Provo Daily Enquirer | 1895-12-02 | Page 3 | Napoleon and other Rulers of Europe

napoleon anil other bulera of europe lie also understood the dynastic es of europe in a sense the kiouses of hanover of and of simpy were parmenus parvenus par venus in the councils of royalty yet they were ancient princely stocks and their accession to supreme power biad not shocked ancient prejudice the dubious abid blood title of the czar did not diminish his for his succession was not more irregular than eliat of many of his predecessors on the semi oriental lousian throne but to substitute for the bourbons the oldest divine right dynasty of europe and in the enlightened west a citizen descent who based hia claims on popular suffrage and successfully to assert the plate of a plebeian among the clym fians pians was to brave the in fleshed prejudice of all conservative europe and to laurl de nance at the old system than which to millions of minds none kotlier was conceivable to reach the goal fighting vas not n voluntary choice but an absolute necessity for the french must be left in no doubt but that their popular sovereign was quite as able to assert ilia peerage among kancs as anyone of royal lineage and ecclesiastical unction would be prof W st klonne in century