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Editorial Opinions of the Leading Journal
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THE CHINESE MASSACRES.
From tk K. Y. World.
It would be wholly unbecoming, in the
presence of the horrible details from China,
i to claim any credit for s resolute persistence
: in the distrust of the niisohievoas nonsense
generated, it would seem, thronghoat the
world .by the Burlingame imposture. We
i dismiss all thoughts of the kind now that we
( are convinced there is an end to it, at onoe
and forever. Let Mr. Frank Moore, who,
gossip tells us, is writing Mr. Bnrlingaine'a
biography, give over his work, or put to it a
1 concluding chapter to tell that all the
quackery of which poor Mr. Burlingame was
the hero, and the gullible people of Amerioa
the victims, has oowe to bloody fruition, in
murder and mutilation and outrage, which
tbe pen refuses to chronicle or the tongue
' to utter.
Even Boston will not buy the book unless
it tells this ghastly truth. If one tithe of the
: reported outrages be true, then all that is loft
of the Embassy, wherever it is Mr. McOleary
- Brown and Ohin Kang and Sun Chia Ku had
better go homeward through Borne by-trays
for fear of summary justice; and Mrs. Bur
lingame would do well to refund her pension,
and Mr. Sumner pause before he realms the
Chinese surplus We are not Bure that even
the oordwaining pulse of the North Adams
' capitalist will not quicken when he reads of
the "six boxes of the charred bones of the
Sisters of Mercy" being sent down the Pei-ho
like so muoh freight; or this, which, as a
touching specimen, we select from a mass of
horrors:
"One of the sisters, named Loutza (an English
girl, well known In Shanghai as a devoted and faith
ful friend of the Chinese, and for years a patient
toller in Anglo-China hospitals and schools), escaped
from the Mission when it was attacked, clad in Chi
nese garments. She obtained refuge In the house of
a rice merchant, where she remained four hours;
- hut upon attempting to escape to the settlement stio
was betrayed by her European shoes and set upon
by a crowd which in a few minutes numbered hun
dreds. She was most shockingly abused and suf
fered Indignities at the hands of the savages which
make the heart sick. All and more than her com
panions had suffered was she compelled to undergo
hefore death released her. Iler body floated down
the river on Wednesday a bruised and sickening
witness of her cruel death."
This is in 1870; and yet it was but yester
day a pretentious jurist and eminently un
successful soldier, General Halleok, at the
San Francisco banquet, sneered at Mr. John
Quincy Adams' doctrine (the only sound one,
and which was reiterated with emphasis by
Lord Palmerston years afterwards), that the
rules of Christian and civilized diplomaoy are
not always applicable to intercourse with
heathen and barbarous people; and poor,
credulous Mr. Martin fanoied China was
socially revolutionized by virtue of a bad
translation of "Wheaton's International
Law," made more morally efficacious
by Dana's stolen notes; and ex-Consul
Kiernan raved in the Herald; and
Mr. Burlingame, with all the flourish of
postprandial eloquenoe, told ns here, there,
and everywhere, and foolish people believed
him, that China meant and was fit to come
into tho brotherhood of nations. "She
meant peace and good-will and unification
with the whole human race." This was less
than two years ago; and now we find the offi
cial authorities of this new civilization assert
ing, and the gentle-hearted race believing,
that foreigners oome to China and reside
there for the purpose of "kidnapping young
boys and girls, killing them, digging out
their eyes, mutilating their persons, stewing
portions of their body in a huge cauldron,
and packing in tin cans; after whioh they
shipped them to Europe and Amerioa for
medicinal purposes, the preparation being a
pure panacea for baffling diseases."
But we are drifting with a current of
thought which, for the present, it would be
better to avoid. What we and the whole
world have to do is to measure and face the
awful actuality as it presents itself.
