Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-08-23
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PROOF THAT NAPOLEON WAS DETER
MINED ON WAR.
The Prussian Minister has furnished
the State Department copies of dis
| patches giving the version approved
| by the King Of the granted
to Benedict to confer upon She sub
ject Of Prince Leopold's accepting the
| Spanish crown. 1T appears that the
French Minister forced himself re-
peatedly and p~ersistently upon the
King, after the latter had Informed
him that he had not been consulted in
the matter in question as King, and
was exercising no influence in his
favor. The King promptly commu-
nicated the first Information he re-
ceived of the withdrawal of LeopOld's
acceptance to Benedict, and subse-
quently sent him the official notice
received OF such withdrawal. With
this the King supposed the matter
settled, when he was surprised to re-
ceive a verbal notice from the French
ambassador that his Government de-
manded a pledge from the King that
he would never countenance any re-
newal of a similar proposition. The
King declined to consider this ques-
ton, or to see the Minister in relation
to it. From first to last Benedict
only communicated with the King
verbally, and did not attempt to do
any business through the regular min
isteriaI channel. The first message in
writing that the King received was
the declaration of war.
THE FRENCH PEOPLE.
The French are essentially a pol
ished, urbane, courteous, Liberal and
chivalric nation. The changes of rule
from monarchy to republic and en-
pire may happen often, but the char
acter of the people will not change,
and that French Government will
last longest that aceords best with the
spirit ofthe people. Looking through
five centuries, France may well claim
to be the most tolerant of govern
ments. Such being the spirit and
character of the government, there is
no cause to wonder that successive
acquisitions have been melted and
moulded into inseperable parts
of a solid unity, nor that the
old Partisan and Norman
spirit has leavened the entire mass OF
French conquests. The provinces of
the Rhone, Gascony, Bayonne, Pro-
vence, the dowry of Eleanor, the land
of the TroubadOurs and Languedoe,
all are thoroughly French; and at this
strange spectacle, the chiefs of a mono
theistic, S~araeenic people, of a race
which never before cOalesced with
Christians in any assured concord, al
though but a few years have elapsed
since their conquest and absorption,
rushing to the scene of war, eager to
serve the great country of which their
own has become a part. The assimi
Iating power Of France is French lib
erty, French tolerance and French
justice. In all changes, a free and
tolerant spirit rules. There is conse-
quently no tendency towards dissolu-
ton and secession.
NAPoLEoN's PREDICTIONS.
In 1889 Napoleon wrote a remarka-
BILE work, Les Ldees Ndp0LeonieaRes,
in which he gave a prophetic glance
at the future wars of Europe. He
said: Zone nation is urged on
against another, and the one is en-
ployed to accomplish the subsection
of the other. The French liberate the
Italians from the yoke of Austria.
Germany and England remain neu-
trai, for what do they care about the
Austrians In Italy? That is the first
a When the power of Austria is
broken, then comes the turn of neu-
trail Germany and Prussia-without
Austria, but with the aid of the Ital-
ians." ii
'"That is the second war; by which
the German question, the Rhine and
Danish question, the SeheIdt alluvium
question-that is, the incorporation of
Belgium and Holland in France-wil
be solved. The third war will be di-
rected against England. The object of
pretext win be to free the oppressed
nationalities, the Irish and Scotch, as
well as the colonies, from the Eng
ish rule-to break the power of
England on sea, and to dismember
GreatBritain. Whatever power can
dispose of ships-of-War must help.
Then the great Western Empire of
the Napoleon dynasty will be COM
plete, and the other half of the world.
the Eastern Empire, is Russia, against
" hich, after she has been the ally
and the auxiliary the last war will be
declared
The second of these wars has begun.
Are the rest to follow? The first Ma
poleon said that in fifty years Europe
would be Republican or Cossaek.
Prophets are apt to hurry things. The
French soldiers going to the Front
call the Germans Cossacks. The end
of this war may be the union of
France and Germany-of all Western
Europe-against Russia, or Eastern
Europe and Asia. In these complica-
tons America is scarcely mentioned.
CAUSE OF DISASTERS.
From certain intimations in the
cable dispatches, supplemented more
by the information furnished by
the foreign mail arriving yesterday,
it is evident that the question OF food
and forage has been one of peculiar
difficulty 50 far in the progress of hos
on both sides. Thus the cable
that Immediately on the oceu-
of Nancy by the Prussian
the officer in command brought
5he Mayor before him, and ordered
him to forthwith pay the sum of So
300 francs and fill certain large requi-
;itions for rations and forage. The
yum of money-but some $10,070-does
appear q serious eXaction, and
was, perhaps, demanded only for the
purpose of supplying some immediate
necessities of the wounded, but the
'equisition for food and forage
zs~n sGOo-nl - -ro-lI -, I
by that there is pressing need for
he Prussian troops living OFF the
as much as possible, especial
Y when we consider that King VIII
lam is ~sedulously endeavoring TO cul