Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-07-22

be the endl A glance at history shows
that the Latin race has for centuries beer
constantly going down. France alone,
thanks to the Germsnic elements with
which she is mixed, developed s great
strength, and if her rulers had used this
strength for other purposes than those OF
personal ambition, she might also, per
haps, have reached the rule of the world,
to which she. as superior of the Romantic
nations. aspired. Bat at Leipsie, and
then at Waterlao, this aim was frustrated
for the fiTst time, and the giant combat
commencing now is to decide whether
France will be more successful the second
time. Buff the Emperor Napoleon had
not been overtaken by the blindness
which, as the German proverb says, over
takes those whom the gods would de-
stroy, he would have needed the warnings
he so often received. Aiming still higher
than his uncle did, he has devised the
grand programme of making the Latin
race dominant on the continent of Europe
and in Central America, and with The
assistance of the then most powerful
Germanic power, the English, he
was in the Crimean war, by the hui
initiation of Russia, successful in the first
step towards this end. Three years af-
terWafd, when well armed, he made up
his mind, together with the new Romsn
ally won in the former war, Sardinia, to
take the second step, which he did by
challenging TO war Austria, in whose
aged hand resided the influence oof the
Germanic race on the Continent After
a short fight of three lucky battles, he
saw the proud Hapsburg chief asking for
peace in bis tent. Thus the Germanic
influence in Europe was fundamentally
broken, and the French Emperor exer.
cised in fact the supremacy on the Eu-
rOpean Continent But with his success
his ambition was increased; his eyes were
turned across the ocean, and, taking adj
vantage of the civil war of the American
people, he sought to establish, by the
erection of athrone supported by French
bayoneis, his superiority over the An
glo- Gern1anic rase in this part of
the world. But the frivolous attempt, to
which he was invited by the suggestions
of his Spanish wife, was defeated by the
indestructible vigor of the American
Union, and acting upon hint from the
United States, the Napoleonite was COM
PEELED to withdraw his army from desc
lated Mexico. In doing so, he showed
his cowardly fear and was covered with
ignominy, in hsviCg deserted the unfor=
tunate Prince to the revenge of the Mex
i;an republic. BY this deed his (thus
far) proverbial luck was brought TO an
end, and from that time everything went
wrong with him, and after the Germanlc
influence, which he thought nc had bro
ken forever. on the battle field of North
ern Italy, was established again by the
victory of Prussia, won over Austria, at
Sadowa, he was obliged to look on and
see the German Empire reconstruct
ed in the heart of Europe. By
the victorious foundation of the
North German Union, by the promo
ton of the King of Prussia to Com
mander-in Chief of all the armies, the
sway of the Latin races was practically
broken The German people were thus
assured of their return to leading posi-
ton in politics, but Napoleon did not COM
prehend the importance of this fact. He
did not understand the irresistible innate
longing of the German people for national
unity, nor the absolute impossibility of
checking it. He endeayOred to scatter
secretly the seeds of discord among the
German peOple-exciting hostility among
the enemies of Prussia, great and small,
against that Power. He cOnspired with
the Roman hierarchy against the Protest
ant tendencies of the ascending Power,
and at the same time by arming incessant.
ly for war by using means far above the
economical resources of the French peo-
pie, he prepared for the decisive day when
he might by his military superiority
crush the dangerous rival and throw
Germany back into her former weak
ness and ACKNOWLEDGMENT. But all his
doings effected only the contrary of what
he aimed at. By continually menacing
Germany he there developed more strongly
the desire for unity, and abated in the
same proportion the resistance to the SUI
premacy of Prussia. By supporting the
unmeasured pretentions of Popery, he in
CURED the hatred snd curse of the Ital-
ians, and created that revolution in Spain,
which, in a certain degree, gave to his
plan, (by which he desired to make France
the center and the victorious leader of the
Roman race, } the last kick. BY that revo-
ldtion, which occurred at the very mo-
ment when he wished to conclude a de-
fensive and offensive alliance with Queen
Isabella, Spain emaneipated herself from
the French forever. A further con-
sequence of this event has been that
Spain has offered the crown to the Prince
of Hohenzollern, so nearly related to the
Prussian royal family, and thus that i'm
portant member of the Romantic world
has sought in its leaning on Germany the
means of its regeneration. Napoleon III.
has taken this highly significant act as a
preteXt for the rupture with Prussia, and
the French people, so long jealous of
Germany, have jubilantly greeted the be-
ginning of this decisive combat, but both
Napoleon and his people are exposed to
punishment for this frivolous act, for the
combat will not cease before France will
have been Inundated, and this national
humiliation will render the continuance
of the Napoleonic dynasty impos-
sible in the country undermined by
revolutionary passions. Victory, how
ever, can only be acquired by enor-
nous sacrifices. Germany will be visited
by days full of sorrow and many bitter
affliction. Her greatest efforts, the exer.
ton of all her powers, will become neces.
sary, in order to contend successfully
against the formidable enemy, but the
unity of the German people speedily fol
low, and by infaming the patriotic enthu
siasm, awaken her latent powers. He
ally will be the necessity, (by the will Of
Providence for the Germanic spirit t
conquer the Romantic, and to deliver it a
the same time. The benedictions of al
the Germans in America will follow tn
German armies. We shall fell heavy
sorrows for them, but our confidence vii
never be shaken in the belief that the
viii prove themselves worthy of the grea
destiny to which Germany is called.
A LADY at an Ohio church rested hel
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