The first impulse is a sort of dim hope that
the narrative whioh comes to us may be ex
aggerated; but ' there is transient consola
tion in this when we read the address of the
Protestant missionaries and foreign residents
at Shanghai , to the French Consul-General,
attested by responsible signatures of great
weight.' Putting asi.de the English signers,
who that ' knows anything of . China,
be he a believer or a doubter as to mis
sionary enterprise, will hesitate to place
implicit confidence in such men as Robert
Nelson, and Edward W. Syle -gentlemen not
merely devoted to the cause to which they
have consecrated their lives, but fond of the
Chinese, and ultra-Protestant in their theo
logical views? r The other American signers
are not so well known to ns, but all, no
doubt, are trustworthy; and when they ask
"full reparation for the past," they mean
what they say. We do not know precisely
the extent of outrages upon Americans; nor
is it very material, as their escape from a
general crusade against foreigners was
purely accidental; and we rejoice to see that
the nearest place of refuge to the surviving
fugitives from Tien-tain was an armed mer
chant vessel with an American commander,
though probably flying the English flag. By
this complicated outrage every treaty with
the Western powers has been violated, in
cluding Mr. Burlingame's supplementary arti
cles, for protection to this very class of
victims is in all specifically stipulated. The
attitude of the Western plenipotentiaries at
the capital in, to say the least of it, very
awkward, and news from them will be
anxiously expeci?d. The last intelligence
we had of our Mr. Low was of his giving
Prince Hung a patent-lever watch, and re
ceiving in return a piece of trumpery silk.
He is now a sort of hostage at Pekin, look
ing, we imagine, at his own timepieoe with
some solicitude.
Ru&aia and France are the nations most
directly involved, and though European com
plications may hold their band for a time, the
blow which justice demands on these brutal
barbarians will fall heavily. There is a dis
engaged French squadron in the Eastern seas
and a military force quite adequate in Cochin
China. PetropaulovBki is not far off, and
Russia need not and will not pause. England
will, of course, guard her commercial inte
rests wisely, and with a proper selfishness;
and tbe United States will do what the saga
city of the President prompts and the means
which a radical Congress put at the com
mand of the Secretary of the Navy will
Eermit. As it is, our correspondents
lame how justly we don't pretend to say
Admiral Rowan (the same officer who refused
boats to the Oneida) for keeping all his squad
ron at Hong Kong, where he expects to be
relieved AdmiralRogers is on his way there;
but, inasmuch as it took him five months to
go from New York to Rio Janeiro, there will
be time for the complete extirpation of all
Americana in Cathay before he drops his
anchor in the shadow of the Victoria peak.
The conspicuous wisdom of our New Jersey
Secretary and Admiral Porter' showed itself
marvellously in the selection of the naval
craft for Asiatic service. . He has soot them
the Colorado, a sixty-gun frigate, drawing at
least twenty-two feet of water, and there is
not a port or anchorage where she can float,
from the Bogne forts to the Chinese walL
Such is the administrative impotence with
which, at a crisis, this great nation is afflicted.
At home and abroad, it is all alike.
GERMANY AND EUROPE.
Fiom the Lrndim Saturday Revirii).
The success with which Germany has
opened the campaign has naturally given
rise to speculations and suggestions of every
possible kind as to the consequenoes, remote
or immediate, of Germany establishing an
incontestable superiority over France. The
Journal Officiet had even gone so far as to
publish a manifesto addressed to all the
nations of Europe, showing how very dan
gerous to each might be the triumph of bo
unscrupulous and rapacious a power as Ger
many. While there is yet time to give effec
tual aid, the Journal Ojjiiiel entreats the
countries now neutral to stand by France,
tbe champion ef European independence.
What is asked is, in plain language, that
Western Europe should form a coalition
not against France, but in her favor.
Perhaps no effect of the reverses the
French army has sustained is more
curious than this. Here is the organ of the
French Government, within a month of a war
undertaken in lightness of heart to teaoh the
Prussians manners and to show the world
the prowess of the French army, crying out
in hopeless panic to the world that these
Prussians are too great and strong for any
one power to contend against, and that all
who want to be safe from them must unite to
put them dowB. The Germans inspire the
officials of the Third Napoleon with some
thing of the same terror with whioh the vast
ambition and colossal strength of the First
Napoleon inspired the courts and peoples in
his neighborhood. A vision is conjured up
of a German empire making the Baltio a Ger
man lake. The expression which the French
have on their own behalf delighted so much to
apply to the Mediterranean is to be applied
by the Germans, in their horrible presump
tion, to the sea that washes their northern
shores. But this would never content the
Emperor of Germany, for the French mind
perceives that this would be the new title of
the King of Prussia; and while it is the most
harmless and natural thing in the world that
France should have an Emperor, it reveals
an almost superhuman insolence in the Ger
mans that they also should have an Emperor
to rule over them. The whole tone of the
Journal Officiel in this respect is perfectly
artless and sincere, and is thoroughly Frenoh.
