Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-08-26

that day the Prussian army was he"fei
Paris (then unfortifed) than 1t Is now
and the ultimatum was then also laid down
~ submission to the legitimate Bourbons
-snhmission. in lemnity, &c. The reply
was the uprising Of the Frencn peopAe
Twelve hundred thousand raw Dut Valian'
soldiers rushed TO the frontier, drove oaeA
the enemy, and carried the war ln'o 'no'-
country and for twenty three long Yeas
al Harvard the French armies resisted INC
combined efforts of all Europe, and plant
ad their victorious eagles on the spires OF
every capitol from Cadiz to MOSCOW
was only after such tremendous slruEs'o''
when two millions of Frenchmen had per.
isbed when France was exhausted "a
man horses. and all the materials OF war;
that she yielded-not to any single power
but to all Europe combined.
Ia il reasonable to suppose that nation,
On noverful, so warlike and so proud Will
,;eId now. after one months struggle
when her resources in men and means are
hardly touched ? Sic has been taken py
surprise, and at disadvantage. by THIS
tremendous invasion, SO unparalleled IN
modern warfare. She expected war upon
the usual scale She supposed Prussia
would advance with 100000 men, as she
did in the Sadowa campaign, and for this
emergency France was ready. But Tor the
} million of men held in readiness by the
crafty policy of Bismarck, neither Franco
, nor any other European nation was pre-
pared. Hence the French disasters.
! But there is nothing in the present situ-
} alton to warrant the arrogant demands OF
Prussia. In spite OF all the success she may
have gained at the end of the late seven
! DAYS fighting, the military position remains
, essentially the same. Bazaine's army even
3, If cut off from Paris, has the whole OF
+, uo~theastern France, with tits numerous and
noverFnl fortresses as his base, and he
+; maintains his position on the hank OF the
] Prussian's line of advance There is NO
evidence that his army has suffered any
e losses not fully equalled by those OF the
= Prnssians Before the Prussian army car
a arrive in front of Paris, half million o.
d men will have concentrated for It's de1ence
and it cannot be invested by less thar
n I .2OO. 600 men. If the Grown Prince, ad
}. vancing by Vitry lie Francois, Fere-Cham
a penoise and La Ferte, leaves the army
e Cbalons in his flank and rear, his situation
y will be exceedingly perilous, unless tn
l. Prussians have, they claim, 81
l. hundred thousand additional troops advan
Is cling now TO the support OF those alread
y in France. UnIesst the Red. Republican
NJ Of Paris ardready to betray their countr
le to O foreign foe'in order.to destroy Napo
E. leon, Paris cannot be taken. We'who SAY
y with the naked eye>the FederaNsentlnel
1T from-the streets of Richmond in 1862 una
E. well believe that a4Prassian army ma
a come insighbof Paris, and yet be ulti
ID mately defeated, and shattered, an0url7e
I'd beyond itsown frontiers.
n But even under the most favorable clE
es cumstances, the King of Prussia Will neVe
is be allowed to carry out his supposed nltl
at matum. It matters little to the Worl
whether he call himself King'of Prussia
Emperor of Germany, and whether or ne
49, France be compelled to pay the expense
IN of the war. But the territorial aggrandis'
% % ment of Prussia, by the Acknowledgement
France, will not be tolerated by the rest {
it Europe. Prussia's success will unite a
til the other powers against her. In tot
Oh wears she has virtually absorbed all tt
@ German States. She has hambled Austr
nd and excluded her from Germany. She hi
n now all but proatrated the military pow'
7as of France. and if unchecked, her ne1
I'm step will be to absorb Holland and strl
Austria of her German provinces und'
ais pretext of completing the work OF Germo
-th unity power which, within three Weel
on OF declaration of war, can throw m1llc
as of soldiers in the field, is standing me-
ny ace to all Europe, and her ambitious care
ief will be stopped, as was that of the first n
he poleon, by coalition of all Europe II n
ad cessary.
1re The Political InquisitiOn and ats uthO'
by We direct attention to the afidaVits
Messrs L. H. Murray, D. W. Weldon al
llA George 5. Rogers, recently held as pr
Inc oners by Holden, Pearson and Kirk, pu
8h ished to-day. We are satisfied that TIL
lie present facts which will starte our pc
Use pie, prepared, as they are, for the Eecl
'ho of outrages by the vagabonds employed
que do the bidding.of Holden's malice. H'
III guiltless Pearson Is OF those crueltics
lex must settle with his own conscience.
ao- We believe that Outlaw and Stephe
'e" were murdered by Holden's fellows of
the Loyal League, and he devises schemes
f'n horrid cruelty to manufacture evldel
ooo against party opponents. The politi
OF Inquisition is inaugurated to force conf
len' sions from the sufferers, implica ting I'M
~ cent men.
ear In these afidavits we have the Radi
H. plan for carrying North Carolina, born
Ohc the fostering brains of Pool and Set
ngie and nurtured in the cowardly heart
cry uo1ao, The emnlovment of such {