the peacea>
bic ratification of the consulate for life
tended 10 make permanent the results OF
the French revolution, thus invalidating
the ancient regime and converting its Off
spring into stalk-horses and specters.
The phantoms of the past accordingly
resorted to conspiracy. France had blown
her feudal ghosts across the borders.
Some Of them lowered in London. Some
were in Berlin. All places on the right
bank Of the Rhine were infested by them.
The descendants of the Houses Of Bour>
bon. of Orleans, of Condo. fitted dimly in
the horizon. They had their following.
Their secret friends suqatted in the very
shadow of the Tuileries As for open war
they had had enough of that. OF secret
iutrisues and plots and crimes there was
now no end. The desperation of the roy
alists became all the more profound when
the consulate was seen to give peace and
TO justify itself in the estimation Of man.
kind. In such a situation the life of the
first consul appeared to the disappointed
and despairing progeny fact that must be
destroyed.
The conspiracy which exploded in the
Rue st. Nicaise was only the beginning of
plots and plotting. 1t is in evidence that
the agents of the British government lent
d willing hand to the secret crimes that
were to compass the destruction of Bona
parte. On his side there was correspond
ing vigilance. II was equivalent to death
for any 10 lift the hand against him. His
immediate subordinates We're without ex-
ception loyal But all the disappointed,
lowering at a distance, scowled al his ris
ing star. The years 1904 were pregnant
with consDiracies. In the midst of the
most untiring industry-eOnsuming each
day and a large part of the night in I'M
paralleled application to the tasks of Office
Napoleon was ever and anon distracted
and enraged by the discovery of some plot
against his life. His agents everywhere
struck back, in light or darkness, and the
bloody chalice was held to the lips of every
intending assassin.
Georges Cadoudal. leader of the Chouans
of Brittany, was conspicuous. From being
an insurgent in the royaiist revolt of 1899
he had fed to England, where the Count of
Artois, afterwards Charles X, received
him with open arms In 1903 he made his
way secretly to Paris. There he cor
spired with the disgraced Gen. Pichegru,
Napoleon's old master in mathematics at
Brienne to destroy the life of the first
consul The plot was discovered, Pichegru
was seized, imprisoned, and on the 9Th Of
April, 1894. was strangled in hisscell. Ca
doudal trying to escape, killed two police
men, but was overmastered, condemned,
and on the 18th Of June 1904, was guilt
TONED Gen Moreau, the hero of Hohenlin-
den, who had become a royalist, was ac-
cused of completely in these schemes. Con-
victed of having knowledge of the plot of
Cadoudal, he was condemned to two years
Imprisonment; but Napoleon committed
the sentence into exile, and Moreau chose
the United States as his refuge. After
eight years he entered the service of Rus
STA, and in 1913 was mortally wounded at
the battle of Dresden.
The result of these attempts was far
reaching At this time the living repre-
sentatives of the demolished monarchy
were the count of Provence, afterwards
Louis XVIII, who was at Warsaw; the
count Of Artois, in London; the young Or
leans Philippe, afterwards the citizen
king in Switzerland; and the Duke of
Enghien. descendant of the great Condo,
at Ettenheim. in Baden. All of these were
more or less implicated in the plots against
Napoleon. The Duke of Enghien in par
tlcular was believed to be fellow-con-
spirator Of Pichegru and Cadoudal The
latter had been secretly visited in Paris by
mysterious parsonage whom the pas
sion of the hour declared to be the Condo
prince. Notwithstanding the fact that Ba-
den was neutral territory, "a body of French
WAS ant 1U IN hai
the chateau was surrounded, and on the
night of the 18th of March, 1904, the Due
dEnghien was seized in bed and hurried
away to the fortress of Nincennes.
cOurt-martial under Gen. Hulin was i'm
medately ordered, and without witnesses
or other legal proof, the duke was con-
demned to be shot. On the morning of the
list of March, just before day, he was led
into the ditch outside the wall and there,
by the CHASTITY light of torches, was shot
dead. His body was thrown, without re-
moVal of the bloody garments, into a pit
that had been digged the day before! The
consulate, as well as the revolution which
II succeeded, had a sword of sharpness for
all its enemies
The killing of Enghien created a ire
mendous sensation throughout Europe.
europe had not yet learned that hte blood
europe had not yet learned that the blood
OF other men. The European courts heard
with horror and uplifted hands that
t'NNC Aeu De6Il SnOl as II Dy DTlganQS, in
the ditch of Vincennes. Abroad, in all
governmental circles, opinion was con-
nrmed against Bonaparte; but throughout
france the execution of the Duke of En-
ehlen was applauded as an act of just
vengeance against consprator. On the
side of the first consul many apologists
appeared-some on the ground that he
saved the republic by saving himself at
an hazards, and others on the ground
mat Napoleon had not been personally
responsible for the killing of the prince.
Contain it is that the death of Enghien
hastened the Transformation of the consul
late into the empire. The seat of the first
consul was already in everything but the
name throne. Why not make it throne
IN fact? The facility of the French for
change rendered easy the project which
me temper of a heavier and more serious
race would have rejected. Like the Athe-
man fancy, the Partisan mind flies quick
~ TO the new. 1t hovers about the bril-
hant, the extraordinary. IT satisfies itself
with glory and enthusiasm, All these
Qualities in the soul of the people worked
10 the advantage and purpose of Bona
parte; but there was not wanting a meas
ufe OF ODpOSitiOn The NanoIaCufc