The Portland daily press., 1870-08-09
The E'r. sident on the r uropean Sirua.
ton.

The Err, sident ON the r urOpean Sirua.
ton.
A correspondent of the New York STAN
ddrd, who has lately haI.a friendly chat with
the President upon general matters, records
few of his opinions and predictions in regard
to the war. The professional interest of the
President in the subject would naturally in
duce very full and free expression from him.
The report says:
At first thought the war would be short
now think it will be long, and it seems as
if every power in Europe will get into it.
England must stand by Belgium, the fruits of
Waterloo, and we know Napoleon, as he said
treaty of 1876" This treaty Napoleon +
signed against his will, and, although he gave
up the south bank of the Rhine then, in form.
the French have never given it up in spirit.
The fight with Napoleon is for the south bank
of the Rhine. With Prussia it is defence of
the Bismarck North German Confederation.
THE CAUSE OF OUR GERMAN SYMPATHY.
Our sympathy is the result of commerce.
German emigration, and because the Ger
mans took our bonds and stood with lis dur-
ing the war. France di6n't. King William
and Bismarck sent three teleglams of con-
graduation to us. Not one came from Napo.
leon, who, on the contrary, was all the time
hitting us sly dabs in Mexico. Seward let
him bit, because his army was all the time
eating up the beef and tanning the hides
which otherwise would have gotten into the
rebel army. In fact, Maximian was sort of
provision destroyer in Mexico. If we 90 bacl,
OF the last war, there is no reason Whv we
should not sympathize with France. Napole-
on sent troops, and Lafayette came to hello u.s.
while Frederick the Great hired out a lot Of
Hessans to Great Britain.
sAARBRUcK AN INSIGNIFICANT VICTORY
The late capture of Saarbruck was but a.
skirmish Little .skirmishes and a reconnois-
sance now and then don't amount to any,
thing. We must wait for the camnaion
Sometimes, in checkers, man gives away
one man, and by and by takes three. So in
war. Then, Saarbruck doesn't seem to have
been German town. 1t was like the rebels
first taking Bowling Green, KY, or Little
Rock. 1t rather belonged to them; but when
Gen. Steele retook Little Rock, that was
victory.
l think Mayence will be the Fredericksburg
OF the wal, and, may be, the Black Forest will
De the Wilderness. AT least, should think
that modern warfare had demonstrated the
iacI mat 1t is foolish to assault a fortified
Iown When you can just as well march
aIoullu IL ana compel the attacked party to
SIarVe OF come out and fight you. General
Hooker and Gen. Burnside both stoinood
FREDERICKSBURG, but l think if thew had IL ~
40 over again you would see them marcb;no ~
right around to the rear. Mayence, Cobents
ana even Enrenbreitenstein,t the Gibraltar Of
the hhine, II managed at all, will have to he
managed as Fredericksburg was at last. YoI
can't storm EhrenbreItenstein any moro tban
you could Vlcksburg from the Louisiana flats
You can lombard it, but, when taken. if will
have to be starved out. Now l don't think
these fellows are much on the starve-out pro-
cess; they're too fast, and here Prussia has the
inside track.
KONIGGRATz NOT TO BE REPEATED.
There is striking analogy between tbe
French and Prussian and the old Union and
Rebel armies. Prussia's strategy should be TO
stand still. If she takes the aggressive, pene
trating French territory, the same result will
undoubtedly await her that awaited Lee in
Pennsylvania. Gettysburg and Antietam
both weakened the Rebels more than years of
defense warfare. Konigsratz will not be re-
peated during this war.
A MILLENNIUM COMING.
H., me eject of the war on this country will
r pe o1a 0, history will repeat ITSELF Our war
worlS '' Dues, not only here, but all over the
VIII Ieopie couldn't live in Europe at one
, anu a nan times as cheap as before. The
present war will raise values In E,roao
Americans VIII come home. Iron and Iaathor
anu coal WIN advance there. Then we can
compete with them without tariff, rhe ,nan
VIII be seiiimposed high tariff, ionoscd W" on
every artlc'e OF foreign importation. TIia
war ana here the general was eBtLusiasticl
VIII pc the greatest blessing thar could be