Had not Metternich declared, “There can be no peace with such principles”? Had not the restored Bourbons of 1814 proved to an astonished world that they had learned nothing, and forgotten nothing? Had they not set about annihilating the glorious work of reform which had cost France so much--so much in consecrated toil, so much in well-spent treasure, so much in patriotic sacrifice, so much in heroic blood? Had they not done their level best, in 1814, to blow the trump of resurrection for every abuse, every wrong which France had buried amid the rejoicings of the Progressives all over the world? What was the “Revolution of July, 1848,” but the final triumph of Napoleon Bonaparte? _It was that and nothing more._ Had France been true to herself in 1815 there would have been no Bourbon Charles the Tenth; there would have been no Bourbon Louis Philippe; there would have been no occasion for the long postponement of the supremacy of the Revolutionary Principles. “_With such principles there can be no peace_,” said Metternich, the favorite minister of the Confederated Kings; and what La Fayette ought to have known, and Grattan ought to have known, and the Progressives everywhere ought to have known, was that _the war of the allied Kings was against those democratic principles_. Had Napoleon been willing to be _just a king as they were_, there would have been for him no Waterloo. “_Emperor, Consul, Soldier!_--I owe everything _to the people_!”--declared Napoleon, throwing down the gauntlet of duel-to-the-death at the feet of Legitimacy, Divine Right and Absolutism. No wonder the crafty Metternich, who guided the policies of hereditary kings, snatched up the glove and said, “_With such principles there can be no peace._” In America the masses of the people sympathized with the French Emperor, and hoped that he would win. At the Hermitage, in Tennessee, the dauntless warrior who had recently whipped the flower of Wellington’s army at New Orleans, ardently hoped that Napoleon would win. In Great Britain tens of thousands of the followers of Fox hoped that the right of the French to select their own rulers would be vindicated. Throughout Continental Europe a powerful minority yearned for the system of the Code Napoleon, and secretly prayed for the great Law-giver’s success. Byron’s friend, Hobhouse, wrote June 12, 1815: “Regarding Napoleon and his warriors as the partisans of the cause of peoples against the Conspiracy of Kings, I cannot help wishing that the French may meet with as much success as will not compromise the military character of my own countrymen. As an Englishman, I will not be a witness of their triumphs; as a lover of liberty, I would not be a spectator of their reverses. I leave Paris to-morrow.”