New-York tribune., 1870-08-22

kind, and in this crisis OF his tate "ahuei'
from town to town with whole regiments ue-
tacbed from the defense of the nation TO pro-
tect his person. If, when he saw MS empire
cr,mbling in the shock of arms he wantohly
nrovoked. he had sought and found soldiers
c;,.fh at the head Of his legiOns he might have
disarmed the hatred of humanity to his race
and given his dynasty some claim to the sup
port of the French people. But he has CHOSEN
TO live as an imbecile fugitive, and OF him. as
of the founder of his house, it must be SAID;
Tis done But yesterday King
And armed, with Kings 10 strive'
And now thou art n nameess thing!
so abject, yet aliye
We cannot for moment imagine that 'he
First Napoleon would have taken the Ming vi
Rome into battle. With his usual good sense
he would have asked: "Of what use "oulu
4" tbe bov he that his life should be exposed
d" there Yr We are not surprised that the pres
emf Emperor should do such thing--it Is OF
n niece with the tame eagle story. But the worst
is that nobody in France seems to nave peeil
much impressed by the incident, except, lhueeu'
disagreeably. There is disapproyal oil the eA-
nosure of a mere child to the dangers Oh "ar'
But it is said that the boy has not much hedr''
and "bas been brought up in the worst pos
" sible school of morals and manners III SD
we need not grieve over his narrowing chances
of wearing the purple.
-" Forwartsm shouted Blucher, when lead
ing his men to the charge in the engagenleh'
in which he defeated Macdonald IN olieSla
about seven weeks before the eventful victory
of Leipsic. From that time Forwards" be-
came fine battle-cry of the Prussans, Blucher
! himself being nicknamed "Marshal Forwarts,'
and when the necessity for the cry then ter
minated the Prnssians found themselves within
the walls of Paris forwards " again ex-
claimed the gallant old hero as his army tolieo
over the rugged roads that led to Waterloo
4" It's no use saying Forwards Father Blu
"cher,n cried out his men, sit won't DO; we
" can't do it," But it must do, my children,
he replied. It's all very well to say it wont
" do; but it must do. | have promised 1t to
nv brother Wellington, and you would n
9" have me break my word" And the end OF
! that second tourney was also inside the f0rtlii-
cations of the French capital. Forwards :!
! is once more the Prussian bait h-cry, ana the
heart of the French Empire is agall their goal
Will history in this case also repeat itself
We do not place much value upon what are
called historical parallels, and it is only q
waste of time for writers TO attempt to lore
cast the course or results of the present Franco
Prussian war by instituting comparisons he'
tween it and the previous wars in which th'
same Powers have been engaged. The Leaders
in the present war, the conditions of the war
the nature and spirit of the armies, the genius
of the times, and the terms of success, are dit
ferent from those that existed sixty, seventy
or eighty years ago during the campaigns OF
the Rhine The present Emperor is not hi
uncle; the Prussian military establishment
1870 is not that of 1870 or 1910 the question
now in debate between the respective armie
appears under new aspect. Historical palal
lels, in fact, are not parallels at ALL