Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-02-15
1910.

THE news from France, which we
publish this morning In another col
umn is Of a character satisfactory at
least to those who are not Immediately
concerned, but who are to profit by
peace. The terms as they have been
arranged by Bismarck and Won
Moltke are likely to be accepted by
the new French Assembly, who have
determined upon a committee TO ratify
a treaty. of that character prelimi-
nary TO a readjustment Of the inter-
nal afairs and government Of their
unfortunate and distracted country.
We are promised a result by Monday
next, on which day the German armies
win march through Paris to the ter
minus Of the StrasbOUrg railroad,
where they viii take trains and move
with ali possible expedition back to
the homes where their wives and
mothers, their children, their rela-
tives and friends, have for weeks been
impstiently awaiting their coming.
What the terms Of peace are to be, we
are left to conjecture, taking as a basis
what has already been given out
as Prussia's ultimatum. This, as
we published it on Saturday last,
called for the cession Of Alsace and
sixty German square miles of LOT-
raine: the contribution Of one and
half million francs for war expenses; /;
thirty million francs for captured
ships, and forty million francs for the
German workmen, clerks and small
Industrial people who were expelled
from France and certain rentes on
8ve million francs for an unlim-
tied time, for the benefit Of the
crippled Germans and orphans
caused by the war. These are
hard terms, when we take into
consideration what has already been
lost to France Of precious lives, Of in
dustry Of all kinds, Of property, and
of money. They are, however, terms
of the couquer0r, the fate Of war,
and must be met. But worse, far
worse, than this is the posi-
bic fate which awaits France in
the struggle between eontending
factions, all anxious to seize the
reins Of government and administer
its affairs according as their whims,
passion or caprice may dictate. The
Orleanists are plotting and planning
20 curse France with their presence
and weigh her down with the Bour-
bon race. The Bonspartists, too,
who have proven their unfit
ness and incapacity for a great
crisis and an unparalleled emer-
gency, are lobbying at Bor-
desu and for a restoration of the En-
pire. The Republicans are also busy
pressing their claims; but, with an hon
est anxiety for liberty, equality aud
fraternity, are thwarted in all their
designs by the sans cullOttes, who are
never so happy as when threaten
Ing or tearing down what they have
never yet been able to give to France
"a government. Men Of mOdera-
ton are not likely to be
heard amid the clamor Of all
these anxious factions, each Of them
charging the other with want of patri-
otism, want Of craftsmanship, and as
the authors Of all the later-day ca
lsmities Of France; and there is little
hope that industries will be immedi-
ately resumed, or that the peacesbly
disposed majority viii be permitted to
begin the work Of recuPeratiOn or
political regeneration. Thiers and
GuizOt have given place to Favre and
Gambelu, and instead Of words Of
wisI We have wild, vague recrimi-
natiOns-even against those who have
sealed their devotion by their blood.
We shall have peace as between
France and Germany, but are we to
have peace IN France? This is a
question Of moment 10 Us. Continued
disquiet among the French will prove
only less disastrous to commerce than
the war just ending.