The New York herald., 1870-12-11

An Emperor for Germany.
AT last hand firm enough in its grasp has
been found to WELD the sceptre and the sword
of Charlemagne. The grandson Of Charles
Martel is to have worthy successor in one
who seems to have inherited the amazing good
fortune, If not, indeed, the military genius and
the administrative capacity Of Frederick the
Great. The halo and the crown of the Car
lovingian kings are to settle upon the head of
the Hohenzollerns, and King William Of
Prussia Is to be Emperor of Germany.
This is news to make the bones Of Karl
the Great stir in his shrine at Aix-la-
Chapelle, and the shadows on the Brocken
shape themselves into forms of panoplied
knights and diadem- -helmeted kings riding
forth to the eastward and to the west, pro-
claiming new feudality Of the sword and a
new subsection Of the people, as monkish
prophecies and popular legends have so long
foretold. Absolutism and reaction may,
therefore, hastily rejoice in the tidings
that King William accepts the idea
of imperial power suggested from
tho Reichstag at Berlin, so speedily and
warmly endorsed by Saxony, Wurtemberg and
Bavaria, and so festively hailed by the popu-
lations that, says one despatch, it ''will 60
very far to assuage the sorrows cons equent on
the losses and horrors of the war;" But those
whs anticipate any approach to the rigid rule
that held together the vast State which, under
its first Emperor, in the eighth and ninth GEN.
turies, extended from the Elbe to the Ebro
and from the Raab to the Po, binding together
different races of different creeds and nation
alities and living in totally different climates,
with different pursuits and systems of cultva-
ton, by adamantine clamps of military might,
are sadly out of unison with the age. The
letter Of King Louis of Bavaria to King John
Of Saxony utters the true word of the situa
ton. Germany recognizes in the Prussian
monarch the leader who has combined her
armies, repelled the invasion of the haughtiest
military Power on earth, and humbled that
Power by an unequalled succession Of the
most dazzling victories until it struggles for
mere existence under the walls of it's own
proud capital. She sees in him the statesman
who has evoked from a cloud Of scattered,
half hostile and continually jarring, petty
pro, inces, the noble form of a. united
Germany-a common Fatherland-an impos-
ing and revered national centre, home and
fastness-glowing with the concentrated splen-
dor of triumph after triumph, on the battle field
and in the council chamber alike, over the
strongest and the ablest of all human antago-
nists. The lonely watcher by the Rhine" Of
July last, who listened with trembling for the
| first harsh bugle blast that should announce
through the gloom Of the hour that the fierce
Turcos and the resistless Zouaves of France,
led by men schooled in the cruel fire of African
| service, were rushing across the border to
devastate the rich fields and quiet villages Of
| Germany, has beheld the line of danger roll
away westward with rapidity almost out
speeding his own sturdy march, until now
| from the terraces of Versailles and in the
ruined gardens of st. Cloud, he watches the
| evening Sun 60 down over the domes and
spires of beleaguered and hungry Paris. Be
he Saxon or Suabian, this is a palpable pre-
sentiment of accomplished facts that appeals to
the brain and the heart as we'll as to the
imagination of each and every soldier in the
armies Of the Germanic alliance, and to every
civilian who reads to his family at home the
daily bulletins Of such grand success wrested
from such once imminent defeat, and such
glorious safety built high in the very
citadels of such recent and such overwhelm-
ing pc ril.
But, now, this feeling-natural and even
most honor able to human nature-admitted
and recognized by the princes of Bavaria,
Saxony, Wurtemberg, Baden and all the minor
States, and shared by the vast majority o.
their population, Notwithstanding the private
loss that crsuches by nearly every threshold,
ton, and the new Emperor apparent, whom
Providence has so wonderfully favored, be
equal to the hour and to their grand mission
Austria, who held the Superior influence ir
184S, and whose Archduke John was elected
Regent by the Germanic National Assembly
which met that year in time-honored and ira
ditional Frankfort, has ceased to oppose Prus
sia in becoming her friend. Sadowa checked
her control and turned aside her westward
ambition. Sedan has stricken away her Galli'
alliances. Prussia remains the head and from
of the Germanic household William, then
has no more important causes of quarrel a
home if he will be but generous and great
His only really dangerous foreign adversarie
have been crippled* for generation to come
In the lapse of that time they can all be rem
dered earnest, sincere and devoted allies. A
liberal constitution; free press magma
nimity towards stricken foe; politica
amnesty full elective franchise simple
and frugal court tolerance, law, education
religion encouraged; license rebuked-thes
are what the world looking on has right t.
expect, and these will make the hour whe