The Washington herald., 1914-04-12

, aim. and in another instant he fell be-
fore the fatal vOlley. pierced through
the heart. The corpse was pushed into
the gaping hole beside II, but there to
pause only few years until the re-
turn Of the Bourbons, when IL was dis
inferred and laid to rest in the chapel
Of the grim old castle.
where the Republic Fell.
/ small slender column Of marble was
erected in the grassy moat at the time
! the body was removed. and there it still
| stands under the gaze of the morbid and
the curious. marking the spot where the
where. too. IN the twelfth year Of its age
the republic fell, For II was truly said
OF the Bourbon Conspirators that they
came 10 give France a king and gave her
an emperor.
The blood of the Bourbons. and indeed
| OF all the royalty in Europe. ran cold
with horror at the news Of how the Duke
d 'Enghien had died. The court Of the
Gar at st. Petersburg went into mourn
ing, and the King Of Prussia recoiled
from Napoleon into an alliance with Rus
sia-
, Paris met the event with mixed feel
ings. Some protesting person coined his
whispered denunciation of the killing in
memorable phrase; 1T is worse than q
crime-it is a blUnder,' The regicides
however. the men who voted for the
death of Louis XVI. were weary Of Ma
poleon's habit of roughly chiding them
and reminding them that they surely
would be shot il the BOurbons ever came
back. and they applauded his course.
The old revOlutionists. now that Bourbon
blood was on his hands, no longer feared
that he might make terms with tho
Royalists: he had burned his bridges
The evening of the tragic day was Q
silent and gloomy occasion at Malmaison.
The strain was not broken until the COM
pany had risen from dinner. when Ma
pOleon himself began to speak Of the in
evitable cruelties which history charged
against rulers from the time of the Ro-
man emperors. abruptly concluding with
the explanatory declaration: They
wish to destroy the revolution in attack
ing my person: for l. l. am the revolu-
ton, They will be more cautious in ths
future. for they will know Of what We ara
capable"
Long Live Napoleon!
At once the suggestion was flashed
abroad that the only security for the
peace of the country and the security Of
the new order against the old. lay in
Fouche and his police hastily diverted
their energies from hunting down plot
ters against the first consul to for
warding a plot of their own against the
republic. Five days after the death of
the Duke d'Enghien, several electoral
colleges Obediently responded to theif
poleon their appeals that his authority
might be perpetuated in his family.
The great conspiracy which was still
agitating the country served well to make
the nation feel its dependence on one
mortal life. which might be cut of in
an instant and leave the country plunged
into chaos This work we do. this
money we risk the people are represent
ed as saying. this house We fdifd. these
trees We plant-what will become OF them
If Napoleon dies?" Establish A dynasty
and tho royalist assasslns will see tha
uselessness of striking down the head
of the government, with a long line OF
heirs behind him. and will cease to
disturb the land. Moreover. once a throne
is set up at Paris, monarchial Europe
will no longer band against France as
a menace TO Kings
The republic was dead-long live Ma
poleon!