The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-02

came under French influence, and died in the
early part of '76. This, we regret to say, Is
all. We wish there we're more with all our
hearts Vain is further search. Mr.. Car
lyle and Miss Louisa Muhlbach have been
rummeged in vain for some evidence that
''Old Fritz" whose figure in colonial days
adorned our sign-posts, and after whom
towns and taverns were named, in any way
befriended us. We know that in June, 1871,
the Empress of Russia and Joseph the Second
of Austria offered their good offices, but we
can find n o trace of especial friendliness from
the great Frederic. His Majesty had had too
many subsidies from Great Britain to dare to
quarrel with her; and, although he did not
altogether like to let his own people go on
foreign service, he grumbled gently, aud they
went He scowled on Arthur Lee at Potsdam,
and rather enjoyed the Joke when Sir Joseph
YoIke stole. or caused to be stolen the rebel
archives at Berlin; and it is of him-the
Great Frederic-that Washington, a few
months before the warrior-tyrant died, wrote
to Lafayette, in 1856, remarkable letter,
which has been preserved, in which he says:
-"That one man like him should be willing
to tyrannize over millions is deep7shade on
his character" There was no strong Prus-
sian sympathy, because there was no love of
military sway, in Washingtons great heart.
But say our radical apUigists what of the
past-tbe remote, mouldy past; look at the
present and see what Prussia did in aiding us
to suppress rebellion extirpate slavery,
and maintain the Union, and with what
noble, pure, ethereal impulse her children
rallied round our flag and bought our bonds.
''The Hessians and Brunswickers of old
came because they were sold and bid to
come. Not so the Prussian of to-day" Here
again are we getting into the tangled field of
disputed history, and here again radical New
England, in the present rs in the past, plays
leading and Characteristic part. In the
spring of 177S, after the surrender of Bur-
goyne, with whom was large German con-
tingent, most of the prisoners were sent to
Massachusetts,, then, as ever, out of
the reach of all danger. James Bow
doin, an able and patriotic man, like
all of his name, was Governor, and to
him Washington, in bitterness of spirit,
wrote these words-and are they not printed
by Sparks? SIT gives me inexpressible con-
cern to have repeated information from the
best authority that the committees of the
different towns and districts in your State
hire deserters from General Burgoynes s army
and employ them as substitutes TO excuse the
personal service of the inhabitants. l need
not enlarge upon the danger of substituting
as soldiers men who have given a glaring
proof of treacherous disposition, and who
are bound to us by no motives of attachment
instead of citizens in whom the ties of coun-
try, kindred, and someti nes property, are so
many securities for fidelity. General Bur-
goyne could hardly, if he were consulted
suggest a more effectual plan of plum
dering us of so much money and re-
inforcing General Howe than this" Thus
| for the past. Now for the present Oa
the 14th December, 1865, the acting consul at
Boston of Oldenburg and Nassau, not then
absorbed in Prussia, revealed to his superior
| for a copy of his letter is before us at this
| L. l. e. \.
Prussian sympathy and of Boston patriotism.
He tells of commercial adventure by which
under false pretenc es recruits for the Federal
army were to be bought abroad, the profits
| being the difference between the pittance to
be paid to them-one hundred dollars and
twelve dollars month-and the substitute
price-ive or six hundred dollars. An agent,
whose name is given, a sort of Koopman-
schoop, was sent to Germany to make the ar.
| rangement. They were mere contracts for la.
Dor, not for military service and no one of the
poor fellows who signed them dreamed of
war or its dangers. More than one ship-load
arrived at Boston. The human freight was
dumped down in some outlying islands in the
bay. The sick were TUNED off as worthless
and those who passed the sanitary scrutiny
were hurried to the front to fight and die
All the details are set forth in the ConsulI
letter; and if it be true, as we firmly believe
|
sent nor the past shall we hear much of Prus
sian sympathy. 1t is an insult to the right
mindedness and intelligence of our large
German population to pretend it.
THE STRONG FINANCIAL POSITION OF
THE UNITED STATES.
From the N. Y. Herald.
While the governments of the great Euro
pean nations can hardly make both ends meet
even in time of peace, this country has aI
overhowing treasury, and is paying the ma
tfonal debt off at the rate of over a hundred
millions of dollars year. The stupendoui
sum raised and expended during the fou
years of our war was unparalleled in the his
tory of the world, and all without a foreigr
loan or aid from foreign capitalists. There
never was war that cost as much within thu
same time; for not only were the forces
raised enormous, but the pay and equip
ment of the men and the cost o
everything used were much greater thar
they are in any other country. The cost o
the Prussian and French armies in pay
clothing, provisions, arms, and everything
else for war purposes is less than third
probably, of what the same number of mel
and amount of materials was here. Thel
look at the enormous bounties paid-fron
five hundred to a thousand dollars a man
an amount that would equip and support
French or German soldier for several years
Besides, the general extravaganza and plum
der of the treasury were frightful, and woult
have bankruptedany other nation. No countr
in the world could raise such sums as we did
Yet five years after the war not only has al
the vast floating debt been discharged bu
we have paid off several hundred millions O
the organized debt. At the present rate O
liquidation we could extinguish the whole
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