The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-10-03

Empire or Republic-EI0narcists in Terror
Official Aforementioned Vacated Throne
Russian lnInence-Rcacsionary Tendcn-
cies-Hosii,c spirit--The Laon Catnstrophe-
Napoleon at WiheIms hohe-A Carriage
Ride.
BERLIN, Sept II, 1870.
The official press mere is evidently In a very I'M
pleasant position While yesterday compelled TO
prove that the upstart Louis Napoleon Is OF the
greatest miscreants under the sum- II is to-day
PEELED TO give out another cue-viz., that the EN-
peror Nap. Is, after ALL clear thinking statesman.
IL makes curious impression to read IN
the leader OF the No7u Deutscne ANJen,eine
an apology Tor the French Emperor Because
he maintained, in his conversation with Count Bis
narck that he had been in favor Of the war, he
appears suddenly TO have become the pet OF the
Prussian government and its official press. Ger
many, says the latter, III very clear terms,
acknowledge at present no other government III
France except the Emperor. Is not that tantamount
TO saying that peace be negotiated only with the
empire 1t must be admitted that the case Is an
extraordinary one--the capital Of country at war
selling the government and replacing IL by another.
compelling the opponent, in the OF negotiations
for peace, 10 elect between the old and new govern
ment. All theories international questions re-
speeding the acknowledgment of a new government
are based only on the supposiron that the country
with the new government is at peace with the
other from which the acknowledgment is expected
DE FAcTO AND DE JURE
So much is certain, says the official organ, that
State which acknowledges the ne Gacto government
OF another is not obliged to acknowledge It de 5ure
And such an acknowledgment is still less 0bliga-
tory when said State chances to be at with the
new government. The possession alone Of govern
ment is not sufficient TO constitute right TO such
government: 1t requires certain attributes to con-
Of ,f,,
these attributes that State which Is asked to ac
knowledge is the only judge.
1t u even questionable if the new commencement
dc la Defense Rationale Is de fncto government or
France. At all events, to acknowledge 1t as such
would be the utmost concession that could be made
10 ii. Hence, III war with France, we are fully at
liberty 10 negotiate peace with the aforesaid or with
The imperial government With such choice Ger
many would be justified III treating with that gov
eminent which would be most eager FOR peace, offer
The best conditions and give The most substantial
THE PROVINCIAL CORRESPONDENCE,
the ministerial organ rldicucs the pretensions OF
The Paris republicans, who imagine mat because
they have declared the abrogatlon OF the empire
the German armies should at once retire TO the other
side Of the Rhine. without any other spolls OF VIC.
tory than tic pardon Of tue French republic for
their audaciOus invasion.
After voIuminous augmentation it says that the
future government OF France should he left entirely
10 the decision of the French people. Germany has
nO will ii, interfere with 1t: she did ask,
the price OF victory, change OF government, and
cannot accept such change as payment, even in
or whatever importance TO France might be the
detnronement Of Napoleon 1t is no guarantee for
and for the peace OF the world: stu less because
the few days that have passed since the change OF
government have sufficiently shown that the new,
temporary power IL possessed OF that same conceit
and arrogance which have always blinded the French
people.
struction OF all serious military opposition the
publican government deies the conqueror with Ian
guage such as II constantly employs what de-
luslons would not be eatertalncd by the
government, and people OF France If war should
be Withdrawn from them before they had
come TO ia ma consciousness CONSCIOUS les. OF Their
governed and determined by Paris the more it Will be
necessary to put damper upon French arrogance
in It's headquarters and bring 1t TO The conscious
ness that the quiet and peace OF the world must no
longer be the football OF the humors and fryolity OF
| morally debased people. united Germany can
NOT stoplts march OF victory through France without
accomplishing this task.
may determine for the present and future. Our aim
| is peace adequate TO the bloody sacrifices, and
| with real and permanent securities. Such peace.
| God willing, we Will dictate In Paris.
A VACATED THRONE.
| In thus arguing then, the official press ignores
that part or Count Bismarck's statement respecting
the declaration OF LOUIS Napoleon that he was not
In position TO enter into any negotiations as SOW
ereiQn, but intended to surrender only his person
| to the King OF Prussia. His treatment at Wnelms-
] hohe might have reused again imperial ambition
in him. 1t ia not unlikely That he has revoked the
decree by which he conrded the Regency 10 the En-
press, but to-day the Emperor and the Regency are
scattered to the four winds. Arc German bayo-
nets to restore the Inundated Caesar to the
| French thronea Such would be the case,
! as q peace, negotiated with an imprisoned
| would be null and void. The man who raised him.
self to the throne by perjury whose life has been
| continued lie, but who by the official Prussan
| organs for a few dsya past has been termed "a
clear-thinking and far-seeing statesman would
If restored TO power violate any promise he might
| give as prisoner at Wielmsh0he. Louis Napoleon
| has been Emperor Of France by the Will OF the
French. It is imnaterial that nc afterward assumed
the additional 'By the Grace OF God; 1t is by the
will OF the French that he Is longer Emperor
! The Regency mas IN cowardly manner run away
Nothing remains bat TO open preminarles for peace
with the existing government, and the peace when
arranged must be ratified by regularly elected Cham.
| beers.
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