The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-08-19


He lived in a continual feud with Carl The |
latter had an independant highway con-
structed for himself, SO that he would not be
obliged to pass through Pi1masens. One day,
as the half clad French crossed the mountain,
both of these lords skeddadled in greatest
haste, and the oppressed peasants saw, IN the
French, their hberators from slavery. The
people rejoiced. The parks and forests were
full of game, and the first deer shot under the
new order of things, was decorated with gar
lands and taken through the streets OF ZWl-
brucken aimed great rsjoicings Of the popu-
lace.
1t was an easy matter, under such feeling
of the inhabitants for the French to proceed
down the Rhine and up the Main to Frank
fort. And if Castine had not, through his ex-
tortions, embittered the people against him
self, he might have proceeded stiilfurther In
fact, at the beginning, the French met with no
determined resistance in any Of the minor
States, and the Austrians were Obliged TO give
up the Lowlands, where the people received
the French with open arms Out of this de-
plorable petty state system grew, under Ma
poleon, the important Rhine Union which, for
the next ten years, caused great humiliation
to Germany The Gernen Dukes endeavored
to outdo each other in servihty to the French
Emperor, until at Erfurt tina German disgrace
reached its lowest point. There, for fourteen
days, Cfrom Sept 9th, till Oct. l4th, 1908, in
the heart of Germany, met its two greatest en-
emies Alexander and Napoleon. -Four
Kings of the Rhine Union, and "a Princes
paid them homage, besides State Ministers and
Generals. From here the star of the conquer
er seems to have declined. In Spain he lost
more men than in all his former wars combin-
cd. In the following year he was only saved
by an accident at Aspern. Fate at least end
ed his career in Russia. The German people
awoke again, when the Inundated dukes call
ed them to arms in order to again betray
them, after having again expelled foreign
enemy. But the spirit that was revived in
them, could not be smothered again when it
became troublesome TO the dukes. 1t lived on
from the Wartburg convention and manifested
itself in the movements of 1880 and lS4S.
The German people are to-day near the reliz-
alton of the ideas that, in 1880, were consid-
cred delusivs dream.
For full three centuries the French politi-
clans labored towards dismembering Germany,
but it stands to-day united in preparations for
war, and supported by vital national i'm
pulse, with freedom serving as its basis. What
can the French of to-day bring over the boun-
deries with them? Nothing but disgrace and
humiliation. Although the first Napoleon
put Germany under his yoke, he also crum-
bled the foundation of the feudal system. The
present Napoleon, an invalid old man, can not
even find an inspiring word, with which to
instilI courage into his soldiers, much less se-
cure the adherence Of the German people.
France has become unfaithful TO the ideas Of
the revolution, and has therefore lost the ban
ner under which it formerly triumphed 1t
has abdicated the principles which then gov
erned it, and the historical release for the fu-
ture has passed over to Germany. The armies
of Napoleon may be ever so good, his chasse-
pots and mitraileurs be ever SO destructive,
| still he is devoid of the animating, fruitful
spirit that, so years ago, inspired the people
The "MarseIlais" has become ironical to the
present generation of purse-proud speculators'
The places of those master spirits Danton,
Merlin, Carnot, Dolphus and a hundred 9TH
ers, are vacant, and Madames Roland and De
Stael have the herOines of the demi-monde for
their successors. In short, as much as the
French people may boast of their capital and
their historical "reminiscences, they are below
the standard of '93, and the Germans Of to-day
are different from those of Erfurt and Jena,
The former have degenerated, while the lat
ter, through long and bitter experience OF
suffering and dismembement, have raised
themselves up and become powerful people,
who are about to assume their proper place
among the nations Of the earth.