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THE DAILY EVENING TELECJKAHI PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1870.
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Editorial Opinions of the Leading Journal
uponCurrent Topics Compiled Every
Day for the Evening Telegraph.
WILL MURDER OUT?
Frtm the N. Y. Tribune.
Every hour of delay diminishes the proba
bility of the arrent of the Nathan murderer,
or at any rate of his conviction. If the
assassin had any wounds, received in the
desperate itrngglo, upon his person, thoy
must have been blight nnd are already healed.
If he carried away any of the blood of his
victim upon his clothes, the fire to which ho
consigned them on reaching his covert ha
destroyed the last trace of such proof. If
there was a chance that the "boat-builder's
dog" could be made to serve the earnestly
desired purpose of connecting the criminal
with his crime, it would have been made
available. If there was a single human being
able and willing to put the police on the
track of the Bavage who has appalled the city,
that person would by this time have been
induced by the large rewards to come fprward.
There is the single hope left that some
lucky accident will accomplish what energy
and skill have failed to achieve, but if it
should fail, and the murderer preserve his
dreadful secret, it will be no unusual experi
ence. No task trenches so closely on the
impossible as the discovery of a murderer
who leaves with his crime no distinct proof
of his identity. We cited several prominent
cases to illustrate this fact, in our remarks
upon the Nathan murder last Saturday the
Burdell murder, the Rogers case, the Joyce
case, and several others. Equally remarka
ble instances are the murder of Bartholomew
Burke in 18.""G, who was literally hacked
to pieces; the killing of Dr. Lutoner
in 1854, in broad day, as he sat at his
office window in Broadway; the slaying of
the jeweller Robinson a year since in
Mamaroneck; and the burglar murder in Mid
dletown a few nights ago. These are only the
cases occurring in and near New York in the
whole country they are too numerous for con
cise enumeration. In all these instances the
assassins have baffled discovery. In some of
them suspicions that were never converted
into proofs have always attached to certain
particular persons. In others, and noticeably
in those of Burke, Lutener, and Robinson,
even suspicion was at fault, and the baffled
detectives, after long and skilful labor, were
forced to give up the investigation in despair.
But there are statistics upon this subject
interesting in themselves, and at this moment
valuable in allaying the general impatience at
the failure of the police thus far in the Na
than case. During the thirteen years ending
with 18G8, C22 homicides were committed ia
the city of New York, and of this number 1.15
were by persons unknown. Thus, in exactly
one-fourth of all the homicides occurring
during this long period, murder did not out.
It may be, indeed, that in many of the cases
no great exertion was made to bring the per-
etrators to justice; but the fact that in so
argo a proportion of them whatever efforts
were made proved barren, is a sufficient proof
of the difficulty of unravelling any murder
which is without eye-witnesses. Every homi
cide tells its own story to an experienced eye
in the position and surroundings of the vic
tim until the point is reached of identifying
the perpetrator, but there it stops, and leaves
the detective to nothing more than guesses.
These facts are sufficient to displace the
dictum that "murder will out" from the rank
of an axiom which it has long unworthily
held. Taking them all into consideration
with the general statistics ought not only to
diminish the amazement that the Nathan
murderer is still at large, but also to save the.
police from too severe censure should they
fail altogether. We are satisfied that Super
intendent Jourdan is doing all that is possi
ble, and we hope for the best result; but we
are aware that he is not gifted with the power
of working miracles. He can only exhaust alt"
detective agencies in the pursuit, and these
may fail as they have so often done before.
GOVERNOR IIOLDEN AND COLONEL
KIRK.
From the K. F. Times.
The troubles in North Carolina have as
sumed a phase which renders an interpreta
tion of their real character comparatively
easy. At an earlier stage they suggested a
contest between the local executive and the
enemies of law in limited portions of the
State. They now exhibit the Governor as
the enemy of law, and as the arbitrary, un
restrained military ruler of a State in which
civil authority should be supreme.
