Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-07-20

A,-lHJ S1ANo april NOa N
mustTlans crossed the Ticino April "a.
me me french entered Genoa May 3.
me NE pattle OF Monticello was fought
battle of Magenta May 3O3I
anu battle OF Solferino June n. To
peace Oh Nlila-Franea was sfgnedJ q, =
Hostllities were active bUs aly
The SchIeswig-HoIsteIn W.
pegan by the invasion OF r OF loe4
Dy q Prussians, Febry ScnieswIg
russians took Duppe' jary 1; Inc
Alsen July 9. IRE April 70, n
sWeen Dgnmark 81 Ay ! eac De,
~ Jenna Oetc S5y Ssn
1.asFs a space of twenty-five
The Gw manhattan war of 1866 was
Deul Prussia June IL. Italy de-
IN war against Austria June 20.
tIe battle of CustoZa was fought
JV-ne "A, and the battle of Sadowa
July 3. The treaty of peace between
Prussia and Austria was signed at
Prague August %, and between Aus
tria and Italy at Vienna October 4.
Actual hostilities between the beIlig-
erents lasted only five weeks.
BENEDETTI AND KING WILLIAM.
The direct cause of the final rupture
between France and Prussia seems
to have been, as tie direct causes of
sueh ruptures are too often apt to be,
a personal collision of an unpleasant
character between two eminent per
sonages. These Were the King Will
liam OF Prussia and Count Benedict,
the French ambassador at the Prus-
sian court. King William was at
Ems, near Wiesbaden, a place where
neither his Majesty nor the Prussians
are particularly admired, but the wa
tiers OF which r found TO be, benefi-
cial to the venerable and rather NOR
bidly bilious constitution OF the mon
arch. Where the King is there is the
court, and the French ambassador
consequently was at Ems, also con-
Quoting the negotiations set on foot
by the sudden explosion of the Prim-
Bismarck continuance for getting a
Prussian prince upon the throne of
Spain. These negotiations were rather
delicate, since they were intended by
France to bring the Prussian SOW
erign to a fiat disavowal of any
hostile intentions in permitting the
Prince, his kinsman, to accept the
Spanish crown. The personal temper
Of the King was therefore an element
Of particular importance in the con-
duct Of the affair; for King William
well knew both that the intention of
bismarck bin organizing with Prim
the candidacy of Prince Leopold
really had been hostile to France, and
that he himself had for years desired
nothing so much as an opportunity of
relieving his soul of a profound hered-
itary hatred of Frenchmen in general
and OF the Bonapartes in particular.
Yet, at the time, he was well aware
that he could not possibly afford, in
his capacity as an European sovereign,
to confess that he had cOnnived at the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of a member of his
own family with the express object
OF insulting and circumventing a
friendly power. Had Count Bismarck
been intrusted by the King with the
management of the affair, even out of
this d~isagreeable complication peace,
with honor, might have been perhaps
evolved. For Count Bismarck, with
all his contempt for abstract right and
his love for hrusque and peremptory
solutions OF Diplomatic imbroglioS,
understands and appreciates the i'm
pOrtance of the public opinion of Eu-
rope and OF polite forms very much
better than King William, who, in
deed, neither understands moi appre-
ciRtes them at all. But Count Bis
mavck has been growing out of favor
with his master for some tiEne, exactly
in proportion as the King has become
~rec0p1iled with Count Bismark's
bitter personal enemy, the Crown
Prince, SO King William insisted
upon managing his intercourse with
Count Benedetta himself. A sketch of
the two men will satisfy the reader
how inevitable was the result of this
royal wiltulness, King William of
Prussia is one ofthe oldest of reign-
ing coverings. He was born in the
midst of the French Revolution, AS
a child he witnessed the humiliation
of Prussia, of his father, and of his
family by the AFst Napoleon, and as
a youth ne took part in the avenging
campaigns of 1913 and 1916. These
events gave a decisive color to his
opinions and his character for life. A
younger son, he gave himself up to a
military career, felt and ~prOfessed
openly the utmost contempt for de-
mocracy and constitutiOnalism, and
made himself so obnoxious to all the
Liberals of Prussia that in 1913 he was
forced TO fly the kingdom after doing
hls utmost to induce the government
to allow him to drown the revolution
in the blood oftheBerlinese. Camp-Map
sen contFived TO get him back after an
exile of nine months in England; and
in 1919 he signalized himself by his
victorious and merciless campaign
against the people of Baden. In 1854
he was made Governor General of
Rhenish Prussia, and during his resi-
dence at Mayence he contributed
greatly to intensity the hatred with
which Prussia has long been regarded
in that city, doomed by the military
strength OF its position to see all its
splendid commercial advantages re-
duced to naught. He bitterly Op-
posed the neutrality Of Prussia In
the Crimean war, longing then to lead
an army against France. He became
Regent in 1857 by the declared lunacy.
and King in 1861 by the death, of his
childless brother, Frederick William
". With his reign hogan the new
military career and policy of Prussia.
In October, 1861, he had himself
crowned with great pOmp, and de
clared that he held his throne not
from the people or the cOnstitu-
ton, but "from God alone" This
brought on an open conflict between
the Crown and the Parliament, during
which the King never for a moment
bated his naughty absolutism. When
the Liberal party carried the elections,
in 1862, the King refused to open the
session of Parliament, and when the
Parliament rejected the enormous ID
preparation asked for the army, the
King sent for Bismarck, then Ambas-
sador at Paris, to help him conquer
these obstinate contemners of divine
The House of Peers backed the
King, The Commons persisted. The
Peers voted the money refused by the
The Commons declared
this vote Illegal. The King t~hereupon
closed the session, and coOlIy pro-
claimed that the appropriations had
made. This was the first in
of a successful royal revolution
agsinst the rights of the people in the
history of Europe since the DAYS of
1889. 1t was followed by prosecutions
ofthe press, by an alliance with Russia
to suppress the Polish insurreetian, by
an ordinance suppressing the liberty
Of the press and when the Liberal
party succeeded in 1868 10 CARRYING
the elections again by a great major
lty, the King ct once thanked them by
opening the war with Austria against
for the conquest of Schles-
wig-Holstein. Foreign wal thus be-
came, as 1t had so often before became,
the grave of domestic liberty. The
war OF 1866 against Austria completed
what the war of 1868 against Denmark
had begun; and King William of