The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1870-09-28

marck's claim to be thought a states
man. Ignorantly or angrily he flung
away such an opportunity of strength
ening his ownland in the gratitude oil
France and the admiration of the
world. Instead of this, he did all
that in him lies to insure that immor-
tai hate and undying purpose of re-
venge which will breed up The next
generation of Frenchmen for nothing
else but to put the ~tri-color some day
over Berlin. The next generation OF
Prussia will have cause 70 weep that at
this hour, of great impossibilities, Prus-
STA had no statesman to reap the harvest
her greatest of captains, Moltke, had
got tor her. The man, we all thought
a Sully, an Oxenstien, turns out only
an adroit manager, second lieutenant
to Moltke, and the willing tool of a
bigot king. No breadth, no fore
sight, no large instincts of humanity
= always the highest wisdom. Prus-
STA armed in order to yindicate her
right to manage her own affairs. She
marches to Paris to invade Frances
right to do the same. Her path lies
over the capital of the world, the
home of two millions of men, as well
as science, art, literature and civiliza-
ton, the capital of a great military
nation, whose swift defeat shows that,
dragooned as she was to the field, it
was only a SHINING war she waged.-
He never conquered France. He only
triumphed over the slavish refuse
which conld be bought or whipped in
to counterfeiting her. Now, in this
insolent attempt to display his power
and parade a shaptRictory, he subjects
this great city to the horrors of war.
Humanity itself, would hardly weep if
the pestilence delivered Paris, leaving
neither peasant % ~princeling to tell
the tale at Berlin. The tears and
curses of the civilized world blast the
German laurels Napoleon's fall was
speedy, in less than thirty days. Prus-
sia's is quicker still. She entered Sedan
borne on the wonder, almost the low
ing admiration of the world. She
left it followed by the loathing and
the contempt of both continents. She
banked the hopes of the age. A new
power, born within the memory of
living men, we supposed her blood
was the blood of this century. Her
fall insults our civilization. Blood
thirsty and greedy, INSCRIPTIONS and
overbeariAg beyond the Bourbons and
Hapsburgs, the Phillips and the
Charleses of by-gonc days, she is not
a nation, only an eyergrown army, a
horde of brigands, too strong for their
- n,,- 1.1--or-
South, Haunting Libby prison and
Andersonvile in the face of Christen-
dom, may justly call across the ocean
to the Black Eagle.
cart thou, too, be come as one with u.s.
We rejoice that Providence thus
buries under its own folly this new
and dreaded military power, and robs
it of The means to cripple the rising
democracy, as it might have done had
it retained the respect of the world
We sYmpathize with Germany, thus
disgraced by her provinces, as France
has been by Napoleon. Let her have
the same pity extended. to her that
the world gave to Paris under the
u~surper's heel. Our Government
should utter the verdict of civilization
and liberty OF this bald barbarism =
1t should at least protest against this
vengeance on unofending France,
the insult to the spirit CT tho age
The oldest republic, the master power
of the next century, should speak for
humanity amid this breathless and
cowardly silence of kings.
WENDELL PHILLIPS.