The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1873-05-29
THEIRS AND FRANCE.
Downfall Of the Ministry.-Mc.
MahOn.

Of all people in the world the French bea
up under the most trying circumstances, AM
best vindicate their Claim to versatility
whether in the boulder, under RELENTLESS mill
tary rule, or the grown Of an Emperor.
From the time when Imperial Charla
magre wore the iron crown to the presen
France has been in Europe power not to b
ignored. To day, when the products Of al
nations are gathered at Vienna, and wher
Kaiser William is receiving his ovalions, the
memory of the Corsican Corporal is alive all
over Central Europe. That name and that
fame may vet shake the nations.
The French people are mercurial in tenn
permanent. They are practical thoroughly.
They, through their polished and consummate
s:atesmanship, have for years, aye, for almos,
centuries. dictated the fashions, the philoso-
ply, the science, and the letters Of the world.
On the banks of the Seine Art gave up her
crown, and Science fent her listening ear.
Her last Emperor turned aside from the pur-
suits of State, of politics, % arms, and Of all
which clamor call. grand, and devoted him
self to literature. He vindicated the great
name lie bore. In letters, in war, in doing
the greatest good to the creates, number, he
maintained the prestige of France.
After the terrific burnings OF the Commune,
after Imperial death at Chiseihurst, and
after the government OF Theirs, the surren-
der at Sedan and the pretended treachery of
Bsziine at Metz, true to their temperament
and true to the philosophy of history as
we'll, theFrench people arise again as to
their Mecca, and virtually bow to Bona
partist. Republicanism in France is vain
ideali,y. 'ice Ia Emperor rings in the ears
OF her people clear and loud as when the
tri-colored cockade blazed with the sun at
Austerli:z, or when Ney drew them from
the soldiers hat-linings on Napoleon's re-
turn from Ellie.
Theirs and his Assembly have resigned.
They had to. Theirs is a literary politician,
q class that has failed in modern times, from
Rienzi to Gu;zot and MeCauley. Theirs
drank deep of the French Revolution, and
stepped into power on the ruins. as he
thought, OF the Empire, with the blood Of
the Gaillotine still dripping from the tips Of
his fingers. Frenchmen would not, could
not stand this:
Forced into war with the Germanic pow
ers the French Eagles dropped under Napo
leon III. from Sirausburg to Sedan. Nc
Mshon, the unconqusrable hero, who dyed
himself blool-rsi with fame in the Solferino
and Magenti campaigns, was fast and I'M
wavering friend of the Bonapartist. In the
.ang,.inary conflicts of the late Franco Prus-
.ian war he Justly won what Ney won under
he elder Boaapsrte, the ti:ls of the bravest
# thebrave.
McMshon has the s,atesman's, scholars,
eye, tongue AMI sword. When the
ale Franco Priissian WAR broke out, and "on
o the Rhine WAS the cry, he was called, as
he most trusted OIL ser OF Napoleon the III,
rom his mos! important command abroad to
read the grandest army that France couid
muster, and at Graveloue was shot nearly all
o pieces. McMahon is Bonspar,ist in the
ullest sense of the term. His election az
he successor of u. Theirs is full OF deep |
isnifcance. The battle shout of Ticc Ia |
Empereur may yet be hearl along the "wide
nd winding Rhine" PARIS.