New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-01-28
dFTER THE WAR.


ever terms Prussia chooses to impose upon her
PROSTATE enemy she has the power to enforce,
and France has practically to begin the world
anew. She is dethroned from her first place
among the nations of Europe-a place which
she has so long and 80 haughtily held-and we
can SEQ little reason for believing that she will
ever resume it. She cannot escape important
cessions of territory which will henceforward,
instead of standing as her defense and bulwark,
abut threateningly upon her frontiers she has
lost moro wealth than she can reacquire
in two generations; she is without
government; never nation not absolutely
trampled out of existence was in more foriorn
extremity. 1t will be fortunate If she gets
back to q stable and defined government with
out some wide outbreak OF revolutionary
atrocity like that which saddened the world
century ago and it will be doubly fortunate ii
Paris, after its long famine, does not find
pestilence coming in the wake of peace. II ia
the frequent sequel of long famine, succeeded
by abundance; almost tho inevitable one,
where extensive communities are involved.
The iron has entered deeply enough into the
soul of France already, and VIC pray that she
NAV be spared from this further extremity Of
misery and loss.
1t is likely that both in France and Germany
the disposition to emigrate and find new homes
beyond the reach of these overcoming and
desolatng wars will be greatly quickened and
stimulated. France hitherto has shown but little
of the emigrating disposition. Her sons and
daughters have preferred to stay at home, en-
during poverty and lOwly fortune rather than
risk the chance of prosperity and OPP
ulence abroad. But this war has taught
all classes the insecure tenure by
which they hold even their humblest
possessions. They are, and will remain for
generation at least, unless something in the
nature of O special providence releases them,
at the mercy of Prussia. We don't think the
French. people will like this altogether. 1t is
| quite likely that the emigration thence will DO
unprecedented, and it is within probability
that the exodus thence may be as great as
that which took place from Ireland in the years
succeeding the famine. II this anticipa-
ton be correct, the emigrants will of course
come to this country, as there is no other suf-
fcient refuge for them they will bring with
them their wives and children, their ingenious
arts and the meager mythology of their house
hold gods. We have room for them; as we
| have room for the increased hosts which will
swarm upon us from Germany as soon as the
war is fairly over. For even the victorious
| the conflict has brought its NEED OF suffering
and impOverishment, as well as to the
| people whom they have vanquishcd. After
their sturdy outburst of exultation at the
victory which tho Fatherland has won over
it's traditional foe, they will begin to pack
their feather beds and earthen pipkins and
make their way to the land of the West
where 80 many of their kindred have already
found homes We have every expectation that
the immigration from both these countries
will increase extensively as JOOn rs the tur-
MOL of the closing war abates, and that it
will continue year after year in ever-augment-
| ing volume.
Notwithstanding the constant lament OF i'm
beetles who stay in cities where they are not
wanted, and have not energy enough to go
to places where they are wanted, that they can
find nothing to do, the greatest noed of tho
country is men and women who know how to
work and have fair disposition to work.
We Judge that the fallow fields of the South,
untitled or but imperfectly titled for the last
ten years, would at once afford labor and sus-
tenance, and supply future homes to million
of people moro than now inhabit them and
with every additional labOrer would come q
direct and immediate enhancement of our ma
tional wealth. We have already one Pacific
Railroad, opening territories of boundless eI-
tent and fertility. and two more are in course Of
construction. Upon the domains which these will
traverse we can colonize the refugees OF the
world They may come from far and near, in
numbers like which tho populous North
poured never from her frozen loins," or in
multitudes like those which swarmod behind the
! standard Of Mithridates; we have room for them
ALL and inter continental territories where they
may build a new Fatherland interfused with a
Yankee leaven, and now France which sub
stitutes tho caucus for tho revolution, tho
ballot for tho pike: and which. instead Of