The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-05-24

IL has been attempted to throw out AZ the time
of its composition the negotiations for peace
were just at the most anxious point. That
France was eagerly trying to play the arbiter is
public fact; but In thissdocumcnt Il Is prepos-
ferrous TO discover evidence of Bismark or Prus-
sia having been disposed TO buy off France by
unworthy concessions. This, however, is the
charge explicitly uttered in the closing nara
graph of this fifth volume, without one 2ittle of
evidence in support thereof. On the contrary,
evidence can be found even in the parbled yer-
sion in the opposite sense. Bismark refers GotZ
to the programme he had given i'm his despntch
of the 9th July That programme must have
been the one brought to PaLs on the 1th bv
Prince Reuss and of the nature of which we
know this, that on the 18th NJ. Drown de Lhuvs
in reference to this communication. wrote to
Prince Metternich that Austria's expulsion from
the Confederation was a sine Qud non condition
and that if Austria did not at once Weld this
point the contest would be continued TO the
uttemost. That the King himself after Sadowa.
was possessed of a pronounced craving for pro-
vinces; that at this crowning moment of milf
tary achievement, the sense of what in the yav
of aggrandizement it was incumbent ON his
Hohenzollem nature to obtain weighed nightly
on his mind, is an old story; but there is nothing
i'm this that in any manner impairs the really Ea-
tional spirit which throughout animated Prussian
counsels. Ihere IS not a shadow of evidence
furnished for the preposterous assertion that
Prussia showed herself disposed at one time to
satisfy the French desires for ACKNOWLEDGEMENT at
the expense of German interests
DuJ WITCH SUCH TcCklehS assertions and h
deliberate perversions of text are met with in
publication of this peculiar character. il is not
possible to dismiss them lightly. 1t is bad
enough when an individual lends himself TO mis-
representation, but what is to be thought OF 4
Government that deliberately makes itself
party to so discreditable publication of garbled
documents, obtained in the first instance by
fraud and then falsifed, for the publication in
which this scandalous Justification is given 70
the world is avowcdly and strictly official? Now,
what is deserving OF notice is the fact that,
rightly or wrongly, the belief is entertained in
Berlin that for this last breach of propriety
Count Beust is not himself directly responsible,
but that il is due to other and even more exalted
influences. The book which contains these
astounding sallies is one published under au-
thority of the Military Chancery-that Board
which has ever been the reserved domain for
Ieperial presidency and Court Influence. 1t
Processes to be the version of the militaryaction
OF the Austrian army in 1866, and as such is COM
piled, with the assistance of records in the
pigeOn-holes of the Austrian War Oflice-in that
office where the Archdulle Albert is supreme. 1t
is to Imperial agency, in the direct sense of the
term, then, that the public action is ascribed in
Berlin, and it is but natural that this view should
add greatly to the Importance of a manifestation
indecOrous and foreign to all precedent.