Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-09-28
The Mission Of Prussia.

From the n. Y. Journal of Commerce..
The following letter, addressed to us by
a serious thinker, is worthy of the atten-
tiou of the reader. Those who have stud
led. atteutively, intellectual Prussia, will
recognize therein its thoughts, as well as
the Prussian aim, or rather the phllo-
sophie or social aim of the war. Prussia
is not Germany, as Germany thinks; she
is not even Prussia, as her King and most
of her Generals think; she is socialism
armed; she is destruction; she is Islam-
ISM; she is the sin of Europe. This war
shall not finish Tomorrow, neither in
France nor in Prussia, nor in the world.
II shall not finish before Europe shall
hsVe expiated her crime, asked pardon
for Il, and destroyed it.
LOUIS VEUILLOT.
To the Chief Editor of the Univers:
Dion, August q, lS70.-L send you a
faithful resume of a conversation which
took place in Switzerland, the first of
June, of this year mark the date), be-
tween one of orr most influential citizens
and distinguished German.
In fifteen days, said the German, you
shall have a social revolution at Paris.
The Red Republicans shall be then inau-
p,urated. and established by our concur
renee, We have need Of ths massacres of
September anew. PrOprietors, capital
lists, priests--the rich and solid part of the
DODulaLlOn-ulusb DO duuAtllldJOOt IL I'LL
pedss our plans.
The RED Republicans shall work the
division and dissolution of your forces;
and shall open TO us the heart of France.
To force its gates 500, 600 Germans, at
the order of Prussia, are ready. They
will fall on Paris without obstacle. You
have only the semblsnce of an army; it
shall be destroyed. It is time to chastise
France: to curb that vanity and proud
pretentiOn OF governing Europe. The
French are sOts, ignorant; people de-
moralized by prosperity. They ought to
yield the precedence to whom of right il
belongs.
1t is Just that the only nation intelligent
and powerful, that carries within her the
light If reason by her knowledge and in
structiou, and the sword of force by her
physical strength; and it is Just that the
SIerman nation should govern the world.
II is the spirit of God which anim2tes her.
Ii is time that this Latin race and this
Catholic religion, the foundations and
principles of which have had their time
and fallen into liquid decomposition, in
feet and corrupt the world, should be an
initiated TO give place to reason.
God has chosen the German nation and
King William 20 effect this great triumph.
He wishes to give him, in Europe, the
greatest power to accomplish his designs.
The German empire must be re-estab-
lished.
For this aim money is necessary.
France alone possesses enough of this.
1t is the treasury of Europe.
You have at the bank 1900, 900 900
awaiting us.
We viii impose on you seven more bill
lions, payable at short dates. And in
going away we will kesp Lorraine and
Alssce.
A large empire cannot be truly great
4. inc
in every sea.
We will take Denmark and Holland.
We shall be masters of the Baltic.
Then, Austria absorbed. we shall take
the Adriatic.
To take the Mediterranean, we shall
subdue Italy, which is only slave: 1t is
there where the Pope reignE, that old idol,
degrading and fsnaticizing the peoples,
and preventing the reign of reason.
Then only viii the German nation hold
th., rank to which she aspires, and of
which she is worthy.
"If bis ig so" replied the Frenchman,
'sit only remsins for me to fall on my
knees before German genius and adore
it''-addfngg "You have forgotten TO tell
me what YOU Will do with France, having
II She resists," replied the German,
1--WE shall annex her to Belgium"
"But,H replied the Frenchmsn, " this
German nation, that boasts an intelligence
30 great as TO place reason above every
thing, and that surpasses the entire world
by its philosophy and its wisdom, comes
down AFTER ali TO the use OF mere brute
force"
at Is q means to arrive at our aim"
said the German.
I submit to the meditation of all men of
honor of our dear country, this converse
ton, held on the lst Of June, 1870, long
before the war faithfully transcribed from
the very notes of a man worthy of all
Confidence, and the principal ideas Of
which he found participated in by large
number Of Germans.
p. II. GUIGNARD.