, 1870-10-04

arthez without. il We beliere Mr: Phillips. In /
continents" '.Frrnee." ears Ar: Phillips, /
a nas aragooasa into the var ty, Napoleon.
md it war only \ seeming war she wsged."
Victor Hugo snd Jules Favre {the latte, very |
.autieuslx. however.) assume the salne !
ground. For the two Freedmen there il no /
tacuse, necause they do know better. Nr:
Philips. Hl.osa entisr candor and honesty !
DO 70, question, dees not know what he IL /
[aAhinS hims. X into ftlry about, and hsd bet-
te, ti1et str1dy facts before utteiing Lis male
6icttry ptilsl4 les sga,cst Germany, and befora
lie calls upun lta avtn to ''destroy ita ar11lea
By pt eti1ence, leaving. neither peasaut nor |
Prnecliug to tell the tale 1t Berlin.
In assing, the Gt1man armies are made up
Of all Glasses +; they embody the toWeE OF its |
intelligent youth and middle aBe. Tiers IS
no tubaiitutiou III tile German armies. Seven |
sons Of .P1ussian Ministers Of State we1a
in the present army as rrivates and nos-coM-
mirsicned officers, eoGe Of whom have al !
makes up its armies Of the ignorant peas-
antry, the dregs Of its large cities, and wild
Africans, wuoee vA1fase puts that Of the s7v-
nGe Indian Into tho shade. nut this br the
way -.
to know, that for the last three hundred ysars
France, whatever the form Of its government,
has fed ita greatness on the division aud
weakness Of the ancient German empire; has
coveted not only tho German Provinces on the
left b4nk Of the Rhine, but Belgium, too,
which, il the rhine il the E2tural frontier for
France, "a every Ftenchu an, high or low,
asserta, lies N1tl part Of Holland IL their
uAlursl line. III tho weakness Of tho divided
empire it has, By threats, fraud, and force,
mauy,-proSiDcts where the m1sH OF the pop
u1ation are in manuers. customs, and LAM
suage moro pa1els aad priuitively German
than the Germans themselves.
The whols French people, I might sar, in
stinctiyely knew that their preponlerance iu
Europe depe nGed upon tho internal DIVISION Of
Germany. Germany once united, and al tLat
France could ask was equality. S,dow, was
the turing point. It sealed the fate OF AUS
iris, and Of France, too. Not day hardly
passed in the French Chambers without the
opposition to the Emperor. Th1ers at the head,
Lot rlng1ng tlat terrible word ''Saaows into
the ears Of the InperialiAts. It would NOT 20
doWr. tbs charge that the Emperor ought
to hare prevented the SUCCESS Of pr71ssi1 iu
German, N 1850 became mara destructive 70
! the En-. etora power every day- In vain
| sought tie Emperor TO raci:y by liberal con-
| cestions. The French people care nothing
must be led On it, the dearest food which
| people ever consumes. 4 few da,s baio1s
the declaration of war, the Opposition again
Loudly cs,ed out, "And Sadow3," ehen OIL
vie1 made IN etIu1t to dofend the Imperial
Government. He tried to psr1y the fatal
thulst, not very. felic,tously, By o4elainins
'sIbe piebiscste is our Satoxa." II ti,e En-
pe1or, after Lis surrender. did tell Ling Wll-
liam that :" He was driven By pucilc opinion
into lie war." lie spoke the truth. The op,o-
| Eit,on voted for it enthusiastically a5 the
maierisy. Tie people, not only in Paris, but
4 al over the country, We're Wild wi:h cxcire-
ulent, rushed into the F,rreta. shouting La
I ~ u $3f3.1 1,..d& &.a.
CAUSE he had Unlimited iu the Cbsm5ers that
\ better ptetexr frr the wat ought IL have
teen hEnteo mp. Tie cry was "Au Ruin,
Du, as may not be doomed an impair
tial Wittess, allow NE to atow you
and intellectual Frenehn,es,. tl.e editor Of
the Courier dts Efyts f'nis, tho priucipal
Frtn,h organ in the Cntsed States. Ess TO say
stuut the uutounIed ASSERTION. that the
Ese1ch people are not tepCnniele Tor this most
unrtoyoked war, which has carried death aud
nocent Victims In thr Courier Of tue 3uh Of
Septem: er. commenting; UPON the circular of
u. Jules Favre to tue llici=te1s or France in
foreign countries, lie EXPRESSES himself tins
when IL. Favre eays that Trance las no,
voted for tho Nar, he nlust feel tie weakners
tecause the National Assembly voted for il
ard not only the majority, but the minority
the Left Yce, tue whole chsmaes, o. with
such few exceptions Us maklug tile vote almost
'lia:,imous- II: Fas1e is lot well inspired
~heu Le pIeteuJs, for France, to decline the
RESP onsiLlli,y of the war, thinking there
by 10 make the foreign powers better
disposed toward us- This IL a want ul
dsglisy, which ne dsel!ka very mrch to see
Tie republic should decline to be responsible
for tle fa,,lt committed by the. empire il
dt cla1iug n ar before Ne we're reads, but sht
slloulu avow openly thst tue war itself was, il
the opinion Of France. undertaken a. revenge
for Waterloo and Sadowa'
In aIrecedlug number the editor e1rlaim
rs fellows, in ! Aouhle-leAded azticle: ''W,
, have always Protested against this separatiul
the government tfom tbs peoule, and We vii
, NIT uoM risy the spaniel 10 the German in
. vader to get moro favorable pcaco. No. VI
lave said, aLd We iEeist upon it With prlle
, that she sar re declared TO Germany was
. | national rar that Tho whole OF France Ell
: cElnicn existed ~ to whether this was til
proper time {opportanite}. We hare been il
favor Of the e1;terp5ise, and we havoto seccp
tie responsibility"
: ThAt zane paper, and indeed, nearly over
French leading paper. nearly evesy fEenrl
| review, ever5 French treatise on politics, lav
insisted. for years ant Jeeis, that the l.hii4e
the legitimate boundary of Ftance aud mus
| be obtained; aud that the cutting up Of tiet
many into number Of weak States il a pol,ti
cal mex eseiiy for the supremacy Of France, +
? which euI Ilenacy she il, OF co'1rse, ENLISTED i
the eyes of even every pa1isian petit ererf
, | Victor Hugo has been an inceesant shIcker II
; The Ithint frontier, and his pottscal psrutech
nics. now addftestd to lis German brethren
come With tie Won't gtace from him.
