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Show WILL. BE THE PEOPLE'S SOVEREIGN SOVER-EIGN O.M.Y. "apoleon -abjures the imperial pur-bayonets, pur-bayonets, Prussian or French. He claims to be the "People's sovereign," holding his position by right of free election ; and he will not wear the crown of France on any other terms than by the expressed will of the people. peo-ple. So it is recorded by the Xew i'ork Heralds Wilhelmshohe correspondent corres-pondent The language of Napoleon runs thus : ,;It would be well if it were publicly understood that I never intend to remount the throne on the strength of a military pronunciamiento, by the aid of the soldiery just as little as by that of Prussia. I am the sole sovereign who governs next by the Siace of God by the will of the people, peo-ple, and I shall never be unfaithful to the origin of either. The whole people peo-ple which has four times approved of my election must recall me by its deliberate de-liberate votes, else I shall never return to France. The army possesses no more right to place me on the throne than had the lawyers and loafers to push me from it. The French people whose sovereign I am has the sole decision." de-cision." Which are brave words and sensible ideas, if he means just what he says. But Napoleon has been credited in the past with having enough of the diplomatist to say one thing and mean another, and to hide his thought.-; in his language. lie used to bear the appellation of " the inscrutible man of destiny;" but the way Napoleon, Bismarck: and other prominent men French and German have of unbosoming themselves and giving free utterance to their most secret se-cret thoughts, to correspondents, bince this war commenced, is somewhat marvellous. mar-vellous. The fires of war have literally liter-ally thawed them out, and they have become as garrulous, apparently, us Mrs. Willoughby when discoursing ibout "that boy, Sam," "which his mother had died, Ac." There is great likelihood that Napoleon may return to France, should the republic fail to prosecute the war to a successful i."bue, without waiting for a call from the French people; and that another plebiscite, ple-biscite, properly manipulated, would :-how au overwhelming majority of votes in his favor. |