That France .should domineer over
her neighbors is quite in keeping with
the proper order of things, and can give
offence to no one. But that Germany should
talk as France has been in the habit of talk
ing, and should act as France has boasted of
wishing and intending to act, is truly awful.
There is no end to the dreadful fancies that
such a thought suggests. The Emperor of
Germany will want Holland, he will want
Venice, he will want Trieste. He will bar
gain with Russia, and in return for ample
compensation will plant the Czar at
Constantinople. He will in fact play the part
which Napoleon played with bo much relish
at Tilsit. To prevent such a catastrophe
France asks for aid from those who would
most suffer at the hands of a too triumphant
Germany; and it may perhaps be worth while
for the neutral nations to ask themselves how
far these fears are imaginary, and whether, if
the Germans succeeded in inflicting further
defeats on France, the interests of European
peace would be seriously endangered.
It is impossible for us in England to regard
Europe from the same point of view, in whioh
the French regard it. To as the strength and
power of Germany have a value which the
French, against whom we wish they should
be in some measure direoted, cannot be ex
pected to ' appreciate. It is for the great
good of Europe, and, as we believe, to the
real advantage of France itself, that there
should be a neighbor of France strong enough
and resolute enough to ease France of some
thing of its restless ambition, its tall talk, and
its tendency to relieve the weariness of its
home politics by interfering with every one
outside its borders. A nation that is a prey to
revolutions, to adventurers, and to military
despotism, and that avowedly looks on war
as a last stake which its gamblers throw when
they are hard pressed, is a constant source of
peril to Europe. It is not wholesome for
Europe that there should be in it a country
the Prime Minister of which rushes into a
totally unjustifiable war with lightness of
heart. When we have said thus much we
have said all that we have to Bay against
France. ' That . France should be really
humiliated, crippled, and powerless, would
be a state of things in every way deplorable
and very nnwelcome to England. The French
have forced on the war, and they must take
the chances of the war they have provoked;
but France bleeding and prostrate is a spec
tacle which Englishmen will regard with the
most unfeigned reluctarf All that is
wanted is that trance 6houLTearn the lesson
it so much needed, that it must leave Ger
many alone. But will the Germans be
content to be left alone, or will they use their
victories, if they continue to win them, in a
spirit of arrogance and insolence, and so as
to menace Europe V The Frenoh say that
they will, and they have, it appears, not only
said this in a general way, but they have
pressed some neutral States, and more parti
cularly Austria, Italy, and Denmark, with the
argument that to join France promptly and
openly is their last chance of independenoe.
Would a wise Austrian or Italian admit the
force of this argument, or not ? Is the suc
cess of Germany a danger to Europe ? Of all
the political questions of the day, this is
perhaps the one it is most desirable to answer
aright. No prudent person, would give other
than a guarded answer. Success quiokly cor
rupts the heart of man, and no one can
speak positively as to the effect on Germany
of finding itself quickly and indis
putably victorious. But, so far as it is pos
sible to form an opinion now, it may be
said that the Journal OJftciel is wrong, and
that its error consists in speaking of Germans
as if they were Frenchmen. Everything tends
to show that all the Germans want is Ger
many for the Germans. They do not want to
dictate to their neighbors, or to take the ter
ritory of their neighbors, or to inoorporate
aliens such as Belgians and Dutchmen in
Germany. They only ask that Germany may
be left altogether alone, to manage its own
concerns, and to bind together its several
parts in that degree and kind of nnity which
may best suit them.
