The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-07-19
I. -.EU.R0.P P.E..
The FrangO:Prussiian War..

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French, Censorship Of the, Pre6S--
Official DeceptionssC CiropmStapces
Attending the French Declaration
.l!a.@e,ai paNBw YoRK, July 18.
The TE45unes correspondent telegraphs
that not one word Of Theirs remarka:
BILE speech was allowed to reach Eng
land by telegraph There has been %
systematic scheme afloat to UdeCeive
Europe about the public opinion In
Franco respecting the war. The English
papers during the past week have mis-
represented the tone of the French Indc'
pendent press andsuppressed all mani
iestatious against war. The press cen:
sorsliip was never more active and
unsCFpulous In spite Of its first wayering.
TheReaI Ground Of the Declaration.
The English press now, without excep-
ton, charges France with the responst.
bility .tOrthe,war Il appears that after
GramlnOpts declaring TINT . demand was
made C0rr tue dispatches, Olllyier, aiter re-.
iusiug To give them, was compelled to adi
nit that France had finally declared war
on account Of the Prussian dispatch com:
munieating to the. European courts the,
King 9TetusalRto receive the French q AmI \
bassatlpr,ii and that this dispatch thus
made, tue b,Isis Of war, had not been seen
by any French Minister. The Govern.
nCnt had ). In fact, declared War, on what
purporied 10 be an abstract Of that dis.
patch, supplied by two French spies, whose
names were withllell.l s,,,,r,,o,j
The Remarkable Speech Of Theirs.
When war was announced the Left re.
fused TO ioin In the shouts of the majority.
When the majority voted AN extra war
credit OF 100000, 900 francs the Left again
SAT silents ~ M ~" -'fHsf .rh VIA In
:Thicrs, q after declaring his love for q the
country and his patriotic determination
when war should bG declared, TO grant to
the Government the means of conquer
ing, said: Our duty iis to reflect. The
resolution you have just adopted Is the
death Of thousands ofmenlin one Instant
Ibcscech of YOU reflection. Bethink you
Of May 8, 1868; you refused then to hear
me when l sought to show you what
was about.to Happen. Let that recollec-
tion persuade YOU to listen now. IT, The
principal demand Of the Government has
beeti Conceded. My conscience tells me
1 ftilfll'la' duty in resisting irnprudent
passions' byii" representing soberly
the colntrysF interests. 'a Ish this
time for you to break theapeace
on A mere question OF susceptibility -? You
are shedding torrents Of 'blood'4or a,ques-
ton oefofm IF [liad thehbupt9to govern
my country should have wished to give
it time for reflection! / regard this war ns
an imprudcnce, and Its occasion as Ill
chosen, after the dispatches upon which
the declaration Of war was made had been
repeatedly demanded and as often refused.
S[r. Olivier said: '"I will read two
dispatches, but not the signatures, Tor the
agents would be sent away" He then
read part OF one despatch confirming
the refusal of King William 70
receive the French Ambassador, and
two dispatches from French agents
abroad, giving thesubs stance Of Bismarcks
circular. The circular itself N. Olivier
did not pretend to produce. He concluded
by saying: 1--WE 90 to war with light
heart, and confident in Our army. We
will tell the whole trouble. What We
could not endure was the seml-olticial
communication 10. all Europe Of the re-
lection Of our Ambassador. All the more
significant because itwas done in The most
courteous terms" ...,..,t..
n, Thiers replied to Olliyier-"It is to
a blunder TINT We owe this war. Prussia
ought To have been attacked when she de-
sired 10 unite the German States. Then
war would have been legitimate, and we
should have been sustained. I blamed
SadoWa at the timc.i To-day the world
demands legitimate complaints Prussia
has also committed . great fault In nego.
tiating with Spain; yet Prussia wished
peace, and we have war" # we
had. still 70 require the rcnnnciation
OF the Hohcnzollern candidate, l should
still be with you, but now that we have
obtained that, we demand something else,
yon had only obtained your result, you
had ID form, and substance both yet you
say Prussia has not yielded in forinand wo
have been insuIted. Public opinion will
turn against us. The Journals Of Eu-
rope will be. against lls. Prussia never
would have resumed the candidaturc.
II would liaYe been madness. 1' y