Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-31

this occasion to consult the Government.
The contest has been long and exciting, for
the Russian ambassador at Paris, in the
name of the Emperor, demanded Hart
mann. The anti-republican journals all
demonstrated the necessity OF delivering
him up, giving as a reason the probability
of war with Russia, and if not with Russia
with Germany, who is only waiting an OPP
portunity to fall upon France like great
bear to eat her up They all have an idea
that because France is a republic she has
doDned the skin of a lamb and presents
tempting morsel to all their neighbors, who
are nothing better than hungry wolves.
The republican papers have come forward
and fought bravely for the honor of their
country They combatted on moral and
legislative grounds, stating that there
was no treaty of extradition between
Russia and France, and that that which
small but brave Switzerland had the
courage to do, they also would do, and
even did they run the risk Of war they
would have preserved their national honor
Rochefort insisted that Mr.. Audrieux had
become insane and supposed himself in
Russia, and that he consequently had the
right to collar and thrust into prison all
those who appeared or did not appear
suspect. That his hallucination went so
far as to take Mr.. Grevy, the President,
for the Gar, and Gambetta for the Caro-
witch that he called himself Andriensky,
the Seine. the Neya, and the Place de la
Concord Newsky. Thus by protestations
and ridieule the Government found itself
obliged to refuse to the Russian Embassa-
dor the person of Hartmann the Nihillst.
They did it however with poor grace to
their generous principles, giving their rea-
sons that sufficient proof had not been
furnished to prove the culpability of Hart
mann, which was equivalent to stating that
had they been produced they would have
found themselves forced to yield. All
listers, but the important thing is that
Hartmann was not delivered and the honor
of France has been saved.
THE EIHILIsT WAS SET AT LIBERTY,
And, without any special order from the
Government to leave the country, he was
given to understand that his absence would
cause emotions of pleasure, so he imme- !
lately crossed the frontier into Belgium |
" Switzerland.
Alexander Dumas fils' new book, 90 La
question du Divorce, " is not at all a novel,
Is was supposed it would be, when it was
Known he was preparing a work for publ !
,ation. It is one long continued letter Of |
,ver 700 pages, written in answer to the |
arguments of liable Vidieu in his late
work of " Church and Family"
ALEXANDER DUMAS
Fills meets his adversary on religious
grounds, and with the arms of reason and |
progress succeeds easily in annihilating
lin, but the credit is really not his, for he
says nothing on the subject which has not
already been said many times, but the or
Ter and arrangement of his arguments |
prove clear mind to comprehend, although |
levoid of depth for conception. He has
ventured one original argument in regard |
to women. Who is devoid of originality and |
depth to attack other subjects does not |
all upon poor woman as though they
could say what they pleased, and no one
would contradict them. He says that all |
5he physiological metamorphoses of women
END to one object; that is, love. She will |
be loved and she will love above all. Her |
lream, her object. her ideal, her function,
ler worship, her country, her genius, her |
,onscience-love, always love, nothing but |
owe When she is loved and when she |
owes she understands everything, she ac-
,epts everything, she believes in every thing |
that man tells her-the man she loves and |
who loves her. No human form, neither
ather, mother, child nor priest, can step
her and the man she loves. He |
S her only and true master. That she will |
De a believer or an atheist, according as
will be that man. DO you believe in
1od?'' asked one day a superior man of
MS wife, by whom he was sincerely loved
If you wish, she replied. There is the
1epth of woman. Now my opinion is that
NJ. Alexander Dumas fills knows nothing
about it, and although he was the superior /
man who asked the question, we are at |
liberty to believe that the woman who an
swered was very much inferior to the ma
jority of her sex. He may be called a SEN
philosopher who sits weeping at
the feet Of the Madelines, instead of aiding
an honest woman to remain honest.
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