The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-08-05

then shifted backwards and forwards, and
then have Joined France. A string of ques-
tons addressed to the French representatives
in Wurtemberg has lately been published,
from which it appears that the French Gov
eminent relied upon internal discussions in
the South German States, and calculated upon
the assistance a French party in those States
would give it. Even at Berlin it would seem
as if surprise as well as delight was felt at the
extreme readiness of South Germany to make
cause with the North. In old days, too, if
one German prince did make up his mind
to aid another, he always insisted on making
his assistance as Intellectual as posi-
sible, and on jealousy retaining a
separate command. Now, without a sign of
remonstrance or unwillingness, the States of
South Germany obey the command to place
their forces at the disposal of the Crown
Prince of Prussia. Their soldiers are to all
intents and purposes part of the Prussian
army, and glory in being SO. They feel a
confidence in being guided by the conquerorg
of Sadowa which they would not feel if local
generals and princes were to command them.
Hesitation has always been hitherto
the bane of German diploma
lists and German commanders. But
the German nation has grown wise, and has
determined to escape this great source of
danger. There has not been a trace of hest
tation in German diplomacy; for the German
nation has asserted itself, and has taken its
fortunes out of the hands of d~iplomatists.
And we may be sure that in the military
operations of the German army there will be
as little hesitation; and that every fortress
will be ready to do its utmost service, and
every regiment will be called into play, in
exactly the manner, and exactly the time,
which the strategists of Berlin consider to be
most advisable.
Whether the issue of this war will be like
Al o,,aa e l. l,,a,k.1,,1 ,ro,, - .,E.ol Al.
First Napoleon humbled Germany, no one can
say; but what is certain is that every condi-
ton of the struggle is altered on the side of
Germany. In those days France held Bel
GUM and Holland as her own. Now Germany
is covered on her long Rhenish frontier, from
the .Moselle to the WAL, by nations de-
termined to uphold their neutrality. Prus-
STA betrayed the left bank of the Rhine
below Strasbourg to France on the promise
of an indemnity to be gained at the expense
of the small German ktates. Now the trans
Rhenan parts of Germany are not only the
property of Prussia, but are evidently Prus-
sian; and the strips of precious territory
which Prussia got under the second peace of
Paris, in compensation for what Russia took
in Poland, are protected by strong fortresses,
and will tax the power of France to rend them
from their present possessors. There we're
scattered over Germany in the time of Napo-
leon many fortresses of some celebrity. Bot
they were of little use, for he was always
rendering them useless by getting them
betrayed to him. Now Mayence, for example,
which Austria sold to him at Campio Formio,
is one of the strongest places in all Europe,
and it is quite certain that united Germany
will never give 1t up until it is wrested from
her by sheer force. For fifty years the
wealth of Germany has been lavished in
making the safeguards against France safe.
Throughout the wars of the First Napoleon
there were always Germans who wished that
the German Powers should be beaten, or
were at least indifferent whe her France
won or not. Prussia attached scarcely any
value to the left bank of the Rhine,
and let France do as it pleased in
order to profit by the final partition of Po-
land. Austria did not so much wish to beat
France as to get hold of Bavaria, while Bava.
ria brought about the calamities of Ulm and
Austerlitz, and became virtually a province
of France, in order to defeat the projects OF
Austria. Germany deserved most thoroughly
the humiliation to which it was subjected; tut
even then it took the military genius of Napo
leon to beat the Germans. His lieutenants
often sustained reverses which, if the
German troops had been under decen
management, might easily have proved
fatal to the invaders. Too much
3 indeed, is often made of Leipsic OF
! the one side, as too much is made of Jena OIL
. IL OtLCl GOA ~ NSo uhuOl elO oASlt0 IL
I. with the cooperation of Russis that German,
s made their first successful stand against Napo
t leon, as they might have made it long befor,
but for the inconceivable folly of the King O.
Prussia. Leipsic is noticeable, not as q victor,
t of Germans, but as the first battle in which
the German people, as apart from the Ger
s man so~vereigps, fought for their independ
ence. Leipsie was the beginning of tina
Q movement which now arrays all Germany a
t one mai against Louis Napoleon; and from
) that day to this the movement ha
t never ceased. The symptoms of thu
Y growth of a nation are not Away,
very pleasant to witness, and the common
!. sense of Europe justly condemned tho fool
= ish fury of the students which ended in tn,
) murder of Kotzebue, as thirty years later i
S condemned the idle revolution which for
moment set up a mock empire at Frankfort
But in spite of everything, in spite of France
in spite of its princes, in spite of its owl
faults, Germany has grown, now slowly, nov
quickly, for half a century, until at last it il
l a nation and challenges France in arms OF
terms which make the Emperor of the French
and all of his subjects who do something
2 more than shout and swear at Prussia, fee
t that, after all France can do to prevent it
t Germany may still be Germany.
TERTNAT, VAOlTTONS