Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-09-24
UyION AND AMERICAN
THE PLAN OF PRUSSIA
A Curious and Interesting DOczment
rraxa the Paris EusVeEs.

A Curious and Interesting 0oSaAhSeAs
From the Paris ur:vers.
The following letter addressed to ushy
a serlo1s thinker, Is worthy of the atten-
lion Of the reader. Those who have
studied, attenively, intellectual Prussia
will recognize therein Its thoughts, as
well as the Prussisn aim, or rather the
philosophic or social aim of the war.
Prussia is not Germany, as Germany
thinks; she is not even Prussia as her
King and most Of her Generals think; abe
is socialism armed; she Is destruction; she
is Islamism: she is the sin of Europe.
This war shall not finish to morrow, mel
ther in France nor in Prussia, nor in the
world. 1t shall not flush before Europe
shall have expiated her crime, asked par
don for it, and destroyed 1t. .-rl-
LOUIS VEUILLoT.
To the Chief Editor of the Univers:
DuoN, Aug. q, 1s70.--I send you I
fsItbfnl resume of a conversation which
took place in Switzerland, the H[sG VI
June, of this year, (mark the dale,l Ueo
tween one of our most infiuentlal ci'iAo"'
and distinguished German.
ID In fifteen DAYS, said the German, you
sball have a social revolution at tarls'
The Red Republicans shall be then inau-
gurated. and established by our concur
renee We have need of the massacres
of Sentember anew. Proprietors, capt.
tallsts priests, the rich and solid part OF
the population must be annihilated-it I'M
pedes our plans. .rra-..,.,...
The Red Republicans Thall WORK the
division and dissolution Of your forces
and shall open to US the heart OF france,
To force its gates 800, 600 Germans, al
the orders of Prussia, are ready. They
will fall on Paris without obstacle You
have only the semblance OF an army 1t
sbaU he DESTROYED. 1t is time TO chas-
,ize France; 70 curb that vanity and
nroud pretention of governing Europe.
The French are sOts, ignorlnti a people
,,4n0ralized by prosperity, They ought
1, Weld the precedence to whom of right
il belongs 40
n is lust that the only nation intel'i-
cent and powerful, that carries within
her the light of reason by her knowledge
and instruction, and the s--rTd of force
by her physical strength; = -; tha'
the German nation shout govern the
world. 1t is the spirit of God which AMI
mates her. tits time that this. Latin RACK
al this Catholic religion the tounua
lions and principles of wb .--y'- ",Ieil
time and fallen into liquid decomposition
infect and corrupt the world, should bt
annihilated to give peace to reason.
God has chosen the, German nation ant
King William TO effect this great triumph
He wishes to give him, in Europe, tn
bneatest power 70 accomplish his designs
The German empire must be re-estap
% For this aim moneyis necessary:
France alone possesses enough of this
II Is the treasury of Europe.
You have at the bank 4, 500, OOO,O U
awaiting US. -,
We will impose on you seven more oil
lions psyable at short dates. And
going away we will keep Lorraine an
'Alssce.
A large empire cannot be truly grea
without an immense navy domineering II
every sea
We will take Denmark and Holland
we shall be masters OF the Baltic.
-. Then. Austria absorbed, we shall TAX
the Adriatic-
To take the Mediterranean, we sha
subdue Italy, which is only slave; II
there where the Pope reigns, that old lido
.jegrading and fansticiziBg the peoples
ani preventing the reign of reason.
Then only will the German nation hol
tae rank to which she aspires, and c
which she is worthy.
eff this is SO, " replied the Frenchmal
cit only remains form me to fall on my KNEE
before German genius and adore it'-aC
ding: ''You have forgotten totell me witt
YOU will do with France, having suodue
it,
eff she resists,n replieu the Gemal
sswe shall annex her to Belgium.
"3ut," replied the Frenchman, TN
German nation, that boasts an intelligent
so great as to place reason above ever
thing. and that surpssses the entire Wor
by IFS philosophy and its wisdom, com
down after all to the use OF mere bru
force"
at is a means to arrive at our aim
said the German.
submit to the meditation of all M
of honor of our dear country, this convC
satiou. held on the 1st of June, 1870, lol
before the war, faithfully transcrlb
from the very notes of man worthy
of all confidence, and the principal zoe
of which he found participated IN 10y
large number of Germans q"
P. II. GUIGNARD.