We are not unmindful of crimes that have
thus far gone unpunished in certain localities
in the State. There have been murders,
robberies, and outrages in various forms,
whose perpetrators have not been arrested,
or, if arrested, have been dealt with too
leniently by the local administrators of
justice. Here and there the "Kuklux" have
1 made their appearance, have committed
some unlawful act, and have then easily
escaped. If, however, on one hand there has
been mischief, on the other there certainly
has been exaggeration. The population of
North Carolina are cot wholly unknown, and
they are known not to be either thieves or
assassins, or the aiders and abettors of rob
bery and murder. Among them, as among
ourselves, crime may be organized and de
fiant; but, after all, the criminals are au insig
nificant minority, and for their presence or
for their acts the entire community ought cot
to be held responsible. The distinction which
here is recognized as a matter of course has
there been ignored. Entire communities
have been arraigned for outrages committed
by a few. The outrages themselves have, in
many instances, been magnified; in others, a
political significance has been attached to in
cidents of the most ordinary nature. Injus
tice has thus been doce to a people whose
general respect for law is as well established
as that of the people of Kansas, and whose
depressed and embarassed circumstances con
stitute a claim upon our generosity which
should be felt even in politioal controversy.
Apart from all qualifying considerations,
however, we have insisted that as against
these criminals the law shall be enforced. If
the e very-day machinery of justice is insuffi
cient for their detection, let its capaoity be
increased for the emergency. But let the
increase be reguuted by the law, and be in
all cases Bubject toVta authority. There is
no reason whatever to suppose that the
State, or any pait of it, is lu a condition of
aaarchy, or that any necessity existed for
the employment of extra judicial measures.
Got. Uolden was passive quite long enough
to prove that even in his judgment co ex
traordinary difficulty required bis attention.
Ha bad looked on and done nothing. If,
then, the authors of outrages gradually ac
quired a certain daring, the result of tempo
rary impunity, It is fair to assume that the
Governor is in some degree responsible. It
was competent for the Governor to strengthen
(La aim of justice, and to secure the arrest
and punishment of known offenders, while
retaining the moral support of the State and
the country.
Governor Uolden has chosen another course,
and one so flagrantly wrong that it is impos
sible to respect his motiveR, and at the same
time credit him with a judgment befitting his
position. We must conclude either that he is
playing the part of a reckless partisan, and
w ithoutregnrdto decency or right is preparing
to control the State election on Thursday
or that, yielding to bad advisers, he forgets
his duty'to the people whose servant he is,
to the State whose interests and honor he
Lbs fvorn to protect, and to the law whose
majesty is superior to even his pretensions.
Owe or the other of these conclusions seems
inevitable. How else shall we comprehend
the hasty proclamation of martial law, the
organization of motley troops not the lawful
militia under the command of a Tennessee
colonel, the refusal to obey orders of regular
courts, the arrest of citizens without warrant
ond their detention without trial fnd,
finally, the declared purpose to try theso
prisoners by a military court, with a man not
far removed from an outlaw at its head?
It is not possible to watch without indigna
tion the progress of the record which Gover
nor Uolden is making for his own condemna
tion. The method he has adopted for organ
izing troops the neglect of the constitutional
provisions in this respect, and the departure
from the con-partisan attitude becoming a
matter at once' so delicate and so momentous
may account for the aversion with which
these troops are viewed by the people gone
rally. They are a partisan force, under the
direction of a Colonel Kirk, whose antece
dents are odious, and whose character and
temper display the license, recklessness, and
cruelty of an unbridled partisanship. This
man Kirk Governor Uolden has in
vested with many of the power3 of
a military dictator in the counties that are
unhappily subject to his sway. His will is
warrant enough for the arrest of respectable
citizens; he keeps them prisoners without in
forming them of the cause of their arrest;
he threatens to shoot officers of the law who
may enter his camp with writs of habeas
corpus; and on at least one well-attested oc
casion be inflicted torture upon a prisoner.
For these infamies Governor Holden is re
sponsible. He asserts practically that the
habeas corpus act is suspended, though the
Chief Justice decides that it is cot; and he
has so overawed another of the judges that
his court shrinks froi: a contest in which
the material power of the Government
is arrayed against the officers of justice
and the moral power of the law. The whole
speciacle is disgraceful to the Governor and
humiliating to the country. For it shows
that the Executive of a reconstructed State
may usurp functions not contemplated by the
Constitution under which he was elected,
and may become the despotic master of a
people whom he is supposed to serve.
