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i 1 i WW .i !, 'it. , ft ,Y. t. .., rt.; ;m7. - ( it . - ; ; THE CONSTITUTION AND T He'lAWS- T II E 0 V A H M I A N S 0 F OUR LI BE RT Y; Vol. XL VI. "! ;;, ; HILLSBOROUGH, N.'.C.,.' SEPTEMBER ,19, 1866. ' ;::;;,:y ,No. 2355. HI' W WW. 73 i IS 1 I I L 1 in ! in i t ' Correspondence of ihe New York Time. 'i he Sen of the Great Napoleon. ; Pari, Aogiut 11, 8949. 4 Since the recent mediation of the Empe ror of the French, which has perhaps saved Austria from total annihilation,.there is rea son to believe that ihe desire of France to posses the ashes of the yt.ung Piince, who wai fir a few hours Napoleon II- has been acceded to by the Kmperor Francis Joseph, and that the mortal remains of the Kin of Home wiil soon be placed beneath the dome of the Invalided, side by side with those or his illustrious father. Thus the great Na polean and his son, sepeiated by destiny in lifr, will at last be united in death, (loth died m the land of exle, and neither 'will have found repose upon the soil of France until hfter many years' sleep far from Iter tmures ine upon a rock bound island in a distant ocean, and the other in the funeral i. e ..-! .i ... vauii oi in .tutinan paiacr. Littl is general!? known in America of the 'at rears of Napoleon : II., and the pietent moment seems opportune to give h sketch if his briel and melancholy ca reer. Joseph Charles Francis Napoleon, Kinij of Rome, Puke ol RriehttaJt, was born'in Paris on the 30th of March, 1811. All the good fairies seemed to have assembled around the cradle, and all appeared to pre dict fr him honor, ric'ie,and power ; not cue intimated doubt of hi future grandeur and lustre! Yet, despite the happy pre sages whkh accompanied his birth, scarce ly thrre years after he came into the wrld as the heir of Napoleon, the young Prince left France on the 2d of May, 1814, ncer to return during life. Oi arriving in the dominions of his grandfather, the Kmpernr ol Austria, his title was suppressed, the name be bore was prosciibr d, ever? fact in history which recalled the ghry v( his fath er and the humiliation of his enemies was ear fully concealed from the child's know 'edg't n'' t svn J r 1 ' ? t,ie M,n ' Nap-'eon became the Diike of Iteichttadt. An imperial degree, promuated July ?L 1918. f die 22 J of July was a!s the date nf his death,) conferred upon him the title of an Austrian I) ke, fited his rank at the Court of Vienna, the arms he was t bear, the honors to nhich he was to be entitled, and the toitiof l.e was t wcupy a a member of th imperial family of Austria. N-i trace of Nip dean ws left, and ths name itelf was formally suppreed by the decree. - Afterwrd, when herewupand learn ed wlnt hero was his father, he suddenly awoke as Irm a long slumber. When he read in secret the story of .Napolean's i n mortal campaigns and compie'ended the glory and poer t which the genius of his ?ather had attained, it seemed ti him that he had all at once entered another world, illunvnatedby t!f h'flnry of i;antic e- t.loit. Then despite tV s wh surto inded him, despite the inceuanl watch keot over him. he determined to know all. lie obtained and eagerly devoured every work in which Napoleon's name was mentioned, and final ly. when he realiied how jreat his father had been, what humiliations had been heap ed upon him, how he lud difd a tortured primmer, the youfg Prince was tilled with nn immense hatred of lhoe wlmlud accom plished the baniihrd soldier lonj martvr dmi. His indignation was a'o escited azsint the decree which deprived him of the name which he juvly regrdd as the most nlotious of thie he bore, and he im mediately and resolutely signified his in tention to be called Napoleon. !.k Ips Cither, he was fond ol the profeion of arms, but his tall thm ho ly could not wiih. stand the arduoueiercie to which he at tempted to school himelf. Appointed Co tmiel of the (Jiittnut Vasa U'giment, he assumed the active command, took part in every fatiguing ceremony, in all weather, and no matter how ill he 9, or how much his phvsicians remonstrated. His dreams were of glory, lie studied the att of war in the numberless descriptions of his fath rr'i battles, either reading them or induc ing others to recount them t him, with the map of Europe bt fore his rye. He would never consent to lie down ex cept when his feebleness absolutely forced Li in to do so. He well knew that he must soon 'die, but he had only one regret in leaving the world, and that was to have done so little 'to prove himself worthy to bear the name ol Napoleon, ( remember having often seen in Ametica an engraving represeutinghim grasping his lather's sord and lamenting his powerfessness to grasp the weapon which had so long "made all Europe tremble." .''