, 1870-10-02

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country in the world, Chiuh and India e1cept-
3D. Municipal Afe and libe1ty began in l,aly,
and Rome IL happily placed Among her breth-
rem sGalD.,
''nL0oD TlucKEN THAN WATER"
Among the eccentticlties OF what Ospaous G.
Kerr used to call tic s'rnfathomabla Germaa
mind, is the fact tbat Ill over the countty the
Germans are now asking us natives to retuc,n-
ber lsow the French got Alsace And Lorraine,
and Jet they nuvtr Ask us fhe Question hak
P1ussia treated the German alliea IN 1866. none
Of vh8ra Lad offended her, excepting ia oar-
aud Holetein, Observe What they we're cou1- !
PEELED TO ''pony mp" and then--no wonder |
tlat the preecnt allies OF Psuneia are anxtous |
to put Franco whe1e she can do no further |
harm in other words, to extiugulail the lamp
Of bnght aud freedom seeking nationality!
Ths independent allies OF prusssa in thi4
waz, Das1tia, Daden, Wussemhezg, ETC., arc
together neatly as large in territury as Ten
nessee. and they cout.An about eight and one
h41f millions Of people. II is tho American
condii:ons too bard for Erance, having but
lstely passea themselves under tho yoke.
P1ustia maas Auatsia pay 10, ,008. 600 lhaie1t,
Saxony, ~, 0G0 600, Davar1a. Il, 600 600 and 2-1
square nlises Of lana7 Baden ., ,50o, 900 thalets
wu5te wuu5at ana,heIg, !: Do, 900; Hease Darnstdt,
ford wAs fined heavily and hes *, 600 people
annexed, All Schlcswig Ho1stein was absorbed
with nearly /, 600. coo people, ali Hanover with
nearly 2, 000, 900 people in short every state
was compelled to strip itsslf UP to the diros.
Venice away 10 i1self, through F7sace. frus-
rim Eunll,i!ated or stripped naked the Little
States, AID she gare Austria terms, through
star u France. II BiEnaark had any convic-
tions 10 ought TO hive pulled the bill flo out
Of Aus;ziA, and let the l. O. Us blow!
TIE REEESDlNo OF AIsAcE.
Iltn fT3rm6N AmArfcS in}fnai% nynhEf4
arc somewhat erowdinE reason and patience,
not to Rpcak OF history. 1t is, AZ yet, kr no
means clear th.t Prussia means Germany.
and it Is not equity to revenge upon France
tho srp}iation Of the Rhine provinces by
l.ouis XIV, when prnasia was scaretly King
dom hnd bad no hold whatever upor tho
Rhine. P1nseia has s:oien more on the Rhine
than Franco ;witueka all Vest pha1ia, And eveii
AK, tho capital Of tho French Emperor, Chal-
!tm.gEe- Il eye1T nation is to 50 back tso
| bur dred years adjusting piunder, what IL to
become of tho Slasoni*: prosintes Of Ps.,ssis
aud Auerria, put Of which are in stale Of
chronic Eesolt, Particularly the Austrian pro-
vircsa Of Bohemia kud Motayia. Tho German
1ace is all the better for this Slavo admi1tura
just rs the American is better fos its alnix-
[ tu1es- The Average Prussian Is uearly AZ lda-
rure German al The aye1aso uan Of Alaace:
Guth and Slave taints have strengthened up
the military nature Of tho prnsslan, as Ger
man s.oek is partly Responsible for the gissh
and stature OF tho Lorraiue
Frenehznan- The Providence which me.
| eidcs hae uo intention tlAt every race shall
separate itself from the rest sud then begin ths
lneiuess OF relf-NeEnlip. What arc the proper
| peLalties CT war, the victor Aas right to in.
! dict, hut tho Sicta1 has 10 businesa to gerry.
1nandtr the globe on the basls OF his meainral
| EcAool-liatoty. Mankind has \ deeper stake
in seeing German-Austria let 50 her fresh
! rlurde1, than France OF P1ussiH tbs old The
Slavonic question. the Polish question, the
Independence Of the Trent Provinces to com
| plese Italy, these are Matters in wAich the
tho legal records Of Lorraine turned topsy'
tuETy and high Dutch nlaae compulsory II
StraHhonrg. s1 yeats ago. esaEy GcrnAn II
america WAS ready 10 cu, Ha1na1k's threat
Nsmark h1s not changed front, nor slippee
his Etir = bit, get nu Gezman-A1natica has go
around that wsy. Blood may 10 stronger thsl
| uatez, but strong beer il raging. II Amori
Cans wese equally inconsistent, we should b,
! remembering that about ninety yeara agt
Franco ~as thr ally Of America a9ainat Hesse
cstsel, Nassau, and England; but Europea'
history IL drunken aas. which does not knog
forward from backward.