No one can speak confidently as to the
effects of military success on a people; but
there is at any rate a very strong presump
tion against the notion that Germany
will become an aggressive power. That
Count Bismarck has often talked as if
bo would readily consent to see small States
like Belgium sacrificed in order to carry out
the projects of great power like Frac ai
Prussia it doubtless true. But it must be
remembered that none of the projects of
Count Bisinftrok with regard to foreign nations
have ever attained anything like detinitenesa,
nor have they ever received the sanction of
the King. The difference between France
and Germany in this respect is very striking.
It is tbe bead of France who for years has
been striving to tear up old treaties, and to
propagate new ideas, very often to the great
advantage of the world. It is not in his hour
of misfortune - that we ought to forget
that Italy owes its very existence to
the Emperor of the French. But still he has
been plotting against the established order of
things for twenty years, and his people have
looked very kindly on his plotting. The
Journal Officiel makes the fundamental mis
take, in our opinion, of looking on Germans
as if they were Frenchmen. The reply to its
arguments is to be found in the experience
of any one accustomed to mix with the natives
of the two countries. Even the' most tern
peratejand modest Frenchmen are imbued with
the ideas of territorial aggrandizoment and
foreign conquest. They are actuated un
consciously by memories of the old Napoleon
dajs, and speak as if they had been robbed
of all the territory which Napoleon wou and
failed to keep. Such a spirit is unknown in
Germany. The Germans want all Germany
to be united, but they want nothing more.
A war of spoliation would be totally ab
horrent to German feelings. The
moral sentiment of the Germans
is against wronging and bullying and preying
on adjacent nations. The war with Denmark
may be thought a proof to the contrary; but
the Germans at least believed they were tho
roughly in tbe right, that the Duchies were
German, and had . been ill-treated by a
foreigner, and that they were only .roclaim
iDg their own when they took away the
Duchies from Denmark. But, in any case,
isolated nets may mislead us. What we rest
upon is the character of tho German people,
which is orderly and honest and sober,
and averse to military despotism and
the fatigues and dangers of unnecessary war.
The German army is admirably organized,
and, as has just been shown, can strike swift
and strong blows outside German territory.
But it is essentially a defensive army, and
those who compose it will not readily under
take war unless to protect themselves. It was
with the utmost reluctance that the Germans
went into the present war, and their only
object at present seems to be to show, that
they are not to be invaded with impunity.
The Germans may of course become intoxi
cated with success, but there is no symptom
whatever at present that this will be the case,
and they deserve fully that their past history
and their national character should at least do
this much for them, that neutral nations
should look on their successes without jealousy
or alarm.
THE MODERN NEWSPAPER.
Prom the Kttrark A dver titter.
The publication by the N. Y. Tribune
of four columns of a graphic account
of a battle fought in France last Thursday, is
one. of the notable inoidents of modern jour
nalism. It involved, first, the sending of a
man with brains, eyes, education, and courage
to the field. He must also have enough of
social position and polite address to secure
kindly treatment and fair opportunity to
observe what is going on. Ilia day's work
done, he must telegraph to his principal at
London, and he again to the home office in
New York. The exploit oost some
thousands of dollars, but was so well
executed that Americans are better in
formed as to the real events and results
of the battle of Gravelotte than are the in
habitants of Berlin, Paris, or London. The
same triumph ' was achieved by the Herald
in the Abyssinian war; and while the Tribune
has a good right to glorify itself, the other
great dailies of New York are not without
their laurels in this matter of the Franoo
Piussian war. Whatever of failure attaches
to them arises from the. mistake of suppos
ing that Paris would be the centre of news,
when, to use a very bad and yet expressive
word, it "eventuated" that Paris has been for
days cut off from communication with the
fnncipal field of action, and that such intel
igence as came to the Government could not
be safely communicated to the people.
But the least successful of our New York
contemporaries has far exceeded the press of
London, which, free as it is and supplied
with ample brain and wealth, has not dared
to invest in news to any extent that would
be deemed enterprising in a prominent Ame
rican newspaper. It has contented itself
with what is called official news, and we need
only the experience of our own war to know
that private enterprise is more likely to tell
the troth than any statement coming from
sources which are deeply Interested fn the
result. The authorities are compelled to be
reticent if not absolutely economical in their
use of truth. Paris would have been a
whirlwind last Saturday had our despatches,
all of which have been verified since, been
placarded in its streets. ' The Paris des
patches in the New York Times of recent
issues 6how that even a keen-soented and
capable correspondent was kept in compul
sory ignorance of the real Btate of affairs at
the front.
