The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-08-28
Interested Prophets.

l0t0r0St0O rFOpHosS.
It is amusing to read the complacent OUT
givings of the Radical press on the subject
of the European war and it's results. Prus-
STA is going to do this AID that when she
dictates from the French capital. She Is
not going to retain any portion OF the
French territory, but she will nominate the
King who must rule over the French peo-
pie, and he is to be an Orleanist.
Then she must be repaid all the expenses
of the war, and receive guarantees that
France will stay whipped. The Prussian
King, too, must be recognized as Emperor
of Germany. Other commentators, such
as the New York Tribune, pronounce Ma
poleon an imbecile, and say that his Cen
erals have shown want of ordinary capa-
city. They have daily dispatches that the
Emperor is insane or struck with apoplexy,
that the Empress is in England with the
Prince Imperial and the crown jewels, that
Prince Napoleon has taken refuge in Italy,
that the Emperor is virtually deposed, and
a triumvirate of Generals rule France,
that, in fact, the revolutionists are about
to take possession of the Government and
form a committee of public safety. With
them the war is as good as ended, and the
Napoleonic dynasty destroyed.
Upon what facts all these comments and
prophecies are based we cannot tell. Ac-
cording to the most reliable information
within our reach, the Prussians have lost
twice or three times as heavily as the
French in the actions that have hitherto
crocoo1o1 Inv 1inf
of vast superiority of numbers, and at
an immense sacrifice of their men in forcing
back the French lines and possessing the
frontier portions of French territory. But
that apparent success is of little real adj
vantage except for the name of victory,
and was purchased at Il ruinous rate, while
it served only to fill the French troops
| with exultation at the evident superiority
which they had shown in the face Of over
whelming odds, and to spread dependency
and dismay among their own people, cltl-
zens and soldiers.
In the meantime France is developing
her resources, while Prussia has done her
best. She was ready in advance, and
struck her heaviest blow at once, while
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has been saved only by the great military
superiority of her soldiers and Generals.
| Now her reserves are coming rapidly to
the front. She has secured such position
of affairs that she can pause In perfect
safety and await supplies and reinforce
ments or move upon the enemy at her
pleasure. In fact, we are told that Bazaine
| .. ~, vic
tory will hardly be snatched from his hand
by want of ammunition.
1t is not for us to prophecy any more
than the Radicals and other haters of lib
erty, who SO eagerly sympathize with the
Prussian despetisn1. It appears to us that
its success would be the triumph of royalty
in its pretence of "Divine rights" and the
destruction of popular power and influence,
but we would not willingly have our judg-
ment as to facts and probabilities affected
by that opinion. 1t does seem to us, how
ever, as q fact pretty we'll established, that
the French army is now animated with a
sense of conscious superiority, with GER
tain Indignation at having been excessively
outnumbered and thus put in false posi-
ton, and with an eager determination to
expel the invader from their soil. When
we consider, too, the gloom which must
rest upon the Prussian army in consequence
of it's trightful losses and their meagre
results, and then reflect upon their distance
from support in case of a reverse, the de-
vastated road they will have to travel, and
the hostile character of the country, we
must say that if we were their friends and
advocates we should feel uneasy for them
We should not prophecy, for we found thai
an unsafe business in our own recent war
but if the Prussians would take our advice
it would be to get out of the country al
fast as they can, and not to stand much
upon the order of their going.
Garibaldi and King William.
1t appears that this modern Don Quixott