Year: 1870

Friendly Advice to the BclIigcrents-Ths
Position Of the United States.
II is said that the first act Of Jules Favre.
the new Minister of Foreign Affairs of the
French republic, was to prepare despatch to
the United States government informing IL
that France had proclaimed republic, and
asking this country to extend the moral sup
port OF its sympathy and good will to tho
French republic Such sympathy and good
VIII is already extended by the citizens of the
United States, from one end of the country to
the other, and, no doubt, will soon be ex-
pressed by the government In response to the
greeting and appeal of France. Not onlv do
''the glorious memories of the past" as M.
Jules Favre says, inspire this, but thu kind
feeling of Americans for the French and ths
hope of seeing republican institutions perms-
nently established by that brave and greas
people warm the hearts Of our citizens for
France in her present efforts to establish .
free government. Whatever feeling may have
been manifested here for the Germans did not
spring from unfriendliness to the French
people, but because the Emperor had forced
war upon Germany without cause and for
purely ambitious ends. The great American
republic cordially wishes well to the French
republic and people, and therefore hopes
peace may soon be restored, so as to enable
France to recover from the devastation and
losses of the war and TO perpetuate republican
government


Germany, too, has our good wishes in her
efforts to maintain the independence of the
Fatherland and to become united. How could
it be otherwise? There are millions Of Ger
mans and their immediate descendants in the
United States. There is not State or iowa
where these Industrious and excellent citizens
are not found. There is no section of Ger
many but is represented here by them. They are
true democratic republicans at heart. Be-
tween these millions of German citizens In the
United States and their relatives and friends
in all parts of Germany there is constant
correspondence The people of Germany.
then, notles than those of France, look for tho
sympathy of this country, and they have it in
their efforts for independence, unity and free
dom. We wish to ses united Germany
republic as well as France However much
We may admire the personal character Of the
King Of Prussia or that Of those able princes
and men who have done so much to unite and
strengthen Germany, our sympathies are with
the people, and not with monarchy and the
aristocracy. Though the Germans, in their
enthusiastic admiration of King William, may
make him Emperor of Germany, or the Prus-
SLAMS continue his dynasty in Prussia, there is
good reason to hope more liberal and demo-
cratic institutions will be claimed and con-
ceded in the Fatherland. If there be not q
German republic Immediately there must be an
approach to that. As result of the war,
therefore, the people of France and Germany
should, and we think will, come nearer to
each other. The wars springing from dynas-
tic ambition being over, or greatly checked,
and the people Of these two great nations hav-
ing common cause in establishing freedom
and peace, we may hope that the present war
will soon cease.


If the voice Of America were to be needed
by the belligerents-and we have reason to
believe they are not Indifferent to 1.-THE con-
queror will be liberal and moderate In his de-
mands and the conquered will yield something
rather than continue bloody and almost
hopeless struggle. The German people, in
the flush of success and for the moment, might
clamor for territorial compensation, for the
cession Of Alsace and Lorraine, but would it not
be unwise to humiliate France 50 much2
Might not that arouse all France and continue
the war to the last extremity? Overwhelming
and splendidly handled as the German armies
are, the French republic, remembering the
wonderful success and glories Of their republi-
can armies at the first revolution, might be-
come furious and do desperate things. Bo-
sides it is not likely that peace made upon
such basis, if that be possible, could con-
tinue. France would smart under the humili-
alton, and as soon as she would recover fully
from the present struggle would make an
effort, probably, to raconquer her lost posses
sions The professea object of Prussia in this
war--namcly, to obtain guarantees of peace for
the fllturc-would be defeated, perhaps, by
such Acknowledgement of France. Nor should
Prussia be too exacting in money compensa-
ton for the cost of the war for France has a
stupendous debt, and heavy demand of that
sort just now would tend to paralyze both the
action of the new republican government and
the industry of the country. Nothing would
tend 50 much to bury the memories Of the war,
to cement peace and to make the two nations
friends as magnanimity on the part Of Prussia-
as an effort on her part to raise France from
it's PROSTATE condition rather than to be OK
acting. It has been intimated that Prussia
would insist upon holding, at least for time,
soma of the most important French fortressaa