Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-07-23
THE WEEKLY HERALD


worm upon the suOlecb OF "Lhe
War;" and so true in It's general
bearings, that we cannot refrain
from giving a summary Of its
points.
Abiding to the deep interest on
the subject, taken by our people,
and to the many and grave and
various claims, both Of the great
powers have upon their sympa-
thies, the World speaks of Paris
and Berlin, each in its way, being
the two chief capitals Of the
Worlds intellectual, artistic and
scientific activity. With both
France and Prussia we have ex-
tensive and important relations Of
trade and commerce, running
through oil orders Of our people,
and affecting the well-being and
the industry OF Our country in a
thousand varied forms. To France
We are bound by many proud and
precious memories Of the past: by
the associations of a common love
Of liberty, by the common tri-
umphs Of those great prin-
Ciples which the Encyclo'
pedla and the Declaration
of Independence, deep answering
unto deep, sent forth for a re-
proof, an encouragement, and a
.neWness of life to all the nations.
With Prussia our national rela-
tons, though never till Of late
years very close and important,
have always been in the highest
degree friendly and cordial. Her
flag to-day represents the hopes
and the sentiments Of q most i'm
portant section Of that mighty
German race, to whose millions,
set in motion Westward by the
shock of these revolutions Of lS48,
out Of which the reigning House
Of Hohenzollern emerged in point
Of fact a despotic dynasty of the
sword, our Western world has
offered o new home, and who in
their turn have enriched and are
daily enriching our national life
with their elevated instincts as
truly as with their ndomitable in
dustries.
The World congratulates our
people hal the war comes at least
in a form and under conditions
which seem to justify the hope
that its scope may be limited by q
wise diplomatic regard to the per.
manent and pacific interests of ma.
tons, rather than the evanescent
and provocative plottings of dy-
nasties. The fact, Of which there
seems to be no reasonable doubt,
although it comes as yet only in,
timated through a speech of Mr.
Gladstone, that the great powers
of Europe have seriously protest.
ed against the conduct ofthe Prus.
sian government in this dread EN-.
ergency, at once fixes the respon.
sibility Of the conflict, not upon
the passions of the Prussian PEG,
pie, nor upon any deliberate pol
icy of theirs or even Of theil
rulers, but upon the temper of the
latter. The government of Prus.
sia under King William, has grad.
ually become of late years
the most autocratic of Europe
AS such it has repeatedly deal
with grave public questions, in
spirit more nearly akin to that BY
which the unfortunate Car Nicho
las brought down upon himself
and his empire the calamities o.
the Crimean war, than to the JUS
and deliberate temper in which II
is felt by the free nations of oul
time that public questions should
be debated aud decided. A mos
striking case of this sort, long held
up, but held up in vain, to thu
condemnation of Europe, is thu
persistent refusal of Prussia to re
spect the obligations taken by hel
under the Treaty of Prague, il
1866, to the people of Sleswick.
Holstein. In that treaty Austrii
received from Prussia, under thu
mediation of France, a solemn
promise that the people Of Hol
stein, severed from their connec
ton with Denmark by tire join.