The establishment of the Empire, however, is not only an
inter- nal question ; other states of Europe claim to have a voice as to the erection of a new power in the midst of the system which it has cost so many saorifices to maintain. Nor is the fact the sole oon- sideration—the mode is one scarcely less important in the eyes of diplomacy. In taking the title of "Napoleon the Third," Louis Napoleon implies a dynastic succession. But when he says that he cannot pass over "the title, regular though ephemeral," of the first Napoleon's son, "which the Chambers proclaimed in the last effort of their vanquished patriotism," he falsifies history. He should have said that the Chambers refused to proclaim a title, because it -would have compromised them with the Allied Powers, whom they hastened to welcome. The forgery of facts which the Despotic, Powers of the North have seen him pass upon the subju- gated French, he now turns upon his brother potentates. e Times announces that the Allied Powers have so far yielded to Louis Napoleon, that they will recognize him as Emperor de facto, if he will accept the treaty obligations of 1815; and in his speech on assuming the diadem, he formally declares that he accepts the liabilities of past Crovernments,—condeseend- ing not to date his reign from 1815, but from 1852. The Allied Powers, however, refuse to recognize him as "Napoleon the Third." He has not the less assumed the title. In this inflexibi- lity he does not depart from his usual line of action. In his short but fall career, inflexible tenacity of purpose is his chief charac- teristic. lie may have seemed to yield, but only in semblance, to the necessity of the hour. He consented to be a private -citizen-- asseverated that he wanted no more; he consented to be President for four years—swore to it; he consented again to be President for ten years—in one year he consents to be Emperor ; realizing that which before the beginning he sketched in his Id&s .Arapolebni- ennes, and which has never been absent from his mind, never abandoned, never yielded through all those -oaths and protestations. lie 'only bides his time. Meanwhile, the other Powers wait and watch—they"cannet trust.
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