Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-12-20
Wilhelm and Napoleon.

i"' ava 'H""J " 10y du0 hlNC lu-
formed the Herald readers week af-
ter week that King William was
about touching the match to the first
siege gun. Last week he got the
gun in position, but the breech was
turned the wrong way, and it scat
tered grape shot among the loyal
folks in Berlin who were engaged in
a row in honor of King William
To-day the dispatches tell us that
bismarck has found that the
"Frcnoh Republic" will fight forever;
that the only possible peace is to res
tore Napoleon who has had better
success in crushing Republics than
King William has had. AS little
faith as we have in French Republics,
we suspected that the enfranchise-
mont Of the French people would
call forth a devotion and a patrio-
tism that would finally worry out
Prussian discipline and persistence.
Bismarck thinks that the taking of
Paris will have no effect in subjuga-
ting the lean, gaunt, hollow-eyed
Republic that nightly breaks his mas
ter's dreams with its CHASTITY smile Of
triumph.
Should "Wilhelm" dare to contin-
nc the war to restore Louis Napolc-
on, that he may destroy by treason
il Republic that has defied and baf-
fled the armies that so easily trium-
phod over the empire he must contend
with the condemnation, scorn and in
dignation of the civilized world
And the voice Of freeman, Of prosi-
dents, Of statesman, Of parliamcnts,
Congress the people and the press
on both sides OF tho Atlantic, is not
a mere impotent clamor, as the re-
port Of cannon served with paper
bullets, TO which he can safely turn q
deaf ear Are the youth of Germany
willing to die, be MANNED, to perish
by myriads in order to restore q
Bonapartc whose overthrow was the
browning purpose Of united Gcrma-
ny, tho impulse 20 its enthusiasm,
and the climax and end Of its mill
tary achievement =? And since the
capture Of Napoleon and his armies,
the marching, fighting, occupation
and sicgos of the Prussians victor
les as we'll as defeats. have been fruit
less, barren, useless, because nobody
could exactly tell or even guess what
Prussia was fighting for. At one
time the pretonse was that France
had no government to make peace
with, and the war must needs 80 on
for there was no one to stop it, This
was savage logic. King William
" QUA ngnJ down ANY government
that France recognized, and then he
would fight her because she had no
government capable Of stopping the
light
# the purpose Of King William
and Bismarck is to restore Louis Ma
poIeon in France, and drive the Ital-
ians out Of Rome, and execute Plus
INth's curse on his brother, Victor
Emanuel (and the late dispatches
openly declare that purpose) it re-
qures neither statesman or prophet
% see that this Xerxcs-liko expedi-
ton into France is the last crime and
blunder Of royalty, and the suicide
Of dcspotism and monarchy in Eur
ope. Germans in America will be
heard in the ranks OF Bavarians,
SaXons and Wurtonbergcrs and Prus-
slams, in newspapers, letters, speech
and telegraph, calling upon the broth
ers in Germany to make common
cause with Republicans in France in
destroying the power Of two Of the
deadHcst foes to popular liberty in
Europe, Frederick William and
Louis Napoleon Their lives and car
Is history and their crimes are alike.
one moved the people down with
grapeshot in the streets of Berlin
the other did the Same in Paris
The one threaten ed Carl Schurz and
Franz Sicgel with military exccu-
lion the other generously offered a
dungeon in France to his enemies or
exile somewhere else. Their crimes
and purposes are alike; if history
delights in condolences we may ex-
pect their downfall and disgrace and
ond 70 be the same.
Surely the King Of Prussia is IN a
position. Germany will
reap no substantial advantage from
the contest though Paris may fall,
aud how shall the King and Bis
marck appease the ghosts Of a hun
drcd thousand Germans who have
fallen IN the war, Just and German
as tar as Sedan, but brutal and Bis
MARKHAM attcrward z
JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CuANGE.-There
is some talk OF cutting oil the county
Of Lafayette from this Judicial Cir
cult and adding it to the new Judi
eial Circuit formed last Winter of
Green, Rock and Jefferson counties.
The change would be just and seems
to be favored by the people Of La
aycttc County.