The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-04-11
rhe Great German Peace JubIiee-The Now
German Power In Both Hemispheres.

witnessed in this city or on this Continent was
that of our German population yesterday,
which, In every sense, is fully entitled to the
distinguishing designation of our Great Ger
man Peace Jubilee Within the last thirty
odd years we have had such memorable public
professions as that of the Croton water cele-
bration, the Kossuth welcome, the Atlantic
| cable celebration, the Prince OF Wales recep-
ton, the patriotic displays connected with our
late civil war, and the browning triumphs Of
our Union armies, the Lincoln funeral, our
never-failing splendid St. Patrick's Day
| parades, and two wonderful fifteenth amend
ment celebrations By our fellow-citzens of
| African descent; but, considering the numbers
| participating, the infinite variety of the mill
| tary elements and of the artistic, profess
sional, industrial, patriotic, benevolent and
| social societies concerned with all their be-
wildering costumes, equipments appointments
and accessories of every description, this
overwhelming German turnout of yesterday,
among our most memorable PROFESSIONS, may
be truly pronounced the greatest and grandest
of them all.
Regarding this festival as a historical land
mark identified with the mos. astounding, i'm
portant and momentous epoch of thu nine
tecnth century, we devote to it this morning
| large proportion Of our available space. In
deed, if there were nothing in this prodigious
| German demonstration beyond its surprisingly
| interesting composition as a holiday show, we
are sure that we could give nothing more
| satisfactory to our readers of all nation
| alities than the full details concerning it
which we spread before them in this paper.
| But in connection with the peace restored
between France and Germany as the object
| and the moral of this celebration, it brings us
| face to face with an event involving the politi-
! cal reconstruction of Europe and the opening
of a new chapter in the worlds history
which, in the movements of modern civiliza-
ton, peace or war. brings Germany and the
Germans into the foreground. First Of all, by
our Germans this peace jubilee has been given
in honor Of the restoration of German unity
the reunion of the great German family Of
States and Principalities in the re-established
and invincible confederation Of the German
VhPiC. Ahic CupiN, 90 uisI SctuDii5hCu
under Charlemagne, covered all the European
Continent that he desired; but. though geo
graphically much smaller, the restored empire,
materially and morally, is much stronger to-
day than was the empire Of Charemagne.
Napoleon the First found the Germans still
holding fast to the traditions, shadows and SOU
venirs Of this empire, though in reality he found
nothing else Of it remaining. He broke into
its traditions; he appropriated all that he
wanted in his Franco-Gernan confederation
Of the Rhine; and with his final subjugation
the Holy Alliance, in demonstrating the map
Of Europe. left the floating German States and
Principalities so ineyplicably mixed up or
divided as 10 leave the balance Of power
among them subject TO the will of Austria,
Prussia or France, as war and diplomacy might
determine. Fifty-fve years after this loose
arrang ement, or, rather, arrangement Of Ger
many by the Holy Alliance, Napoleon the
Third undertakes to play the game and restore
the French empire Of Napoleon the First in
''the rectifcation of the Rhine frontier" The
nephew of his uncle" in his apology for his
crushing disaster of Sedan, has confessed that
In the plan of his proposed campaign to berlin
he had counted upon cutting of the South
German States from Prussia and the Northern
Confederation gathered around her from the
war Of 1866 with Austria; and by cutting off
those Southern States he had counted at least
upon their neutrality.
Napoleon, the nephew, however, had over
looked the all important fact that, however
divided they had been and were upon local
questions, and as between Prussia and
Austria, all the German States had been made
by the terrible lessons of Napoleon. the uncle,
unit against France, and a unit for the
defence, the maintenance and enlargement of
the German Rhine. So il was that when.
with the advance Of his armies toward the
Rhine. the nephew issued his procla nations of
good intentions to the South German States
he found them already in arms against him,
under the common German Rhne-d offending
banner OF King William. The peace Of Yer
sailles finds the German Rhine not only
untouched. but enlarged on the left bank from
Weissenbourg mp to Switzerland; not only that
Napoleons contemplate I'd notification has been
reversed, but that it includes the restoration
To Germany of the territorial seizures Of
Louis XIV, and OF those commanding frontier
foriresses which France for two hundred years
had been strengthening for aggressive war
upon Germany and in view of further appro-
prations Of German territory.
These, then, are the grand results to Ger
many which were reflected in the music ban
ners, pictures and devices of yesterday peace
jubilee in this cty--the military unity Of Ger
many in the war; the political unity of Ger
many brought about by the war, the cstab-
lished unity OF Germany in the treaty OF peace,
the restoration to Germany of her old strong