The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1871-01-26

The New York Herald has a very
interesting article on this subject,
and one which our limited space
prevents US from publishing entire.
However, the following contains 60
pious extracts worthy of pernsal:
Not in many years-we do Dot
forget Richmond-not, perhaps,
since the battle of Waterloo, has
any prospective event created so
much expectation as does the inn
pending fall Of Paris.
Our theme is a large one-so large
that we cannot hope to do it justice.
Even in her sore agony France has
the unenviable right to boast that
Paris is not only the center of the
empire, but the center Of the world.
To-day, wherever men look for
news or newspapers, read French,
or German or English, or any civ
civilized tongue, the thoughts Of
the thinking are directed to Paris,
so long the center of thought, of
taste, of beauty, of valor and Of
art; ard by ali who think Of Paris
the question is put-How is it, and
what is the prospect?
We have no desire to say painful
things; to utter painful truths; but
we have no choice but to say that
the last hope of France is gone,
and that Paris mustsuceumb to the
inevitable, or force or fate, or what
the reader will. When this war be-
gan there were few who were not
willing to bet on France, It was
known that the Emperor and his
Ministers had been preparing for
the struggle which they saw must
come between France and Germany.
1t was known that money had been
voted, and that money had been
spent in huge preparation for the
conflict. It's not our business to
go into details. How this war be
gun, and for what reasons, all the
world knows With the Emperor,
four times the elect of the French
people, a Prussian prisoner; with
some three hundred and fifty thous-
and of the picked men of France
safely locked up in the enemy's
country; with all the best generals
Of France swordless, imprisoned or
paroled, it was not unnatural to
think that further fighting on the
part of France was useless. AS the
men who constituted themselves the
masters of France would not yield,
we have, after four months, to look
upon the sad spectacle of today.
What is that spectacle? 1t is a
spectacle of hopeless despair We
have been asked to wait. Balloons,
ballasted with lies, have come out
of Paris and falsely taught willing
believers to hope; armies, 1mproyis-
north, south, east and west and led
by unknown men, have made shows
of power and pluck which inspired
many of the hopeful; but army af-
ter army, on the Loire. in the north
and in the east, have melted away
before the German hosts. Pala-
dimes and Ducrot and Chanzy-
where arc they now? Faidherbe
and Bourbaki-what have they done?
The grand Army Of the East, under
Garibaldi and the others, has it
stopped a single train OF prevented
a single recruit whose purposewasto
swell the ranks of the invading foe?
The failure of Chanzy after the fail
ure of De Paladines, the success Of
Manteufel in the north and the in
competence of the French forces in |
the east leave us to-day no choice
but to think that the last hope is
gOne-gone at the very moment
that the German forces have found
themselves able to throw shot and
shell into the long doomed city and
among the impatient and furnishing
citizens.
We take it for granted that Paris
must fall within a few days. With
the powerful Prussian Gordon
around the city, and with the Army
Of the Loire completely demolished,
we can sec no reason why Troehu
should any longer hold out. More
than that, we know no reason why
the furnishing and long tried inhab-
itants of Paris should longer sub
nit to useless a torture, or should
longer make unavaiIing sacrifice
The game is up; Troehu knows it;
the hour Of surrender must there
fore beclose at hand. VIII the fall
of Paris bring peace to EmOpe:-
There are those who think it VIII;
there arc those who think it will
not Both parties reason well, and |
not on bad premises, The Eastern |
question and the first postponement /
of the London Conference for no /
satisfactory reason encouraged bel |
ligerent thinkers to believe in war
war ON sstill grander scale and |
for moro revolutionary purposes
than the war of which now all are