New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-03-04

| taken away. They began to speak of my
| fathers magnanimity in vacatirs the throne,
when suddenly, recollecting the cakes. l be-
| gan to cry. What precoelty, sad the
courtiers, seeing my tears, 'what niiA
| affection, what PATRIOTISM aud thus
he began at AN early age to wear mask.
THE character followed him through life.
| He deceived the people, and his officers de-
ceiyed him. A dcceiver himself, he reaped
| the result of his own insincerity. The sword
| of Gods vengeance was hanging over his
| house for the innocent blood no had shed on
the day he made himself emperor.
He then adverted to the character Of the
other remarkable man-Bismarck That he
was, like almost all of his cOuntrymcn,
| highly educated. His mother had him edu-
| Gated as Il diplomat-that he studied ear
nestlv for it from his youth up, and was
now one of the greatest diplomats Of the
aye. He WAS no imitatOr, but was thor
ouglly original in all his ideas and under
tukinga. having always plan of his own
| for any and every emergency in which his
country might be placed, and bringing the
grand old fatherland-thc land of Luther
! through all her t:ials and difficulties into
power in the earth of the first magnitude.
Bismarck is seven years younger thal
Napoleon, having been.abOrn i'll 1918. His
father was nOblcman; his mother, al
though not of i. noble family, was Of a
| highly educated one.
| 1t was his own preference to go to the
University at Heidelberg, but his mother
preferred that he should go to Gortenberg,
| for a reason which does credit to her head
and heart. THE students drink too much
beer ut Heidelberg" said she. He was a
bold young man ia more fearless spirit
dwels not in the bosom of living mani, and
in his tirst year at the university fought
| twent one duels, in which he received only
| thnf int IN ia
| cheek by fragment of the sword of his
adversary, which he had broken. After he
had completed his university course lie
studied Jurisprudence, and retired to his
| fathers estate, and was for IA while a cOun-
try gentleman.
The lecturer then gave sketch of Bis
marck's career as liberal member of the
German Diet. He was afterward Ambas-
sador to France, then to st. Petersburg, and
III 1862 was made Prime Minister of Prus, "a.
Austria being Jealous OF Prussia, because
of her leaning toward Professionalism, OPP
posed the unity of Germany. Bismarck was
in favor of it, and strongly impressed it
upon his king and countrymen. and he was
hOOted and Kissed years ago, i'll the streets
Of Berlin, for doing 80; yet his views were
at last. as a measure OF safety for Germany
adopted, and this led to the war with Aus
tria. in which she was speedily defeated and
rendered perfectly helpless, to the amaze
ment Of France, and Of the whole world
Then Prussia annexed the provinces. and
Napoleon got jealous of her, too, for he
feared for his own provinces Of Alsace and
steadily onward. One after another the
little kingdoms and principalities became
imbued with the glorious spirit Of German
unity, and were absorbed by Prussia. Then
Bismarck and Prussia felt strong, felt that
the old fatherland was really power in the
old world.
At this time Napoleon, finding as a pre-
text Prussia's interference i'll the affairs OF
| Spain Just cause tor war, he without wait
ing to see whether the whole peace OF
Europe was disturbed, declared war. The
world thought the French army would
march through Germany, in six weeks 1T
farthcst, 70 Berlin. Napoleon made the
French people believe it, and they really
thought the army could do 50; but God
willed it otherwise. Napoleon deceived
France. and his officers deceived him. He
never could get even near the Rhine, not
witllstandins the war cry was. ION TO the
Rhine" His two weeks delay in getting
only an army of a little over three hundred
thousand men together enabled Bismarck
aud Won Moltkc to ilurl over the borders
of France an avalanche of over seven
hundred thousand men. Then it was
that the peculiar military education OF
!
wise diplomat and sagaciOus tactician.
and astounded Napoleon and the wcrld,
with the brilliancy of his movements. Ma
pOlcons army was badly defeated at every
point, and himself captured all in the space
OF few weeks. Such were the fruits of his
dcceit--such the retributiOn God sent upon
| rim for his shedding OF innocent blood to
gain throne. His land desolated. and him
self IA prisoner Paris could not long hold
| .,,If nd 10 a 10 feat no
| queror. William who is himself devout
| Christian, Il man who never went into battle
without calling upon Gods help. and who
never came out of it without thanking Him
for His aid
About this time Italy all alive to her true
interests marched upon Rome to claim it as
her capital. French bayonets could 10
erless to aid; her power for evil was gone;
so free Italy entered the Holy City and,
| notwithstanding the presumed divine right
Of the Pope, dethroncd him. At last Rome
is free.
In summing up the events of the war,
Bishop Simpson expressed the opinion that
the humiliation of France was for the good
of the world. The result has fully demon
strated the fact that an educated people
make the best warriors; that religious
nation is the strongest lie gave very
touching incident relative to the devout-
ness OF old King William. He said that in
1889, during the meeting Of the World 3
Alliance. which was composed of the best
and most pious men Of the aye, that they
met at the Christian capital Of a Christian
king; and one day during their session
quite debate occurred ona very important
religious subject. The old king sat in the
gallery near the pulpit, listening attentively
to all that was going on below. Schleir-
macher, his chaplain, spoke, and after his
address the good old king said. in deep
German accents, amen 1t electrified
the whole assembly, deeply impressing those
present with his devoutness. He said that
Bismarck was also a religious man. and
carried his religion with him at all times
He here gave beautiful description Of
Germany. as he saw it before the war, and
stated how 10th the people We're to 90 into
it; but when it was thrust upon them. they
met it as Christian people should, firmly
relying upon God to help them. And He
surely has done SO, for France can not boast
OF single victory, except the one that
Napoleon's heir achieved. his baptism OF
fire" when he picked up the bullet that fell
at his feet
! France has failed. not through lack OF
men, because there is only about a million
difference in the population of the two
coIntries-nOt for the want OF courage. be
cause they are brave as the hravest-Dut
principally through the military incapacity
of her sovereign. He was an initatOr. He
tried to initiate the methods and career OF
his uncle. In this age any man who stOops
to be an imitator destroys his own power
General Grant once said 10 the speaker
that the great fault with many generals
was that they were constantly asking
themselves, in the emergencies OF a cam
| na;pn ..What would Alexander do. What