It is unfortunate that the Governor, who
has placed himself above the law, is never
theless able to boast of the support of the
Government of the United States. For what
purpose are national troops sent into North
Carolina? Infamous as Holden's orders are,
infamous as the conduct of his minion, Kirk,
has been, we have yet to hear of the first
attempt at armed resistance to either. There
is martial law without an insurrection a
great display of military force to crush in
surgents who have no visible existence.
There is no conceivable use for the United
States troops now in the State, unless it be
to keep guard at the polls on Thursday in the
interest of Holden. But are bayonets pro
per adjuncts of the ballot-box, even in North
Carolina? Can President Grant have properly
studied the position in North Carolina when
he allowed Holden to make United States
soldiers the instruments of a cruel tyranny ?
THE FRENCH CORDON OF FOWER
AROUND THE WORLD.
From the N. Y. Herald.
Most people, even the well-informed, when
casually speaking of "France" or the "French
Empire," forget the full significance of that
expression. Glancing at a map of the globe,
we discover in France proper a territory so
email in comparison with our own vast con
tinental domain that we are forcibly reminded
of Mr. Marcy's famous phrase when he spoke
of Austria as "a mere patch on the earth's
surface." Her European limits are hardly
equal to the combined superficies of two or
three of our larger States at the North,
while at the South Texas alone exceeds them
by about sixty-nine thousand square miles.
let, within those boundaries France has a
population of thirty-eight million souls. But
if we set forth upon a geographical tour of
her outside posts and military and naval pos
sessions we are soon struck by, not merely
their number and extent, but by the strategio
continuity that can be distinctly traced in
their arrangement and their relations to each
other.
It was the boast of British orators and
statesmen not long since, when extolling the
power of their own country, that "its
morning drum beat is heard around the
world," the allusion referring to her chain of
colonies in every zone and in every quarter
of the earth. In truth, her nominal posses
sions in America, Asia, and Africa, inoluding
the Canadas, Australia, India, and the Cape
of Good Hope, are immense. But it must be
remembered that those regions hang so
loosely to the mother country as to be almost'
independent, and their actual severance from
the central control is but the question of
another generation. The home power is
of too limited proportions, too closely
hedged in by rival and menacing States,
and too greatly exhausted of physical
resources, in comparison with the rapidly
growing strength of its colonies, to hold its
direct sway over them much longer. In
view of this fact the idea was broached, a
few years since, of making India the centre
of control, and thereby acquiring a conti
nental status in the East. Bat the climate
and Boil of India are the very reverse of those
of England, and the suggestion has been little
heard of in later years. With France the case
is totally different. While it is true that she
has lost the magnificent domain which was
once co-extensive with the present United
States and the Canadas taken together, when
her flag was carried by water, not only to all
the shores of the Atlantio and Paoifio Oceans,
but into the very heart of the wilderness on
land, a shrewd and far-seeing policy has
dotted the surface of the globe with outposts
that have become, and of choice remain, in
tensely French.
Let us see ! Setting out eastward, we find
her firmly established in Algeria, the finest
part of the north of Africa, and with the Suez
Canal under her influence, lying directly
athwart the great highway of Oriental traffic
Holding Nice as her own, and garrisoning
Rome and Civita Vecchia, as an indispensable
occupant, she clasps the Mediterranean Sea
in her embrace, while from Suez she looks
out upon the Red Sea, and from the Red
Sea hitherward upon Egypt, and thitherward
upon Syria and Arabia. Thus, upon the
north of the African continent she is en
camped witU 3,000,000 of population. Fol
lowing her down the western coast and thense
around the capes, we find her with l,0)0,fKM
in Senegambia, a province of untold future
wealth and importance; on the Cote
d'Or (also called Porto-Novo): at Gaboon
with 200,000; at He de la Reunion with
225,000; at the lies Mayotte and Nossi-He
with 21,000, and at He Ste. Marie with 10,0i)(1
subjects. Mauritius, the He de France and
her alliances in Madagascar, make her strong
in the Mozambique Channel, as she is strong
in the Mediterranean and the Red Seas. In
Asia she protects in the usual way the bril
liant little kingdom of Cambodia, and holli
six provinces of Cochin China, and the fine
old settlement of Pondicherry and its de
pendencies. In Oceania she has New Cale
donia and the Loyalty and Marquesas island
with nearly 2,000,000 inhabitants, and
protects the Tahiti group and tho Gam
bler islands as well as the Touamatou and
Toubouai isles. These protectorates give
her 1,000,000 of people. In America she has
French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, St.
