June 16, 1971 (8 pages)

ced att é _ As I intend to make one or two extracts from this eminent American authority, it is proper for me to remind you that the article was written in 1848, just after the events in Bavaria, and some three years before Lola Montez came to this country, The author says: "After leaving Paris, she next made her appearance upon the theatre at Munich, Her association with the literary and political circles in which Dujarrier moved in Paris, had made her familiar with general literature, and with European politics in particular. The beauty and rare powers of mind which won the attachment‘of her talented protector in Paris, made arapid .onquest of the King of Bavaria, The masculine energy and courage of which prompted the effort to save her friend by hastening to the duelling ground, with the intention to stand in his place in the deadly conflict, enabled her to acquire an ascendency over the minds of others. The extent of her influence in Bavaria is shown by her success in driving the Jesuits from power, remodeling the cabinet of the king, and directing all the important-measures of his administration," It is very fortunate for Lola Montez that she can appear to such high American, as well as European authority, in defense of her deeds in Bavaria, for the tools of the Jesuits in the United States have Cunningly misrepresented, and, indeed covered with most shameful lies, this portion of her history. Before we can understand fully the nature of the part which Lola Montez performed in Bavaria, we must have a correct understanding of the character of King Louis, and of the political condition of Bavaria at the time of her arrival there. I am compelled to say that a portion of the press of the United States has exhibited an astounding ignorance of the character of this king, They have misrepresented him as a weak, foolish, and unprincipled man, who sought only his own pleasure, regardless of. the good of his people: and the honor of his crown,while he was the reverse of all this, Not only was he one of the most learned, enlightened, and intellectual monarchs that Europe has had for a whole century, but he loved his people and was in the best political sense of it, a father to his country. During his reign, Munich was raised from a third-class to a first class capital in Europe. No monarch of a whole century did so much for the cause of religion and human liberty. Look at those magnificent edifices built by him, which are the admiration of all Europe Saint Ludwig's church, the Aller Heiligan Chapel, the Theatiner Church, the Au Church, the New Palace, the Glyptothek, with its magnificent statues; the Pinacothek, with its pictures; the Odeon, the Public library, the University, the Clerical School, the school for female children of . nobility, the Feldherrenhalle, filled with statues, the Arch of Triumph, the Ruhmshalle, the Bazaar, and the Walhalla, Nearly all these. superb structures were erected, and the statues which they contained were paid for with the king's own money. And besides these stupendous works 6f art, Louis set on foot the grandest works of internal improvement, The canal which unites the Main with the Danube, and which established an uninterrupted line of water communication from Rotterdam to the Black Sea, owes its origin to him, It was he who also originated the plan for the national railways of Bavaria, He was also the originator of the company for running steamboats from the highest navigable point of the Danube above Donauwerth down ‘to Rensburg. He gave his people the Landrath system, under which the actual cultivator of the soil is protected in comparative independence, while in other portions of Germany he is the trembling slave of despotism. When Louis ascended the throne he was possessed with the most liberal ideas, and it was. his first intention to admit his people to a degree of political freedom which no people of Germany had ever known, But the revolutionary movement of 1880 forced him backwards, and an evil hour brought into his counsels the most despotic and illiberal Jesuists, Through the influence of this ministry the natural liberality of the king was perpetually thwarted, and the government degenerated into a petty tyranny, whose priestly influence was sucking out the lifebloodCc cna arm emer eee es nee of the people, There was a rigid censorship upon the press, and the cloven foot of Jesuitism was everywhere apparent, until the king -had grown sick of the government, which necessity seemed to force upon him, Such was the condition of things in Bavaria, when Lola Montez. arrived there, And now, in that conection, I hope! shall be pardoned for quoting once more the authority of the American Law Journal of 1848: "She obtained permission to dance upon the theatre at Munich, Her beauty and distinguished manners attracted the notice of the king. On further acquaintance with her, he became enamored of her originality of character, mental powers,. and of those bold and novel views which she fearlessly laid before him, Under her counsels, a total revolution afterwards too place in the Bavarian system of government. The