The modern paper is curiously enough re
turning to the original conception of its duty,
which is simply to inform its readers of pass
ing events and to explain them from day to
day, not with authority or leadership, but
with that weight of influence which may ap
pertain to intelligent discussion. The editor
need not be a lecturer. His personality is
of small account to most of the thousands
whom he addresses, but if in his writings
he shows a ready comprehension of affairs
and a decent power of legic, he may
be presumed to be a quicker and
better judge as te what has really happened
than another man of equal intelligence
who is absorbed in his private business. The
facts he relates carry with them their own
logic, and need only comment and illustra
tion. Tbe fairer the tone adopted, the calmer
and less personal the language employed, the
stronger will be the control it exercises upon
publio opinioB. The power of a newspaper
does not rest in self-assertion, certainly not
in the filthy use of personalities now aban
doned by all respectable sheets, and only
maintained by struggling bankrupt establish
ments seeking to attract a notice they do not
deserve, or stupidly by fellows who nave no
business to claim a place in a learned pro
fession. , The tendency of journalism is toward the
entire absorption of tie individual in the
paper. Who knows, and how few care, who
wrote the magnificent battle-pictnre in the
TSibvne of Tuesddy morning r Even Horaoe
Greeley, with his immense power of self,
assertion and the' many ear-marks whioh dis
tinguish his peculiar style, gets credit for
hundreds of articles written by others, and
the gentleman who controls the policy and
news business of the Tribune very rarely sees
bis canie in print. The finished scholar and
accomplished writer who is the author of
most of . the perversely cogent "leaders" in
the HW it aUolutely unknown, to fame,
except as be enjoys a professional reputation,
a repute among Journalists who are good
i'ndea of their own class, whioh doea him
iigh honor, atd with Which we presume him
to be content.
Only the snobs and underlings enjoy a
publicity which is necessarily a mere noto
riety. No good journal oan allow its fame to
rest upon the personal fortunes of any man,
and as a compensation to the Journalist he is,
by all honorable men,- spared those deroga
tory personal allusions whioh he would not
himself apply to others and which cannot by
any possibility weaken though they may
strengthen the intrinsic force of the argu
ment he presents. This is a sound theory of
his position. Mr. Raymond's idea and
America has known no abler journalist was
that a newspaper represents not so much
its editor as tbe aggregate mind of its readers.
If they are pure-minded and intelligent, bo
must be his conduct of the paper. If they
are vulgar and ignorant he will be vile and
personal. The rule will be found to hold
good.
A WORD ABOUT PLATFORMS.
From the S. T. World.
Within the ensuing month many State and
more Congressional district conventions will
be held by Democrats; and eaoh, in accord
ance with usage, will promulgate a declara
tion of principles. It concerns the welfare
and sure ss of the party that these platforms
be wisely drawn, and it may not be amiss for
Democrat a to bestow some reflection before
hand on the points it is proper to introduce
in such declaration?.
In the two last Presidential elections the
Democratic party has been defeated by mala
droit platforms. In its aim and purpose, a
political platform is an electioneering mani
festo a dooume&t intended, first, to hold the
party together on a basis whioh all its mem
bers can accept, and, secondly, to furnish an
easy bridge on which citizens outside of the
organization can oome over and strengthen it
by reinforcements. The tune should ' there
fore le pitched in a low key. The declara
tion should contain nothing to which the
whole party cannot readily assent, otherwise
it obstructs the first of these objects; and it
should not attempt to drive the wedge blunt
end foremost, or it will repel instead of win
ning proselytes.