Tierre, and Miquelon, with 2,S00,0U0 inhabi
tants. Then she has fishing rights and settle
ments of some importance at Capo Breton
and many minor points dotted over the West
ern Hemisphere. In fine, it will be safe to
compute that, scattered about thus, she has
devotedly attached to her fully 12,000,000 of
people, partly natives of tho respective coun
tries and partly of French origin. Then she
has her "factories" in China and Japan, and,
quite oddly to relate, a sympathetic popula
tion in Eastern Russia, the descendants of
Frenchmen who found their way by fortune
of war to Siberia.
It will be seen, by comparing the survoy
we have taken with the map, that France thus
literally encompasses the globe with a series
of strong positions so skilfully pitched near
continents, straits, narrow seas and tho mouths
of great rivers, that, in case of any disabling
misfortune occurring to her groat English
rival, she would but have to tighten her reins,
so to speak, in order to crush almost any other
antagonist. The United States would soon
have felt this boa constrictor clasp had French
domination realized its recent dreams in
Mexico and on the Isthmus of Tehuantepeo.
As it is, with Cuba in Spanish hands to-day,
in French hands, possibly, ere long, there re
mains a mighty fulcrum close to our o'n
doors for a lever, one end of which night be
grasped and pressed in Paris and the other bo
prying away the foundations of independent
strength in either North or South America.
It is well that France is, indeed, our firm and
fast friend, and that the coup d'etat a fexte
rieur or outside State-stroke which was to
follow the one achieved on the 2d of Decem
ber, 18rr, has cover been directed against us,
else might we, too, have had sore reason to
feel the strangling pressure of the great cor
don which cumulative genius has drawn, for
the intended France of the future, completely
around the planet. As it is, we may escape
the lasso for all time if we have statesmen
who "know a hawk from a hernshaw when
the wind's southerly. " '
AMERICAN
PARTIES AND
FOREIGN
PASSIONS.
F'om the X. Y. World.
It seems to be impossible for a certain
class of our German fellow-citizens to under
stand that the condemnation wh ich American
public sentiment bestows upon the agitation
now carrying on all over the. country by such
politicians as Mr. Carl Schurz has no refer
ence whatever to the merits or demerits of the
German cause in Europe. It has as little
to do, also, with the politics of America.
American Democrats and American Republi
cans unite in expressing it; and it is uttered
not less heartily by Americans who believe
ismarck and King William to be the pre
destined apostles of German freedom than
by Americans who put their faith for the
iuture of .Europe in the radical propagand
ism of French ideas and in the politioal in-
signt ot tne L.niperor .Napoleon. The fun
damental objection to such demonstrations
as those which are now for the moment
advancing, only hereafter to recoil in ruin
upon, the political fortunes of Mr. Soharz
and his emulators, consists in the simple
fact that these demonstrations tend to arrest
the fusion inte a homogeneous democratic
people of our heterogeneous population,
drawn from all quarters of monarchical
Europe. In doing this they furthermore
lower the tone of our national character and
bate the breath of the nation before the world
For nearly a generation after the recognition
by Europe of American independence this
country was dragged this way and that; ham
pered, heated, and harassed by precisely such
influences as the inconsiderate Teutonism of
the moment tends to inflict upon us once
more. Hardly emerged from our colonial
estate, we had not yet acquired anything like
a distinct consciousness of our new mission
and place in the world when the French revo
lution of '8'J broke forth in all its awful mag
nificence. Ties of blood unbroken by war, and
the countless traditions of our society and
our institutions, led one great section of the
American people to sympathize intensely with
the indignation aroused in England and
throughout monarchical Europe by the ex
cesses of the men of September and of the
Jacobin Government. Ties of gratitude for
inestimable services rendered to the national
cause, and the influences of French thought
and of French philosophy widely dissemi
nated throughout the land, drew another
great section of the people into an ardent
devotion to the cause of revolutionary
France. Our domestic parties lost their local
color. We were divided into Anglo-men and
Gallo-men. We wore the cockades of "Pitt
and Coburg" or the tri-colored ribbons of the
new republic. All this belittled and retarded
our proper national development. The re
membrance of all this makes us shrink to-day
from the revival, though on a smaller
scale and within the limitations of a special
class, of the mistakes and the condescen