Edmond About. obn Of the forl1uoet writer
: of France in the lighter literature. put!ielle
J work IN 1850 uude1 The title - i New Na
8 Of Trance aud 1'rlissia, wherein he CLAIMS j
1 quits matter Of eourec, that France nu-
: have the German PROVINCES Oh tue ishint
!, He has 1ecu advocating the doctrine III
: same as Mr. Thiers. that f1arce can never b
: | the foremost roReK III tue world il German
s IL suffered tc consolidate ltself.
= a.nG1enesf bS the success Of the Germ IN
g tut tefc1e be had hesn1 OF Sedan, he give
1 vcut to liz '' sacred Indignation" as BIZ c1l
y it, in An articla in y Pafihian paper, in wort
II that would diterace fishxou1an Of the tir,
e | French rev o1utlcn. No will extract but or
with what set Of ratcaia We have to de.1. y
II did not intend anything ver7 bad against tt
J, German race (ouly to rob tleni Of their teri
e ! tory And let ioose tho sAvkga Tnskos At
+ kabyfcs upon their wives and chi1dTen)- 1t
n their fault now that We have become thar e.
e emies, and that France can ONLY sava Il
;, civilization by an entire destruction Of Il,
J. Teu.onic- veImln. III the 1st Of Jaausr
le 1871, Europe must be pnrged fro
y Ill the uehenzolierns. from >
the country noblemen, from all Il
Jeeuits bearing tho helmet. ". ulu=t har
N elicee. ruined, and niuzzled for i century
1t come" In these last lines. the policy OF I
q. Frerch statesmen, from Richellen down
Il 1hierr, and the instinctive feeling Of eve
y Frenchman down to the mcst ignorant pea
70 ant. il briefly and clearly expressed.
I'd II. About most anuriugfy co:-clutfes Il
a savage imprecasion by saving that. during tt
N centnly. the French will TIT 70 becou,e a #
| people. He tlinkA. then. np,l very proper
10, ihat j, will take more than one nsght Tn
le the Sd to the 4th Of September, 1870, 70 M
!. the French Republicans. This may fnrti
r, some food fer II lection T. the american a
at ! Irish Eympa.hze.s with this mushroom rspu
q ic or rather THE ghoet Of one, for that il |,
he amy existence aa yet, ~ JuiEs FaSfe. in
= circular to The foreign 7owers. il not be
i'd enough to proclaim, but expressly dlsclail1
e Mr. Phillips manifesto againai B;smark re-:
at upon another arsnmpsiou equally uniourd
III n thst, that the Frehcl. nation il not respo
C. sible for the war. He assumes that Fl
7, William will utt permit republican COVER
menr in France, and will not treat with OF
Now tbc,e Is net word Of Truth abe
1t that. Ile and Eismark hare repeatedly J.
ct officially dec4ared they are Hilhag to Kecostsi
as any form Of government which France nis
e ehoose for itRelf- AZ tor treating, Of cot,
fd they want tome SOFT Of regular government
at treat with How can Germany negotiate
ne fral reace With government which
'e- Favre, who acts as its Foreign Minister,
n. eignates himself. in his circular to
y, foreign powe's. as '',ephesneral.'. and
= which be kayz, in the same iocume
Ii - that tho present government has bt
4s- said U Re irregular. and that thus Is ireonte
iLle." (On a lit que Il pre*eft 3oucrs7ae7n
! prorisoire II .eta'f Pas rfgulie,', It ct1a
ca .AeontestaLie.) The Germans age in the "a
he isal vas t..cn and Ill resis,auce put do
rs We we're in Eanrct. Of . government for so
nj | r,nptt4. h.fns = re tt1cceeded to nut up {