Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-04-30

blanket and coverlid they hardly
weighed pounds. The food was
prepared upon the same honest
scale. The ham was worrn-eaten,
the water dirty, and the ships stores
had been ripened by lying in the
English magazines ever since the
Seven Years War. Thus the pow
erful King of England and the pet
ty severeigns of Germany leagued
together to
BUY AND SELL THE BLOOD
of the unprotected German peasant.
Let us carry this study little fur
ther. Elated with the success of his
first negotiation, Fawcitt turned his
face towards Hesse-C CasSel. Germa-
ny ''was all before him where to
choose" and he chose, or rather
Lord Suffolk chose for him, the bril-
liant court of Hesse- Cassel for the
next scene of his labOrs. The Duke
of Hesse-Cassel, like his brother of
Brunswick, felt no Christian scrHples,
no humane misgivings, no pdternal
doubts about trafficking in the blood |
of his subjects. LandgraYe Charles
l. had set the example, and his sue
cessors had followed it. He let out
his soldiers to Venice, and it might
have been accepted as mitigation
of his crime that il was to. serve
against the Turks, the deadly enc
mics of Christian civilization. But
it was not, to the XeHitiansa as de
tenders of Christianity that he let |
them, but as the best pay-maSterS in
the market. From 1887, when |
Charles ]. sent 1000 men, to fight |
for the enitians, till the eud OF the
| Seven Years War, HesSans were
found in one or the other of the CON
tending armies, and always among
the. best disciplined and brayeSt of
its soldiers.
THE BARBARoUs PUNIsHMENTs
by which soldiers were terrified into
obedience, were inflicted iH the
streets. "Never," says Weber, in
his travels of German in Germany, |
"did l see so many poor wretches |
chased through the streets as in Cas-
sci. 1t is less injurious to the health |
than running the gauntlet, the Of |
ficers told him; and well it might |
be, for that gauntlet was run through |
anarrow laneof men, each provided |
with a stout cane and bound to ap-
ply it with full force to the backs of |
the delinquents. In cases of deser-
ton, the greatest of crimes, the Of
fender was made to run this gaunt-
let two days in succession, and
twelve times each day. Can we Won
der that the terrible punishment of
ten ended in death?
| Landgrave Frederick IL, whose
reign from 1860 to 1875 covers the |
whole period in. which we are most
interested, can hardly be regarded
as an illustration of the rule. His |
mixed character will repay more
attentive study.
+ He had inherited from his father
a territory of I56 German square
miles, with population of 10000
souls. Over this population he ex
ercised an absolute control, and by |
his wealth, his connections and the |
favorable position of his territories, /
he was counted among the most
powerful of his brother Princes.
French manners, French literature,
and above all, French icentiOusness,
reigned at his. court, and to form
some idea of its corrupting power
we have only to remember that at |
the beginningof his career he was a |
cotemporary of Louis ". If he |
spent freely upon churches and mu-
seums. he spent more freely for the
qualification of his .yoluptuousnesS.
Yet with all this love of display, he
left at his death 10000, 900 thalers
in ready money. Where did he get |
it2 A skillfully managed lottery fur
nished part; but the 1lee '.s
TRAFFIC IN SOLDIERS THE GREATER |
| III PART. So -
For him also the American war
was a godsend, awakening new |
hopes for HIMSELF and, as with his !
brother Princes, new zeal and CRATE
full attachment to ''the best of
Kings" We have seen how FaW-
4 citt had been ontwitted in his negO-
tiations with the Prime Minister of |
Brunswick. He was still less able |
to. cope with Won SchIeffen, the |
Prime Minister of Hesse-C Cassel; n |
man of both military and civil expe-
rience, skillful negotiator, pro-
foundly versed in the practical study |
of human nature, and thoroughly |
! familiar with the aims and wishes Of |
his sovereign. Fortunately for that |
sovereign, his Minister was entirely |
devoted to his interests. aaa ~ 4
/ The negotiation began by mas
ter-stroke, which represented the
Landgrave as sensitive aad nervous,
and therefore in a state of mind that
required delicate management The
English Envoy bit eagerly at the
bait, and made no secret of the de-
bpendence of his sovereign upon for
eign aid. "How many men does he
want?" was the first question. From
10000 to 10000, answered Fawcitt,
little dreaming that the small State
could furnish So many. He was told |
in reply that the Hessian troops
were on the best footing, and the
King could have all that he asked
for Fawcitt was very happy, for |
the main object of his mission seem
ed secure. The troops promised, all
the rest was merely a discussion of
details. But in the skillfHi diploma
cy of his opponent these details be-
came concessions, cunningly inter
woven, and leading by subtle inter-
pretations from one admission to
another. First came claim for
hospital expenses during the last
war-a claim the Envoy had never
heard of before, and concernmIg
which he was therefore obliged to
write home for instructions.
Meanwhile he urged on the pre-
paration of the contract, which to
the wonder of diplomstists and the
disgust OF thoughtful Englishmen,
took the form, not of convention
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