sions of that elder time. The Germans
of America to-day are more nearly colonial in
their mood of mind and in their sympathies
than any other body of immigrants among
us. For this there are simple and obvious
causes. In the first place, the Germans are
the latest comers into the national fold. Be
fore the revolutions of 1848, suppressed in
the blood of the people by the princes of
Prussia, of Saxony, and of Hesse, set adrift
to the westward great floes of the Teutonic
race, the German immigration into the
United States had been but a thin and
almost imperceptible stream. The very
dream of emigration from Germany at
all had only risen upon the German mind
with the emancipation of the people during,
and after, and in consequence of the Napo
leonio propaganda. Serfdom, which was
abolished in Prussia by the French in 1810,
after Jena, was abolished in Wurtemberg by
the prince whom the French had raised to a
kingly throne, in 1818. With 1849 the Ger
man tide fairly began to flow out of the Old
World and in upon the New. The first gene
ration born of the immigrants of 184'J are
but now coming to maturity; and, out of the
two millioLB, more or less, of Germans now
living as citizens in America, the enormous
najority of men capable of political opinions
and feelings at all must necessarily have been
born in Europe, and imbued with Europoau
ideas as to the relative importance of Euro
pean and of American questions. In
other words, ' the German element in
America is still, and from the cir
cumstances of the case still must be.
essentially a colonial element. This fact is
cot discreditable, of course, to the German
element in America; but it is disadvantageous
both to that element and to the country. It
is a source of weakness to be overcome, not
a source of strength to be fostered. To
foster it as Mr. Schurz and his associates do,
and as a certain number of American pirty
organs seem disposed to do, by going with it
in all its European enthusiasms, sympathies,
ond antipathies, in its unhesitating moral
adhesion to the standards of an European
power in an European conflict, is to do aa ill
service to the Germans themselves, and to
strike a damaging bldw at the harmonious
and healthy evolution of American institu
tions. Even the Germans themselvei can see
this plainly enough in such a case, for
example, as that of the Orangeen, whom
insist, without any regard to the passions
and perturbations which their wilfulness may
provoke in the social order, upou flauntiug
the banners of bygone European conflicts os
tentatiously through our streets. No consid
erate Germnn citizen, we fancy, would ques
tion the propriety of official interference,
within proper limits, to prevent the fighting
over again of the battle of the Boyno up and
down llroadway. Is it impossible, then, for
considerate German citizens to perceive how
sadly they derogate from the gravity and the
elevation of their duties and their rights as
Americans, when they give themselves up to
the sentimental excitements of a patriotism
from all the serious obligations of which they
have formally and voluntarily emancipated
themselves ?
TROSPECT OF A REPUBLIC IN SPAIN.
J'rem the X. Y. Sun.
General Prim and not the Spanish nation
has furnished the occasion for setting Europe
in a blaze. He has himself stated that Prince
Leopold was his own selection, and that his
colleagues in the Spanish Ministry remon
strated against the nomination upon the
ground that it would be opposed by France.
He subsequently asserted that he had no idea
that France would be so persistent in her op
position; but that Spain had'already gone too
far to retreat without disgrace, and so be ex
claimed, En atant et vice VEspunne! Two
days after this bombastic utterance, the
Spanish Government declare that the nomi
cation of Leopold is withdrawn, and that in
tho war about to be waged Spain will remain
strictly neutral:
It there are any reasoning men in Spain
tney must be rnucn disgusted with the piti
able position in which Prim has placed their
country, and mucn alarmed at the prospec
tive consequences of his incompetency. Even
if Spain be cot drawn into active co-operation
with either of the contestants, her fate will
depend entirely on the result of the war,
Should the fortune of the field favor Napo
leon, he will of coarse place the Prince of
Asturias on the throne of Spain, and the
country would then be little else than a
A rench department. If, on the other hand,
the arms of Prussia are victorious, the with
drawal by Leopold's father of the candidature
of his son would probably be annulled, and
that prince might be elected King of Spain
In such an event Spain would be almost an
integral part of the German Confederation
In either case' the nationality and indepen
dence ot hpain will be destroyed, and
Spaniards will have no one but General Prim
to thank lor it.
