The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-10-27

! secret was disclosed by Rouner President OF the
SENATE lately inc eloquent and 9nscrupaons Minis
nedlatey after the war manif sto read by the Prime
Minst no declared thai france quyered with ind e.
| ton al the excosses OF an ambiu0n over-eXcted bV
| the one days good fortune at Sddowa. and then
| proceeded :-"Animatcd by the calm hope which Is
the true force OF The empire your Majesty knew how
10 walt; Lut In the Jour last years you have per-
fected an armament or soldiers ana raised 10 the
mgnos. pi'ca inc oisanzaioi o. ene aa orc ,,s
according 10 the President OF the Senate, did
France. after wailing. commence war because she
| w. ready. while. according 10 the Cabinet II was
on the point OF honor. Both were rghr The wal
was declared because the Emperor thought himsel!
ready, ana preiext was found IN the auair OF the
Considering the age, and the present demands oil
ciyuiIalion; suca war i Stands ior,h terrible "
One reason av6aed Is brutal; the other is frivolous;
both are criminal. II we look into the text OF the
manifesto and the speeches OF the Cabinet, n 10
war founded ON trine, on straw, on an eggshell.
obviously these were prctexts only. Therefore II il
ion and acknowledgements Of Geany IN IN the vain
nope of eAating the French empire and perpelu.
anng bauble gimcrack crown on tae head
OF boy. by military success and peace
dictated at Berlin tae Emperor trusted 10
flnd himself IN such condition that. on return to
ment so far as is existed there, aud re-eslablish
personal government, where all depended upon
means OF another Triumph over the French people.
In other taies ihero have been wars as criminal IN
part but they con trasssd less with tle surrounding
ciy,zafion TO this LIST belong the frequent ,ynas-
or the within OF some one IN the family
! OF kings Others have begun IN reckless
ness n,Sa ar 10 VIVA. we We nov nI,e Us wne len
reason did not hesitate 10 alcge an offensive picture
| IN the Town Hall OF Amsterdam. The England OF
Charles H. was hardly less sensitive than the France
OF LOUIS Napoleon, while In each was similar lndf-
ference To consequences. But France has precedents
OF her oan. From the remarkable correspondence
OF the Princess Palatine, Duchess OF orleans. we
learn that one OF the wars with Holland under Louis
NY NY. was 1rougmt on oy inc Minister ae Lyonnc
parsonage who mad made him jealous OF his wife.
tLettre de ~ Mars, IT'S, Tome l., y. 1891 The
communicative and cxuberant saint SIMON tells us
twice over how Louv0is, another Minister Of
Louis XIV. being overruled by bis mas er with re-
gard The dime nsi0ns OF window al Versailles was
nlled with the idea that account OF few inches
IN Window as he expressed 1t, all his services
would be forgotten and therefore, TO save his place.
excited foreign war that would make nm neces-
sary to the King. The flames Ia the Palat nate, de-
vonring the works OF man, attested his continuing
power. (Salnt-SimOn Memories, Tome WI, p ~;
Kill, p. l0.l The war became general, but, &C.
corning TO the chrcnicer it ruined France at nome
ana did not extend 1t abroad The French Emperor
confidently expected 10 occupy tie same historic
region So often burned and rayaged by French arms,
OF Dood, and let me say. on no better reason than
his royal Predecessor. stimulated By an unprnciDed
Munster, anxious Tor persona! position. The paral-
nave brought on France.
PROGRESS OF THE WAR.
