Year: 1870

COUNT RENARD THE GERMAN GOVERNOR OF


ALSACE-wHAT GERMANY WILL DEMAND OF


FRANCE-wHAT THE PEOPLE OF FRANK


FORT THINK-THE FRENCH TREATMENT OF


GERMANS IN PARIS RECOILING ON THEIR


OWN HEADS-SPIES.


lFROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE


FRANKFORT. Aug. 17.--COunt Renard has been
appointed Governor of that portion of French territory
which has been conquered and is now occupied by the
German army Heisa large landed proprietor in silesa
He has seen good deal Of public life, having been Tor
some time a member in the North German Parliament
His opinions are Of moderate character He has Just
passed through this city his way Alsace The posi-
on he has hitherto occupied has enabled him to become
Intimately acquainted with the views prevailing
among the Parliamentary representatives, Of the
several States. The sections into which these
representatives are divided have already discussed
the programme to be adopted. All agree III con
sidering that should the German army put 1t III
the power Of German statesmen TO dictate terms OF
peace the main object must be to render the recurrence
of war like the present one all but impossible The
important elements which compose the National Lib
eralen and the FOrschrts party one in thinking
that the purely German portion of France which mas
beer won back by force of arms must be reunited TO
Germany by virtue OF treaties On other points there Is
n divergence Of opinion. These relate TO the French
army 10 the feet and TO the amount OF indemnity 10 be
demanded As nothing is yet definitely settled on these
heads shall not give publicity TO the various PROPOSE
tons which are under consideration Indeed am re-
luctant to deal with the subject at all To settle What
will be done should the Germans be victorious in the
end as they have been in the beginning Is nearly as
premature and mpOc as it is OF the French Leglsa-
five Assembly to declare that peace will not be concluded
while the enemy occupies foot Of French soil Arrange
ments aud resolutions like these are not always main
tanned The force Of circumstances frequently compes
the statesman and the patriot to be grossly Inconsistent


The Germans that the issue OF the war
will be favorable their arms, that they no objection
specuatng TO what will be done before peace IS re-
established. Day by day the conviction gains ground
that to give up Asace would be almost equivalent 10 an
Acknowledgement Of defeat remarkable manifesto on
this head recently appeared in the Sudeusehe Zeitung


t was the form letter understood 10 he from the
pen OF OF the Utamontane members Of the Bayaran
Parliament. This writer opposed TO Prussia when
the proposition made TO Join with her against France
Indeed of the most consistent and bitter haters
OF Prussia to be found in Bavaria. Yet him. on
throughout the land the victories gained by the
Confederate German armies have produced marvellous
effect They see that absorption into Prussia is what
South German state has any reason to fear and they
rejoice over the prospect Of Prussia being merged into
Germany one and indvisble But they de-
termined 10 do what IN them lies 10 render Germany
complete and they hold that unless Asace be restored
10 the FatheTand the end for which they striving
viii not be attained. The document in question con
cudcs with the remark that he who shall reunte Asace
to the land which 1t has been sundered for years
will be the first Emperor OF modern Germany. Seeing
then that the public opinion OF the Southern states IN
perfect accord with that Of Prussia II but remains to be
determined how far other important sections of the
country would approve OF the course which finds favor
elsewhere. Perhaps the views prevailing in any one
| place among those not already named are not
| worthy of greater weight than those which pre-
vail in the city OF Frankfort. Although Prussian
according TO technical forms, yet this city has not
merged its individuality and become mere PrussiaI
locality Its inhabitants have still preserved their inde
pendence OF Judgment. They ask how any measure will


affect them, and they care little 10 the way in which
| their llOw-suljects may he Influenced by IT, Now
| have found the grave and independent burghers OF
Frankfort using language regarding Alsace identical
with that OF the Inhabitants Of Berlin who are exclu
sivey and dsagreeably Prussian In sentiment and de-
sires and Of the inhabitants of Bavaria who regard their
| state as wholly without equal Indeed, the very no
ton OF resining TO France the territory which she nc
oured by the sword and which has been from her
nv force Of arms Is secuted nOnstr0us and inan


be think it desirable that the 9Th and unanimty
| of German opinion this head should be- Understood


in England 80 as " any feeling Oi surprise when