.The phrase attributed to him may be apocryphal, as regards the strict letter ol the expression, but that such were in reality his feelings cannot be doubt ed for an instant. ., , j His mother a woinin whose heart seem ed insensible to anv ennobling emotion, and who had not the dignity to rem tin the wi- SPEAKER COLFAX IN f HE ROLE OF THE DEMAGOOUK AT HOME. ' The Speaker of the House of Represen tatives began a flaming political harangue at Indianapolis, a lew days since, by draw inga rhetorical comparison between Bene dict Arnold and the late leaders of the South. It is mournful indeed to see so prominent and usually to fair-minded a man guilty of such clap-trap. For, if the comparison has the slightest foundation, Mr. Colfax pronoucced his own sentence of condemnation. He sat with these men in Hie councils of the nation . He knew their (feelings anJ their purposes, lie heard them avowed, both before and at the tune of their retirement. He never branded them as traitor, nor demanded their ar rest. And how, when they visit Washini- dow of Napoleon wept at hisbedside wlien jiogton, he extends to them tlie hand oi the fatal moment drew hear. "" . j welcome,' and kindly inquires after their M Mother! motlur !" he.. whUpercd,. " I 'health. Would he thus gieet Benedict am dying!" - - Arnold ? How dare he be so' cordial to It was the 2M of July, 1335, and these jir-en ivho belonged to a" banditti of men were the lat word of' Napoleon II ,. ex- dealers r" But we allude to this unfortu piring in a murmur upon his lip, with his ! nate speech not for the purpose of arraign urcJil. t ll u mru cue SOU Ol III? lircui i '"g i ojicnivti , una inujiuncnu mm Captain, at the age of 21 rears. Six days after his death, on the 28 th, a post mortem examination of the remains was made at Sthonbrunn. The following is an extract of the medical report: ""Ihe body comp!etely emaciated; the chrst, in propoitioii to the body, long and narrow; the sternun flattened ; the neck watted." : ... He was interred at Schonbrunn with princely honors; and visitors to his tomb at the present day, will see upon it a Luin inscription, of which the fallowing is a translation : "To the eternal nvmorr Of J.n.h ChuU-a Franci, Duka of Ktich Jt ,'Son of Xanulron, Eraproi if the French, Anjof Mi'i IMiM. a ra Tarb of Au.iri, I5vrn al Pa'i. th 2(ih of March, ISI I. DtrJa Kfcont itinn. July 12, IMi." He had himself written an epitaph, which he wished placl upon hi tomb, but which was rejected. It was brief and to the purpose: "list ! S avt of i!m Ureit NapMeon? He wbro Kind of Rome. Ha itieJ an Autriaa Colonel !" A Fact Worth Phiitixo At a second class hotel, at Franklorf, Ky . few days inee, little girl entered the bar room and in pitiful tones told the bar keeper that her mother sent her there I get eight cent. " Eight cents ? Mid the bar keeper. . "Yes, sir." " What de your mother want of eight cents? I don't w her anything." Well," siid the child, " father spenda all his money her for mm and wejiave n bread to-day. Mother wants to buy a loaf of bread." A loafer u:gested to the barkeeper to kick her out. "NV id the bar keeper, Til give her mother the nvmev, and if her father comes back here again, Ml kick him out. Such a circunWmce never happened he fore, and may never happen again. Hu manity owes that bar-kreper a site of thanks. How to RtB tiik Vin. When you irehird up don't b going about complain ing ofihe tightness of the time, bt turn your attention ! something and put your olmtthler well up to ihi wheel. Von may ret uretl something propitious will turn up, if you only apply yourself enercetically. t)icardall such wor.fs aa "fa:" and can't do it" from Your vocabulary. No lillen, unripe fruit should derav on the ground under or about the trees. Fruit that drops before it i ripe does so because it is diaeased. Insects mature in tie fallen fruit, and rise to infect the tree?, or leave their larn for another crop of its kind. The Pennsylvania corn crop is estimated at 30,C00,00Ojjuhel, an average of 63 bushels to the acre. Ten thousand Jollars worth of crockery wa broken in Louisville the mher day by fhs falling of the shelves of a store. self to the level ol a vulgar demagogue, but to call the attention of those of our coun trymen who are likely to be misled by names and epithets, to some vital distinc tion between the infamous crime of Arnold a i l the wrong and blunder of the men ol t!i: South. Arnold's crime was planned in darkness He kept his purpose hidden fr in all save the British commander. It was the skulk ing betrayal of friends with whom he had fought, anJ who had put him forward, into the hands of those who were seeking their lives. It was not simply their abandon ment, which would have been contempti ble, but an eftjrt to put them at the mercy ipf a hostile foe. It was prompted by mur- Illieu pnu nu or resentrntni at th I Al lure of the Continental Congress 1 1 furnish him with means f r his extravagance. O.i the contrary, the men of the South did their work openly and avowed their sentiments. They announced their purpose in advance. We wete incredulous and we did not be lieve them, and when they acted ihe Gov ernment was paralyzed. They asserted by deed the political doctrines which they had proclaimed from the fourdation of the Gov ernment. They undertook to exercise for themselves the rights of sovereignty, which they always denied having laid aside; there was no base betrayal into the toil of a third party. , It was an open challenge, and a bold defiance of former friend. They were not guilty of perjury, for they had Hworn to support the Constitution as they understood it, and they held to the States rights construction, which subordinated the .1 . . . . . ... re;eral to me J-iate governmeui. aney expected no such tragedy as has darkened the land, for they