How this war proceeded need not recount You
humanity; how after brief interval OF preparation
or hesitation, the two ccmbatants first ,rossed
swords III Saarbrucken, within the German frontier,
and the young Prince imperial performed his part ia
picking up bullet from the field, which the EN-
peror promptly reported BY telegraph TO the En-
press; how this little military success is all that was
vouchsaied to the man who began The wal; how On
the "a Of August, fourteen days after the formal
declaration, the Germans first trod the soil
OF France; how soon thereafter victory fol-
lowed, first the hills,aes Of Wissembolirg mud
then OF woerth sIattcring the army OF McMahon
to winch the empire was looking SO c0nfdentIy;
now another large army under BtZalne was driven
within the strong fortress Of Metz: how ali the or
tresses. brisLng with guns anu irownlng upon Ger
many were invested: now battle felloa ed battle on
various fields where Death was the great lueror;
how with help or modern art war showed itself to
be murder BY mdchnery how MacMahon, gather
ing together his scattered men and sir nglhenng
them with reinforcemcns, attempted 10 relieve
Bazaine; nov at last, alter long marches, his
large army found itself shut up al Sedan
with a tempest Of Ore beating UPON its mud
now, with the capituatlon OF The army, was the
submission OF the Emperor himself, WHO gave his
OF war; and how, on the reception OF this news at
Paris, LOUIS Napoleon and MS dynasty were dive ted
Of their powers and the empire was lost in the re-
public. These things you know. Ineed moi dwell
| on them. Not to battles and their fearful viciss
| tudes, where all is incarnadmed with blood must
we look, but to the ideas which prevail Tor the
measure Of time we look not TO the pendulum its
oscillations, but to tue CLOCK in The lower whose
striking tells the hours great hour for humanity
sounded when the republic was proclaimed. An
this say even should it fail again. for every attempt
WAR OF SURPRISES. q
The war, from the preteXt at It's beginning 10 the
prises, where the author oil the preteAt was con-
slant sufferer Nor Is this strange. FalsiaI says
with humorous point, See now how wit may he
made jack-aent. when tits UPON III employ meGt;u
ana another character, In play OF Beaumont and
Fletcher, reveals che same evli destiny In stronger
terms, when he says
Hell gives art to reach the depths of sin,
But leaves wTeched fools when we are 10.
And this was precisely the condition OF the French
sudden adoption Of the pre,ext for war. But the
empire has known nothing but surprise. A fatal
surprise was the promptitude with which all the
German States outside OF Austrian rule, accepted
the leadership OF Prussia and joined their forces
hers differences We're forgotten. whether the
the cooness OF Bavaria the opposition Of 81
SaXony, or the Impotence OF the Hanse
not not - rse the other States a"9 and w ces
would not be detached. On the day after the read-
ing Of the War Manifesto at the French tribune, even
before the Kings speech 10 the Northern Parliament
the Southern States began to move German unity
stood firm, and this was the supreme surprise for
France with which the war began On che day the
Emperor IN his official Journal declares his object
be the deIlyerance OF Bavaria from Prassiun oppres
Prussia 1t the head or Hawaiian troops. brushes
Imperial army.
Then came the manifest nferiority Of the imperial
army, everywhere Ontnumbered WHICH was another
SURPRISE; the manifest inieri0rty oil the imperial
artillery. also surprise; the manifest nierlorty OF
the imperial generals, still surprise. Above these
was a prevailing nefiiciency and improvidence.
which very soon became conspicuous and this was
o surprise. The strength OF Germany, rs now eX-
hibited, was surprise. And when the German
armies entered France every step was surprise
Wlssembourg was surprise: so was Woerth; so
was Beaumont; so was Sedan. Every encounter
was surprise. Abel Drouet, the French general
who fell bravely lighting al Wissemb0urg
the first sacrilce on the battle field. was
surprised; 80 was MacMahOn, not only at the begin
ming. but at the end. He thought that the King
and Crown Prince were marching on Paris. so
they were, but they turned aside for few days to
surprise whole army Of more than hundred thou
sand men, terrible with cannon and newly invented
implements Of war, under marshal OF France, and
with an Emperor besides. AS this succession Of sur
prises was crowned with what seemed the greatest
surprise OF all, there remained greater still In the
surprise Of the French empire. No Greek Nemesis
with unrelentlng hand ever dealt more necessarily
the unavoidable blow until the empire fell az dead
body falls, while the Emperor becomes captive
and the Empress fugitive, with their only Guild
fugitive also. The poet says
Sometime let gorgeous tragedy