The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-07-19
THE FOREIGN WAR.
An Interesting Statement by the
New York Tribune's Correspond.


New York Tribune's Correspond.
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| NEW YORK, July lS.-The Tribune
correspondent telegraphs that not one
word of Theirs remarkable speech was
allowed to reach England hy telegraph,
There has been systematic scheme
afloat to deceive Europe about public
opinion in France respecting the war
and to deceive France about the opiniola
of Europe. kilograms to English pa,
perS during the past week have misrep-
res, lei the tone Of the French indie.
pendent pres and suppressed the mani
festatiOns against war. The press cen
sorship was never more active and un-
scrupulous in spite Of its first wavering.
The English press now without
exception charges France with
the responsibility for the war
1t appears that after Grammont's s
declaration, demand was made for the
dispatches Olivier, after refusing to
give them, was compelled to admit that
France had finally declared war on ac-
count of the Prussian dispatch COM
municating to the European Courts the
Kings refusal to receive the French
Ambassador, and that this dispatch
thus made the basis of the war, which
had not been seen by any French Min
lister, the Government had in fact de
clared war on what Purported to be an
abstract of that dispatch, supplied by
two French spies, whose names were
withheld
When the war was announced the
Left refused to join i'll the shouts of the
majority. When the majority voted
an extra war credit Of 5O0,000,0N
francs the Left again sat silent.
NJ. Theirs, after declaring his love
for his country and patriotic determi-
nation when war should be declared to
grant to the Government means of con
quering, said: 'Our duty is to reflect.
The resolution you have just adopted
is the death of thousands OF men. For
one instant | beseech you OF reflection.
Bethink you Of May s, 1856. You re-
fused then TO hear me when | sought
TO show you what was about to
happen. Let that recollection persuade
YOU TO listen how the principal demand
Of the Government has been conceded.
Nv conscience tells me that | have full
filled a duty in resisting the imprudent
pasrions. Representing soberly the
country interests, is this time for
you to break the peace on mere
question of susceptibility. You are
shedding torrents OF blood for qncs-
ton of form If had the honor TO
govern my country? ! should have
wished to give it time for reflection
] regard this war as an irnprudence and
It's occasion as ill-chosen. After dis
patches upon which the declaration Of
war was made had been. repeatedly
demanded and as often refused, Olivier
said: II will read two dispatches, hut
not the signatures, FOR the agents would
be sent away. He then read part
Of one dispatch confirming the refusal
OF King William to receive the French
Ambassador, and two dispatches from
French agents abroad, giving the sub
stance OF Bismarck's circular. The
circular itself NJ. Olivier did not pre-
tend 10 pruduce. He concluded by say
ing: "Wego to war with light heart,
and confident in our army. We will tell
the whole trouble. What we could
not endure was the semi-otficial commu-
nication to all Europe of the rejection
of our Emhassador, all the more signifi-
cant because done in the most courteous
terms.
Theirs replied to Olivier; 1T is TO
hlunder that we owe war Prus-
sia ought to have been attacked when
she desired to unite the German States.
Then war would have been legitimate,
and we should have been sustained. !
blamed Sadowa at the time. To-day
the world demands legitimate com
plants Prussia also has committed q
great fault in negotiating with Spain,
yet Prussia wished peace and we have
war. II we had still to require the re.
nunciation of the Hohenzollern can
didature | should still be with you
Bat now that We have obtained
that we demand something else. You
had only obtained your result. You
had form and substance both, yet you
say Prussia has not yielded in form,
and we have been insulted. Public
opinion will turn against us, the jour
mails of Europe will be against us.
! If Prussia weuld never have resumed
| this candidature. il would have been
madness. "