The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-04-08
of her capital, France congratulated

prevented Dy diplomacy WnaU IL was
feared she could only prevent by the
force of arms-the unifcation of Ger
many. The willingness manifested by
the victorious Prime Minister OF
Prussia to stop short of what he had
evidently set out to accomplishing
unity of Germany, with Prussia as its
head-at the very moment when the
Prussian arms were everywhere victo-
rious, was regarded, at the time, as an
instance of forbearance in the hour
of victory unusual with crowned
heads or their advisers. The Empe-
ror of France claimed credit for STOP
ping bloodshed and curbing the ambi-
ton of the Prussian kingdom by
interfering in the hour of its triumph.
He thought and claimed that Ger
many could not become consolidated,
so long as two distinct and, in some
respects, antagonistic portions of that
country were preserved. By protect
ing Southern Germany he believed he
had established an effectual barrier to
the further Entertainments of the VIC
tors of Sadowa. But the events of the
past few weeks demonstrate that the
willy Frenchman has again been out
witted by the cunning BIsMARK. A
treaty is published which thoroughly
unites Northern and Southern Ger
many in league, offensive and defen-
sive The parties to these treaties
mutually guarantee the integrity of
their respective territories. and bind
themselves, in,case' of war, to place
their armies at the disposal of each
other, so that the King of Prussia, on
whom devolves the superior command,
will henceforth have at his disposal
the united forces of Bavaria and
Saxony. There is no longer South
ern Germany and Northern
Germany no longer a Prussia
with 29,OOO,0O0 of population, but
with near 100000, and likely to be
more. German unity IS u completed
fact. This treaty was made at the
very time that BIsMARK so magnani-
mously withdrew his troops from be-
fore Vienna at the request of France;
and while, apparently, Prussia was
content with making the river
Maine her boundary line, she was in
reality extending her frontiers to the
Alps.
These developments, it may be cas-
lily imagined, put all France in fer
ment. NAPOLEON cannot consent to
occupy the position of an outwitted
diplomat in the eyes of the French
people. Something must be done to
regain the eclat that he has lost, and
nothing seems so likely to be done, as
to appeal the whole matter to the
arbitrament of the sword. The peo-
pie of France regard the matter in
this light, for the stock market in
Paris has been almost in a panic, and
all classes of French securities have
been rapidly declining. Added to
these indications, We fud that the
Emperor is rapidly re organizing the
army, and while he seeks to amuse
he people with Expositions, all his
lrmories resound with the construc-
Jon of breech- loading firearms that
will prove superior to the celebrated
needle gun. So rigid is the proscrip-
lion, that cry of distress goes up
rom the country people. and NAPo-
LEON is informed that he is depriv-
ing the agricultural districts of
aborers whose places cannot be
supplied. He is petitioned to set aside
/ law which makes all the children
soldiers, unless it be that the enemy
menace the frontiers of France, when
\ levy en- masse would be cheerfully
acceded to.
Correspondents of the English pa
pers announce that the horizon which
indicated the storm that broke over
Europe last Summer was not more
overcast than at this moment, and un-
less diplomatists prove more forbear-
ing or artful than common, We may
anticipate another strug-
gle in Central Europe during the COM
ing Summer. To make so melancholy
a failure in Mexico, and to be so COM
pletely overreached by the Prussian
are evidences of weakness