New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-09-09
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OFFICIAL JOURNAL Of THE UNITEHSTATE
aFFicIAl JOURNAL new ORLEANS
"QUR FRITZ
a Tribute tc the Gown Prince.
From the London Telegraph


faint-hearted, clever or stupid, handsome or
homcly featured, heir to diaden or to
nothing except the title-that title has al
ways its fascination. "a prince was" SO
M. Tennyson begins his most elaborate
pocm; and we give certain degree of at
fention directly to the blue-eyed lover OF
the Lady Ida. But when the prince under
discussion is in all qualities and accomplish
ments most princely; when he has antici-
by o career of patriotic and his
tOrical glory; when a mighty strug-
gle has its central point Of Action i'll
Els particular person, and when, by national
and courtly ties, his family is linked to us.
the portrait of such prince has special
+. and unparalleled interest. During the
stirring days Of the past month many peo-
pie have been asking, what is the "Crown
Prince Of Prussia like? In the proud tel
egram that flew to the Queen Of Prussia
! after Woerth and FOrbach, his royal father
that action was fought which will be known
in history as the" Battle Of Disillusions'-the
fatal engagement at Woerth, where the
theory OF the military supremacy of France
melted away before hard German fact.
What, then, is Fritz like! since not only
does his figure show in the focus of war,
but the power and domination which must
be it's fruits cannot but devolve upon his
brow at the date when the doughty old
king Of the Germans is gathered to his
fathers. "Fritz" must then become, in his
turn, King Of Germany-perchance even
ssemperor' Charles the Fifth, and,
holding such a sceptre, it is tOlerably safe
to foresce that he will be one of the greatest
and strongest among modern crowned
heads. The confederation, whose arNiss
seem to have victory herself at their head,
leading them from field to field, may be the
United States of Europe, "a monarchical
Colossus, which must at least have vast
share Of influence in continental
politics. Hence Europe is vastly in
terested Just now in Fritz, for by the
outlook of things he will some day
present himself rs the representative of the
idea of kingly rule, and his character can
not fail to stamp itself upon the history of
the remainder of the nineteenth century.
The photographcrs-thOse masters Of the
ceremonies who make MS know everybody
have rendered his outward and visible mien
and features familiar enough, and all the
world has now heard of him as a warrior
keen, who hath in many battles been;" for
although he arrived little late at Sadowa,
he was, nevertheless, just in time. In this
wonderful present campaign it is Fritz,
whose sword, like the wand of a cOnqueror,
has made the prestige Of Napoleon vanish.
At Weissenburg he leaped upon his enemy
like Black Forest bear; at WOerth he
came, he saw, he smote the flower
Of the French army; backed by his big
and countless Germans, he has GER
tainly won the garlands of the war thus far.
Hence it is q question of much import to
ask, tsWhat of Prince Fritz, as regards dis
position, mind and mannerss' Now, man
Is best studied when he is not posed for his
picture; and it happens thatsan enemy of
his has just delineated the heir of the Prus-
siau throne, catching him not from the bat
tie, and, therefore, very much an ndtuse!.
n. Chabrillat, of the Figaro, was taken pris-
Oner at WOerth, and came near to being
shot; but he was saved by the Duke of Co.
burg, and he had an interview afterward
with this same Prince Fritz, of which he
brought away a remarkable sketch; and on
the outlines of that sketch We would here
dwell for moment.
A FRENCHMAN's INTERVIEW WITH FRITZ.
1t obviously astonished the native French
man to find the terrible conqueror eminently
presentable, ''human,' and Of amiable
bearing. 1t is tall, thin prince-he tells
Paris-having a calm visage, bearded and
garnished with fair hair, and cold Sarma-
fian eyes, whose quick glance, however, be-
tokens mental activity, while his dilating
nostrils imply pride and energy. A simple,
civic man is Fritz in department., in phrase.
md turn Of thought, very plain in language
and In his dress, which, albeit that of the
commander-in-chief of the southern Ger
man army, was merely black tunic with
and facings. Not an inch of
gold or silver face upon Fritz-no orders or
ribbons, or frippery of any kind. He looked,
says "the enemy" like country gentleman
arrayed in some rural uniform, and grave
with the charge, say of an reimbursement.
Yet his first words were those Of chival-
rous knight, uttered, by the way, in excel
lent French.
q am sorry you do not understand Ger
man." said the prince: you would other
wise have heard our soldiers admire and es-
TEEN your gallant cOuntrymen." Then,
with perfect delicacy, he detailed the extent
of his opponents losses, and deplored the
wounds Of General Racolt and other dis
inguished fOemen. He had been to see
them, and was making arrangements that
all his prisoners who wished should have
means Of writing home to their friends.
This cOnsiderate act is quite in keeping with
all we know OF Prince Fritzs nature-with
his sOldierly conduct in the field, and his
tenderness alike to friend and enemy after
fighting, SO that it can not astonish any
one to hear the victor of Weissenburg and
W0erth uttering these sentences: IL do not
like war, gentlemen. If l should reign l
would never make it. Now, despite my
love of peace, this is the third campaign
that have been compelled to fight. Invent
over the battle field yesterday. 1t was
frightful. If only depended on myself,
this war would end here. 1t is your minis.
tiers and the Emperor who would have it; it
was not we who wanted it." With the
same equity of mind which had made him
praise the French troops. he complimented
his fbaiy.
the most complete frankness that he
Outnumbered Mcmahon, and that it was
the settled plan Of the campaign to outnum-
Der the French everywhere; "otherwise.r
he said, 81 would prefer to retire" After
this, with courteous salutatiOns, the prince
allowed the captured journalists to DEPART
to their own advanced posts; and it is plain
to be seen that while Fritz never can have
coveted the mission to Kill Frenchmeh by
the Thousand, Frenchmen, III their trrn,
when they once know him, are puzzled how
to style him an enemy"
1t is impossible not to recognize here the
hneaments of right noble and valiant
gentleman-impossible not to feel that such
prince is worthy Of such princess dis the
eldest daughter of the Queen OF England
We should not, perhaps, be wrong in be-
heving that the transmitted gentiHesse of the
royalty which reigns here has had its intiu-
ence upon the martial temperament of the
Prussian Fritz, and helped to unite in him
the qualities of a peace-loving and anable
man to those Of thorough soldier A hum
dred anecdotes might be cited by those who
know the hcmely English manners and Gus
toms at Potsdam, to prove that the future
Oernan king is in truth what this CONVEX
sauon proves hlm--one who. thoroughly de-
string quiet, intellectual. domestic lows.
would, as Shakespeare writes, "seware of
entrance to quarrel, but, being in. bear il
that the opposer should beware Of him
This IS from the New York Express.
After the war We trust Europeans will re-
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