New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-01-25

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Kaiser has probably come to regard his own
good pleasure as sufficient justification and
sanction for anything he may do. and the ira
ditions Of the Prussian court service are 700
sacred to allow any one ever to differ openly
from his Majesty. But if Death is Prusslan
enough TO spare Count Bismarck until this
work ia done, he will be very likely to con-
tnue to rule his sovereign as faithfully ana
bumbly as he always has done. And he can
scarcely be capable of the folly Of replacing
on the throne Of France the man who made the
war in his own groveling interests; who went into
the campaign with such puerile and vulgar
ostentation who touched nothing he did not
spoil who not only showed the most unpar-
donable weakness and vacillatiOn from Saar-
bruck to Sedan, but even in those last terri
BILE hours Of ruin and disaster had not nerve
enough to accept the generous offer of Gen.
Wimpffen to cut through the iron circle that
was closing around him. Not being able to
"de at the head of my troops" he began his
letter of surrender speaking uncOnsciously
more truth than he intended. Louis Napoleon
could not die at the head of his troops. He
had a chance at Strasbourg and BOulogne; he
ferinO. He said once in the Tuileries that the
great fault of his uncle was in not heading
the final charge at Waterloo; he would have
done so. But when at Sedan his General
challenged him to mount horse and break
through the thin Prussan line and save an
army out of the lost battle, he had no heart
TO do anything but enter his carriage and
drive over to the headquarters of the German.
All France knows these events well enough.
They have been published authoritatiYely In
Paris and i'm Brussels. The whole regular
force of France, with triding exceptions, are
prisoners They know to whom their disasters
are to be attributed, and the negative vote on
the plebscitum, that so alarmed the Emperor
last Spring, would be increased to vast ma
jority if vote were taken to-day. The En-
pire owed its life to bayOnets during eighteen
years. Since it has dishonored the arms of
France, it can never trust them again
A restoration of the dynasty under the
Prince Imperial would he no less difficult. The
Regency of the Empress would be regarded as
dangerous and impolitic by all liberal and
progressive men. She is Spaniard, who re-
CARDS Isabel of Bourbon az Queen OF spain,
and Roman Catholic who would never adj"
NIT Rome to be Italian. 1t was her bind at
tachment to the Bourbon cause in Spain that
led to so many diplomatic failures in the effeTt
to fill the vacant throne; and when Tie
HohenzOllen question came UP, 1t was her
powerful personal influence in she Cabinet
that carried the vote for war. The Prince IL
too young to have any merits of has Own and
the folly of his parents has loaded lin with dis
IL oil ach,
at Saarbruck covered every French cheek with
the blush of shame, and not long before the
war saying of his incantiously repeated by
his clerical cOurtiers, had filled Pazas with
disgust and alarm. He said, When L am
Emperor, / will suffer no one in France to be
" without religion There vas flavor Of the
Escoriai about this uttersnce OF the little
bigOt that caused people to think seriously OF
what night happen when tina young Spsniard
and his devoted mother came to rule over
France The MOpiteur found it necessary to
deny the words officially, but 5he denial only
proved how general had been the disappreval
of the public. He is not strong in mind or
body, and his accession would be the 81 nal
for the beginning of a succession OF plots and
ntrgues for his capture and management that
would inevitably end In the victory OF the
party of reaction and plumber His reign, II
il came, would be likely to lead TO revolt
ton that would put an end not only to the
dynasty but to monarchy in France.
In spite sf all these considerations there is a
serious and indefatigable effOr5 now making
for the restoration of the BOnaInrtes. There
is a paper published ut London to advocate
this object. The messengers CT, the rest0ra-
ton are continually ditting back and forth
with plots and propositions. Louis Napoleon,
apparently never suspecting the meanness of
the figure he presents, is writing pamphlets to
prove it was France. that forced him into
war, and the Republicans that prevented the
organization of the amy. Sersnely unaware
that he has become the most despicable OF
men, he is dreaming in his indOlent way of
again holding the destinies of France in his
to think he held himself at his true value for
a week or two, between Worth and Sedan
but Ia has recovered his appetite and his
vanity in the luxurious retirement of his pal
ace-prison, ard again longs for the gilded
shams Of the Tuileries. We have enough faith
in mankind to, believe that he will not be
given, another opportunity to break the peace
of the world, or debauch the general con-
science by the spectacle of unpublished crime.
As to France, if she receives him, or endures
him, she will prove that all her sutferings
ware light in proportion to- her deservings.
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