The Democratic national platforms of 1864
and 18G8 fatally erred in both these particu
lars. They were not broad enough even for
the pruty, and contained no room for prose
lytes. The anti-war plank of the platform of
18G4 was felt to be so damaging that the can
didate virtually abjured it in his letter ac
cepting the nomination. There wan a self
stultifying incongruity in nominating a dis
tinguished and popular general on an anti
war platform. In 18G8 the platform and the
candidate were also out of harmony. Gov
ernor Seymour had, within the preceding
three months, made vigorous speeches against
the greenback theory, and yet he was placed
on a platform endorsing it. The platform
was in direct collision with the avowed
opinions of the candidate. But a more funda
mental objection to it was that it was too
narrow for any party to stand on that ex
pected within the ensuing five months to be
a majority. There was at that time no majo
rity that accepted its principles, and no pro
bability that such a majority could be created
previous to the election.
The Republican party has generally man
aged these matters more adroitly and suooess
fully. Instead of avowing all they wished
te accomplish, and all they hoped their party
would ultimately grow to, they have been
careful to insert the sharp end of the wedge,
well knowing that if it could not be driven
to the but in that way it could not at all.
They declared at first that they only aimed
to exclude slavery from the Territories; but
they ended by abolishing it in the States.
When they were soliciting support for aboli
tion, they disclaimed any intention of mak
ing voters of the freedmen; but they never
theless gave them the suffrage as soon as they
were strong enough. In their last national
platform they declared that the regulation of
the elective franchise in the loyal
States belonged to the people of
those ' States; but .; as soon as they
had carried tbe election they undertook to
regulate it in all the States by Federal autho
rity. If they had begun where they left off,
they never could have had any success, nor
even have formed a party capable of making
a figure in politics. When publio opinion is
set moving even so feebly in any direction,
its natural tendency is to go on. A party in
the flush of success may do things which
would have shocked many of its own mem
bers in an earlier stage. 1 When a train of
cars is 6tarted from the station the utmost
foroe of tbe engine can give it only a slow
motion at first, but its velocity increases by
a continued application of the same power,
and in a short time it goes shooting "forward
on its track at the rate of forty or fifty miles
an hour. In politics success propagates itself
and breeds new successes. A party in power
may safely do things on which it could not
have ventured without rnin so long as it was
a candidate for publio favor.
" The children of this world are wiser in
their generation than the children of light."
Tbe Democratto platform builders may learn
something from the history of the Republi
can party during the period while it was
rising to power and gradually developing its
policy. During that period its platforms
were always accommodated to those who
marched with the rear; but it always turned
out that the rear Boon passed the position
lately occupied by the advance, and the pro
gress of the party was en and on. "It is the
first step that costs. " When men are deliber
ating whether they will act with a different
party, the way needs to be smoothed; but
after the old connection has been broken, a
series of political victories in whioh they
have participated has more effect than
argument in opening their minds. We
hope the Democratic platforms this year will
be broad enough for the whole party to stand
upon, with some room for new-oomers. We
may safely trust to the tendency of victorious
parties to advance to the full length of their
principles when they are fairly on the march.
SHEPHERD AND SnEEP.
from tK4 K. T. Tribune.
Tte beautiful language of 'the Scripture
which characterizes tbe itaity as a shepherd
leading his flock, has been applied to the
pastors of Congregational churches. In the
ast, tbe sheep, we are told, really follow the
shepherd in our modern eooiesiastical ar
rangements, the individual who carries the
crook walks behind, and if the rams and ewes
of the society do not like his driving, they
turn about and drive him. To drop all meta
phor, we do not know anything more mourn
ful than the spectacle of a clergyman badgered
and worried by those to whom he is appointed
as a teacher of truth. It is such an absurd
solecism. It is such a ridiculous perversity.
It is such a droll putting of the oart before
tie horse. As we gaze upon it we follow the
example of the Widow of F.pbesus. We laugh
with one eye and we weep with the other.
We are alive to the distressing charaoter of
tbe fw; but, in ppits of oursolves, we cannot
help giggling at the fun. 1 ;
A Boone of a kind which has become not
uncommon upon this continent occurred in
the Church of the Atonement, in Chicago, on
Sunday, the 14th instant. It is the misfor
tune of the Rev. Dr. Thayer, the shepherd
of this church, to have a chronio quarrel
with that part of the flock called vestrymen.
