, 1870-09-15
REPUHIIcANIsM SPREADING.

Ports f,ctor Hugo Is having said that he !
lad Just received n letter from the camp of !
Hing William, signed hy l0,n0n Germans !
in ARMS, saying that they shrank from the |
further slaughter Of Frcnchrncn. We
canuot conceive that any 10000 soldiers
would render their Eecks liable to the |
tal:er, under military law. by sending and
siSuins a 1=t.er uf sympathy for the enc
1py. We must conclude that Yictor Hugo
has bcen hpa1cd a,y II forged document, or
that Tho correspondent has erred in re-
porting his statement Fprgerirs, lowev-
cr, are always limitations Of 4 tratl., and
the very fact that forgery should havt
taken This form, md hrcn widely pub
iissr.i, shoas general belief that tue r.
-putfic OF france has warm sympa,!.,zer.
in the German armies 4 Brussels do
spatch reportstAat, '.The German peoplenre
losing sympathy with the King in his eGorts
10 take Paris, and many Prus>ian solliers
rnurmuT against what thcy declare tl.c
oppression of the French people" An
nti..r.!es.atch reports . socialist" npri,i
i'll /. e 3}u.llr "f i;rnntw;,k. - Vi my 81
C, lists, suys tie d:.,.s.sl, have 5ec..
coaiued within The fortresses fo
| prais,ng the French Republic, aud de-
nouucing the German ,nonarchs." We nrc
assured that this l,roup. aud rigorous
treatment has had tran4uislizing effect,
and the disorder is abating. Wo know
we'll the kind Of tranquility which arisaa
fre1n the Imprisonment Of Republicans.
It Is the tranquility OF men whu merely
see to-day what others may not see until
tomorrow, AID who can afford to whit uu-
| til they are in the majority.
Meanwhile, VIC have more mass meet
ings i.l London. to denounce the course Of
England toward The French Republic, As
these meetings multiply, cheers for an
English l:epublic arc stur,lily given by the
DISTINGUISHED millions, who have been
hnmbugged long enoug'. 1'y tue conserra-
tive twaddle of royalty and aristocracy.
They perceive that an American Republic
CEN manage great war better than d
French monarchy, and sec no reason why,
it four millions OF lately cnslaved and
inferior race can vote without harm TO the
na,ion, five or six millions of male adult
English subjects should bo deprived OF all
voice III their own government.
Again, while Victor Emannol's troops
arc lsal,ing at Monte lsoton1o, overlooking
tie city Of Rome. which they demand rs
the capital Of reunited Italy, Immense pla-
cards posted throughout the city proclaim
an Italian Republic. II King William,
were commanding standing army Of pro.
! II. nj hat
France, all these Indications of q vast pon.
'ltar uprising in sympathy with repub]i
esni,m, for its ozu sake, would not need IL
ula11n Linn. But Ao leads an nrmy Of ..slu
cated nitn, very few Of whom are bias.,i
i'y the possession or the hope of personal
lower under his ln..narchy. Nearly al
Intelligent men everywhere, who arc mo-
bril'ed by either the possession or tLe hop<
Of lsowc7, are republicans. King William
found, III lS4s, that his army coald not h,
selied upon to fight against its republican
symrnthies.
We c.nnot tell how soon this rising re
publican agitation may lead to further rev
olutions. but the inability Of Spain t
: choase monarch, remaining, meanwhile
under republic in fact, whatever it ma
= be in name, together with the prompt an
s unanimous declaration OF the republic j
: France The moment they were relieved {
Napoleon, and the rising asitations iu &c
r,sny. England, Ira1sn.a and 1sa,s, alt el,o
: that rel,ul,licanIsn, is far stronger in Es
rope today than it ever WINS before. We
IL may be, for the decade from, lsfo to Is;
has been re1'leto with demonstrations
i the capacity OF oil classes of the people +,
l. se'f-governn.ent, and ot the utter incapaci,
9 Of any class for the work Of perpetual
IS governing Others
II thiH he the state of popular sentimcl
y in Europe, then it a.cl.'ovrs King william
as the champion Of monarchy, to mo,
10 cautiously. Revolutions could nov I
Il l'ronght about in few days which won
e have required years in the antediluvia
y period. before the introduction Of s,ca
a aud the telegraph. King William has Il
4 ready founded one more republic thln
u wished Ia. In atte1nptiugto overthrow j
n in the interests Of Napoleon, ho may four
'e another in Germany, which will give Iii
'S much greater Inconvenience than II
T. French onc does