Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-07-14

GERMAN CltlZenS OF 81. LOUIS nave
held meetings, which declare sympa-
thy with faderland in the threatened
wal between Prussia and France. So
far 5 facts are known on this side of
the ocean, Prussia is wholly in the
right, and there is no justification for
NapOleon's conduct. If his tenure
Of power be insecure, if he fear that
his son may not reign in France, and
that these results flow necessarily from
the accession Of a German Prince to
the Spanish throne by which France
may be hemmed in on all sides by
Prussian power, the misfortune to Ma
poIeOn's dynasty is no fault of Bis
marck or Germany. If Napoleon have
facts in his possession satisfying
him that the Prussian mon
arch has wrought these results,
and induced Spain to seek a
King among German Princes,
devoted to the Prussian Empire, then
NapoleOn's fury is not irrational and
his hot haste to concentrate terrible
armies on the Rhine results not only
from palpable danger to his dynasty
but Bismarck's Vaccinations have
been quite as offensive as acts of open
hostility. 1t is very well, therefore,
for American Germans, and Germans
who vote here are surely American
lied, to await patiently full EXPOSE
ton Of all facts incident to this proba-
BILE conflict, destined TO be the might
est, most terrible, destructive and
briefest in which kings and pOten-
tates have ever involved helpless, in
noeent subjects. 1t is very important
that intelligent men and women
should make themselves CONVEX
SAINT with causes that lead to this
great struggle. 1t will furnish
themes Of endless discussion and eX-
cite hardly less interest in Ameri-
ca than in Europe. This will
be true not only because of
the intellectual influence now welded
by Germans in American social and
political life, but because we are now
in hourly intercourse with the old
world, and as familiar with daily in
cidents in Paris, Berlin, London,
Madrid, Rome and Vienna as with
occurrences in New York, Boston and
Washington.
There is no delUsion in these war
like dispatches frem Europe. Recent
terrible fluctuations in French securi-
ties have impoverished multitudes.
Palpably enough il is the conviction
of the financial world that the repOsef
Of Europe may be fatally disturbed at
any moment. We do not meant to say
that all European States must inevi-
tably be drawn into the melstrom-
England may escape, but every fact
affecting the relations of different
kingdoms, leads to the conclusion that
a war Once begun, the whole Of En-
rope, sooner or later, must share its
woes and ealamities. The great Sc
curity for the maintenance Of peace
consists simply in the force of the
worlds opinion, each month and year
growing more potent and more
strongly concentrated. This consOli-
dation of thought, promoted by the
telegraph, steamships, railways and /
the press, rendersi it dangerous even
for monarchs to assume, needlessly or
rashly, the opprobrium Of beginning /,
war on frivolous pretezts. France
must have a more plausible reason for
attacking Germany than any now
presented to the world. In Prussiaa
States such a war would be prosecuted
with unbroken unanimity and with a
and zeal that would make all
Germany drop meerschaums and lager
and HE away to the confines 1
of France. German unity viii be J
perfected by the FIRST blow struck in
such a conflict, and If we are not im- !
perfectly informed as TO the origin I'D !
these troubles Napoleon, like Grant (
has forgotten, most unwiseIy and in {
OPPORTUNITY, that the empire Is :
peace" w do not believe, from the ,
sentiments entertained and expressed [,
by intelligent Germans OF this city,
that the people Of Germany
would spend a grosctig to invest the
Uranium of HohenzOilern with the
Spanish diade1n. But Il the French,
when the little German pOtentate is
crowned King Of Spain, declare war
against Germany, then every Prussian
and German imbued with passions
common to u race and devoted to
memories Of faderland, viii
stake ais life on the issue. In this we
approve the conduct Of Germany, and
in these facts consists the danger inn
pending over France. Butcher once, +,
in 1873 dug the grave Of a French
dynasty. He might have annIhilated
France. Would another Butcher, in !
such a wal as we contemplate, prove f,
as generous? !