New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-07-19
WHOLE NUMBER 1925.

The. Prefect of Police has issued
proclamation requesting the citizens of
Paris to make no more war demonstrations.
The Corps Legislatif has voted all sup
Immense subscriptions to support the
war are pouring IN.
La Ltberte says neither Prussia nor
France have made formal declaration, nor
committed an overt act OF war. Each
power hesitates to aggress. The diplomats
of neither power have received formal
passports.
LONDON July 18.-The steamer Chilian,
from Liverpool for New Orleans, sunk in
the Mersey Yesterday, hopeless wreck,
having parted amidships.
The first glimpse of the true history OF the
declaration of war is obtained to-day from
the Paris papers, containing the report OF
FRIDAYS debate in the Corps Legislatif, OF
which the accounts by telegraph were no
better than caricatures. After the Duke
de GrammOnt's declaration demand was
made for the dispatches, M. Olivier, after
refusing to give them, was compelled to ad-
NIT that France had finally declared war
On account of the Prussian dispatch commit
nicating to the European courts the Kings
refusal to receive the French ambassador,
and that this dispatch thus made the basis
of war had not been seen by any French
minister.
The government, in fact, declared war on
what purpOrted to be an abstract of that
dispatch, supplied by two French spies,
announced, the left refused to join in the
shouts of the majority. When the majority
voted an extra war credit of five hundred
million francs, the left again sat silent.
The majority thereupon began vehement
alteration. NJ. Theirs said:
''When such demonstration is made,
wish to say why I did not rise with the ma
r hnl1 4 INV If
there was ever a solemn day it is this, when
war shall be declared. Nobody will grant
| to the government more readily than the
| means of conquering. Ny patriotism equals
yours. We are considering a declaration OF
war made by the ministry of the tribune.
Does such declaration concern the MN
| istry alone. Not us. Our duty is to reflect
| The resolution you have just adopted is the
| death of thousands of men. One instant
1 beseech YOU of reflection. Bethink you OF
Nav, 1866. You refused then to hear me
| when sought to show you what was ABOUT
to happen. Let that recollection persuade
i YOU to listen now. The principal demand
| of government has been conceded Inter
ruption]. My conscience tells me& fulfill q
duty in resisting imprudent pas Mons and
/ representing soberly the country interests.
Is this time for you to break the peace on
\ mere question Of susceptibility. YOn are
shedding torrents of blood for a question
| Ol Il dSA lOI bllc uASPfttCuCS upOh
4 which the resolution for war has been
adopted. If had the honor to govern my
country, / should have wished to give it
time for reflection.
II regard this war as an imprudence, and
its occasion as ill-chosen. More than anybody
else desire reparation for 1866. No doubt
Prussia has deceived us. [InterruptiOn.]
1 You do not understand that discharge
the most painful duty of my life. | pity
you. You insult me if you will. l will en-
dure everything but YOU do not fulfill your
whole duty, and that is why call for the
dispatches" ......3-
NJ Olivier, briefly replying, refused the
dispatches absolutely.
NJ Gambetta renewed the demand, say
ing: "You put the responsibility of war on d
dispatch, you must show us the Dispatch
M Olivier: II will read the dispatches,
but not the signatures, for our agents would
be sent away
NJ Olivier then read part of one dispatch
confirming the refusal of King William to
receive the French Ambassador, and two
| dispatches from French agents abroad, Civ
ing the substance of Bismarck's circular.
The circular itself NJ. Olivier did not pre-
tend to produce. 1t concluded by saying
1--WE go to war with light heart, and con-
fdence in our army"
After an interval and other question, M.
Olivier said: ''We will tell the whole truth.
Il w lliU WE cOulu uOb tuuut was tuC sCLil-
official communication to all Europe OF the
rejection of our ambassadOr-all the more
i, significant because done in the most
courteous terms"
The right says La Ldberte, a vehement
.l war organ received Nj. Ollivier's speech
with CONSERVATION. M. Theirs attempted
to reply but was interrupted; M. Duvernois
said ''war is due to cabinet blunder." M.
Thiers-''It is to blunder that we owe
1.1-sn has 1o1f fI,o fInn
Prussia ought to have been attacked when
she desired to unite the German S ates;
then, war would have been legitimate, and
we should have been sustained; !, blamed
Sadowa at the time. To-day, the world de-
mands legitimate complaints; Prussia also
has committed great fault in negotiating
with Spain-yet Prussia wished peace and
we have war.
g If we had still to require the remuneration
4 of the Hohenzollern candidature, l should
be with YOU, but now that we have OBJ
tanned that, we demand something else.
You had not only obtained your result !;
you had form and substance both, yet you
say that Prussia has not yielded in form.
We have been insulted; public opinion will
turn against us the journals OF Europe
will be against us. Prussia never would
have resumed this candidature it would
have been madness"
Due de Grammont-Why, then, did she
not promise me
i M. Arago-Because you challenged her.
NJ Theirs: She refused because you be-
, gan all | know well that l shock your
feelings. but know there is the heart of the
: question. l have heard my opinions echoed
on all sides.
Great clamors here arose, and NJ Theirs,
in reply to the Interruptions, declared that
he would only yield the tribune to violence
He then resumed:
1--WE no longer live in peace at any price.
To demand war at any price is the servility
of courtier, but am of no party.
NJ David accused Theirs OF wanting in
patriotism, and in bringing misfortune upon
France. (Cries of order on the left]
NJ. Misfortune upon France! 1t
is not l who have caused it; it is they who
would not listen to our warnings-you who
voted Mexico and Sadowa, had you but
permitted us to discuss. Now, under lib
, eral regime, would you refuse to hear me
! You shall not hinder me from speaking
Ny duty is to pour light upon a great fault.
Nothing could be so significant as such a
speech from Theirs, who has constantly
shown a Jealous dislike of Prussia, readi-
ness for war on any reasonable pretext, a
belief that France ought to do as she likes
in Europe Not one word of this speech was
, allowed to reach England by telegraph,
. There has been systematic effort to de
ceive Europe about public opinion in France
Respecting war, and to deceive France about
the opinion of Europe.
WASHINGTON, July 1S.-Norway and
:. Sweden will join France provided the
: French fleets will operate in the North Ger
man seas. England is negotiating for the
neutrality of Holland, which, it is said
France favors. The position of Russia il
: uncertain. The latest surmises show dis