New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-10-27
GERMANY AND BELGIUM.
APPREHENsIONs OF GERMAN LIBERALs-ITHE
POIvTICAT oIrTJOOK.

! APPREHENSIONS OF GERMAN LIBERALs-'Iuh
| POLITICAL OUTLOOK.
IRON OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE
| FRANKFORT, Oct. 10-FOr the moment, the
conduct Of the Belgans the theme OF private CONVEX
sations and Of newspaper discussions Ever SINCE ho
battle Of Sedan tho German press has preferred co
plants against tho people and Government OF bgi"'
| The Government has been charged with displaying
"warm neutrality" toward France. The Begians nave
been accused OF iltreating wounded German soucrs.
and Of ostentaously avishDg attentions upon wouhoeS
| French soldiers. The charges made on the ono nuo
have been refuted the other Official documents emil
mating from German have been eonradiced py
official documents published by the Belgian GoVernmeh'
Neither side has convinced the other. The result mas
been TO leave feeling OF irritation which may DC too
occasion Of future mischief AZ far as have peeh apo
ascertain the have had some reason 10 COM
\ plain; bnt for this it would DO unjust 10 noi1
| the Government OF Belgium directly responsive.
| 1t In clear that the desire OF tna'
Government has always to remain strictly ana non
esy neutral But 10 Is far easier to desire tnan 10 e"h
this result. When the wolf and the FOX quairei anu
fight the neutrality of the lamb can be maintained Win
difficulty The victor il certain to find piauSpleeH
cuse treating lamb enemy in disguise lha
the Belgian Government has strictly fulfilled Its inter
national obligations does not satisfy those Germans VINO
complain OF the attitude of tho Belgian people and VINO
the conduct OF the Belgian press IL samos GER
tain that wounded Germans were in many INSTANCES
Ucdteu WIN less courtesy tDoH their
misfortune. The Bedans are imbued with that anil
Prussian hatred which prevails among the French As
Roman Catholics OF the sroghtest Sect they regard the
Prussians with the feelings that Wahabee entertans
toward an inde Not satisfied with the assurance tna
Protestans doomed to eXpate their sins in he'll the
devOut Bclans think 1t their duty TO make them as I'M
comfortable possible upon earth. without being ex-
| cessvely partial to the French, they nevertheless
prefer succOring Roman Catholic Frenchmen TO
solacins the suffcrings Of Protestant Germans.
Within the days the official and ofcious Ger
man press has returned the subject of Belgian neutral
ity and has treated il In style which bodies III for the
preservation of friendly relations between Germany and
Belgium. The Obecto attack il the Belgian press. Tue
principal newspapers charged with doing everything
in their to aid and abet France and to insult aud
weaken Germany. IL is true that the mandatory OF
kilograms announcing fictitious French victories appears
To have Paris TO Brussels and il is
that INSTRUMENTATION Of the French Cos
which formally appeared in those journals have been re-
placed by tokens OF admiration and words of approval
The is that the existing Government In France IL
which Belgian Liberals can heartily approve. Their
opposition was dynastc rather than fundamental, they
directed against The Imperial system rather than
against the French people. Under these cir
cumstanees they not unnaturally desire that
jules Favre shoud be successful In his ams and that
Count Bismarck should be thwarted in some of his pro
jects. They dread powerful and Oligarchc Germany
than free and Republican France. This maniIe,-
tation sympah by aud expression Of opnol has given
Oense in official German circles The North German
Gasete journal which is commonly regarded as plead
ing causes in the most pleasing 10 Count Bis
micl has published significant article on the subject
OF Belgium, ana other journals having followed suit In
the article referred TO The Eeaus reminded that The
annexation OF their country ,one OF the designs OF
the Emperor Napoleon and that the Germans waged war
much to Belgian independence as to resist
French aggression. l., however, the Belgian press
accurately mirrors prnlic sentiment, and II the
Irofessed admiration of France be really sincere,
then it may happen that the war may terniin-
ate in such way as TO give the victory
alike to France and Germany, France extending her
SWAY over gum Germany rcciifying her frontier az
the cxuense Of France This is tho gist OF this article
and Of others published the same subject in other
Journals. themselves those newspaper articles wond
deserve slight notice Their significance consists in this
that they tally with statements which pass current in
educated German circles The truth Is that pablic
opinion in Germany is being embttcred owing TO the
duration Of the war; Unless peace be concluded on
the terms offered 10y Count Bismarck many projects o
which a very small minority would have approved lew
weeks ago. viii receive the support OF the majority
Thus II always has been when two nations have engaged
in death struggle. It was thus in the United States
when the Rebellion broke ont. President Linc"lns
original terms Of peace were very different nom the
final conditions which eniorce There is now great
danger that Germany may he led 10 increase hei dc-
mands enlarge her schemes by The prolonged resist
OF France.
Many German Liberals depioTe the continuance OF the
war; lest the result be what have foreshadowed They
admit that Count Bismarck has proposed what would
now satisfy the German people; but they are conscious
of the daily increasing tendency OF public sentiment IN
their country to ask still harder I'D more Illuminating
sacrifices on the part Of the French nation. They are
anxious that peace should be made in order that the eX
ceptional tae Of things in Germany should terminate
The acts OF VOge VOn Falkensein OF
which Count Bismarck has approved, exciting dis
| content in many circles. They defended on the
crouDd OF being mea Indispensable for the
full and rapid prosecution OF the war; but the apprchen
| sion il very general that, il the should
last much longer, these measures will be gradually
| Transformed into customs. AT the best there has
been no real freedom Of speech and writing IN Prussia
The police have always kept rigid supervision over
newspaper editors and public speakers, and that Of all
the police disproyed has too often been condemned
Illegal It is believed that as soon the German Paria
! mept assemblies these abuses will be extlrpated Tne
Prussian system is victorious all along the line.
There Is no prospect OF serious being sustained
by the army; bat the time viii when the arbitrary
arrest of Dr. Jacoby will he the sourc~ OF difficulties
10 the Prs ian aulh,iics far les easy Of solution thln
Hose which Cen Won li,liko solves git' eclt-
/ guns aud caHuoa.
FRENCH SYMPATHY IN WASHINGTON.
! WAsHINGToN, Oct. ga large pubic meet
ing was held Lincoln Hall tonight to express sympa-
thy with the French Republic and with the suacriDgs OF
the French people. The Hon. Thomas j. Durant o! Lou
isisna presided aud speeches made by Il. 4. Mer
rick aud A. g. Riddles, esqrs. Gen. Mussey, from the
Committee Resolutions, reported series strongly