He is aconsed of making "ill-timed ' and
unnecessary remarks in his sermons. H Nor
does the church under his ministry "grow"
as it should, to the great detriment of the
treasury. Wherefore the vestrymen held a
meeting and voted to ask Dr. Thayer to
resign; and, should he refuse to do so, to
turn him out. . Although not officially sorved
with Ibis document, Dr. Thayer obtained a
copy of it, and on the aforesaid Sunday, in
full congregation, he expressed bis mind,
which was not a pacifio or complimentary
mind, of the aforesaid vestrymen. Tbe ac
count before us Bays that he was "pale with
rage;" but can we imagine a gentle shepherd
thus disregarding the Arcadian simplicities
of his oalling ? Dr. Thayer, in substanoe,
said that he did not believe that a majority of
the eheep wished bint to resign; and, not to
put too fine a point upon it, he wouldn't. It
was then that the vestrymen rose to do battle,
and Buoh a bloating never was heard in the
fold before. Some were for having a vote at
once taken on the subject, and some declared
that euch a course would be 'illegal and revo
lutionary." Large numbers of people sprung
to their feet. Dozens were gesticulating
and talking together. Some swore (so to
speak) that there should be a vote. Others
affirmed that there should not. "The
church," says the report of the
affair, "was filled with noise and
confusion. " There was hesitation in
some faces, and wrath in others. Alto
gether, it was quite a carnal scene, and what
might have happened we tremble to think
(possibly manslaughter) if one of the Vestry
men, who bears the strong and strident name
of Stridiron, had not, with admirable pres
ence of mind, ordered everybody to leave the
sacred edifice. He gpake and was obeyed.
The ferocious altercation was renewed upon
the sidewalk, and then the whole flock went
home to the subduing pasturage of their Sun
day dinners, to allay by their pleasant nib
blings, and by either still or strong waters,
the partisan fervors of this extraordinary oc
casion. What will come of all this we do not
know; but should there be an actual physical
contest, we shall try to chronicle the fearful
fact.
It has been generally conceded, in ell ages
of Christianity, that "Brethren Bhould dwell
together in unity;" but, somehow, in all
ages they have Badly failed to do so; and
church quarrels were never more common
than at the present time. Being ourselves,
although secular, great lovers of peace and
harmony (when the same oan be maintained
without compromising principle), we wish
that the fact were otherwise; and it does not
lessen our regret to observe that more than
a moiety of chnrsh squabbles seem to be
about things which are not of the least con
sequence. . A REPUBLIC FOR GERMANY.
From the A'. F. Times- .
The successes of the German armies in the
present war may undoubtedly tend to increase
the popularity of the House of Ilohenzollern
for a time; but there can scarcely be any
doubt that a republio, and not an empire, is
the form of government towards which the
people are gravitating. It is impossible that
united Germany can long remain subject to a
monarch who still clings to the prinoiple
which cost Charles I his life. . The German
iieople are now too powerful to be held in
eading strings,' and the degree of culture
which exists among them is too high to
admit of a repetition of those despotic
measures which Count Bismarck has so
often put in force. Count Bismarck has,
indeed, been made ' an instrument for
the accomplishment of " a great,' "v jrk,
but his usefulness i will have ' passed
away with the close of the1 present 'war.
