The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1870-12-22

o their extreme need-as We may ny in Ii
!. vay Of pledge. Henri entered thsre vitl
/ haspess spread and drums bsasing, "solely
{ in defence of German liberty, . God shall
witne~;" did nothing for froteaantism o,
: German liberty, German Liberty managing
/ rapidly to help itself in this inssance); and
: then, like brasen-faced, unjurt pavnbsokeri
e refused to give the places hack, had ancient
rights over them, extremely indnbitable "a
r him, and could not give them back. And
, never yee, By any pressure or persuasion,
would. The great Charles w., PrOtsseantism
z itself nov supporting, endeavored, with hin
Z utmot energy and 70 the very cracking q
his heart, % compel him, but could NOT.
The present Hohenlollern King, = modes!
. and psci6c man in comparisoa, coald and
. has. / believe il TO be Pezfecsly jus, ration
al and vise that Germany should take these
. countries home with her from her unexam-
pied campaign, and, by we'll terrifying he.
own old Wasgan (VGAgs), Hundsruch
(Dog's-hack), three Bshoprio and Other
. military strengths, secure herself in time
| coming against French visits.
. The French complain dreadfully Of threat.
ened "kss Of HONOR and lamentable BY
ISLANDERS plead earnestly, ''DOa't disboDor
. France; leave poor Frances honor bright."
Bat il will save the honor of France to refuse
paying Cor the glass she has voluntarily
broken in her neighbours windows? The At
tack upon the windows wzs her disho0or.
Signally disgraceful to any nation vas her
late assault upon Germany; equally signal
has i,een the ignomity Of its execution On The
part of France. The honor Of France en- be
saved only BY the deep repentance Of France
and by the serious determination never u do
80 again, 10 do the reverse Of 50 for ever
henceforth. In that way may the honor Of
France again gradually brighten 70 the
height of its old spleEdor, far beyond the
Fina NaIpleonic, much more the Third, or
any recent sort, and offer again 70 our volun-
tary love and grateful estimation VI all the
fine and graceful qualities that nature has
emplantesi in the French. For the present
must say that France looks more and more
deliriois, ssintolerable, blameable, pitiable,
and even more contemplate. She refuses
to see the facts that are lying PalPable before
l,er herself, and the penalties she has brought
upon herself. A France scattered into an
archie ruin, without recognizable head;
head, or chief, indistinguishable from feet,
or rabble; Ministers flying up in bal
looms ballasted with nothing but out
rageo,is public lies, proclAmstions Of victO-
ries that were creatures Ut the fancy;
government s,llsisting altogether ON menda-
city, willing that hOrrid bioOdshed should
continue and increase rather than that they,
beautiful Republican creatures, should cease
| to have the guidance of it; know not when
or where there was seen nation 81 covering
itself with dislonor. II, among this multi
tude Of sympathetic bystanders, France have
any true friend, his advice to France would
be-To abandon all that and never to resume
it more France really ought To know that
'refuge Of lies" were long ago discovered to
lead down only To the GATES Of Death Eisr-
nal, and to he forbidden to all creatures
that the one hope for France is to recognize
the facts which have come 10 her, and that
they came withal by invitation Of her own;
now shea mas of gilded, proudly-var-
nished anarchy-h.s wilfully insulted and
defied 10 mortal duel neighbor not anarchic,
but still in a quietly human, sober, and gov
erned state, and has prosPered accordingly
prosperous a. an array Of sanguinary noun
tebanks rcrsus Macedonian phalanx must
needs do-and now lies smitten down in hid
eo,Is wreck and impotence, testifying to gods
and men what extent of rVttenness, anarchy,
and hidden vileness lay in her. That the
inexorable fact is, that she has left herself
without resource or power of resisting the
victorious Germans; and that her WiscOm
will be to take that fact into her astOnished
mind; to know that, however hateful, said
fact is memorable, and will have to be COM
piled with-the sooner at the cheaper rate.
II is hard lesson to vain glorious France;
but France, We hope, has still in it veracity
and probity enough to accept fact as an evil
IDENTIFY adamantine entity, which will not
brook resistance without penalty, and IL I'M
alterable by the very gods.
