The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-05-04
g THE PRUssrAN 'Qs1UiiADRILaTERaI.'

Tho following article furnishes an exhaustive
trcatu ent Of the FrncoP Prussian question:, In its
geographical and military aspects. prcof that it
is able, but Of decided French bias, we need only.
mention that it is written by NJ: EaruE DE GR1R--
Dn fro om whose inianitable French we proceed to
translate into honnely English.
,s"The Prussian QuadriatoraI' his name appro-
priately given to 'LuSemburg, Coblentz, saarlouis
and Mentz, has been glaam pflight, thai, has dis
sipated the obscurity of the tquestion J.. ::
BY this name nam these four be
known. 49,. -. 4. g : !; . i'
There Is not a single person who can; doubt that
if France, in April 1867 had acquiesced in the con
tinuante Of the Prussisn- Quadrilate1al she would
be in the same position ds Italy was in April 1856,
still submitting to the Austrian Quadrilateral.
What Italy did for her security. France viii do
for hers 2 France can do no less than Italy has
And it is prussin who has precipitated such 4
step by her exortit pretensions. - s. :
N After having broken with her own hands the
bond that. cemented tho EGernan Confederation,
Prussia showedno disposition to: obey the sum-
mons made last Octobur, for the eyacuation Of
luxembourg. This summons, as. Count BwnIARoK
admits was addressed to Prussia SIX montha ngo
by the Grand Duke ofLu1emburg, (the King. of
Ho0anu.) = Perslstng in her occupation OF this
forhess-which is continued only as threat to
France Prussia and tho German people have only
to thank themselves il the question has at once
taken different aspect = '1 4 s.tt 80.
The point at issue now is not territorial aggran-
dlzement, but national security. ~. 5.i'' . !. .
The principle OF in the application Of
which the French Government in 1856 had, per-
haps, been even over scrupulous, must give way
before the question of the security and the digni-
ty Of France. -,s, - .
This; scruple must not again bar our. way
until France shall have re-ostabhshed her national
boundAries--the Pyrenees, the. Alps the Rhine,
from Basle to the sea- md finally the ocean and
within this territory thus circumscribed there
must mot be single fortress that is not gar1soned
| by ourtsoldiers. @
| Nowlet us compare the line formed By the Mo-
see, with tho Rhine Eand the Saar, with that of
the Po, the Adige and: the Mincio.
Perpendicular to tho frontier Of France Hows
the Mosele, from its confluence with the Ssar, by
| the side of Lu1emburg to Coblentz. Parallel to
| the frontier the Saar runs from Saarlouis, past
okh t1ot.is11a Mosal. Behind Tie Scar and
parallel with, it. the Rhine runs from Mentz to
Coblentz. ts*i#, IN:
| From Luxemburg railroad connects with tho
point Of confluence Of the Saac and the Moseue at
1 Coblentz, whence it proceeds along the Saar ito
4 Saar1ouls andSaarbruck. From Saarbruck it con-
nects with Mantz, either by way OF Kaiserslautern
NeQstddt and Mannheim, or by way Of Kreuznach
and blhgen. Back Of the fortifcation Of I.uron-
burg, and Connected with 1t Dy railroad, is TreVeH
a.large city, whence you go down on the Moee,f
to Goblentz and the Rhine. IT
IN front Of Neustadt and connected Nth; it By
railroad, is Lanln, fortti.d town, resting upon
Germersheim, few milesof; alsoforti e ded, ,Whense
you descendthe Rhine: by way Of Mannheim, ia