From that time the German people will have
freed themselves from external enemies, and
they will be enabled to apply their undivided
energies to the task of constructing a govern
' ment calculated to develop the liberal ideas
i which really animate the nation. The war
has not only paralyzed the only formidable
foe which stood in the way of Germany, but
it has obliterated sectional differences. The
grand idea of "unity" was never, so fully
realized by our own people as during and
after our late war, and the sense of danger to
Germany has had a similar effect upon the
minds of the German people. ' They see
plainly enough that their own political dif
ferences are unimportant compared with the
necessity of presenting an unbroken front to
the world. They will .soon see that in a re
publio lies .their surest guarantee of future
proHperity and power, and it is not too muoh
to hope that Austria will one day form an in
tegral part of that republic, . . - t i :
In that case, the two greatest Governments
in the world will challenge admiration as the
direct work of the people's hands. , Under a
republic, there need be soaroely any limit to
the progress of Germany. No one can doubt
that bhe would at any time be prepared to
repel assaults from without. Republics
always know how to defend themselves. The
existence of tbe House of Ilohenzollern is
now an anachronism. It is the indomitable
spirit of a great nation which has waged the
present arduous contest, not the genius of a
king or his adviser. Whatever may be the
plans of Bismarck, we do not believe
that the German people intend this
war to be one of aggrandizement or
spoliation. The only want "Germany
for the Germans," to cause it to be under
stood by the world, once for all, thtt Ger
many must not be put up as a prize for Im-
Eerial or political gamblers. Bismarck's am
ition has thus far exceeded that of his
countrymen, and the war will probably teach
him that with the accomplishment of Ger
man unity the great bulk of tbe people will
be fully satisfied. As a Minister, he is still
far from being universally popular as the
fact that he has been obliged to suppress
bixty-seven newspapers in North Germany,
for making disagreeable comments, suffi
ciently attests. ."I have no love for
the . preaching old drill-sergeant who
is called , King of Prussia," writes
a German to a foreign journal, "or for the
audacious conspirator who pulls his wires.
TLU conspirator and his rival conspirator,
Louis Bonaparte, stand in my affections
pretty much on a par. Both play their own
game, and are obstacles to better things. X
em a republican. . I desire a republic for
every country in Europe. I believe no coun
try of Europe is so fitted to be a republio as
Germany." That is the true idea, and it will
govern the future of politics in Germany.
Under a republic the nation itself, and not
kings or ministers, would reap the advan
tages of the vat sacrifices it has made. Let
us hope that the present generation will wit
ness tiia displacement both of the Hohenrol
krns and the Ilapoburg. . ,
. WnO RULES THIS COUNTRY f,
FVtn tkt K. r: Bun. !
On Saturday last the steamer F1orida,"for
merly United States steamer Penguin, wa
seized by the United State Marshal for thig
district, on the charge of violating the neu
trality laws. A the Marshal is merely tho
executive of competently issued mandates,
and as the Hon. Hamilton Fish dearei oa
Monday last, at his country-seat at Garrisons,
that he knew nothing of the seizure until he
read an account of it in that morning's paper,
the order of seizure must have issued from
one of the Davises -either from the Assistant
Secretary of State, of Boston and Erie fame,
or from Noah Davis, of McFarland trial
notoriety. , ,
The ' order of seizure was made on . the
complaint of the Spanish Mtoister at Wash
ington and the Spanish Consul at this port,
and said complaint was based upon the
affidavit of a person "who," as the Dwtriot
Attorney states, "does not wish his name to
appear.
At the time of seizure the vessel was being
loaded with merchandise for Vera Cms by
General Darr. Of course the Spanish Minis
ter chose to Bnspeot that Bhe was loading
arms for tbe Cuban patriots. We know that
the decision of the Washington Cabinet last
October was that the shipment of arms and
munitions of war from our ports was not
prohibited to either party to the Cuban Strug,
gle, and that the question of the duty of this
Government to interfere could arise only
when "an expedition of armed men or armed ,
vessels, or of vessels fitted and prepared and
intended for naval warfare, is started in an y
oi our ports. isotn tne l'resident and the
Secretary have in public documents not only j
stated that the representatives of the Cuban j
patriots had the right to ship arms to Cuba,
bat have even, in not very measured terms,
inculpated the Junta of this city tor not
shipping them in a manner by whioh the
neutrality laws were not violated. As the
Florida was not an "armed vessel," and as
Bhe was not "being fitted, prepared, or in
tended for naval warfare," her seizure was
illegal.
The case, however, is far worse. By the
faots it appears that Don Lopez Roberts may
call upon any member of the bootblaok
brigade "who does not wish his name to ap
pear," get him for five dollars to sign an affi
davit, and on the strength of it without
being obliged to furnish any security for
damages should the charges not be substan
tiated binder any vessel from leaving any
port in the United States.
If this be so it is time our merchants were , '
awRie of it.
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