text:  Whether this were that direct retribution for innocent blood which Providence has so often inflicted upon guilty nations; or whether it were merely one of those extraordinary casualties which circumstances make so impressive; there can be no question that the man came from Corsica who inflicted on France the heaviest calamities that she had ever known; who after leading her armies over Europe to conquests which only aroused the hatred of all nations and after wasting the blood of hundreds of thousands of her people in victories totally unproductive but of havoc; saw France twice invaded and brought the nation under the ban of the civilized world! France is at this moment pursuing the same course in Algiers which was the pride of her politicians in Corsica