The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-20
A Fraternity of Hate

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 Confidence reigned in the allied headquarters, where, around the avers- ing Czar, motley group had been drawn together from the ends Of the earth with no other motive in common than their envy or hatred Of tine colossus, who had so long bestrode the narrow world. There was Frederick William of Prussia, who saw at last his chance to break his chains and revenge himself for Jena and Tilslt. There were English representatives, who had camped on Napoleon's trail for 20 years and among them was Colonel Hudson Lowe, ready to bind the fallen giant and drag him to his rock of captivity.
 Trreconciliable emigres, whom the usurper in his glory had been unable to lure from their Bourbon allegiance were gathered like huntsmen when the game is run to cover. One or them was his old seatmate in the military school of Paris, where three boys sal in a row--Phelipeaux Picot de Pecca- dnc and Napoleon Bonaparte-and the first named and the last kicked at each other behind the desk until She second, who sat between, had to move hls wounded legs from the firing line. Phe- lipeaux settled his score at the gate oi Acre where he mounted the guns on the wall for the Turks and stopped his schoolroom enemy in his march to win an empire in the east And now Picot was on the staff of the Austrian commander, Prince Schwarbenbers where. after 25 years, he was fohiy hoping to avenge his ships
 The ubiauitous Pozzo de Borgo, thal Corsican Nemesis, was there or course panting with an unslaked thirst TOT le- venge and eager to carry to the piteer end a neishborhood quarrel begun Ill Inc streets of Aiaccio. Napoleon needed only one man to have become the master of the world, and l am that man. Such was Pozzos boast in all the after years.
 Rv the side of that relentless vendettist was a man whose hate was younger pul no smaller This was Moreau, the Nlc.oi in the battle of Hohenlndeh' Whose WI" "iie and mother-in-law being from Martinique had rebelled against the exaltation of their sister islander Josephine and estranseu the general from Napoleon, who banisneu him to America at the time of the BOUT bon plot and tho shooting Of the Duke dEnghein There is tradition tha' President Madison offered the refugee the command of the American army 1T the war of 1872, but he was tempted by an emissary of the Czar to return to Eu rope after an exile of more than e1sh' years on the banks of the Delaware, anc join in bringing down the eagle
 The Czar had drawn one man to hi' side out or the very camp ol ANdpoieoii | That was General Jomini, the Swiss bank CT. who had divined and published tA wizards tricks of military magic, bu had grown dissatisfied with his rewards as a member of Marshal News staff an6 changed flags in the course of the armis tice.
 One man alone at the allied headquar ters could not frankly share the genera rejoicing over the prospect of upsetting tn ; Napoleonic throne, for Francis of Austri , was unable to forget that his daughte was sitting upon it and his grandson wa playing about it's steps. A fathers iov and q nonarch's ambition were tearin the Austrian Emperor's emotions betwee
 them as he moved among the conhden l,iotters for the overthrow of. his son-in
 law and he drew back from the Car table when he saw Jomini seated at Il
 T very well understand that it is heces sary to avail ourselves of spies and trail ors but is it necessary to break brea with them?' Francis inquired.
 An Army Without a General
 Among all the cooks at the allied head