The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-08-27

the freedom of the press and the freedom of
assembly, who manacled France to serve bis
ambition; who organized despotism for his
own glory; who is the direst enemy of the
generous soul of France, and who has
been the armed upholder and representa-
tive of Cesarism in the modern world.
The "Man of December" must be destroyed,
and it is the people of France who should
bring him to destruction. We believe that
the opportunity for the republicans of France
has arrived, or will very soon arrive. If
they fail on any account whatever to take
advantage of tiff they permit the resump-
tion of the Bonapartist power which has been
in allegiance since the outbreak of the war-if
they permit the re establishment of Bourbon
ism or the Orleans family under any possible
conditions, they will again have cause as
they have had in former timer, bitterly to
lament their weakness, their indecision, and
their dissensions.
1t is our hearts hope that the republic may
appear in France at this crisis. We believe
that there never was such favorable time
for its establishment France is disgusted
with Imperialism-Napo m-despotism.
which has now mortified its pride, as it had
previously outraged its intelligence and
crushed its liberties. 1t has shswn itself to
be q fraud and sham. The liberty Loving
people of France will now naturally turn to
the republic, which will give them the
greatest strength as well as the greatest
freedom; which will give their country a
new life and a new glory. France has,
moreover, been chastened in spirit by the
results of the present war which Napo.
leon precipitated; and there could be no
better foundation for a republic than the
serious feelings and tempered passions which
will certainly follow period filled with such
events as have occurred of late. We do not
believe that anything will come from the in-
trigues of the small Orleanist faction in Paris
The old monarchy has no attractions for the
present generation of Frenchmen 1t is in
consistent with the spirit of the times and the
genius of modern France. 1t would be im-
possible for foreign powers TO establish or
maintain a government in France to which
the people were opposed. Nothing will sait
France but the republic.
No great Republican leaders have appeared
in France of late years. Their appearance
was an impossibility. But there are plenty of
clear headed and strong minded Republicans
there, nevertheless Most of those who have
shown themselves on the surface have been
noisy and violent men. But times like these
will call out another class. We conure them
to come out, and seize their opportunity.
There has always been much babble in this
country about France being unfit for Re-
public. 1t is ignorant and empty talk. We
are told France has had two Republics during
the last eighty years, both of which have
fallen; but has it not, during the same time,
had three monarchs and two Emperors, all
of whom have fallen If the overthrow of
Robespierre and Lamartine proves anything,
does the overthrow of Louis XVI, Napoleon
l., Charles X, Louis Philippe, and Napoleon
III. prove nothing? We trust that the French
people are fit for Republic, and that Re-
public is the form of government best suited
for France.
We look hopefully for the developments
of the next few weeks or months. If, out of
the tribulations of the present day, the
Republic shall arise, then will come for
France times of liberty and true glory.
WHY AMERICANS SYMPATHIZE WITH
GERMANY.
From the N. Y. Times.
The German Patriotic Aid Societies appeal
quite as strongly to the judgment as to the
feeling of the American people in their state
ment of the considerations which underlie
the present conflict. Some of these conside-
rations events had already revealed. The
earlier misconceptions, which regarded the
contest as one between King William, who
believes himself to be ruler by divine right
and Louis Napoleon, who had made himself
a ruler by fraud, were soon dispelled. The
cause of Prussia had become merged in the
larger and juster cause of united Germany
the dynastic ambition of Napoleon became
subordinate to the ill-regulated aggres-
siveness of united France. Instead
of a struggle between Emperor and
King, we were called upon to witness the
battle of two nationalities, the representa-
tives, respectively, of opposite and ire
concilable ideas, and embodying types of
diverse national character AS between
William or Bismarck and Napoleon, Ameri-
cans might we'll have hesitated to bestow
their sympathy. But as between people
devoted to plodding industry, thrifty and
intelligent earnest and wise in their aspira-
tions after liberty, seeking no further terri
torial aggrandizement, but simply the quiet
consolidation of minor States which the self
ishness of petty sovereigns had kept divided
and people destitute of practical ideas of
freedom, with no national purpose but the
glory of France, incapable of the self-control
which is at the root of popular government,
and dszzled by the tinsel of an empire resting
upon treachery and prolonged by fraud-it
was impossible long to pause. The great
body of the American people comprehended the
situation at glance, and gave their sympa-
thy to the German cause.
TO justify this preference, it is not neces-
sary to applaud the Government of Prussia,
or the steps by which it has reached its
present position. These are minor points in
the case. The essential points relate to the
ultimate purpose and the obvious tendency
of the growth which has converted Prussia
into a mighty German power There are
incidents in her history which it is i'm
possible to extenuate; there is a degree
of absolutism in some of her older preten-
sions for which no excuse can be found.
What then ? The instructive yearning for
constitutional freedom which animates the