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The Daily Dispatch: December 18, 1860., [Electronic resource], Secession movement at the South. (search)
ins of government, to preserve not only his own life, but the very shadow of civilization from the attempts of a powerful conspiracy, the success of which would have introduced the horrors of anarchy and civil war. To preserve his position, and to save France, he found it necessary to knit together all the powers of government in his own hand. He was placed in a most perilous position. He had to guard not only against the reaction of the Red Republican spirit, and the party of the Duke of Bordeaux, but against all the despotisms of Europe, who, however they might rejoice to see the Republic overthrown, were by no means disposed to countenance so rude an invasion of the prescriptive right of legitimacy, in the person of a mere adventurer.--It must be recollected, too, that while the , always a power too formidable to be despised, especially in France, favored his pretensions, it was solely on account of his name, and not upon any recollection of glory obtained under his leadership.--