The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-16

unmlndful OF her own interest and 1nSenSlble
to the advantage of her present position if
she did not restore the former physical bouu-
dairy between herself and France, which is the
best security for the national integrity of
each country. With what show of justice, we
may ask, can the United States or its people
say to the people of Germany "You should
not do this ?" With about as much Justice as
the people of England declared that we ought
to let the Confederate States form separate
government; because they-that is, their gov
ernipg class-desired it.
THE REVENGE OF A REPUBLIC.
From the NJ Y. World.
All accounts agree in representing the peo-
pie of Paris as filled with deep and genuine
sense of gratitude by the cordial and coura-
geous way in which the republic of the
United States has held out the hand of sisterly
recognition and of frank goodwill to the new
born republic of France. 1t cannot be
doubted that this action of the American
people-an action forced upon even so slug
gish and unsympathetic a soul as that of
President Grant by the vigorous and vehe-
ment instinct of freedom in free nations
very life -blood-Awill greatly advance our re-
putation, and elevate the nature as well as
extend the scope of American influence
throughout the world For while it must
command for us even from the most bigoted
which is always yielded to nations
as to men who have what the French
call 1.-THE courage of their opinions"
it must also stir the hearts of the multitude
in every country by its obvious disinterest-
edness and magnani nifty. 1t is not q homage
paid to powerful and prosperous but a
helpful God-speed given to an overmatched
and imperilled cause. The Germans them
selves can find no fault with it; for the same
of ind of opd IF ind
makes their recognition by the United States
q source of hope and JOY to the French re-
publicans in their distress and danger made
the flag of the United States symbol of
safety and shelter to the German subjects
deserted by their diplomatic representatives
in Paris OH the outbreak of the war. And
to recognize the republic in any country of
Europe is to strengthen the faith and hope
of republicans in every country of Europe
No intelligent German who understands the
secret of that marvellous national progress
and prosperity by which, as by brilliant
beacon-fire, so many thousands of his coun-
trymen are yearly encouraged to escape from
the limitations of European to the oppor-
tunities of American life, can possibly
hope for any permanent good to accrue to
Germany from this terrible conflict, unless
it shall secure for German liberty in the
future as firm basis as for German unity in
withdraw from conquered France armies
only, flushed not with new and generous con-
ceptions of duty but only with mere arro-
CANT sense of power, their victories
in the field would be their country's undoing,
not its deliverance. 1t is to Germany, then,
as we'll as to France, matter of genuine
thankfulness that there exists in the world
one great and powerful government of the
people which fears not to speak its mind to
friend or foe, and in which the haughtiest
nations of the Old World are compelled to
recognize a state inspired by other hopes and
ruled by other principles than theirs.
The moral dignity of the attitude taken up
by the United States in the existing Euro
pean war may be regarded, indeed, as great
lesson to mankind in this, that it is the re-
publics revenge upon the Old World for all
the attempts of European Governments, both
overt and covert, to break down its power
and blast its hopes during the great ordeal of
the civil war. Upon the Imperial Govern
ment of France in particular, how COM
pletely and yet how nobly has this revenge of
the republic been taken! Five short years ago
the Imperial Government had engaged France
and the honor of France-not indeed with the
assent of the people of France, but none the
less thoroughly for that-in an expedition
the inevitable result of which, had it sue
ceeded, must have been to hamper and limit
the movements of the United States, to di-
minish our freedom of national greatness
and glory. Had that expedition succeeded,
the sympathy which America to-day extends
to France would have been of infinitely less
worth than now it is. 1t failed; and now that
France, in her turn, is in the throes of
Struggle for her very life, the
people whose power the arms
of France were so foolishly and so short
sightediy employed to curb gives France the
| only kindly, just, and generous words which
fall upon her ears from any of the mightier
nations of the world Our national revenge
upon England is not less completes for, if
England holds to-day but an abject and con-
temptible position in those affairs of Europe
| through which she once moved with the step
of an Amazonian queen, it is mainly because
she trembles at the most distant risk of
bringing down upon herself in the season OF
our power and success the wrath which she
eal ned in the season of our difficulty and
our danger. Without a blow struck in anger
nay, without the prospect of striking such
a blow, which it would be mere madness
on the part of any state in
Europe to invite from us-the United States
to-day receive, in the recognition which
every State in Europe yields of our national
dignity, justice, and superiority, the fullest
amends which a nation can ask or history car
accord for all the carping, captiousness, hos
tility, and distrust of the past. Whatever the
traditional sympathies of our foreign popu
lation may be with one or another of the now
contending European States, they will prove