Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-01-08

eountrymen should strive for.
"BERTHoLD AUERBACH."
Extraordinary Lecture by Psrs Hy-
aClnthe.
On the afternoon Of the 21st alt, the
largest of the Hanover Square concert
rooms, London, was filed to its ut
most extent With a fashionable audi
ence to hear from Pere Hyacinthe an
address on the war between France
and Germany. Judging from the
numbers that thrOnged the entrance,
even at three O'Clock, for which hour
the address was announced, many
must have been unable to obtain &C
cess TO the room. The Duke and
Duchess of Argyll and one Of his
grace's daughters had seats in front OF
the platform.
PERI HYACINTHE's APPEARANCE.
Pere Hyacintha entered the room
about a quarter-psst three, and was
received with some applause. He was
dressed iD q black frOck coat and suit,
and wore nothing to indicate that he
belonged to any special order in the
church, or was, indeed, a minister OF
the church at all. He is rather under
the middle size and of middle age,
with regular and harmonious features,
dark aud penetrating eyes and a
charming smile. Standing before an
audience as an orator, he has all the
personal qualities that r calculated
to PROPOSES, and his gestures, when
he has entered into his discourse, are
full of movement and meaning. He
speaks especially with his eyes in the
more emotional parts, while the arms
and the infections of the voice give
accentuatiOn to the stronger passages
Of the address. He stood erect and
silent for some moments before his
desk, without uttering a word, while
his eyes seemed to take ia the entire
audience.
THE sOREsT CALAMITY OF MODERN
TIMES.
He began by observing that Europe
had, for the last five months, been a
witness of one Of the sOrest calamites
/ Of modern times, and every true
friend Of humanity, all sincere dis
! ciples Of the Gospel, have been asking
each other with anxiety what could
be done to put an end to it, and to
hasten the return Of peace.
NOT A WAR oFRACEs, NOR A WAR OF
CHURCHES.
It was said that This was a wal of
races-a war between the German and
the Latin races, a War between two
distinct peoples; it was said, more
over, that il was a war between two
Churches-a war between Protestant
ism and CaUhOlicism-that it would
be a thirty years war, and would eX-
tend even beyond that. The orator
proceeded to combat this view, and to
maintain that neither politically nor
~religiOusly was there any solid fOUn-
dalton for the necessity of a lasting
conflict between France and Ger
many. Politically, it was said that
This was a wal Of races. He did not
deny the doctrine Of races, or that
particular modes of physical and
moral life of man were determined by
blood and language. Race was the
family a~ggraudized, and however
much the word has been abused, there
was historical evidence of an alliance
between God and particular races
Of mankind. But there were two
conceptions of the idea-the Pagan
conception and the Christian COncep-
ton. The antique idea was one Of
isolation aud separation. One race
regarded itself as superior and others
as inferior, and the sentiment resulted
in the elevation Of one people, and the
destruction or enslavement of the
others. But Christianity introduced
another conception of race, and now
people view eaCn other, not as me
mics, or even as strangers, but az
members of the same human family
the family of Adam and of Jesus
Christ. Having but one Father, who
was in heaven, the different races Of
men were destined 10 consider them
selves as ~fraternal branches Of the
same family, and to come e to
each other in the observation of the
same laws. Whether the human race /
was absolutely one in its origin was
in this respect Of no moment. If, as
was alleged, there had been several
sources, he might not believe it; but
he did not fear it. If mankind had
not sprung from the heart of a single
Adam, they had certainly sprung from
L4AE AAEDAN Va NAAC CAg LEAAEAH LACL A1
hear no more, then, of the antagO-
nism Of races.
FRANCE NOT OPPOSED TO THE UNITY /
OF GERMANY.
But there were persons in France,
and some of them men of eminence, |
who considered that the unity of Ger
many would be a humiliation or a
menace for France. I deny both posi-
tons. If the government of France /
had abstained from interfering in the |
internal affairs of Germany-if it had
abandoned the idea Of acquiring what
if called its natural frontiers, there
would have been no fear OF aggression
or division. We had no interest, no
right in preventing the unity Of Ger
many. The speaker here proceeded
to show that the unitv of Germany
vas promoted by the policy Of the
empire in advocating the unity Of
Italy, and he rendered justice to it
for what it had done in this respect.
The unity of Germany and the unity
of Italy were results that existed in
the force Of things, and could not be !
resisted. But dynastic influences and
the internal state Of the empire forced
the Emperor to yield to the preju-
dices of certain statesmen and publ
cists, and to the passions of the peO-
PIE. On the other hand, as little in
terest or right had Germany in OppOs-
ing the greatness of France as France 4
in opposing the unity Of Germany.
THE BLIND POLICY OF GERMANY.
Yet Germany would seem to have
adopted toward France, after the dis
aster of Sedan, a policy as blind and
as criminal al that which France
practiced TO ward Germany. Even
the humiliation OF France would be
but temporary. France would rise
from her misfOrtunes like Prussia her
self after Jena.
A NEW FRANCE WOULD START FROM
SEDAN,
and were Paris even in ashes it would
have vengeance for its soul and aspi-
and the end Of the century
would behold even more bloody
scenes than its beginning Germany
in the center Of Europe, a source
Of intelligence and civilization; but
there was danger that if it gave itself
up to warlike traditions the French
empire Of the I'd Of December would
be followed by the German empire Of
the 10th Of December. As to
TIKI POSSESSION OF ALsACE AND
LORRAINE,
be regarded that as a secondary Ques-
ton. He did not think the possession
Of one or two provinces more necessa-
~ to the greatness Of France, though
he did not wish they should be lost to
France. Someo of his countrymen had
gone 50 far as to say that if Alsace and
were lost France would
descend to the rank Of a second-rate