existing minority was dismissed; new and more advisers were chosen; the power of the Jesuists was ended; Austrian influences repelled and a foundation laid for making Bavaria an independent member of the great family of nations," These favorable results may be fairly attributed to the talents, the energy, and influence of Lola Montez who received, in her promotion to the nobility only the usual reward of political services, She became the Countess of Landsfeld, accompanied by an estate of the same name, with certain feudal privileges and rights over some 2,000 souls, Her income, including a recent addition from the king of 20,000 florins per annum, was 70,000 florins, or 4 little more than 5,000 pounds per annum, After. all the noise there has been in the world about Lola Montez in Bavaria, she may challenge history to produce an instance when power in the hands of a woman was used for greater propriety pf deportment, and with more unselfish deyotion to the cause of human freedom, She, and she alone, induced the king, not only to abolish a ministry which had stood for a quarter of a century, but she went further, and induced him to form his new ministry from the ranks of the people, without respect to the rank of nobility. What an immense step such an example as that to be set in a German state! And you, in your peaceful republican home, here in the United States, can form no conception of the furious rage it set the nobility in, not only in Bavaria, but all over Germany. It wa3 at that moment that Lola Montez became a fiend, a devil, a she-dragon, with more heads and horns than that frightful beast spoken of in Revelation, When Lola Montez arrived in Bavaria the nobjlity had such power that tradesmen could not possibly collect a debt of one * of them by law, as they could only be tried by their peers. And the poor people, alas! had no chance, when they came under the ban of the laws, for the nobility alone were their judges. To remedy this Lola Montez had obtained the pledge of the king that he would introduce the Code Napoleon, and she was having it copied and put in due form when the revolution broke out and drove her from power. The blow that she had dealt at the swollen heads of the patent nobility wassevere enough, in choosing ministers from the ranks of the people, but this introduction of the Code Napoleon was looked upon as the finishing blow. The fat and idle vagabonds, who lived off the people's earnings saw the last plank drifting from their hands, and Lola Montez wasthe devil of it all, The priests used to preach that there was no longer a Virgin Mary in Munich, but that Venus had taken her place. At first they tried to win her to their side. A nobleman was found who tried to immolate himself in marriage with her; then Austrian gold was tried old Metternich would give her.a million if she would quit Bavaria -all, all was offered to no purpose. Then came threats and plots for her destruction. She was twice shot at, and once poisoned -and it was only the accident of too large a dose that saved her intheir determination to be doubly surethey defeated themselves. And when the revolution broke out which drove Lola Montez from power, it was not only by the superior tact and sagacity of her enemies, but it was by the brute force produced by Austrian gold, Gold was sown in the streets of . Munich, and the rabble, by which I mean not the people, but the baser sort of idlers and mercenary hirelings, became the og Or Ao re er at eee’ . ee rere * tools of the Austrian party. _ They came with can voice of ten thousand de‘ Against the entreaties of presented herself before her life. This for a mom as it must have seemet little "scary," as the old A thousand guns were and apoplectic voices fie the repeal of what she hac for it was no time to sc for her to accede to st honestly meant for the of Bavaria. They could take her mend their cause for her. ‘right. In the midst of th the house by her friends; parations were making tc asion and entreaties ofguised as a peasant girl(for it was February), : leaders. of the Liberal ps country, with their famil Lola Montez was no’ there was no other alte treat within the sheltet was Switzerland, that eagle, in the midst of t of Europe. But, before she went back disguis prudently lying still b she obtained a last au endure the thought the the reforms which he . out’ to him the impos went down into the dis deeds which he had of immediate justice. SI his own fame, and that son, who was an enem time, at the fatherest saw the propriety of thi ise, which then made, stars of a midnight sk upon the turrets and sp that if she were discov _ she did not think, or cz the past, and they hav in this world, at least. Ten years have « Montez was connected fusive and ever-vigila the first hour it assai say, that few artists, little censure. And ¢ highest social respect had up to the time she was anything in her ¢ mised her before the cause her deeds we! means to destroy her _the authority of the king's confidence in L "This attachmen change which have ti acknowledge that it : lations with the king, self, that has ‘troug! which the defeated . Saga eminence ~

