The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-08-30

entitled Germany and its New Political
Tendencies appeared in the Reoue des
Deur Mondes, the leading Orleanist journal
of Paris. This article was written in the
guise of letter from French traveller, and
was published under the sponsorship of Mr..
e. FORBADE, one of the editors of the Reoue,
who called attention to it not only as the first
dissertation published on ''New Germany"
but for its ingenious discrimination and scru-
pulous sincerity. 1t was understood at the
time that it was written by the Count de
Paris, the head of the House of Orleans, and
created great sensation not only on that
account, but by reason of the bold views
which it advanced. At the present crisis the
article in question possesses unusual interest,
and we therefore present translation of it
entire, as follows
write you in fulfilment of my promise to
give you my views on Germany, but nv
Journey through the country has been SO hur-
ried and my Impressions, in many respects,
SO vague, / might almost say so contradic-
tory, that fear l may exceed the reasonable
limits of letter. The people here have, in
fact. not vet quite calmed down from the
excitement into which they have been thrown
by the events of last year. Situations, ideas,
even principles have been so confounded
that scarcely any one seems to have made up
his mind whether the new order of things
should be looked upon with favor or dis
favor.
RESULTS OF THE BATTLE OF sADowA
One thing, however, is accepted as an ac-
complished fact-the unity of Germany
under the supremacy of Prussia Whether
willingly or unwillingly, every one submits
to this. A diversity of action and interests
among the States has become thing of the
past, and will henceforth take its place beside
the historic records of the Germanic empire
and its ancient constitution. Doubtless the
unity of Germany is not yet complete; it is
certainly not detinitively established Still
there is nothing to warrant us in concluding
that the Southern States will not, in due
course, enter into the bosom of the Germanic
nation, and the Germanic possessions of the
House of Austria have, at no distant day,
their legitimate weight in its councils. Prussia
decapitated at Sadowa the hundred headed
hydra with which the people had been
content to bear since the days of Lafontaine,
and victorious, although unaided, drew after
it in its train the whole Germanic body with
its hundred-tailed dragon. Such brilliant
success fascinated all Germans 1t was less
the triumph even of Prussia which delighted
them than the combination of forethought
and audacity which characterized the policy
of her statesmen and the strategy of her
generals. They compared these rare qualities
with the inertness, imprudence, and gloomy
anticipations of the Court of Vienna, and
with the sheer impotence of the Germanic
Diet; and their love of Fatherland which in
later years had suffered such humiliations.
made them cry out 'There is our guide"
CAUSES OF BIsMARcK's POPULARITY.
1t is scarcely possible for Frenchman to
estimate how much Germanic self-love has
had to endure for many years. Up to 1S49
the liberal movement at first under q legal
form, and afterwards revolutionary in charac-
ter, had been the expression of their aspira-
tions for unity. Since that time it has been
suppressed, whilst Germany has in vain
aspired to that dignity abroad which despotic
governments never fail to promise their sub
missive subjects. Every time that great
European question found its solution without
Germany being consulted they regarded
themselves as personally insulted. During
the Crimean war their sympathies were
with us; but they saw their influence
neutralized, owing to the antagonism
of Prussia and Austria. Subsequently,
in 1859, they wished to interfere against us,
but it required months to put the wheels of
the Confederation in motion, and when they
were ready to act, Austria, always jealous of
Prussia, deprived them of the opportunity by
signing the peace of Villafranca Since,
however, Bismarck was placed at the head OF
affairs, Germans have felt there was such a
thing as German policy to be recognized
From this source sprung that statesman's
popularity. The Holstein question, stripped
of the legal forms which had hitherto encom-
passed it, was clearly placed before them as
an object of national ambition, and was
solved by force of arms in spite of the pro-
testations of almost all Europe. Indifferent
to The mode in which it was effected, the Ger
mans hailed its violent solution as clear re-
venge for the treaties of 1856 and 1859.
There was henceforth a political Ger
many; but who shall be its represen-
tative? Austria, as ambitious though
less powerful than Prussia, pretends to take
that position That it might not leave that
role to its rival, it closed the struggle with
France after the battle of Solferino; made
great effort at Frankfort to place itself at the
head of the movement for a united GERMANY:
and, in 1864, entered into an understanding
with Prussia to discard the Germanic Diet as
a cloak already too much worn to cover any
longer the two athletes who fought under its
folds. The time had come for them to en-
gage in the inevitabls struggle Upon the
day when the forces of these two adversaries
encountered each other, the German Con-
federation, shaken by their strokes fell to
the ground, and the battle of Sadowa defini-
lively broke up the equilibrium upon which
Germanic interests had hitherto depended
Since then M. de Bismarck has been able to
give Germans that which they most of
all ambitioned-the satisfaction of see
ing themselves taken into account in
the affairs of Europe. The naughty manner
of Prussia, insupportable to the Germans
themselves when they were forced TO submit
to it, fattered their pride when they found il