New-York tribune., 1870-11-17
THE PEOPLE AND TIE WAX
GERMANY AND FRANCE.

To the EdtfOr OF The Ir'o""o
SIR The position taken by some OF the most
advanced advocates OF radical thought, such as Mr.
Wendell Phillips and Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, in tn'
Frauco-German war, is. TO many al inexpbcable phe
nomenon Here we find lifelong idcaliss That upheid
the sacredness OF principle, and never swerVeo om
lighting under the banners Of right and Justice advoca
Ing expodlency, compromise and wrong. The issue no
tween France and Germany is wholly maapprehendeh
While Mr.. Philips, the silyertongucd and melnuois
compares In n moment Of uncousiderlng wrath the inv
sion of France aud the siege OF fais WIN Wo Ins % VI
the Goths and Huns under Alaiic aud Atia, MN Howe
nnfoIentins ~ war; gT against King wim and Bsmarc
and charges them with gambling for O. prz0 tnat en-
n S Secns e esr asT Ua Of M
breadth and oaber speak friyolously OF one 1I ,no
granidest national s9s' nS IN King vii
Lam and Bismarck were carried aiot NY ,o Hitst'ie m
not Germany hut they that Killing France, she mis-
reads tie events of the day. subveit te meaning OF to
southern y To s%ts M ste9 GgS ne eES NSr $
thousands of lives and thousands Of millions n treasure
and had DESTROYED 9 hostile armies "a Ee1ti; t;cr ~
leaving 10 the people there the decision III he matter on
UliQHapdQ Q saYeryi D9es sne supS7e e Pun M woa ora
they to surrender all the fruits OF victory are th1y hoo
to insist upon the guarantees OF nuTo PeaCc fre ~ spe
and interests of France than their owni Mrs; howe
thinks they should Her appeals Tor peace as o
are opposef to it but Favro and Gambetta. France
begaT the war, she must sue for peace Germany po
fered the conditions OF honorable and lasting peace
France rejected them. ~,
hope that nothing but repuhlicanlsm has made MT
Phillips and Mrs. Howe such earnest plrtlsals oi
France and has clOuded their Juagncn-if thty hII"
Germany better they would comprehend that from thc
land OF the Reforinaiio of free thought, OF poOpD
cal inquiry Of scientific investigation and or popular
education from the land OF Luther lessng, Kant Sch
ler Humboldt, the regeneration OF Europe am te
realization 81 liberty is 10 come. And, indeed
mOnarchica Germany of to-day, with tho stars or thc
HohenzOlcrn and the Wittclbncs shining brightly st
now IL far more democratic than the nominal lepuDhc
OF France. , g.
But while tho Germans, utterly convinced OF Ger
manys lust cause and demands, and Furthermore peeV
ing that the Same conviction must necessarily impress
itself upon the mind of every intelligent and mparta
observer resent the hostile attitude of Mr. Wendeu
Phillps Mrs Julia ward Howe and Nj. CharlcS sum
ner from lending to 10 more than an hdV
nal importance The Germans OF this country owe an
everlasting debt Of gratitude To the NeW-1 DIX lRIBUH
Times Trening Post, Hartford COtrdt, and ottr lead
ing Republican papers, fer their nlexible justice I'M
partially and truhfuncss in dealing with the Franco
German warts cause character, and probable results
THE TRIBUNE especially has endeared itself 10 the Ger
man heart and become oracle In al matters pertain
ing 10 the European war; and this simply In c0sepu nee
of its reading Alright the signs Of the time ana OF making
it, Judgment sympathy aud support dependent ON the
eternal cause o right, justice, truth ana humanity not
on blind. thoughtless, and passionate partsanshlp
need not add another word to appreciation that onnu
sincere utterance in my former communication, I'M
TRIBtNE and the Germans" OF August 2 except u DC
reiterated and more intense expression OF gratlue'
ADoLpH KEssLER, VI. ID.
No. 22i East Fify.frStst Neto York, Oct. 2G, 1870