TnC6MA's Future
, The German Americans have, all things co.,
sldcsed, good right and reason to be satistiea
! With their performances in this waz. thong
, there ,s nothing like Keeping cool. To hay
Vut the eapstone on the wiehea Of all Chzistia
kepuhsicans By sottins the world the model Q
the Institutions Of Hermann oEer Ito so 9
! Augustus; to have reached, hke ano:he
:, CuetaSus out Of the frozen North, aud to hay
moulded with one hand the unity OF German,
| ard With the other completed that OF ltaIy
:. ! to have pvc1sst 60 many shAtns, and strength
= ens6 everywhere The faith pi man in right >:
= lights these are greater triu1nphs than tt
! smaller fact. 80 ple5sin:; to the Turner Band
that German has at Last been able to lick
a Fsencln,An.
But il il 10 be appsehended that the work
. the uoheuxollernr: is done. They have mat
y Germany independent; tho Germans Aze
liberalize Germany, or they will tave made on
Il bsuta zsyo4atson, Won sundrg battles, an
= gratided = atemporaty pride Of the German Eac
i Eut little ia to be hoped in this regard fro
the Hohenzouesna. IA Gustav FEeytag wfot
/ several yea1a ago:
= "No rr5al race hns gained their state 60 CO.
u plt1ely ty the sHort, rs the Hohenxo!lelns TIT
y sncestors hase Graudly uursured tue people: th'
anctstnlB hare created the e1ase; their Ercus,l
u and their rcnow n In VII Originated In the time
The fn1neks VI the ruyal power. Thus thgy matt
q sder - sasn ana elevation. The N,iotc poil1lt
II consc, Of The rresent dag, The struggle agatt
!. privileges, the constitutional question, aud t
y i;erulnl OUT s:or, arc all 70 reality on!y r1ssI
D. question:, and the great d!n1cuW{ OF their 80
N uun lies III tie rosiion which the royal house
or Prussia have taken np n regard to tsiela "hs
rs willingly lutu the heels OF the tine, tiigr St:
= ca at:Hsn 10 It's ionx-wanted strength and soa,
20 ! HEsA" .-..-
- !" 1t il to1erably well assured that tue uohs
~ ~. zolczne mean to do nothing OF 1he XII.
~ Carl Scturz told nc that be corveEsed nj
q Bismark when lsst III Europe. nnd that 3
/. | mark <lid hia aim WAS to build up L etro
/ prnstia, aid make Germany depeni upon
M Tic letter Of kiug William to Queen Augu-t
70 relating the story Of Se1ao, says, ou1inoas
T. abous the exact words used by tho hiag n
In ccr,1ation .
ii. "Nnc, consider that, after enc great and Fl
of cesstui war, cuutd not expect nlnTe glo1ss
n va lhines yei to happen duttng ms r-ixn, aud n
3e Tow before Col, who alone has chosen me,
Ha aI1ns; aud ing ail,ct' to perform what has hi
T. hing Williams rrnssia is God, the uonaz'
d deA1iiiun Of her aspirations tot the nineaees
century :; II go, the German race las be
dE1eated IN the war, and France aud Italy
IN <lctors. but this conclusion il Impossible.
"a, great race can 10 diverted for while, liz
~. Inhn II his wedding, but after the honeymc
ies Of victosy. the puTposca OF life 60 on. Il
lie, Williams v2lor has put his image In tue r.
i, slal. State IL edo his Fathcrs and his st
he us:cles. hut 10 the German future Disn
her will te little more than William Pitt to
the mighty. democracy. Let William ret
lies along the history OF his family for wiso co
the sci. Frederick the Great dehnod nobility th
OF "SoLlluy Ii nothing more than higher de-
the he Reasonably expected from persons who !
ia eIAtled 70 enlo5 liberal education; II noblll
pu- 10Y Nt. ~ nola,ss "a1seHee' - - VI ao
.nS 'D1 Iee ~e"'
SIX 'E1easa1cA a1so ealn 'au1 n4S wv. W. W.. M
art. eutt'ieu ulna 70 sAI AL ~ h1oGs. A!H
&C the greatest worth, for lis yirtuo shtnas il
liant | sctE."
Snr. To tan zane standard must monarchy G
N = and II, in this century. it haa learned not
h OF lrun stesn, from presses. nna fsvolut'
tbs ''it In OF no use 4no tae1e "eeo"
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