Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-03-09

harvest has failed this year, and they will be
obliged to apply to us for the greater part Of
their provisions Of grain."
Shades of Lafayette. of 'Estrees, and Of 20
many others who have trod the soil of America,
how must you tremblei
THE TWO REPUBLICS.
All Bancrofts crafty policy, hand m hand
with the chancellor, and all this correspondence
fell Of venom against our country can be fol-
lowed step by step in the dispatches of the
time. Nothing is more interesting than the
pamphlet, Les Deux Republques Soeurs," so
complete IN documents and so instructive. pub
lished in 1885 by a French Alsacian Of San
Francisco, Joseph Avon, q true patriot, who had
the courage to refuse the mayor Of New York,
who personally asked him to join in the honors
America was about to pay to the memory of
President Grant. For he was Bancroft's worthy
collaboration, whose message of the 7th of Feb
ruary, 1871, outraged conquered France, and
which Victor Hugo stigmatized in indignant
verse.
To give the truth its due let us say that
avenging voices rose from many generous
American hearts to condemn the presidential
message In its aduiation Of the new German
empire.
Wendell Phillips, the great abolitionist and
agitator, said in Steinway Hall. New York, the
day after its appearance: without France the
English aristocracy o. the wing party would
have been imposed upon Europe for centuries
than any country in Europe. The place that
she now occupies is permanent protestation
In favor Of the rights of humanity and OF the
mass of the people. do not think that 1t is
worthy Of the United States to send their con-
ordinations to the Emperor OF Germany for
his cruel conquests in this infamous war;"
The American press applsuded this vigorous
philippe almost unanimously, from New York
to Chicago and New Orleans. And Bancroft
later crowned his diplomatic career by signing
h,Yx,
the United States consented to the forced in
corporation of naturalized Americans in the
German army imprudcnt enough to 20 back to
Germany, where they hoped to be safe under the
title of American citizens. A very convenient
method of swelling the Pomeranian battalions
for future combats.
On May 90. 1871, Bancroft seemed to believe
in Bismarck omnipotence. He wrote apropos
OF the 1900, 900 promised to Germany:
The total seems to exceed what country
even as rich as France can furnish. The pros
pect is then very sad for a people who surpass
all others in Europe by their habits of order
and their power of analysis and generalization.
AZ We said above, the philosophic historian
the chief upholder of German influence in the
United States, has lived to be too old-for HIM
self. He has seen the Bancroft treaty torn up
by his own countrymen, who did not care to
remain Tassals of Germany. He has looked on
at the fall of Prince Bismarck, his idol, and he
has known before his death that France was
still rich and could bring IA. 600 600 to those
who asked Il million of her savings.
As for Fiance, Victor Hugo has eloouently
spoken for her in his ode to Bancroft:
Quest-ce celia fat cette grande France?
Son tragQue dedain Va iusqu'a ligno-ance.
I'm main
Peut D 81 petitesse ajortsr son venin
SailS cesstr q etre un lain eft QuimpOrter patOme:
Qulinpoite lafront vii qui toliIbe dc Get honmey
Quhuportent les nsants qui passent ct sen wont!
Gre Z. DE kERATRY.