The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1870-09-01
INTERVENTION

AAN L1&t --SS LIN
Is now the leading theme, the most ar
dent desire Of the crowned head of Eu-
rope. Intervention is proposed from St.
Petersburg, London, Rome, Vienna and
Florence; Intervention to keep up the
so-called balance Of power, which is
nothing more nor less than the undis
turbed continuance of he one-naan poaCer,.
the autocratic or at least the monarchical
government.
We have too much faith however in
the present spirit of Germany, that we
could feel the least apprehension, that
this, now almost entirely united nation
would permit itself to be arrested in its
present most glorious career of ever
throwing the detestable Napoleonic dy
nasty, which IS the main representative
OF that man-power, welding it over
a nation which is morally and politically
enclosed by him.
We are fully satisfied, that the present
war was originated by the French En-
peror for the purpose of securing the
continuance of his own dynasty by de-
stroying the unity of the German States
and then to steal still more territory from
their possessions by making the Rhine
along Its entire northerly course the
boundary line in place of the Vosges,
which for ages were and soon again vii!
be he true line OF demarcation between
the two nationalities.
But it dos not follow, this most de-
structiVe war being caused by such vile
motives, that other nations should want
to put an end to it, because victory is on
the side of justice, right and liberty and
because its despicable originator is being
so severely punished
Germany has the indisputable right, to
claim all the advantages resulting from
this terrible contest, not only for Itself
alone but also for the future peace of all
the other European nations and it would
only prove the destruction of all these
incalculable advantages if political in
trigues should be permitted to enforce
peace before the Napoleonic regime Is
entirely annihilated.
The great work which Germany has to
accomplish in this war is to secure, by
obtaining an independent and free nation
atty for itself, lasting stability to every
other European nationality and thus to
establish on sure and enduring founda-
ton the only true balance of power of
that continent, no longer propped up by
miserable dynastic compromises, she re-
suits Of mutual jealousies towards ma
tional grandeur and development, but by
peaceable selfgoyernment and the undis-
turbed development of power and
strength in each particular nation a5ith-
out oi,y interpent,on aohaterer.
These objects Germany was trying to
obtain and was on the point of accom-
plishing, when it was again, as so often
before. prevented by the bloody interven-
ton of the French murderer, and that is
what Germany will and must put an end
to now against France or eventually
against any other nation that may oppose
1t.
The time is past when the balance of
power consisted in the suppression of
people and hindering its national devel-
opment. The.spirit of our times is, in
our opinion, too powerful, to be any
longer controlled by diplomatic intrigues,
and our hope and our trust is, that the
great German nation will be closer and
closer united and victoriously1assert and
maintain its national rights and its politi-
cal security in spite of all the diplomatic
lnterYentions, that may be proposed by
any or all of the other European powers