Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-08-09

with guile, gold and gore, realizing the
first rule of military science, that is, to
bring her forces as d unit to bear on a
fraction of the enemy; Austria, the. im-
perial head of Germany, realizing
Shakespeare pen-portrait in the mouth
of /" constance," in King john - 4
..Thou fortunes champion. ~ .,'l, - pa
"Thou ever stronger on the stronger side, etc.
Austria was always willing to save or
aggrandize herself at the expense of
those whom she was bound, as sovereign,
to cherish, protect and preserve. : III
The question Of Luxembourg, which
threatened to give rise to war few
years since, was no new source of con-
troversy. It. was only one Of the Louis
XIV. quarrels, .reopened; just as was
Napoleon idea Of aneinvasion of En-
gland in lS04-'5, o tre-hash Of a project
entertained by the smart Due de Chois-
eul in LIZA with Marshal SAKE to play
the part Of Bonaparte. Again, Napo-
Icons depredations in Germany were
nothing more or less than repetitions Of
| those Of Louis XIV.,and XIV. .pta li rls
The great Corsiean adventurer, the
greatest traitor to liberty, won his big1
gest prizes by the help of Germans or
their weakness, by their falsehood to
Germany. Even so, Turenne owed his
greatest ysuccesses to those admirable
Weimarian troops made by Swedish Off
GERS, who finally, tired of French SER
vice, went. off in body to. the Swedish
General Kopigsmarck, and under him
finished up the Thirty Years War, in
1913. Just SO, Louis XIV and XIV
played off German princelings-pretty
much played out or wiped out by Bis
marck-against Germanys best Prince
Eugene, and greatest, Frederic of
Prussia, and robbed Germany
through German treason, in high places,
to Fatherland and mother tongue.
The Duke of Richelieu, in Hanover
prefigufed Marshal Davoust, in Ham
burg, and Vandamme, in Madgeburg.
The sack of Lubbock, in 1906, when cap
tured by three French Marshals, will not
fall much short of the horrors of the
Thirty Years War; and whoever will
read "Scherer will find that the French
did not emulate our forbearance to rebels
in their playing process toward con-
quered lands. Even their own histories
and biographies sometimes raise the
vail. . One Of our best Generals and
Minister to Mexico, could explain from
what he heard of the French invaders
there why the Prussians do not love
Frenchmep, They have about as much
reason to love them as the Spaniards or
the Mexicans. Montzel III, .47S) relates
how Turenne had Count Sohms cudgeled
to death for opposing French projects,
and ,Montgaillard wi. ~ relates how
Augereau horsewhipped the director Of
the military hospital (las Artesapas, of
Barcelona) because he conceived he had
personal cause complaint against
him (Augereau), after, severity which
thad revolted even his own partisans.
People must study history to under
stand these pretty little episodes. This
lis the preface. If health and time serves
| and the wer is reality, not ruse, the
writer will ll,demonstrate some of the ter
rible wrongs Germany has had to suffer
from France-wrongs hundredth part
Vof which would have aroused our people
to attempt war of determination And
yet, obi merciful, generous German
blood how they pitied, spared, cared for,
nursed, sympathized with the miserable
wretches of Napoleon hordes returning
home across Germany from. Russia in
| l8l24l3l And then, when humanity de-
manded no farther sacrifices, how they
sprung to arms, gave gems and gold for
iron, beat the French out, drove them
T., across the Rhine with Muscovite Perod
(Forwards) and Cossack hurrah with
! Prussian pertinacity, and Blueher lead
ing, they twice encamped in the squares
| of Paris. Shall we again see them re-
I turn thither in Paris third time as vic
/ torions2 OIL that it could be sol sing
4 ing the song they chorused at Leipsic in
4 1873" He'll der i'm Siegerskrans =
/ Hail to thee, O Prussian hero and liberia
/ tor, crowned with victory.