New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-01-11

their fsult II war did net rage in Sweden, Peland
GalHcia and in come parts Of Prussia; ii hundreds
of tbousapds more were not slain, millions and nil
lion. of property destroyed, and Thousands and hou-
sands of families reduced to besgary. Would hu-
mainly, civilization, and progress come out winners
from sueh a chaos Of gore and desolatoni War is
becoming less and less Of civifsing agency Eyenin
the exceptional cases, wsr should be circomscr'oed
in spse. and Duration otherwise 1t is an unmltgated
,couree and curse. If the German patrlots-not
the reformers or radcals-hnd had their way iass
year, Germany would have interfsred dictatonahy'
and war On both sides of the Rhine, and very hkeiy
on the Oder and the Elbe, beside that on the TO-
would have been the result, serving TO insugurase
the Standing of Germany. Many, very many, IL not
the majority of German patriotic writer's and poll
ticisns-mourners for Barbsrossian times-oonGder
the southern slopes of the Alps and the Pc as a
strategic frontier necessary to the security OF Ger
many as if the Italians would ever think Of invad-
ing Germany. Napoleon in his great campaigns
and before him Franc l. and Louis XIV, attacked
Austria not through Italy, but in Italy. Abandoned
by German cOvetousness, Italy is to be constituted
neutral ground, like switzerland and Belgium; and
these, with the crests Of the Alps, viii be . su&-
Gent safeguard for Germany.
| Further: the destiny and Standing Of Germany
| means the subsection and eventual absorption OF
| Msgyars, Croats, and o-ber Slavic tribes by Ger
| manism, and the extension of Austro Germany to
| the mouths of the Danube. Others claim the re-
eovery Of Asace, and even of Lorraine, as old Inn
perial fefi, from France, regardless of the fact
| that the populations Of these countries are now
French to the core-that they showed it in 1873
and 1894, and are ready to show il again TO the
Germans. After ALL the Rhine, which has been sp-
proprated by Germans and raised to the dignity OF
a German father, is at most emily half German, and
not at all ethnicaIs. Primiively, Celtic was spoken
on both its banks; the mountaineers aro1nd ito
glaciers or sources spoke Celtic formerly; they now
| speak Romantic, and the German tongue is only an
interioper there. The left bank was Gallo-France
20 early "a the times of Caesar, and, claim against
claim that of the Germans is supported neither by
historical geography, nor by geographical logic.
What Germanism pretends to have lost on or be-
yopd the Rhine, ii has won from the Slavic and
Slave russian tribes along the Elbe, and beyond
the Oder and the Vistuls rs far % the Nemen. This
conquest ia secured to Germany by the highest and
! modest human right; being now permeated by the
superior German civilization and culture. No lover
of progress will contest such property; no one
will dispute the birthplace of Kant as not Ger
man, although Germanism has no ethnic rights or
claims to that region.
Very many Germans regret the loS, and dream
oftbe recovery from Russia of the Baltic provinces
although for nearly three hundred years these prov
inces have been severed from Germany, and have
recognized, first Polish, then Swedish, and lastly,
Russian supremacy. At present, the German ele-
ment ia represented there only by handful of no
bles as landowners, and another handful of Ger
man traders and mechanics in the cities. This
| German element did not civiize, but only en-
shaved and oppressed the natives OF LettoFnnic de-
scent. These populations did not accept the Ger
man language. After more than four centuries of
German colonization, hatred is the only feeling pre-
vsiling now toward the German landlords and bour-
geosie, as it existed centuries ago against the Ger
---- IN arnrs
The political horizon Of Europe is sill cioudea,
and possible wars are or prophecied. Federate
and reasonable, Germany alone can circumscribe
wars if not prevent their explosion. The horoscope
of politics shows signs Of an unavoidable conflict be-
tween England ard France Perhaps Russia would
be forced to enter the lists with France, if Germany
should take sides with England. 1t is almost GER
tain that either Prusso-begemOnic Germany or
Germany of the absolute Standing would do this,
and 90 render the confagrat IN general. Writers,
poets, statesmen, patriots, Old TeutOns and Young
Germans are all more or less unanimous in cOnsd
ering the Standing dependant upon the humiliation
of France. Only the enlightened reformer and
radicals are exceptions. 1t would seem that the
ultra, and even the less ardent sons Of Teutonia,
cannot forgive France for having always at her own
cost, awakened them to political reality by the
Great Revolution, as well a. by the wars in which
Germany or the Empire were the sggressors, and
by the shock which came from France in lS4o. This
shock brought forth several constitutional govern
ments in Germany, and demand for more i'm
proyements and reforms. The demand partly died
out Germany is now again excited, and internal
reforms are discussed, beside question. Of hege-
mony and Standing. This new excitement origi-
mated from the fact of France going to Italy to re-
store the rights of the Italians In all this, France,
EIencLmen, and Louis Napoleon are covered with
abuse by the great majority Of Germans of al po-
litical creeds ASPIRATIONS and conditions. Prussian
end Austrian hegemonists accuse each other Of hay
ing prevented Germany from increasing the cOnha-
grafton in Italy, from kindiing it on the Rhine.
Finally: the more hgh.minded assert that by
hegemoDy and Standing the liberties not only OF
Germany but OF all Europe viii become broadly es-