The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-08-04
GERMANY.
TheGreat PopuInr


The Berlin correspondent of the London Times
writes as follows
Am to continue the list of popular demon
strations given in my last, and heightened by
each arriving mail Am l to recount that the
Darmstadt official journal declares against
France in the strongest possible expressions;
that the papers of Cologne, Treves, Aix-la-
Chapele and other towns in the Rhine country
denounce ''the criminal act of Napoleon in
trying to cement together his cracking throne
Kiel University have volunteered in
body; that at Hanover the Governor
General has been serenaded, and that at
Bremen merchant who said word against the
King of Prussia has had his house demolished
In the old and new provinces, in Rhineland,
Hanover and Holstein, as well as in Branden-
burg, Pomerania, and the far East, one idea has
seized all classes of the population-that of at
last securing rest from the alternate molesta-
tions and assaults of the French. So intense is
the feeling that even at Munich, the seat of
Ultramontanism, the editor OF Romanist and
anti-unity journal has had a narrow escape from
being chsstised by the mob. But it would
occupy too much space to convey the entire
catalogue of similar manifestations to your col
umns. If the Emperor Napoleon has somebody
who veraciously informs him of what is going
on at this moment in the country he intends to
invade he cannot be in very hopeful mood as
to the success of his enterprise.
The same correspondent declares that the
Germans will meet their enemies in O spirit
becoming the magnitude of the stake. He
writes:-
Thanks to the incessant provocations of the
French Government they have been thoroughly
warmed to the work in hand. Since 1910, when
M. Theirs asked for the Rhine frontier, they
have by all the successive Governments of
France been. treated as people whose political
insignifcance must be prolonged at any cost if
France was to be happy. They have long pa
tiently endured the taunts and the wrongs in
ficted by their neighbors. AS is their habit,
a. nlain NUll nnahl 10 tO
secure redress. OF late they had hoped
that in their steady progress towards unity
they had already become too formidable to be
wantonly attacked. They were also too con-
pose nation like the French would resort to
bloodshed to prevent its neghbor from arranging
their own concerns. Seeing that they have been
mistaken in both these assumptions, they feel
that day of reckoning has come, and will do
their duty with will. AS proud and patriotic
men they are resolved to avenge the past and
make the future secure; as peaceful, industrial,
and cultivated citizens they cannot help looking
upon the legions assembling on their frontiers as
upon barbarians preparing for a razzia.
One determination TO ward OIL aud punish
this crying sin prevails in all parts Of Germany.
In the North 1t is stern desire for action; In
the excitable South the feeling is more fiery
one, and If not universal, Ii peryades such vast
majority of the people as to Impose all but abso-
Lutte silence upon the Ultramontanes, the Repub-
licans, and other fractions of the anti Union
have been lingering in mems minds they are
now submerged In common hatred of the in
sultipg foreigner. Carried away by the current
the BayariaD, Wurtemberg, and Baden Govern
ments have already announced their forma
resolution to stand with Prussia, aud Join the
Northern Confederacy for better for worse.
Tho Hidden Causes of the strife-Germa
"Reminiscences of French Conquest.
On the 18th of July the Berlin correspondent
of the Times writes;-
No one who remembers Berlin this month fou
years ago can fail to notice the immense differ
ence between the state of public opinion theI
and now. In 1866 there was a general disin
clination, from sentiment of relationship an'
old alliances, TO go to war with Austria; a
present scarce person is to be found who doe
not long for the commencement OF hostilities 4
ayeDge former injuries and recent aftronts
However little German may know of the his
tory of his race, there few unaware of tn
circumstances from which French ascendanc
first arose When, in the cause of Protestant
ism, Germany, $50 years ago, engaged In tn
most sanguinary civil war recorded in history
France stepped In and preyed upon the natio
divided against itself. When listening to th
Jesuit Popish Kaiser led his Spanish, Italian
Hungarian and Slavonian subjects against th
those OF his princely feudatories, France avaie
herself the opportunity, and tore province aftt
province from the body of the dilapldated realn
The disintegratiOn OF the German Empire col
sequent upon this internal conflict has no
lasted two hundred years. Nomina'iy reunitt