The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-02-03
THE sURRENDER on PARIs.

Paris has fallen. The modern Baby
lon, in the maturity of its pride and
splendor, has been humbled as, was it's
ancient prototype, by an enemy it affec-
ted to despise. All are thankful it is
not destroyed.
Many details relative to this, the
greatest event of the Franco-Prussian
war, will be found in our telegraphic
columns, and we need not recapitulate
them here. 1t caps the climax of the
French reverses, and will do more than
all else to convince the French nation it
is so thoroughly beaten that it would be
madness to attempt further resistance.
The sole hope of France, since the dis
aster of Sedan, has been to wear out
the German strength before the sup
posed impregnable walls of Paris, and
when the German armies had thus been
decimated, and the German people dis
couraged, to press the invaders back to
the Rhine, and secure at least favorable
terms of peace. But the capture of the
city, with its immense armament and
its 100000 armed defenders, annihilates
at blow all hopes that might else be
cherished, and makes the Germans so
evidently masters of the situation that it
is very improbable the French will re-
fuse any terms that may be offered. An
apparently reliable dispatch from YER
sailles says those terms, dictated by
Bismarck, are as follows:
LIST. The cession of the of the province OF
Alsace, and that part Of Lorraine known rs
I'd. A money indemnity of one thousand
million francs, ($200,000 COO.
Cd. Four iron-clad war vessels the French
fleet.
4th. A certain French colony, (name not
given.)
9Th. France to choose its own domestic gov
eminent, and guarantee not to disturb the con-
ditions of peace made.
And as France is depressed by its ter
rible reverses, Germany is correspond
ingly elated with its unparalleled sue
cess. Upon one side of the Rhine is
weeping, waiting, and gnashing of
teeth on the other is universal rejoic-
ing and congratulations, friends and
strangers alike hugging each other for
joy, and the entire people making ready
for an enthusiastic welcome of their
victorious legions If the armistice
does not bring peace, the disappoint-
ment will be most severe.
But our German friends, here and III
the Fatherland, may safely sing ''Nach
helm kommt Johannes" Their leaders
are as sagacious as resolute, and are at
heart as glad as any that the end is at
hand. They will not throw away the
advantages gained, nor demand more
than they can secure. They have
brought France to terms, and will hold
her there. The French nation must by
this time be thoroughly purged of its
old infatuation that Germany is butt
for French boots 10 kick at whenever
Gallo pride and presumption chooses
to effervesce. When has such a natien
been so quickly brought low? Bank
rupt in purse, decimated in numbers,
staggering like a drunken man from
the loss of its best blood and mate
rial, battered almost to stupefaction
by its terrible defeats in field and for
tress, its strong places and their armies
in the iron grasp of the foe, without
confidence in its leaders, and almost de-
prived of faith in its destiny,-France
is indeed too weak to renew the Hercu-
lean combat. If Germany remains sat
isfied with the wonderful results it has
so CALAMITY achieved, the peace that
bids fair to settle down over Europe
will probably not be disturbed during
this century, at least.