The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1870-09-11
THE FRENCH SITUATION.


against the efforts of such wise and
good men rs Favre, Theirs and Hugo.
such demagogues rs ROchefort threat
en- to deluge the city with blood and
give it over to a high carnival OF mob
violence and sans culottcism.' In the
meantime there is much brave wartalk
by the courageous and enthusiastic
people of France, and much unity OF
purpose toward repelliny the invading
Prussians. "An army of the Repub-
lie" is already being organized; but
the Garcie Mobile and Garde Rationale
are not such soldiers as the Imperial
Chasseurs and Zouaves. one hundred
and eighty thousand of whom surren-
dered AT Sedan and the remainder OF
whom are bottled up in Metz and
StraSbourg and the other fortified cities
of France; and when McMahon's army
surrendered and when Bazaine became
4 prisoner ut Metz all the chassepotS,
the greater part of the flying artillery,
and the gallant cavalry with their
splendid war steeds became les: to the
country. France is virtually di>armed.
Can it be expected that an undisciplin-
ed mass of recruits and odds and ends
of old armies even though they be fired
with ardor and patriotism AS they
doubtless.are and will continue to be,
can do no more thanthe veterans who
have been 50 signally defeated Or
that the old smoo,h-bore muskets and
pot metal shot guns of the old armor-
les will be found more effectual than
the Wanted chassepot. We fear that
the new Republic will find it cheaper
to accept peace with William soon at
the sacrifice of Alsace and the payment
Of large sum in damages than to at
tempt, by force Ofarms, to prevent the
victorious PruSsians from entering
within the gates of Paris.
Still. it seems impossible that any
commander or head of public affairs
tent az Napoleon has-this modern
cesar whose first utterance from the
front of battle was n piece of the veri-
est twaddle delivered with a view to
impressing the French people with a !
belief in the Sarlike spirit and person. |
al valor of the poor Lad who went pratt
Ting of war about his papa's head |
quarters and strutting about like a
puppet soldier in 4 kick show. 1.-The
soldiers wept at his tranquility!' for
sooth! Read what follows and then
wonder. if you can AZ the terrible and |,
sudden defeat of the Imperial army:
The Quarterly Review in recent
article on the administration OF the
Army" republi>he> portions of Cen
eral Trochu's famous Phamphlet con-
demning the French system of sup
plies, which was regarded by Napoleon
Ill. as an insult to his government.
A perusal of them shows that, if these
mplaintS, made by General Trochu /
in ls61, had been heard and needed by
the Emperor, a large share of the re-
cent c.i.aiIirie> To the French armies
might have been avoided. General
states that. Immediately after
the campaigns ofthe Republis- and the
Empire. the system was adopted of
placing the .intendence,' or business
ot clothing and feeding the army, i'll
charge of practical business men; but.
under the system of Napoleon Ill.
this vas all changed, and mere army
officers, who had grown gray i'll learn
ing how to fight. but had no experience
whatever in buying. forwarding and
supplies. We're placed in
charge Of "A business aS new To them as
the keeping of a hotel or operating "A
railroad. General Trochu then wrote:
..Under the system which prevails
now u -day. all such functionarIes,
exception. before entering up
Dn their public business, have been
through long years-the years of youth,
in which men learn and study with
most fruit-oiiicers and non commits
stoned officers i'm the army. With
them public examination takes the
place of ten ar fifteen Years of practical
and professional experience-whaH do
| say?-of thirty or forty years of such
practical experience, for we see Gen
erals of BrigadeS. not infrequently al
he last stage of their career, becoming
In.endant Generals; that is to say, the
,rDiters for the next war. OF the exist
,n.e of orr troops i'm the field 1t is