The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-07-18
France and Prussia.

,rho ,,oIIiocrcnts are irli OF Warhhc cu'ii"
o.,,er IN commence the work o.
,,ostruction. The outburSt is that OF penn.
nm hatred and wrath. A world OF herco'
tory resentment and revenges Is let loose
rho two monarchs arc received everywhere
in their boundaries with the applause OIL 'l''
nominations. The Legislatures, with accia
nation, give their support, and the armies
are chafinc with eagerness to be led 10 pa'-
tie. 1t is hardly possible that inc co'iS'" :,
can he avoided, and it will he one that VIII
shake Europe. There has been ho'n'"s
like II on the continent since the wars Oh 'ne
great NAPOLEON. -,
The French Emperor, it is reported, VIII
lead the army in person, and IL Is '0i .",'
stated that he will move with all poss'o''
expcditiousness with the hope OF seIlhS I"
running start upon Prussia. hut inc U.S.
sian frontier is powerfully deici'','"
net work of Notifications tha' WI" p''"
hIv be we'll carriSoned before inc ri.h."
CON roach them. According to late tcic-
Grams the prussian Minister of War declares
that prussia is we'll prepared for the attack.
II is rare in the history of the world 'h''
bclliccrcnts so equally matched enter the
field Of battle. and the nations VIII loon
upon she strife with intense interest.
We know that France has her ambition
rs well as her resentments-that she wants
to settle old scores. dress up her bounua-
rics. and humilate Prussia. The LONDON
Times. on behalf OF Prussia, dscloScs the
secret desire of that kingdom 10 possess
sundry "patches of land now helo d!
France. So that the struggle Is acceptaDie
n both parties for motives nearly the same
with both. From beginning peoples have
commended in bloody fields for lands, often
mere patches of ground. with no proliI pI'
the name. The disputes upon the Frchch
border have been handed down for ages
and when the question of rightng wrongs
is applied to them they are so full OF COM
plications that justice finds no ground ior
decision. and after all Power must take the
case into her own hands.
In Europe, however, while the chlei west
eru kingdoms may despoil one another OF Il
noripe of earth here and there, the great
po,vers at this age will not permit so serious
an inroad upon any one of them rs 10 MAKE
i,sextinction remotely probable. So that III
the impending and fearful conflict between
France and Prussia the strife Will not Dc
allowed to be prolonged to that extreme
noint. The London Times already hints al
Intervention. and it will be for just THIS
object.
But with reference to the personal lntH-
rests of Emperor NAPOLEON this war hi-
yards everything. If he loses. he loses his
crown and the succession of his son. That
il certain. So he stakes all upon the hazard
of the die. None Of the nations Will defend
the Napoleonic interests i'll settlement OF
Deace after a war in which the Emperor Is
defeated. France cannot be eNtinguiShed
in anv event; but the Emperor may.
and that ends the BoNAPARTE dynasty.
The Allies chained NAPOLEON the First
on an island, and seemed to have been I'M
der the deluson that they had taken ga
bond Of fate" that no BoSAPARTE Shoud
ever rule France. But the ruling Emperor
is the living refutation of their diplomacy.
not to say their brutal cXpcdient. And
now, possibly, this very Emperor may fall
in an attempt to exact ga bond of fate for
the perpetual exclusion of German Prince
from the throne of Spain. What iarceS,
after all, arc the acts of the crowned heads
those men who think so often they "havc
the world IN Il sling!
Well, the act now brought on the worlds
stage is 4 fearful one and Il vast deal OF
blood and thousands of lives must pay Tor
the follics of their rulers.