The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1870-06-02
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Oao the Atlantic.
y Mr.. Justin Mccarthy, in &
brilliant article in Lippincott'
" Magazine, for May, on the, re
aEsults Of Che surren ler of Lee
.sysayx 3hio y0g Nst sb 1ra
In France the effect was nat
-uFally even more directand OBJ
oiyious. For with the fall of the
SGonfederacy fell the Mexican
N empire, the enterprise which
= y Louis Napoleon had more than
b once declared would be the
q Z grand event Of his reign. Alas,
for the hopeful, proud time
crwhen Drouyn de LhuyS could
Z, ask Mr.. Dayton, half in jest half
60 defiance, whether he, the Amer.
icaa minister, brought peace or
war, and the American minis
Ter had no choice but. to take
the thing as a mere pleasantly
,,ahaJo aRswer with some easy
commonplace about the peces,
sity for peace!That was the time
when french statesmen coolly
declared their ,coA yictiOn that
a French army could, if need
iwere, effect a military prome.
aaade across the American con.
tinent, north and south alike.
If Louis Napoleon could only
have known what was to have
happened he would probably
have recognized the South at
any risk at some early period Of
the war; for nothing could have
happened worse for his pres.
tigeand the power of his Ces-
arism than his humiliatlng
, march out of Mexico at the
quiet, ,peremptory command OF
the United States government
and the utter ruin and tragic
fate of his great enterprise
Louis Napoleon never .cau re
cover what that enterprise and
.itslailure cost him. His pow>
er lived on the prestige OF hav-
ing made France the arbiter
and the queen of the worlds
destinies; and that delusion ut
terlye collapsed when, coldly
hidden to withdraw from Mex
leo, he had to go without even
daring a remonstrance. Prdc.
tically Bonapartism, CeSarism,
is now dead in France. Louis
Napoleon has had to do what
his uncle, ia one of his moods
of despair, Vainly wished he
could have done; he has had
TO shelter himself sous les drap8
dun roi constitutiOnneL
A more interesting result of
Lees surrender was It's practic'
al effect on an ADLER man than
Louis Napoleon. We quote:
"Bismark, the only living
statesman on the European
continent worthy TO be named
in comparison with Cavour, has
the advantage of learning the
lesson. When the American
war began he was a believer in
the ;oligarchic principle OF gov
ernment and legislation; when
it ended, he was a believer in
universal suffrage. On the
principle OF univ versal ssfirage
he founded the North Germ n
Confederation, throwing over
contemptuonsly the complica.
ted, cumbrous sytem which pre-:
vailed in Prussia system
which may be roughly describ.
ed as one which applies to the
choice Of every parliamentary
representative something like
the political mechanism by
. which the president of the Uni.
tedStates is elected. Bismarck
himself publicly declared his
conviction that popular repre-.
sentation, as exemplified in the
United States, was the only sure
and permanent foundation on
which 'the'governing system of
a,great people could rest. 1t
was afeffark able and signif.
cant thingthat Bismarck, who
hadsso, long been regarded by
Enplishmen as a LIVING symbol