There is but one plan possible by which
Spain can maintain her independence, and
no crisis can be more opportune for execut
icg it than the present. We mean, of
course, the creation of a republic. Far
sighted men in Spain must lonaago have seen
that a Spanish king is impossible, and that
the selection of a foreign prince will only
subject the nation to foreign intervention.
Moreover, for the past twenty-two months
Spain has got along tolerably well without a
king, and a bungling would-be king-maker is
now tne cause ot cer troubles.
Ucder the circumstances, therefore, we are
cot surprised that, at the instigation of a
committee of the Republican Deputies, the
permanent committee of the Cortes think it
time to convene the whole body for the pur
pose of definitively establishing the Constitu
tion. ,
Republican Spain would give Cuba her in
dependence, and Cuba s slaves their immo
diate freedom.
FRENCH AND PRUSSIAN BATTLES.
From the Loston Traveller.
An article from the Cincinnati Commercial
is going the rounds concerning the past fight
ing of the French and the Prussiane, and is
said to be written by "a well-informed
European," Mr. Daniel Roemer. Mr. Roemer
may be a very honest and a very clever man.
but woll informed certainly he is not, as we
shall proceed to show. Mr. Roemer says:
"The only battles in which Prussians alone, with
out being encumbered by Russians or Austrians,
fought the French were Luckuau, Gross-Beeren,
Katzbacb, and Dennewitz, and the engagement of
AV artenlerg, In all live of which the Prussians were
victorious. The battle of Dennewltz is, moreover,
the most glorious victory of this century. Forty
thousand Prussians, under Bulow, utterly routed
seventy thousaud Frenchmen, under Ney. No na
tion can show such a glorious victory iu the present
century.''
The battle of the Katzbach was a series of
combats fought on the 2Gth and 27th of
August, 1813, between a French army, com
manded by Marshal Macdonald (in which
were many Poles, Germans, and Italians),
and the army of Silesia, commanded by the
celebrated Blucher. The Army of Silesia
was composed of Russians and Prussians,
the former being the more numerous, and
their two corps being led by Count Langeron
and General von Sacken, well-known Russian
commanders. Baron von Muffling, who was
Blucher's Quartermaster-General, says:
"Lacgeron's vigorous attack, about G o'clock
in the evening of the 2Gth, was probably the
cause of Macdonald's precipitate retreat; and
if Lacgeron's corps, in consequence,
had most share in the dis
persion of Macdonald's army, it was
a well-deserved reward." ("Passages from
My Life and Writings," pp. 72,73.) Aooord
ing to the same eminent Prussian authority,
Blucher said, the day after the battle, "We
owe a great deal to General von Sacken; his
12-pounders on the Eiohholz heights facili
tated our work, and his cavalry in Sebastiani's
rear completed the victory. Let us hold that
Etan in honor." The Baron also says, "When
our (the Prussian) cavalry came up, the force
got too much scattered in the fight, so that
they were unable to decide it, or to rout the
enemy, until the Jlussian cavalry of Sacken's
Corps took them on the left flank," eto. But
for the presence of the Russians at the battle
of the Katzbach, no such battle ever could
have been fought. The Prussians fought
well, as they have done on an hundred
fields, but it ia utterly false to say that they
won the battle mentioaed and no honest,
well-unformed Prussian ever cUiiadl tlu vic
tory of the Katzbach as the exclusive glory of
his countrymen.
I he battle of Gtoss-lieeren was fought on
the 2.'td of August, between the army
of the Crown Prince of Sweden (Bernadotte)
and a I rene u army commanded by Marshal
Oudinot. The Prussians did most of the
fighting on the side of the Allies, but they
were well supported by Knssian cavalry, and
by Swedish cavalry an dby Swedish artillery.
1 his battle, however, was to a large extent a
battle between Germans, for there was a
very heavy force of Saxons in the French
army, 24,000 men, according to an authority
minently friendly to the Prussians, besides
other Germans. In the first part of the bat
tle the Saxons were successful, but later thoy
were beaten, through the concentration of
an immensely superior force against them,
(Prussians. Swedes, and Russians.)
The battle of Dennewitz was fought on the
(lh of September, 181.1, between the allied
army which Bernadotte commanded and a
A rench army commanded by Marshal rey.
