The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1870-09-08
0@eeklp Gimes
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1870.


THE WAR AND QUE POSITION.
We received the following sharp note yes
terday:
LEAvENwoRTH, Sept Sd, 1870.
10 the Editor Of fhe Times:
Please don't take the trouble to send Tie
your paper any more. am . subscriber to
that paper for eleven years, and II is with
profound sorrow that notice that Impair
.iality and justice are no longer considered
virtues by that sheet called The TINES
Your insult to the French nation Is inf..-
nous. Yours, {. BorIssE.
NJ. Bouisse is quite right in stopping his
subscription to journal which does not
please him. This is in reality, and not in
mere name, free country, and the right Of
private Judgment in all matter, politics, re-
ligion and government, isSacrei. Our posi-
ton IN regard to the present war is hold and
positive, as it is apt to be on all great ques-
tons II vas before our own war, when We
indicted Tor Publishing Republican news
paper in Slave State, it was during the
war, when We received god many sharp
n"te. saving stop INV paper" and il Is o.
decided aud emphatic now as ever. We
cruld u, more he ON the side of the des-
pit aud usurper, Louis Napoleon,
Then We could have been on the ride Of
lave masters ami woman-whipPers before
and during our own war. The principles in
VOWED are precisely the same-Union and
Liberty. And, although many persons have
" stopped their papers during our whole
Journalistic experience, hundreds and iholis-
ands of others have always volunteered to
Lake their places. Ii 50 happens that our
paper continues 10 have the largest circula-
lion, and TO be the Leading Paper in Kan
Us. We would no, conduct a paper which
pleased everybody, and which did not have
the most outspoken opinions. And 10 NJ.
Rouiose we will NOT say odieo, but du .eroir.
Towards the people Of France VIC have the
warmeI feelings Of .ympathv-no hatred,
revenge, animosiiy or unkinJns>s ol any
sort. We want 20 see them free and under q
government Of their own; not that Of a self
inflicted ard self-imposed deslpt-a man who
drove mca like Victor Hugo and Loui,
Blanc into exile, and from whose tyranny
even N. Boui--e may have suffered. Mos,
al the Frenchmen who are in this country
are here because they believe Pin Republican
i"stiiutio,,s and like our government. II
Ions Napoleon is a Just ruler, why did NJ
Eouil~s emigrste7 But We shall not 6
pou.e the cause Of Imperialism an,
'sssri.m whatever FrenchmeD, here ~ al
home, may do. When James Buchanan VI,
PRECEDENT We despised him, and cur cc'l,,,r,
VIZ saved because the Buchanans were driver
tlom power Loyalty to principle, to idsa-
= very differenJ from loyalty to man and
TO q dynasty The defeat Of France has i,eei
caused by the infamy and bad rule OF Ma
polecn, and if the French have not the
power and the principle to shake him Of
and reconstruct the government on a free and
honest basis, then the worst enemies Of
France on French soil are Frenchmen, and
mot Russians.
But certsinly no argument is needed on
these..questions. Louis.::Napcleon has writ
ten his own epitaph-written i, in blood all
over the fair fields of France. These brav.
men have been killed, these wives made
widows, and these children made fatherless
because Louis Napoleon, selfish and infa
NOUS despot, has Murdered them-murdered
them for his own glory and not for the glory
OF France. That is the verdict which history
and posterity will render.
France was utterly unprepared for this
waT, Arms had been kept away from hel
citizens There has been no volunteering, a
VIC had in this country, because the men were
unused to arms, and there was no enthusiasm
for Napcleon's infamous personal govern.
men,. The New York Tibua. Of Wednes-
day SAYS:
The Government of France, a. il has ex
isted for nearly twenty years under the de-.
potism Of Louis Napoleon, has been wholly
dependent upon the military power fur lis
existence. But it WAS u great army, and
not a martial people, that the Emperor re-
.;uired or desired. He has done all in his
power to repress the idea and practices which
a, this time would have given France dozen
patriotic armies for its defence. Under the
Empire the growth Of an intelligent patriot
ism has been impossible, and the general Use
ar possession Of firearms has been forbidden.
The Emperor Of France has l,een at war
with the intelligence and the conscience OF
France ever since he mounted the throne.
lie has not only destroyed the Liberties of the
country. but has dehauched liz politics and
crushed its public spirit. Il was not patriot
ism. hut slavish homage to his person and
DYNASTY, that he demanaled. Instead ii
-tving the people those governmental ins,i-
taticns which would have secured their devo-
ton. he has given them debased Casarisn,
which MAS desteste,i by all liberal-mindel
trcnchmes,. We now see the results of his
'.rstem in the lowest condition Of public
>pirii that ever was shown by great nation
in the supreme moment Of its existence.
The Pr,,ssians have Outnumtseresi the
French at leas; two to one, and, besides num-
hers, the Germans have had justice, freedom.
and G"d "n their side. Whenever through
nut the civilized world heart WAS found
which heat responsive 10 human freedom,
that heart has been warm and true for the
German cause, and the great masses Of man.
kind make no mistakes. Their svmpathie-
are ever on the side Of liberty, virtue and
honor, aud the despot who goes Ia war with
ur.i counting this host, may I've sure that his
sword is drawn without Gods approval
The ,le>lp,i-m Of Napoleon the Third ha>
h'cn y failure, he,zu>e it has ruined France. y
cur friend NJ. BW,isse will sometime adj
nit this great aud terrible fact. The leader
~hir ii Europe has changed from France 4"
,,.rnany, and changed for the nsvst sub
SANTA, and everlasting rcascns-rea>ons
which reach from the thrvne IL the cottage
II the peasant, and affect the whole hloci,
life, intelligence and honor u a people. All
true reforms l'rgin with the man himself.
and nations must I've ssved- ty saving the
People Regeneration ccn.es frem the free
s.hoci in the village or among the farms.
rather than from the pAlac in the capital
Il NJ. Hcuisse i- no.. right, Louis Napoleon
will NJ; ~. France has a great prob
lem before her. Human vision
cannot see what revolutions and fields If
hiocd NAV I've before her. what storms. tur-
hal.nces aud anarchies, hut, At last, she mus
RELY upon the virtues, the intelligence, the
tolerance. and the free spirit Of the tvmB,ca