The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-04-01


exhibited at this time scene Of distressing
confusion. He adds 1.-THE Directory gave
up Guillotining; it only transported. 1t
ceased 60 force people to take assignats
upon pain of death; but it paid nobody.
Our sol Tiers, without arms and without
bread, were beaten instead of being victo-
.rious.
The ambition of Napoleon found in this
situation n fitting opportunity. The Di-
rectors we're Sieyes, Barras, Ducos, Mou-
Inns and Gohier. The Legislative branch of
the government consisted of n Senate or
Council OF Ancients, and "a Council of Five
Hundred. The latter constituted the pop
sular branch. OF this body Iucien Bona
parte brother of the General, was presi
dent Hardly had Napoleon arrived in the
capital when a conspiracy was formed by
him with Sieyes, Lucien, and others OF rev
olutionSry disposition, to do away by
coup with the too democratic system, and
10 replace il with stronger and more cen
tralizea der The Council of Ancients
was To be brought around by the influence
of Sicyte To Lucien Bonaparte the more
difficult task was assigned of controlling
and rc,nlntionizing the Assemra As for
Napoleon, Sieyes procured fol" Sim the
commaid of the military forces oi Paris;
and nv another decree the sittings of the
two l,.,, l,ltive councils were transferred TO
St. Cloud
The 18th Brumaire of the Year Will,
corresponding to the oh of November,
1899. w,4 fixed rs the day for the revolu-
ton 10 Napoleon the crisis was an epoch
of fate The conspiracy embraced the res
ignation of Sieyes, Barras and Ducos,
which-coming suddenly on the appointed
mornirg--broke up the Directory. Bona
parte tlcn put out his hand as commander
OF the Troops. Too late the Republicans of
the Council of Five Hundred felt the earth
quake swelling under their feet. Napoleon
appeac,,' at the bar of the Assembly and
attenlr.o.l a rambling and incoherent JUS
tificatian FOR what was going on. A mo-
tion was made 10 outlaw him; but the sol
diers rushed in; and the refractory mem
bers were seized or expelled A few who
were in with the revolution remained, and
TO the number of fifty voted a decree max
ing Stoves, Bonaparte and Ducos provi-
sional Ccnsuls, thus comforting on them
the supreme executive power of the State
BY nigh,gall the business was accomplish
ed, and The man of Ajaccio slept in the
Palace Of the Tuilerics He had said to
Bourrienne, on that morning, 1--WE shall
sleep 70. night in the Tuileries--or in
prison
The row order was immediately made
organic There could be no question when
Three Consuls were appointed and Bona
parte enc of the number, which OF the
three would be First Consul. He would
be that himself; the other two might be
the ciphers which should make his unit
100 The new system was defined as the
Professionally Consulate; but this form
WAS Only transitional The managers of
g. n 1~..t IL
permanent. The Constitution of the Year
III gave place quickly to the Constitution
Of the Year Will, which provided for an
executive government, under the name of
tho CONSULATE Nominally the Con-
sulate was TO be an executive committee
of three but really an executive of one
with two associates. The three men chosen
were Napoleon Bonaparte, Jean Jacques
Cambaccres and Charles Francois Lebrun.
On Christmas day, 1899, Napoleon was
made FIRST CONSUL; and that signified
the beginning of new order, destined "a
endure Tor sixteen and a-balf years, and
TO end at Waterloo.
This era in Bonapartes life marks the
beginning of the union i'm him OF great
military and great political power. Hence
forth he was destined, to the end of bis
career, to be the State of France. To his
will all things now became rapidly sub.
scrvient His ascendency was henceforth
the most striking example of merely per.
sonal power that the world has witnessed
since the days of Julius Caesar. OF n GER
tainty, History, bcgotten by Reason ir
the womb of Eternity, is not mdde-nevel
was mddc--by any man. But the lines OF
historical causation were Notwithstanding
determined their course and connection:
Inv the will of Napoleon than by any othel
one man for the last eighteen centuries.
The rapid ascendency of this extraordi
nary parsonage was strongly aided by thu
recent calamities which had befaller