Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-09-09
The European War.
THE FRENCH VIEW.

ests at work in the French and German
nations. To find the cause of the war
from French stand point we have to 60
far back of the attempt to place Prince
of the house of Hohenzolle-n on the throne
of Spain. Although apparently offensive,
the war is regarded by France as war of
peace, and to preserve the European equil-
ibrium, which Prussian ACKNOWLEDGEMENT,
since the Schleswig- Hoistein war, has been
busy destroying. Until that war the En-
peror was by common consent considered
the moderator of Europe, and as he held
the balance of power no war could be COM
menced without his sanction. Since the
disturbances of l94S the Emperor has de-
clared that France wished peace, and it
has been his professed aim to retain the
necessary power to command peace. But
frances power has been somewhat curtail-
ed, and her movements frustrated by the
appearance in Prussia of a power behind
the throne, and power which controlled
the King and the Kingdom of Prussia.
Elated at his success in the Scheswig Hol-
stein war, and the destruction of the Ger
man Bund, Bismark set about the accom-
plishm ent of his dream of the restoration
of the old German Empire by the forma
ton of great Germanic power as nu
cleus. To accomplish this object, Austria
was expelled from Germany, after which
the various German butchers were annex
cd to Prussia, without vote of their PEG.
pie, which was expressly prohibited, by
the treaty of Gastein. This was objected
to by Austria, who demanded that the
treaty should be respected and the honor
of Germany maintained, the answer to
this demand was the marching of the pow
erful Prussian army into Bohemia, and
the Inauguration of the war, which ended
on the memorable fields of Koenigsstein.
Sadowa. Then followed the annexation
and absorption of Hanover, Cassel, Mas
sau, Frankfort, and last though not least
of Saxony, in which case the Saxon army
was Incorporated into the Prussian army,
and the King left with only body guard.
Having absorbed all of Germany, north of
the Mayne, Bismark's averice covets the
South German provinces, and Baden, Wur-
temburg, and Bavaria are summarily an
nexed to Prussia. To further extend the
Prussian power. Prince Charles of Hohen-
Eollern, nephew of King William, is set
up to control the mouth of the Danube in
the new born Kingdom of Roumania. AT.
ter these advances and evidences of ag-
grandizement by Prussia it needed but lit
tie to complete the work of rupture with
France, and the feather which broke the
camers back was the attempt to place an
other Hohenzollern Prince on the throne
Of Spain. and to extend the Prussian
Kingdom to the Vosges and the Pyrennes.
A demand was made for guarantee that
Prussian aggrandizement should cease,
and being refused, in the eye of France a
war was the only alternative.
THE PRUssIAN VIEW.
The Prussians do not look upon the war
in exactly the above light, but more in or
der to create popular diversion in France
ard distract the attention of the people
from the instability of the Imperial power
The French are known to be excitable, and
after the Great Exposition had had its day
and the p1e6iscits excitement had died away
it was found necessary to get up some
thing else to occupy the minds of the peo-
pie, and it was thought that nothing could
more effectually do this thing than for
eign war. The foreign policy of the EN-
peror had been disastrous rather than 9TH
erwise. His conduct at Rome in 1919
restoring the Pope, and crushing the Re-
public had paved the way for the opposi-
ton of all liberal minded nations and peo-
pie. At the Crimea France secured the
eternal enmity of Russia, without weaken
ing her, at a loss Of an hundred thousand
lives and millions of. money. The estab
lishment Of Macmillan in Mexico proved
little less than his willful murder, and en-
sured the hostility Of the great American
republic. The pitting of Austria against
Prussia proved failure, and there was no
part of the Emperor's foreign policy or
achievements which France could point to
with pride. At home the policy has been
SUGGESTIONS of plumbers. At Auxerre in
1866, the Emperor attempted to raise
feeling in his favor by promising the an
nexation of the Rhine provinces. After
the defeat at Sadowa, a pretended liberal
policy was inaugurated. The people were
promised an enlarged liberty of the press,
the right of public assemblage, and the
right of Interpolation. These promises
were mockery, a deivsion, and a snare.
They were SO hedged about by what was
termed regulations" that the reign Of ty-
ranny was as unrestricted as before
These reforms were aptly characterized by |
the most eloquent of French liberals, Jules
Favre, in these words: "I4aud as you
will the Emperor; the more your praise is
sincere, the more tremble for my coun-
try. 1t depends upon the will of single
man. Have you forgotten the lessons of