The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1886-11-19
THE LATE GEN. URlCH.
His Success Due to His Loudly-Pro-
fessed Admiration for Napoleon III.

His Success Due to His Loudly-Pro-
fessed Admiration for Napoleon III.
Our Paris correspondent telegraphs'
The announcement of Gen. Urich's
death brings me back to the exciting
year of 1870, when he was for brief
space of time popular idol and then
counted an old dunderhead, If not a
traitor. The general had reached his
s5th year. He was the first captain
nominated by Louis Philippe, and he
was on such good footing at the Elysee
during the second republic that soon
after the coup detat he was made
brigadier-general. He won his grade
of a divisional general in the Crmea,
and was named grand officer OF the
Legion of Honor for his participation
in the campaign of Italy. He was on
the retired list in 1870, when, on war
being declared, he came forward and
in rather noisy and theatrical manner
offered, as an old Alsatian, his services
to the emperor to defend Strasburg or
Metz Officers in active service who
wished for posts of honor were very
angry at the emperor for sending him
to the former place. A man of almost
seperhuman energy was wanting, ana
Urch had chiefly vigor in pushing him
self forward He had no idea, when
setting out, of the degree to which mil.
itary preparations had been neglected
in the frontier stronghold. There were
only three thousand men at Stransburg,
and the defenses were of the Old-fash.
toned type, without detached forts and
outworks. travelled with Gen. Urich,
when he was liberated on parole, from
lie Mans to Tours, and witnessed the
ovation which the people of Tours gave
him. He stood on the balcony OF the
archiepiscopal palace between NJ
Cremieux, then minister OF war,
. and Archbishop Guibert. There was
another manifestation OF sympa-
thy and admiration when M.
Cremieux gave him the grand cross OF
d. the Legion of Honor. Before many
days letter from Valentin to Gam
BETA, which was made public, dashed
all the enthusiasm. Naentin had him
named project of the Bias Rhin OF Sept
, 5, and got into Strasburg after many
hair-breadth escapes. He charged
Urich with having thought more of saw
ing the empire than the fortress, and
S having damped rather than excited the
, bellicose ardor of the townspeople. A
q sword of honor was nevertheless
r bought for him, and Paris gave his
name to the Avenue de temperatures,
Valentins further accounts of the de-
Tense of the great Alsatian stronghold
prevented Urich' admirers from going
on with subscription the object OF
which was to give the general repro
duction in massive silver of the statue
= of Alsace in the Place de In Concorde
The people of Paris at the general cleo
tons of 1871, when he put himself Tor
d ward as a candidate tor seat in the
# assembly, turned his can dature into
ridicule, and tore down the placards IL
which he puts his name forward rs in
dissolubly associated with that OF Stras
y burg. He was still more harshly treated
by the committee of the assembly ap
pointed to inquire into the campaign
d of 1870 and 1871. They held that hi
y showed gross technical ignorance ant
: incapacity, and depressed the lighting
energy of the civil population and gar
70 rison. His difficulties were OF a crush
N ing kind. but had they been much les
do not suppose he would have mad'
good resistance, he being an old gen
as eral of the fogy type, who owed mucl
,r of his success to his loudly-professe
70 admiration for the Emperor Napoleal
~ III. M. Ponson du Terrell, the sensa
IN tional novelist and author of "Rocam
bole, came from his country house nea
,r Orleans to salute Gen. Urich as beate
! hero. He said, after he had seen him
&c that he would not have chosen him as
of hero for a novel, but that in the face
the enemy no good Frenchman Shout
=. run him down, and accordingly was
oz promoter of subscription to buy Uric
m a sword of honor Tor. London Da'I
i'd NeUS.
" wLan Caoroo II Potts. of Philade