Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-09-13

Republic with an imperial order as
empty as 1t is theatrical ; under such
circumstances we fear the extraordl-
nary feeling manifested by Mr.. Jules
Fayre at the announcement, amounts
to nothing more than a rather pre-
cipitate slop over. A government is
hardly entitled to recognition until
it has done something to sustain it.
self. Even the Southern,C o~nfederacy,
which maintained armies in the field
for four years, was not deemed suffi-
GENTLY established for recognition by
any European country. Here is, how
ever, 2 power of only a few days-it
may be only q few hours mere
phase in the delirium of defeat
shrieking defiance at a conquering
foe in one breath and suing for peace
in the next, with no more stability
than the air it breathes. In proof of
this, the same ~telegraphic dispatches
announcing the impressive scene be-
tween Washburne and Favre, in
form us of a generally rapid and
widespread discomfort throughout
France at the course being pursued.
1t appears to us that proper conside-
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should have restrained the President
from authorizing such a precipitate
and empty piece of farafanade as that
just performed at Paris. No people
more earnestly desire to see France a
prosperous republic than the Ameri-
cans; but honor to whom honor is
due. The children of the Empire,
dead and dying on the b~attlefelds;
the Emperor himself, who failed in
the very teeth of fate to end a career
far from inglOriOus, upon the battle
field of Sedan, are entitled to some
respect, some honor, in their hour of
defeat and misfortune. Let us see
what stuff the children Of the Repub-
lie are made of. When they have
vindieated the glory of France it
would have been time enough for
recognition by the United States Of
America.
PRUssIAN AND FRENCH CIVILIZA-
TION.
There is much in the past annals of
politics and war which the genius and
appliances of this age seem to be trans
muting into things new and original.
Nations that are not wholly developed,
like men in the same condition, DOS
sess more moral, intellectual and
physical strength, and also more am
bitiOn, than nations that have reached
the goal Of attainment. France has
carried ancient Roman civilization to
its extreme limit. Prussia is one of
the founders of the civilization that
is to conquer and replace that whose
basis and superstructure are both RO-
man. This new civilization, rs dissO-
ciated from the Roman civilization
beside which it has advanced and
with which it has partially commin-
gled, may be now in a very crude
state; but that fact serves only to in
fuse into it the more hope, ambition
and vitality. The results of this hope,
ambition and vitality have received a
~singularly powerful and brilliant illus
tration in the present conflict. An
old race and a developed system at
tackled q new race and a system still
in process of formulation (for we con
slider the "divine right" pretensiOns
of King William to represent, at the
head of German aspirations, the same
idea that the figure head of a vessel
expresses in nautical aims). The new
system turned its defense into attack,
and-tO descend at one leap from
philosophy to its consequent facts
the new system has defeated the old
in thirteen successive general and par
tial trials of strength. Do not these
engagements establish the ultimate
result2 Do they not also affirm the
entire wisdom of opening immediate
negotiations for peace. without neces-
stating the useless destruction of life
and property which the siege Of Paris
and other fortified places still in the
hands Of the French would involve?
RUSSIA AND AUSTRIA HOSTILE TO
GERMAN SUCCESS.
The New York San says: "It be-
comes daily more apparent that the
present war is destined to affect Sc
riOasly and permanently the pOliti-
cal condition of Germany. The
Queen of Prussia, when receiving a
few days ago the congratulations Of
the citizens of Berlin upon the recent
German victories, and upon the pros
poets of a speedy conclusion of peace,
told them that the army was unani-
mously opposedto a cessation of hos
tilities until guarantees should be OBJ
tanned that their children would not
have to fight the same battles over
again. This sentiment is re-echoed
from one end of Germany to the
other. Let there be an end of war
is the all but universal cry; let US
insist upon a general disarmament
of Europe, and the abolition of stand
ing armies a declaration of this
kind, coming from a people in arms,
and united as they never were before,
must be needed"
WILL PRUSSIA CONTINUE THE WAR?
The Philadelphia Age says: "King
William declared that Prussia varied
against the Emperor, not France. 1t
was Napoleon who begun the war,
not the French people. 1t was the
Emperor who wished to secure the
perpetuity Of mis- dynasty, not French
men in Paris or on the frontiers. Ma
rushed France into a conflict
Prussia. The people did not
demand such an issue. These con-
cesslOns 7 all made by Prussian
statesmen, and embodied in the brief
but comprehensive declaration of the
Prussian King.
1.-THE war is now over, so far as Ma
is concerned. He is in the
hands Of King William, confined in
! Prussian stronghold. His son and
heir Is also a captive. His wife and
Empress is a hostage. The whole
branch of the NapoleOnic tree
5 t~ransplanted to PrussIan soil. In
meantime, France has extirpated
Napoleon family, and declared
hem no longer rulers of that nation.
Thus King William has reached his
in a double aspect. He has
)eaten Napoleon on the field, and
:aptured his person and armies, and
he has afforded the French people an
opportunity of cutting up Imperial
Sm root and branch.
As the war was waged against Ma
'oleon and not France, and as Napo-
con has been destroyed in the most
hectual manner, will William still
lush on the conflict, and if so, for
What purpose? The people of France
not wish to indade Prussia or in
arlere with her boundaries. They
viii enter into no combinations or in
against the interests of Ger
lany. They desire to rule France
Y the popular will, to repair the
Dsses sustained by the war, to remove
vestiges of Imperialism, in short,
0 infuse fresh life and animation into
Will William aud Bismarck
revent the Frenchmen from saying
1hat kind Of a government they pre-
er, OF dismember the nation, when
he acknowledged cause of the war
as been removed? If such a
curse is pursued, then Prussia
a deceptive flag from Woerth
D Sedan, and the King did not utter