Year: 1870

NIZEs THE FRENCH REPUB-


Lie.


This is apparently perfectly ma.
tural and just what this great
Government should do. The
whole nation should beam with de.
light to know that the blessings
which have been so bountifully
showered upon us through the be.
nign influences Of our popular
and all protecting form Of govern
ment rs now about to be extended
to another nation, heretofore po.
litical barbarians. The shadow of
a republican form Of government
is scarcely seen ere in hot haste
the authorities at Washington
hasten to extend to Favre and his
compeers the hearty congratula-
tions Of the greatest nation the
sun ever shone upon" and to ac.
knowledge the existence of the
fledgling Republic. This, how
ever, is simply the surface. What
is there below? The Government
of the United States is simply the
centralizatiOn of power in the
hands of the Radical party, and it
is therefore the Radical party
which speaks and not the people
of America. Therefore it is the
Radical party which, with such
hot haste, rushes from the
friendship and national re.
gard Of Napoleon, the Emperor,
and France, the Empire, in
to the arms Of the incipient
Republic, the feeble child of disas-
ter, and not the healthy progeny
ofprinciple, For the Radical party
that is all well enough, since here
they take good care how TO fOslSy
and sustain only the shadow of a
Republic and its principles, they
should be delighted intensely with
fading water.colored views Of the
same in monarchial Europe.


But there is even yet another
phase to this question. The Rad
ical party has been intensely Prus-
sian in its avowed sympathies.
Since that party does nothing
without purpose, we naturally in
Quire why it should entertain and
express this preference. 1t is
simply because there is a vast
number of Germans here, and they
hope to cement them to the Radi-
cal party by those protestations.
They have not alone through
their journals pursued this course,
but they have even gone so far as
to incorporate it into their party
platforms. The platform of the
Ohio Radicals particularly, is Civ
en- to this quasi sympathy, but it
does not impose upon the Ger
mans, as is shown by the following
paragraph clipped from the n. Y.
Stats Zeitung:


"The Ohio Republicans" "have
been trying again to ride two
horses at once. In the second
paragraph of their platform they
demand at one and the same time
a revenue tariff and a prohibItory
tariff. Since it was foreseen that
(as they have lost the help of
SChenck's nomination such a par.
agraph must imperil their party
with oil intelligent Germans,
they throw the Germans a special
bait in the way Of sympathy for
Germany in her struggle with
France. Still further to conciliate
those who might be disgusted with
such an introduction Of foreign
topics into our home policy, they
declare that the American people
observe with the striCtest impair
tiality an European contest which
turns only on dynastic interest


"This political legerdemain can
only excite the astonishment OF
pOllJlcal babes. Our latest news
from Ohio would incline US to be.
lieve that the people don't partic-
ularly care for jesting; they are
rather in earnest about making an
end of all such circus politicians"


Now, however, the Radical party
has gone back on its German
friends in this. 1t has exultingly
recognized the Republic in France.
A Republic in France does not
suit King William of Prussia, nor
does it suit Prussians. No one
will suppose for a moment
that the King of Prussia
will feel safe with q. Repub-
lie SO close to him, lying as il
does upon his borders Nor.Will
be, If be can preventit permit it,