Year: 1859

The ~ Y Times has become as Jealous an adyo.
cate and admirer of Napoleon ILL.,, as the Rev. J.
S. {. Abbott is of Napoleon l. To say the TRUTH


( is much more jealous and equally innocent; in.
deed, the journals Of Paris, which enjoy the direct
influence of the H6ts N0pOteonieaneS, and may be
supposed To have some interest in their worship,
must come to New-York if they would learn to APP
preciato the genius and the grandeur, and the ee-
yated and immortal career Of this latest demi-god
with the perfect loOseness of confidence and Of
adulation which it ought to inspire in every soul
not devoid of both sense and scnsibity. One Of
the crowning glories of this "great sovereign"
according to our enthusiastic neghbOr, is his SIM
certy He is an open-hearted noble fellow.
who means just what he says, aud would Mt tell
lie TO save his life. lie never makes mental res
ervation or cherishes an arri6re penste, not he.
" Everything in the personal antccedents, in the
published convictions, in the manifest individual
land dy ynastic interests of Napoleon ILL.,, cOnspres
Ito justify the belcfthat in accepting the war thrust
"upon him by Austria, the ruler Of France is bent
"upon precisely the objects which he avows in his
"manifestO Of the second of May" For only
fool or kraye could suppose that if he had any
ulterior purpose, he would have kept it secret.
Driven to war BY Austria, without any proyocatlon
On his part, he means nothing but to put down
Austrian despotsm and establish the independence
Of Italy, which the poor, weak Italians, with their
" fatal gift of beauty" have tried to establish but
could MT and then he is quietly going home again
to look after bis wife and baby


Now, this is what We might call jolly, and exctes
our admiration. What saint it is, to be sure, as
well as u sage and hero! But the reason given
by The n. y Times for its lovely confidence in
this pure and lofty being, seems to us rather too
limited, though decidedly novel 1t is simply
that after the Crinean war he would not agree TO
the desire of England to dismember Turkey bat
constrained that fathess and perfdious power to
make peace without retaining the least bit Of
conquest This is no doubt all right, and We
don't make the slightest question that it is precise
ly as The n. T. Times says, and that that brutal
and intriguing old England had to be held back by
main force from the qualification of her wicked
greed But while our cotemporary was showing
cause for its faith in this modern Napoleon, it
ought not to have forgotten the remarkable
fidelity with which he adhered to the pledges
on which the French people received him back
from exile in lo4s, and TO his oath to support
the republican Constitution Of France; nor
the tender gentleness with which he treated the
pestilent fomenters Of anarchy who desired to
preserve that Constitutions nor the splendid deveL
opment Of liberty, Of intellectual greatness, and
Of public morality which he has secured to the
country he has ruled for more than seven years.
lie is q great, good, truthful wise, humane, and
spotess man. without doubt; but all the grounds
fer giving him that reputation ought to be stated;
don't let US be niggardy while We are about it.