ced att é _ As I intend to make one or two extracts from this eminent American authority, it is proper for me to remind you that the article was written in 1848, just after the events in Bavaria, and some three years before Lola Montez came to this country, The author says: "After leaving Paris, she next made her appearance upon the theatre at Munich, Her association with the literary and political circles in which Dujarrier moved in Paris, had made her familiar with general literature, and with European politics in particular. The beauty and rare powers of mind which won the attachment‘of her talented protector in Paris, made arapid .onquest of the King of Bavaria, The masculine energy and courage of which prompted the effort to save her friend by hastening to the duelling ground, with the intention to stand in his place in the deadly conflict, enabled her to acquire an ascendency over the minds of others. The extent of her influence in Bavaria is shown by her success in driving the Jesuits from power, remodeling the cabinet of the king, and directing all the important-measures of his administration," It is very fortunate for Lola Montez that she can appear to such high American, as well as European authority, in defense of her deeds in Bavaria, for the tools of the Jesuits in the United States have Cunningly misrepresented, and, indeed covered with most shameful lies, this portion of her history. Before we can understand fully the nature of the part which Lola Montez performed in Bavaria, we must have a correct understanding of the character of King Louis, and of the political condition of Bavaria at the time of her arrival there. I am compelled to say that a portion of the press of the United States has exhibited an astounding ignorance of the character of this king, They have misrepresented him as a weak, foolish, and unprincipled man, who sought only his own pleasure, regardless of. the good of his people: and the honor of his crown,while he was the reverse of all this, Not only was he one of the most learned, enlightened, and intellectual monarchs that Europe has had for a whole century, but he loved his people and was in the best political sense of it, a father to his country. During his reign, Munich was raised from a third-class to a first class capital in Europe. No monarch of a whole century did so much for the cause of religion and human liberty. Look at those magnificent edifices built by him, which are the admiration of all Europe Saint Ludwig's church, the Aller Heiligan Chapel, the Theatiner Church, the Au Church, the New Palace, the Glyptothek, with its magnificent statues; the Pinacothek, with its pictures; the Odeon, the Public library, the University, the Clerical School, the school for female children of . nobility, the Feldherrenhalle, filled with statues, the Arch of Triumph, the Ruhmshalle, the Bazaar, and the Walhalla, Nearly all these. superb structures were erected, and the statues which they contained were paid for with the king's own money. And besides these stupendous works 6f art, Louis set on foot the grandest works of internal improvement, The canal which unites the Main with the Danube, and which established an uninterrupted line of water communication from Rotterdam to the Black Sea, owes its origin to him, It was he who also originated the plan for the national railways of Bavaria, He was also the originator of the company for running steamboats from the highest navigable point of the Danube above Donauwerth down ‘to Rensburg. He gave his people the Landrath system, under which the actual cultivator of the soil is protected in comparative independence, while in other portions of Germany he is the trembling slave of despotism. When Louis ascended the throne he was possessed with the most liberal ideas, and it was. his first intention to admit his people to a degree of political freedom which no people of Germany had ever known, But the revolutionary movement of 1880 forced him backwards, and an evil hour brought into his counsels the most despotic and illiberal Jesuists, Through the influence of this ministry the natural liberality of the king was perpetually thwarted, and the government degenerated into a petty tyranny, whose priestly influence was sucking out the lifebloodCc cna arm emer eee es nee of the people, There was a rigid censorship upon the press, and the cloven foot of Jesuitism was everywhere apparent, until the king -had grown sick of the government, which necessity seemed to force upon him, Such was the condition of things in Bavaria, when Lola Montez. arrived there, And now, in that conection, I hope! shall be pardoned for quoting once more the authority of the American Law Journal of 1848: "She obtained permission to dance upon the theatre at Munich, Her beauty and distinguished manners attracted the notice of the king. On further acquaintance with her, he became enamored of her originality of character, mental powers,. and of those bold and novel views which she fearlessly laid before him, Under her counsels, a total revolution afterwards too place in the Bavarian system of government. The existing