had every reason to be lieve thateceion'oull be peaceably ac complished. They made a fearful blunder, out they nave also mate a lernuie expia lion. But, whatever they are, they are neither daik conspirators nor forsworn per jurers, nor treacherous friend-", nor con scious traitors: all these, and more, Bene diet Am dd was. It is an insult t the common sense of an audience lor a speaker to undertake anv such comparison. It is a terrible confuaion of moral ju I iment, and hows. either a sad want of thought, or a base playing upon the passions of the popu lace utterly unwortny ti me amencan sman. It is grnsIv ut.just to be heaping up cri ties upon the men of the South ol which they never dreamed themselves guilty The worse we make them out the more dif ficult become ihe problem of reconstruc tion. The ordinary Northern idea about the criminality of ihe South would, if ac cepted there, wi rk a moral degradation in the character of the people from which the nation would not recover for forty centu ries. It is bad enoosh to be beaten in a contest, but to be made to confess one's self a pcrjujer or a traitor would be to under mine the foundation of our manhood and self-respect, and we ought to tolerate ;no man who would Impose the humiliating task upon the South. Xut. InttlRgi tett. f'ora ihe National Intelligencer. Fituird of Victory." J , r Oae of the many cant phrases with which the Radical press and Uadical speakers seek to impose upon the unthinking is, that if the policy of the Administration prevail, We shall lose all the fruits of victory,'' and our lour years' struggle will be in vain, 1 he lruit of victory at which we all aimed Iron the beginning to the end of the strug gle was,. the return of the Southern people to their duties as citteeus of the United. States. That was the one Daramount oh. jeel of our struggle. Individuals may have a..M s L . . uccu immeiiceu, oy omer motives th mercenarjr by, that of plunder, the ambi-. tious by hopes of distinction, the injured by a thirst for vengeance. But the great bulk of the American .people aimed at uothing but ihe recognition of the Union of its obligations and its privileges on th part ol their Southern j fellow citizens, tlo olteo, and with what variety of em phasis and of entreaty, was the appeal made to the men of the tiouih to abandon their armed resistance to the Governmeitf and everything should be forgotton and forr given! And when that resistance was abandoned, and the surrender of Lee was followed by Hut of Johnston and" Kirby Smith, and the whole people showed it ready willingness to reconstruct on what ever basis the North might prescribe, there was every disposition to treat them with kindness and magnanimity. Abolition of sUvery was demanded. : The repudiation ol Ihe rebel debt was insisted upon. The annulling of the secession ordinances was required. But the", proposition to impose negro suffrage was almost universally scout ed. Military law prevailed until the civ authority could be resumed. Conventions were called, under the auspices of the Ex ecutive as couimander-in chief. New con stitutions were adopted. States officers elected, and the machinery of4government transferred from the military to the civil power. In the meantime the Federal pro perty was recovered, the Federal courts restore.!, the post routes reestablished, the customs collected, the internal tax paid, and the authority of the flag .respected. What was all this but the fruits of the vic tory which we have won, and won, too, not amid sullenness and disaffection, but amid cheerful submission and hearty acquies cence ? History records no grander vic tory. It was not the triumph of an ex-i ultant conqueror over a prostrated enemy ; but the victory of a magnanimous rival, mindful of the ties of a common brother hood, over our alienated, but now recon ciled friends. And only one thing remain ed to he done. The most flagrant act of hostility of the South to the Union was the withdrawal of its representatives from Con gress. The most significant ast of sub in'Hsioti to the Federal authority is the re quest that they shdl be admitted back to their seats. Vet this, which is the last and most binding act of the Southern people, was long since performed, while it is Con gress which, under the pretence of being foiled of the fruits of victory, keeps the South knocking in vain for admission, and in so doing disregards the obligations of the Constitution and belies the character oi the American people. Such a course and such a pretence may deceive unthinking p irtisans, but it wi I not mislead the intel ligent voter or the sagacious patriot. John T. Hoffman, Democrat, Mayor of New York, has been nominated for Gover nor, and It. II. Pruvn, of Albany, conserf ative Ue publican, for Lieut. Governor. The platform ol the conservative Con vention endorses the Philadelphia Conven tion ol the Hth of August, declares tha Southern States in the Union aud entitled to representation in Congress, a Rirms that the centralisation of power, both in Wash ington and New York State, fatal to th harmony of our political svstem, and de nounces the Congressional Legislation. J. S. Roller, a Rockingham farmer, ha raised on six acres land 117 bushels o.' wheat. '
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