The Prussians fought with great bravery, but
the result' would have been a drawn battle
had not Bernadotte brought up his Swedes
nnd Russians, and made it a brilliant victory
for the allies. It was the work of the Rus
sian cavalry that Converted the French re
treat into a rout, and gave to tho victors the
piisoners, cannon, and so forth that testified
to the greatness of their success. Of the
GOOO men lost by the allies In the action, 1000
were cot Prussians, which shows that men
of other nations took an effective part
in winning the victory. It is nonsense to say
that "forty thousand Prussians routed seventy
thousand Frenchmen," for large parts of Ney s
army were composed of Germans and Italians,
and there was no rout of the Frenoh army so
long as it had only the Prussians to fight: the
rout took place after the Swedes and Russians
arrived on the field (40,000 strong or there
about, with l.r0 pieces of cannon), and was
immediately brought about by charges made
by the Russian horso. To call Dennewitz
"the most glorious victory of this century"
is to utter nonsense; and it would be equally
untrue had 40,000 Prussians there beaten
70,000. Frenchmen; for at Auerstadt, seven
years before, 20,000 Frenchmen under Mar
shal Davoust defeated OH, 000 Prussians.
But enough of particular instances of bat
tles fought between the Prussians and the
French in the old wars. Mr. Roomer is most
audaciously cool when he talks of the Prus
sians "being encumbered by Russians or
Austrians ! W hy, there could have been no
war in 1813 had not the Russians acted with
the Prussians in the April and May of that
year; and no renewal of the war in August,
1813, had cot the Austrians joined the Rus
sians and the Prussians, who had been de
feated at Lutzen and Bautzen by the French.
Blucher never could have had an army ta
command the Army of Silesia never could
have won a place in history had he not been
"encumbered" by Russians. It was the heroic
action of the Russians at Kulm that led to the
winning of that field, which rendered the great
French victory at Dresden barren. Had Kulm
not beeo lost, even Blucher's victory at the
Katzbach would have been a fruitless affair.
Germany was "delivered," in 1813, by the
Russians, if any one people are to have the
exclusive merit of that work. We observe
that one of the speakers at the late Prussian
meeting in Faneuil Hall referred to the battle
of Leipsic as if it had been a Prussian action!
It was cot a German action, much less a
Prussian action. The Russians bore the chief
burden of that great fight, on the side of the
Allies. The Allied loss at Leipsio was 42,51)0;
acd of this 20,8000 belonged to the Russian
army, 7500 to the Austrian army, and
310 to the Swedes; leaving 14,120 to
the Prussians. Considering that a large
part of the Austrian army was not
composed of Germans, we shall not
err in putting about three-fifths of the entire
loss of the Allies as having fallen upon men
who were not of the German race. The loss
of the Prussians was very great, and testifies
nobly to their valor on that memorable field;
but that field never could have been fought
had either the Russians or the Austrians been
absent from it. So severely were the Allies
handled on the first day of the battle (Octo
ber 1G, 1813) that they did not resume fight
ing on the 17th, but awaited the arrival of
reinforcements, particularly Benningsen's
Russians and Colloredo's Austrians; and
Bernadotte's army, which joined Blucher
on the north side of Leipsio, contained
Russians and Swedes. The event of the
battle was decided on the 18th by the weight
of the allied artillery fire at the south, prin
cipally proceeding from Austrian and Russian
batteries; and at the north, by the arrival of
Bernadotte, whose army was made up princi
pally of men who were not Prussians. The
Russians suffered dreadfully on the north
side, where Blucher led the allied foroes.
There were even some Englishmen at the
battle of Leipsio, Captain Bogue commanding
there an English rocket brigade, Congreve
rockets being then and there used for the first
time. Leipsio was neither a German nor a
TrusBian victory, for it was won by Russians,
Hungarians, Bohemians, Poles, Swedes, Eng
lishmen, Croats, and various kind of Germans,
who fought against Frenchmen, Italians,
Dutchmen, Belgian?, Poles, and various kinds
of Germans. In short, it was, as it has been
called, a People's Battle, a Congress of
Nations, all the members of which were
armed, and whose noise was greater even
than that which a political Congress could
have produced.
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TERMS 13"60 per dayJune and September. I4-00
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