Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-06-20
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VOL. X.XXIV.
The Relations Between France
B and dPru<sia--AFl FleaforC Common
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tFrom the Correspondence de Berlin.

| lFrom the Correspondence de Berlin.l .,-f,
After, Luxemburg Mayence, after May
ence Rastadt, en- attendant Coblentz and
fCologne-allI the German fortiheations,
trouble the repose of the French JOURNAL
ists, who are dreaming of nothing but
evacuation and dismantlement. To man
ufacture fresh causes of offence to imagine
all sorts of dangers, to awaken the half
eXtinguished spirit OF public discomfort,
to take the pretext of an honorable sacri-
fee to create already further demands. and
thus to prepare a choice of disputes ready
for the day when the French armaments
shall be completed-such. are the arts OF
peace which they practice on the other side
fofsthe Rhine. They have no. yet touched on
the military treaties in virtue of which
Prussia occupies one of the fortitications
on the Rhine, but they will no doubt
shortly come to that subject. 1t is tradi-
tion, in fact, of the old European policy
kept up with other. principles of the same
.period by the treaties of Vienna-that Ger
many ought to render an account of all
she creates or transforms at home without
having any right herself to meddle with
what takes place sbroad.7 Thus rattan of
40 millions OF souls, which does not cede to
any. one the foremost place in the progress
of civilization. which possesses an. army
whose bravery, devetedness, organization
and tactics have no fear of comparison,
cannot dispose of herself as she likes,
cannot put an end to her divisions and
ground her power on the union of her
own forces, without neighbor ever
ready to- take offence, thinking himself
ousted out of his rights, and diminished by
that .aggraHdizement. Germany, then,
owesgto her neighb0r a acompensation for all
interior progress which she makes; each of
her national cOnquests will cost her q
province and she willonly be permitted to
become strong on the condition of weaken
ing herselfls What would the French press
say if the Prussian journals took it into
their heads to pretend that Metz and Stras-
burg endanger the safety of Germany ? If
they jealously took pains to count the cam
mons of those fortifications, and the regi-
ments by which one day or another garri-
sons are reinforced? And what an out
cry they would make if Germany
tried to gain over the foreign alliances of
France, and pretended to see all kinds of
menaces and dangersi The national senti-
ment of Germany might thus justly feel ir-
ritated by the strange pretensions which
certain French journals affect, but the sys-
tematic hostility of those points is negatived
by the friendly and conciliatory policy of
the Imperial Government, and by the pa
cific disposition of the immense majority of
the French people. "A few days more and
the pacifcation will be complete on both
sides of the Rhine, and the journalists who
ienain behiudin the war-camp will be like
those people who keep their umbrellas
open after the rain. Already we see one of
the most influential organs of the French
press, the Journal ,des Debats, return to
the sentiments of sympathy and justice
toward the German nation. 1t lately op-
posed to the ridiculous phantom of militia
| ry dictatorship, evoked hy the French
Democrats, the progress of constitutional
liberty which everywhere in Germany as
sures the sovereignty of the people. To-
day 1t shows the union of the German
States as work OF progress of our tines,
unity OF France than that Germany should
take offence at the powerful French unity.
This is the real language of the friends of
peace, which worthily responds to modern
ideas, and in which we recognize the nat
ural generosity and liberality of French
public spirit. tEfiiu rtf @- uif -ai7