The New York herald., 1870-09-07
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Comments OF tho New York Frencd aud Ger.
mnn Press.
The French papers published In this city on NJ on
day gave nearly their whole space, apart from the
advertising columns, to the military disaster and
political overthrow at Sedan.
The Messenger Franco An,erfcdtn said:-"There Ia
but one piece OF news for Europe as for America.
1t is the defeat Of MacMahon and the surrender Of
Bonaparte. On Saturday evening we published an
extra, containing the details Of this event. Our
counrymen were, at first, willing to doubt the dis.
aser OF the army and the shame OF the Emperor SO
long as doubt was possible But tho proof could no
longer be denied when the dispatches of MI. Motley,
tho United States Minister at London, and that Of
Mr. Bancroft Minister ut Berlin. to the Secretary OF
State, announcing the capitulation. were seen Mr..
JONES' Minister OF the United States at Brussels also
telegraphed the news.
''1f the French were slow to believe IL, the Ger
mans accepted 1t with avidity, proclaimed IL, and
propaeated 1t IN oil Imaginable ways The lager
beer saloons became crowded with an inconceivable
throng Of consumers, professions were formed, the
Prussian dag was hoisted wherever It could be
found. the renegades OF the ex-republics OF Ham,
burg and Bremen covered their vessels now an.
chored In the Hudson with all imaginable colors.
and at last, In the evening, numerous illumnatons
rockets ana Roman caodlcs testified the delight OF
the German population.
"Ths 10y too is quite excusabe. The sons Of those
who were vanquished at Jena and Valmy did not
expect to make their way into Franco evon at the
price OF fghtful hecat0mbs they did not think that
an incapable government would offer them twenty
opportunities for victory in spite OF the courage OF
the French soldiers above all, they never hoped
that the wretch (sfc entrusted witu the defence
nrt thah ~ aoy,.Nr1 hocfa toI dnu
his sword at Tie feet Of their King While he stin had
o valiant army to command.
'srho Prusslans remember having gone to PARIS IN
1914 and 1885, but they then In the company or
oil Europe Alexander OF Russia and Wellington OF
England marched In advance OF them. The idea
that they could get there alone this time and that
they could obtain posses Of the capital Of civii
cation without anybody's "A actually turns their
heads. This IL easy enonga 10 comprehend. and TOR
the sake OF their reason let hope that glory SO
great will not he denied them" !.
Elsewhere tho Messenger remarks. undcr tho head.
ing OF "Ihe Empire and France':-
The empire Let us hope that this Is the last time
that SHALL have TO speak OF that wrctched affair.
The empire has fallen, the empire has surrendered;
but France is on her feet and France never sur
renders.
Let the fayorers Of Bonapartlsm and the
makers of cOaips Getdt rejoice over their work
and taste the Gavor OF their triumph Let the
poor dupes OF personal government, OF the plebfSc
| t,,'n and OF imperial glory measure the abyss OF
shame to the verge OF which the empire has brought
| Us for the third lime In sixty years Did these Bo-
n9partes but know how to die. when their C@sarian
toga Is torn from their shoulders Had the first one
lei himself be killed at Waterloo he might have been
pardoned of his crimes Had the second followed the
example OF the gallant General Douay; had he gone
in ques. of a Prsissian bullet France might have &C.
cepted that eypiailon. But no. he has surrendered
his sword @ to the King Of Pr. Prussia he has has bowed @
and lie has caused the army that accompanied him
TO capitulate.
| for all this ignominy falls. He defended himself
like lion to Tho last extremity, until his wounds
| en- took the command after him; the same wlmpff.
| en- who recently conducted the unfortunate cam.
paign IN Morocco and who trled % 70 pass @ on MS as-
dered to the Prussians; It was he who shared with
| Napoleon III. the glory Of that capltulation.
But lot not Prussia and her numerous friends has
| ten to sing pIans OF triumph too soon Let William
aud Bismarck not have the audaciy to play the part
or llberators IN France. No; they are of the same
| band to which the Bonapartes belong. They are
the enemies OF the latter only as robbers are
m 70 eacn o.ner anS ~en vac
! accompllces at one and the same time. The Bona
parties had party in France; perhaps they might
ierns can excite no other emotion There than hatred
and horror from end OF the territory to the other
Let them Judge by the reception accorded to them IN
that part OF the country least averse to Prussia.
! Let them Judge by Alsace let them judge by the
population Of strasbourg. When nation has tho
but viii make all sacrifices, 1t Will undergo all
Drvation3 and all kinds Of torture rather than sffer
stain to rest upon Its honor, or an aggression on
! Its national integrity.
| This Is what certain English and American jour-
| nails do not seem TO comprehend when, upon learn
pressed the hone of seeing peace ARISE from this
capitulation be 1t more said: 1t Is tho empire
| that has capitulated-not the country. The empire
| is the nightmare that has weighed on France FOR
| nineteen years, and that has just melted away.
| But what an awaking France covered with boOd
| graphing with her most mortal enemy, the enemy
| OF her revolution, the enemy OF her nationality the
| enemy of her republic, the enemy WHO was only
| barbarous and brutal eighty years ago, and over
| whom she 80 easily trumphed then. but who has
become crafty, prudent, sliul, and VINO today sub
jects her to the greatest danger to which size has
| ever been exposed. Such is the reality that she
finds before her at the moment wnen she reawakens
to become herself the reality that she must take J
her, comprehend at glance and In the presence oil
| which she-must form u supreme, absolute immov'
! able res0uion-the resolution to conquer.
| And this re solve she has already made Although
the separates us from France wo leel tue pi-
| satons OF her mighty heart and we know what she
Is capable Of qnaertakng we attest, we proclaim @ n,
sons placed at this moment on the miner sDoIc Ol
| tue Atlantic count upon universal. furious and I'M
pscspIe resistance on ner part, taese nn
munlsts among us. What are these differences
| worth to-dayi All Of US have but one thought and
one aim-to raise France up again and 10 purge he!
navo been done we can recommencc our Old quar-
rels, II tnerc be occasions but before Oil and above
all let Us save the Fatheriand OF France, the land o
Can the unity OF sentiment that has Just 80 sud
denly come between US Frenchmen in America fai
Of Accomplishment IA the bosom VI old France itself
| Oan there be any more Bonaparlists when Napoleon
Ill has, In c0wardly guise, laid his sword at tn
feet Of the Prusslan2 france taking her own aiairs
the defence OF her honor ana her life into her Owl
handsls not that the republiof Is there any Iamlll
so eq0tistica 50 perdious a. to profit BY the dsor
der aud ses up Its monarchloal pretensions IN thi
noaa auch. 1t In In Ch0 name Of the republic aud