Show Jerome Napoleon Stands Ity Goreriiiuent Paris GThe letter ofPrlnco Jerome Napoleon on decrees against unauthorized I religious confraternities is addressed to a friend He says he feels embarrasment at giving the opinion asked of him regarding re-garding the conduct to be pursued with I reference to tho decrees but believes I frankness is the best way of gaining the confidence of the French people Em perior Napoleon ho says by a concordat reconciled tho revolution with religion This charter pacification is assailed by the sectaries of theocracy desiring an oppressive and intolerant state religion and by sectaries of disorder desiring society without God or moral law Be says ho h and will ever be tho adversary of both of these that Bonapartists cannot attack the decrees because they are based on laws of the empire and renew the proscriptions of the concordat They cannot attack them merely as the work of the republic became only opponents without principles and without morality deny good through hatred of the hand which effects it Shall they IJ ho asks attack them from fear dissolving tho conservative union That disastrous fiction has lasted too long There is i nothing in common between legitimists and ourselves It is time for each one to resume his colors traditions and principle prin-ciple and that all ambiguity should cease In conclusion the Prince authorized author-ized publication of tho letter and lays I will be glad if it obtains the assent oi our friends |