The quality Of conscious mendacity that
France, official and other, has perpetrated
latterly, especially since July last, is some
thing wonderful and fearful. And, alas! per-
haE~ even that is small compared to the self
deiu.ion and unconscious mendacity long
prevalent among the French, which is Of still
iel,er and more poisonous quality, though
unrecognized for poison. To me, at times,
the monrnfulest symptom in France is the fig
ure its .'mcn of genius, its literary speakers,
who should he prophets and seers to It, make
at present, and, indeed, for q generation
back have been making. II is evidently
their belief..that new celestial wisdom il radi-
ating out Of France upon all the other over
shadowei nations, and that in all this sad,
.,rdid, scmi-dclirous, and, in good part,
internal stuff which French literature has
been preaching to us for the last fifty years,
is veritabie new gospel out of Heaven,
pregnant with bessedness for all the sons Of
men. Alas, one does not understand that
France made her great Revolution, uttered
her tremendous looms voice against world
Of human shans, Proclziming, as with the
great Last Trumpet, that shams should he
no more. often call that celestial-infer-
nal plenomenOn-the most memorable IN
our world for a Thousand years; on the
whole, a transcendant revolt against the devil
and his works lsince shame are all and sun
dry of the devil, and poisonous and unendu-
! rabIe Ia mani. For that We all infinitely
love and honor France. And truly all
nations are now busy enough copying France
civilized world there is, in manner, nothing
noticeable but the whole world in deep and
d;smally chaotic instructions against shams
coute qnfH coute. Indispensable that hattie,
however ugly. Well done, We may say to
all that; for it is the preliminary to every
thing; hut, alas! all that is not yet victory; il
i. but half the battle, and the much easier
half. The infinitely harder half, which is
the equally or more indispensable, is that Of
achieving, instead Of the abolished shams
which were Of the devil, the practical reali-
ties which should be veritable and Of God.
The first half Of the battle, rejoice TO see, is
| now safe, can now never cease TO exist except
in victory; but the further stage Of il, l also
see, must he under better presidency than
that Of France, or it will forever prove i'm
possible. The German race, not the Gallo,
are now to be protsgonist in that immense
world-drama; and from them expect better
issues. Worse We cannot well have. France,
with a dead-liit effort now If eighty-one
wears, has accomplished, under this head,
for herself or for the world, nothing, or even
less-in strict arithmetic, zero, with minus
quantities. Her prophets prophecy vain
thing; her people rove in darkness, and have
wandered far away.
Such prophets, and such people; who in
the way Of deception and self-deception
have carried it far! Given up TO strong de-
lurion," As the Scripture says, till, al last,
the lie seems to them the very truth. And
now, in their strangling crisis and extreme
need, they appear 70 have no resource hut
self-deception still, and quasi-heroic gascon-
ade They do believe it be heroic. They
believe they are the 'Chria Of Nations;
an innocent, goilike people suffering for the
sins Of all nations, with an eye to redeem us
all; let us hope that TINS Oh the Shrist VI
Nations" is the NON plus ultra Of the thing.
wish they would inquire whether there
might not be 'Carouche Of Nations
fully as likely rs Christ Of Nations in
our time, Carouche had many gallant
qualities We much admired, and much pitied
in his sufierings, and many fine ladies beg
ging locks of his hair while the memorable,
indispensable gibbet was preparing. But in
the end there was no salvation for Car
touche Better he should obey the heavy
handed Teutsch police officer who has him
by the windpipe in such frightful manner
give up part Of his stolen goods-alto-
eether cease to be Cartouche, and Try to
become again Chevalier Bayard under
improved conditions, and a blessing and
beautiful benefit to all his neighbon, intead
of ton much the reverse, AZ now. Clear ii n,
at any rate, singular as it may seem "a
France, all Europe does not come to TIKI
rescue, in gratitude for the heavenly illumi.
nation it is getting from France; nor could
all Europe, II it did at this moment prevent
the awful Chancellor from having his own
way, Metz and the boundary fence, l reckon,
, will be dreadfully hard to get eat Of the
Chancellor's hands again.