The Republican journal., 1871-06-01

most cherished and sacred treasures. h,
adds that the cold soldiers of the army
VIII receive with q religious respec
everything that belonged to one of the frs
captains OF whom history preserves the
remembrance. What thief, what al
actor! How much he did respect those
relics?
In the same bulletin he amuses the
Parisians by telling ridiculous story OF
Lord Morpeth, the British Ambassador
who, he says, 'Was near enough to the
| field of Jena to hear the cannons." When
news was brought him that the battle
was lost, though he was eighteen miles
from the scenes, che took to his heels. y
says Napoleon, crying out, i must not
be taken lie offered as much rs sixty
| gulneas for horse; got one at last, and
saved himself.n
October the twenty-seventh. the En-
| peror, surrounded by his marshals, his
magnificent staff, and the leading officers
OF his court, made what he styles his en-
tree solennelle into Berlin. followed by
the Imperial foot-guard. and by u splen-
| dld body Of horsemen and grenadiers.
Allghting at the royal palace at three
| O'Clock in the afternoon, after having re-
celved at the gates the keys Of the city,
he held grand reception. lie treated the
| city, in all respects, rs the spoils of war !;
paying his troops from the city treasury,
| taking all the wine from the cellars. pub
lie and private, for the supply Of his va
| rlous armies, assigning 4 half bottle of
wine 4 day for each soldier of the two
corps which had particularly Distinguish
ed themselves ut the battle of jena. The
nobility had abandoned their horses at
his approach. He ordered all the mat
tresses and furniture to be taken from
the houses which might be required for
the comfort of his officers. He ordered
also, that the city should furnish at once
the cloth for q hundred thousand uniforms
hundred thousand pairs of shoes and q
hundred thousand caps
'Nly intention is, this order concluded
THAT Berlin should furnish me abundant
ly all that my army needs, and that moth
ing is to be considered except that my
soldiers should have an abundance of
everything they require.' At the same
time he assigned the abandoned houses OF
the nobility to his principal officers. 1t
Is indeed difficult, in the space to which
am restricted, to convey to the reader
an adequate idea of the relentless vigi-
i;,llcc " it'll which this con1uerer leSroled
the German States of all that they pos
sesscd which could be useful to HIM To
one General, he writes:
They tell me that there is Il great deal
of wine at Stettin. Take all of it, though
there should be twenty millions worth.
Another, he orders to raise a German
corps for service in Italy, because, rs he
explains, he wants ''to get rid of those
soldiers" TO Marshal Ncy he writes, in
NOvcmber:
"Try your best to prevent the treasures
in Magdeburg from being carried off.
Have every baggage wagon and powder
cart examined. The treasure chests of the
regiments are in Magdeburg; 50 are the
army chests, and the large treasures be-
longing to the Prince. Lay hands upon
everything"
A hundred such sentences Us these
could be cleaned from single volume of
his letters of this period.
From the 14th of October 1906, to the
9th of July, 1907, Napoleon never relaxed
his clutch upon the capital and dominons
OF the King Of Prussia. On the 9TH Of
July he granted peace to King Frederick
William, on terms more severe, perhaps,
than a conguerer has ever imposed upon
4 powerful state. The King was obliged
to surrender more than half of his king
dom, and he was assured, at the same
time, that even this remnant of his domin-
ions was conceded to him only ont of re-
gard to the wishes Of the Emperor of
Russia. Napoleon in fact, in the ''NoteH
giving an outline OF the terms Of peace
which he was prepared to grant, express
ly says that it is the ''protcction Of the
Emperor Alexander which causes the
King of Prussia to re-enter into the pos
session of u portion of his states"
Two other slices We're soon after sever
ed from the Prussian dominions - the
Duchv of Warsaw and the Duchv OF Dan
zig; and the whole amount OF money
contributions wrung from the PROSTATE
kingdom was four hundred and fifty NIL
lions of francs Prussia was further COM
PEELED to engage to pay for French garri-
sons in some of the tortrcsscs, and to
furnish a contingent Of troops to the En-
peror in all future wars.
These were hard conditions; but from
this treaty dates the greatness of Prussia.
These rcvcrSes taught wisdom to the rul-
ing class. Some of the worst relics Of
feudalism were abolished all the people
were educated and drilled. \ few Years
later, Prussia regained her lost territories,
and has gone on increasing in power and
wealth until, next to the United States,
she is the most powerful nation on earth.
When her people think of Napoleon, how
ever, and the hard conditions which he
imposed, it becomes them to bear in mind
that Napoleon Bonapartc was no more II
Frenchman than Bismarck is. That
colossal bandit had not u drop Of French
blood IN his veins. He merely used
France for his purposes.