The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1870-11-24
FIR ANCE BECOMING CONVINCED OF
ITS UTTER HELPLESNESS,


All the prominent Journals in Havre
declare themselves in favor of an imme-
date peace. The Courier du Harre says:
Peace is the exclamation of millions in
Europe, and even in America. The Jour
nat de Feconlp writes Peace is the pa
role Of France. We are conquered, we
are subdued. France desires and de-
mands peace. All opposition for the flu.
ture is powerless it would only cost
new kecatombs of human sacrifices. We
are conquered, shaken as, a nation as we
never were before. Let us not deceive
ourselves any further with new hopes,
let Us not trust any longer in an opposi-
ton which is impossible. We have been
conquered honorably, let us now submit
let us show our dignity in misfortune.
Peace alone, demanded by the whole of
France can save the futurity of our coun-
try by saving its men and its resources.
We must have the courage to submit and
to ask for peace
This is a sensible expression of honest
conviction. The continuation of resis-
tancs is not only an absurdity, it is a
crime. The Government in Paris is, if it
can be called a government, respo nsible
for every human life which may hence
forth be sacrificed, for every am cunt of
property which may henceforth be destroy
ed. They mast know that there is not
even the shadow Of possibility to drive
the German armissback across the Rhine
or to deprive them again of the territory
which they have conquered. But still
they cry like idiots, mot an inch Of ter
tito1y to be ceeded'-Is that heroism .
no, 1t is cowardice, moral cowardice OF
men, who intoxicate themselves with lies,
rather than look danger straight in the
face, cowardice like that of man who
as it sometimes happens, commits suicide
for fear of death. Instead of exciting the
commisseration of the rest of the world
their Dragging only creates scorn and dis
gust. When we consider that these
French boosters hardly ever carried on a
war without obtaining new territory from
the conquered, their declaration, that the
'honor" of France cannot permit any loss
Of territory,is an insult to every other ma
ton of Europe, for then it asserts, that
French honor is composed of much finer,
nobler stuff, than that of Germany, which
was robbed by Napoleon with the greatest
impudence. of Austria which had to cede
Lombardy and Venice, of Italy which
had to- give up Nizza and Savoy to
France, or Of Russia which had to cede
the Dobrudska to the Turkish dominion.
Can these insolent idiots in Paris really
think that these powers, whose honor
had to submit to losses of territory, will
make much haste to save to the honor of
France a like humiliation?
The further resistance of France can
only effect the increase of the demands
of Germany. The present line of bound
airy, as asked by the conqerors, will here
after include Metz and the battle fields on
the left Of the Noselle; and no power of
Europe will wish or dare to make any
serious objections.
They all know what conditions for peace
France used to dictate and to obtain, and
from which Germany has learned the
lesson. 1t will hardly be possible for
Paris to hold out as long as Metz was en-
abled to starvation will force it to sub
mission, even if Trochu should succeed
to discipline his Gardes mobiles so that
they would stand before the German SOL
diers, even if he should succeed to break
through the iron chain of the besiegers,
he could not bring new provisions into
Paris, where for hundreds of miles around
he could not find enough to furnish that
city for one week. No, rather let them
submit now to honorable peace so that
by next Christmas even the Divine prom
Use may become fulfilled "Peace on earth,
Good actW to1Cdrds men,