The New York herald., 1870-10-05


In to- days foreign dispatches there is .
denial Of the authenticity Of long communi-
cation republished yesterday morning from
advance proofs Of La Situation, the imperi-
alist French organ in London, and purporting
to be the exact repetition Of document issued
from Wilhelmshohe by the ex-Emperor Napo-
leon III. The writing In question was to have
been given to the public under the title, "Ihe
Ideas of the Emperor" and the main point OF
the whole argument, next to an attempt 10
discredit the provisional government was
that, should the war between France and Ger
many go on persistently, there would surely
spring out Of this shock formidable Unknown
(un iascOnnu)," as much to be feared by Ger
many as by France.
1t matters not, for the purport Of what we
have to say, whether the above document be
authentic or the work Of cunning forger.
The hint hidden under the cloak Of ''The
Unknown" is all the same, and 1t Is
of this mysterious thing or parsonage
that we would speak. Either Napoleon him
self, or the scribe who has pretended to write
for him, has given us those words ftly spoken
which, the sacred script hath it, are 'like
apples of gold In pictures Of silver"
Months ago, ere the Franoo-Prussian war
began, and when the empire was still in the
very jubilee Of Its proclaimed triumph by
plebiscitary vote, we alluded to trials then
pending at Paris In which certain prominent
members of the international Society"
so called-the French branch Of the
General International worklngmen's Union
were implicated. The evidence was
circumstantial and voluminous, several
of the leading Paris journals giving 1t
in full. The result was partly lost in the tre-
mendous clangor that attended the outbreak
of the war but enough had bsen elected to
show that the organization Of which the men
arraigned were members extended through
out the French and British empires, part Of
the United States; all Germany, Belgium and
Switzerland; many districts Of Spain. Italy
and Scandinavia, and all the westernmost pro-
vinces of Russia. The various separate national
organizations, 1t appeared, were subordinate
to one supreme council. the seat Of which was
not made known, but which evidently could
Be shifted from point to point as exigsncy
might require The indictment in the particu-
lar prosecution here mentioned set forth that
the various miners and weavers' strikes and
riota that occurred just before the ple6iscitun
were melted by the secret agencies Of this
vast combination, and it was proven that
persons concerned ia these dissurbanees had
received peclnIafy aid from some Of the
| subsidiary leagues in England and Switzer-
land. At the same time the assertion was
made in print that the grand total ofthe whole
body included more than million of paying
members.
Let us now remind the attentive reader
that very recently an appeal went forth from
the committees Of workingmen in Paris to their
brethren In Germany to arrest the war, and
that Immediately thereafter an agitation,
mot loud but deep" was observed in all the
capitals and manufacturing towns from the
Rhenish to the Russian frontier. The German
liberals were instantly seen and heard il
active motion, and one Of their leading mer
| (Herr JacobD was arrested by the Prussiar
government.
| Do not these indications pretty clearly sug
gest to us what may be the character of tha
formidable Unknown" mentioned in the let
ter, real or pretended, of Napoleon? Tht
"Marianne" (Mary Anne Disraei has it
was the nightmare-the "Spectre Rouge'-o
the French reactionary writer's o few year.
since, and the Madre Naturo, 80 mystically
shadowed forth by the English novelist in
'Lothair" can readily be placed by all wh'
have even conned the history Of the Italial
"Carbonari," much more by those who hav,
trodden with bleeding feet the soil that re
ceived the dead at Montana, where the Chasse
pot rife, now beaten by the needle gun, per
formed such wonders"
No man better than Napoleon or hi
advisers, or those who are at this moment th,
real rulers of France, can comprehend tina
the bleeding, suffering, hungry masses who
in their agony, cry out with indignation
before Heaven, while wrong and slaughter g,
on unchecked, that ''human flesh should be s,
cheap and bread to eat so dear"-none better
we repeat, than these could surmise that th'
miserable, trampled, long suffering toilers il
the sitting workshop and tillers of the gleb,
(so often reddened by their own gore) are thu
terrible ''Unknown" that unless peace quickl.
come, may spread its brawny hands, with NJ
gentle clasp, over all Western Europe
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