The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-12-08
BE to complete it. This becomes the
h;ea;on. .ns ,,n;kad Gornoanu He savs.

BE to complete sd.1,l, il. This becomes the
mission ss, united Germany. - BE says: ..
"The i9anitet haide. ,haH,, 4hio4, is
the eq1My or ttb still more ihdi5pensa.
BILE, is fbst Of achieving, instead. of the
ABOLISHED shamiswhioH weresof the devil,
the practicable realities which should be
yeritable and of God. The first half of
The battle, I rejoice to see, is now safe,
ban now never cease except in victory;
but the further stage of it, I also see,
must be, under better presidency than
that of France, or il will forever prove
impossible. The German race, not the
Gaelic, are now to be protagonist in that
immense world-drama; and from them
expect better issues. Worse we cannot
well have. France, with dead.lift
effort. now of eighty-one years, has ac-
complished under this head, for herself
or for the world, nothing, or even less
lin strict arithmetic, zero with minus
quantities. Her prophets prophecy 6
vain thing; her people rove in darkness
and have wandered far astray."
In closing his letter, Mr.. Carlyle thus
lgivos 'tho hopofullcst public fact" that
has occurred in his time. He says:
"That noble, patient, deep, pious and
solid Germany should be at length
welded into n nation and become Queen
Of the Continent, instead of vaporing,
vain:giofi6hs, gesticulating, quarrel
some, restless and over sensitive France,
seems to me the hopefullest public fact
that has occurred in my time"
But the main point of Carlyle's letter
is to establish the proposition that Ger
many has right to tear Alsace and Lor-
raine from France. To prove this, he
gives us an historical review of 400 years.
Cui bono' eve live in the present "
The earth belongs under God to the liv-
ing. as q contemporary suggests. The
people of Alsace and Lorraine are the
persons to decide their own destinies.
The question is not for Germany to de-
eide. It is for the people of the pro-
vinces in question to settle their own
destinies. AS the New York World we'll
says: Americans who have crushed
Niagara" and are safe in tho pool of De
mocracy below, have what Carlyle would
regard as the insane idea that the people
of Alsace and Lorraine belong to Item
SelreS; that they are not stolen property,
to be banded about between contending
owners, but men entitled to voice in
their own destiny. The land is theirs;
the cities, villages, dwellings,, imple-
ments, are theirs; their bodies and souls
are their own, in spite of anything that
Mr.. Carlyle can dig out of the mouldy
records of men who have slept centuries
in their graves. Their rights and hap
piness ought to be regarded as we'll as
the interest and ambition of Prussia
1t is thus that we would dispose of the
practical point made in Carlyle's stormy
and wrathful diatribe against Franco.
AS for Prussia, we appreciate her great
virtues. But France has her rights
Whatever errors Franco may have COM
mitted- whatever her short. comincs NAV
be-yet the Frenchman is entitled to
France. The French are now fighting
for their country. That country is in
vadad and ravaged. Our sympathies
are with men fighting on their native
soil for their native land. We hope it
may be well for them until the invader
has been pressed beyond the borders of
France. and she is left free to control her
own destinics And were we O French
man now in France, we should deem it
our duty to fight on. Nor do we think
that the Frenchman has yet como near
to his Appomattox.
DIXIE AT THE CAPITAL-RADICAL DEs-
PERATloN. The correspondent of the
Baltimore Gazetle, writing from Wash
ingeon under date of December l, has