minority was dismissed; new and more advisers were chosen; the power of the Jesuists was ended; Austrian influences repelled and a foundation laid for making Bavaria an independent member of the great family of nations," These favorable results may be fairly attributed to the talents, the energy, and influence of Lola Montez who received, in her promotion to the nobility only the usual reward of political services, She became the Countess of Landsfeld, accompanied by an estate of the same name, with certain feudal privileges and rights over some 2,000 souls, Her income, including a recent addition from the king of 20,000 florins per annum, was 70,000 florins, or 4 little more than 5,000 pounds per annum, After. all the noise there has been in the world about Lola Montez in Bavaria, she may challenge history to produce an instance when power in the hands of a woman was used for greater propriety pf deportment, and with more unselfish deyotion to the cause of human freedom, She, and she alone, induced the king, not only to abolish a ministry which had stood for a quarter of a century, but she went further, and induced him to form his new ministry from the ranks of the people, without respect to the rank of nobility. What an immense step such an example as that to be set in a German state! And you, in your peaceful republican home, here in the United States, can form no conception of the furious rage it set

the nobility in, not only in Bavaria, but all over Germany. It wa3 at that moment that Lola Montez became a fiend, a devil, a she-dragon, with more heads and horns than that frightful beast spoken of in Revelation, When Lola Montez arrived in Bavaria the nobjlity had such power that tradesmen could not possibly collect a debt of one * of them by law, as they could only be tried by their peers. And the poor people, alas! had no chance, when they came under the ban of the laws, for the nobility alone were their judges. To remedy this Lola Montez had obtained the pledge of the king that he would introduce the Code Napoleon, and she was having it copied and put in due form when the revolution broke out and drove her from power. The blow that she had dealt at the swollen heads of the patent nobility wassevere enough, in choosing ministers from the ranks of the people, but this introduction of the Code Napoleon was looked upon as the finishing blow. The fat and idle vagabonds, who lived off the people's earnings saw the last plank drifting from their hands, and Lola Montez wasthe devil of it all, The priests used to preach that there was no longer a Virgin Mary in Munich, but that Venus had taken her place. At first they tried to win her to their side. A nobleman was found who tried to immolate himself in marriage with her; then Austrian gold was tried old Metternich would give her.a million if she would quit Bavaria -all, all was offered to no purpose. Then came threats and plots for her destruction. She was twice shot at, and once poisoned -and it was only the accident of too large a dose that saved her intheir determination to be doubly surethey defeated themselves. And when the revolution broke out which drove Lola Montez from power, it was not only by the superior tact and sagacity of her enemies, but it was by the brute force produced by Austrian gold, Gold was sown in the streets of . Munich, and the rabble, by which I mean not the people, but the baser sort of idlers and mercenary hirelings, became the og Or Ao re er at eee’ . ee rere * tools of the Austrian party. _ They came with can voice of ten thousand de‘ Against the entreaties of presented herself before her life. This for a mom as it must have seemet little "scary," as the old A thousand guns were and apoplectic voices fie the repeal of what she hac for it was no time to sc for her to accede to st honestly meant for the of Bavaria. They could take her mend their cause for her. ‘right. In the midst of th the house by her friends; parations were making tc asion and entreaties ofguised as a peasant girl(for it was February), : leaders. of the Liberal ps country, with their famil Lola Montez was no’ there was no other alte treat within the sheltet was Switzerland, that eagle, in the midst of t of Europe. But, before she went back disguis prudently lying still b she obtained a last au endure the thought the the reforms which he . out’ to him the impos went down into the dis deeds which he had of immediate justice. SI his own fame, and that son, who was an enem time, at the fatherest saw the propriety of thi ise, which then made, stars of a midnight sk upon the turrets and sp that if she were discov _ she did not think, or cz the past, and they hav in this world, at least. Ten years have « Montez was connected fusive and ever-vigila the first hour it assai say, that few artists, little censure. And ¢ highest social respect had up to the time she was anything in her ¢ mised her before the cause her deeds we! means to destroy her _the authority of the king's confidence in L "This attachmen change which have ti acknowledge that it : lations with the king, self, that has ‘troug! which the defeated . Saga eminence ~