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NEW ORLEANS (LA) CORRESPONDENCE
OF THE BANNER OF THE SOUTH.
New Orleans, August Bth 1870.
Editors Banner of thk South:
An ardent admirer of the French Na
tion detailed to me the other evening
four reasons why the French solders are
better than the Prussians—-listening to
iris side of the question, I certainly felt
convinced that not only were they
superior to the Prussians; but that really
they must excell the troops of every
other nation.
First reason. The French soldier is an
unmarried man—not being allowed to
marry until his term of service has ex
pired. No thought or fear for wife or
child comes to cloud his vision or to
paralyse his arm, If he falls, he leaves
no widowed home to reecho with an
orphan’s cry. He knows that no other
breast is torn and bruised, if his own
be riddled by the enemy’s bullet; and
thus untrammeled he enters the scene of
batttle to act his part nobly to the
tVe all know that too mauy of our
soldiers in the late contest, shrank back
from the struggle, dismayed by wifely
tears and childish supplications. The
thought of home desolated and degraded,
turned many a father from the battle
field to guard and save those dearer to
him than his lire—The young French
soldier knows nothing of this aDguish
nd is therefore better prepared to meet
whatever fete lies before him.
Among the Prussians however, about
three fourths are married men, and these
therefore do not belong solely to their
country: hence it seems very reasonable
to suppose that for the cause, they are as
soldiers inferior to the French.
Second reason. In the French ser
vice the term of enlistment is eight years
and during that time, whether it be one
of peace or war, there is absolutely no
furloughs. Y\ itli so much time in
whicii to learn a Icssod, surely the
French soldier must become almost per
fect in his part.
Tiie 1 russian soldier, on the coutrarv,
obtains frequent leaves of absence and
devotes the time thus acquired to the
cultivation of his lands, or to the society
of his wife and and family. It is gene
rally supposed that the Prussian actually
serves only two years out of the term o's
eight.
Third reason. A powerful incentive
to noble deeds among the soldiers of the
French Army is the reward called the
cross of the legion of Honor, with which
France decorates her brave sons. Con
ferred upoa the soldier in the ranks, it
entitles him to respect but little inferior
to that bestowed upon his General.
In leed if the Post-guards turn out to
salute the Commander of Battalions as
he rides by, thy will even do the same
for the poor, ragged, weary—looking
soldier who walks along his way with
the cross of the legion of honor shilling
upon his breast. For him too, the
drum is rolled, the troops form into line
and “present arms” announces that the
uumble so.diei is oue of the nation : s
heroes. A touching incident was re
lated of a poor soldier, who one night al
lowed himself to drink too freely C while
away from home. Excited by wine and
by recollections of the Past, he became
turbulent and noisy, when two or three
cl his comrades determined to iead him to
his home. Alter leaving the coffee
house, being dragged rather than led, he
suddenly straightened himself and stop*
ping at the corner of one of the streets,
declared he would not go that way.
Reinonstranee, force all were of no avail,
and though this was the most direct
route home he would not move in the
direction indicated—‘No, No.” He
exclaimed “I will not pass the guard
I will not disgraeeing medal-They “shall
not salute a drunkard!'’ And by a
round about and lengthy way, did his
friends lead the old soldier to his little
cottage. Beside the honor conferred by
this decoration, there is also a pension of
300 francs per annum, seemed to every
soldier who wears the cross—besides the
privilege of retailing tobacco— 'l he sale
of this article in France is a government
monoply—and only disabled and dis
charged soldiers are allowed retail it. In
the villages of France, a soldier can live
comfortably upon his 300 francs, while
the tobacco business give his prestige
and importance
The Prussian soldier is also decorated
with a medal of honor for bravery and
gallantry; but this reward brings no pen
sion with it—and no military honors are
accorded to the wearer. It is therefore
an empty honor, prized perhaps at first
as a school,girl prizes her medal—but
having once left the field of honor—the
medal is only a reminiscence—a souve
nier. Fourth reason. Promotion on
fiield of battle. The French soldier may
one day become Field Marshal of Frauce.
Knowing this, each man strives to be a
hero, and as the reward is sure, it seems
to follow that such an incentive to brave
deeds raav well make heroes of them all.
It is related that during the war in
Algeria, a battery of the enemy’s guns
was so situated, that approach to it was
impossible, except in front. Inaccessible
cliffs guarded the fierce destroyer on
every side—while through the open de
file, a torrent of deadly shot rained upon
all within reach. The Colonel of a
French regiment called for volunteers to
silence the formidable battery. Three
hundred brave men, panting for the dis
tinction stepped forward, eager for the
word of command. Choosing one hund
red and twenty men, inclusive of ifficors,
the Colonel bade them take the guns in
ten minutes, otherwise not a man would
be left alive to reach the spot. In eight
minutes thirty five of those gallant men,
reached the summit of the hill. Killed
the gunners and spiked every gun.
Four of the survivors were promoted
upon the battle-field: Captain and sub
officers—while every man was recoin
mMWtomgon'of Honor.** 1 fro
motion, cross of honor—pension of three
hundred francs, all were secured by this
one daring, desperate feat of valor.
Generous loving, mother-like France.
Surely she well deserves to have heroes
for her sons, since she rewards them so
nobly, cares for them so tenderly and
honors them so magnificently ! Among
the Prussians, promotion is slow work,
officers are selected only from among the
nobility. Doubtless many, perhaps all
of them, are brave and gallant soldiers;
but if outside influences, can avail to
awaken entheusiasm, arouse patriotism
and incite the heart to deeds that will
live forever surely those brought to bear,
by the French nation upon its sons, are
well calculated to make those sons
invincible—to make them heroes in the i
heart and deed—-soldiersjwithout fear and !
without reproach. This then is one side !
of the question, perhaps the Prussian- j
sympathiser might # bring forward still j
stronger reasons to prove that King I
Williams men must be noble, brave, bet- j
ter soldiers than Napoleon’s subjects: !
but as I have not had the pleasure of listen- !
ing to the other side—l can only pre- ■
sent to you that one upon which all my j
hopes and sympathies are for the moment |
enlisted. Vive TEmpereur.
h. i
EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENCE
OF THE BANNER OF THE SOUTH.
THE WAR.
The great war of the Century has
virtually begun and every moment seems
to increase the excitement oi Europe and
the fury of the belligerent Powe rs! The
doubts of the cynical, the prayers of the
hopeful, the predictions of the learned,
the mediation of the powerful—all have
passed over—ail have subsided into a
solemn, ghastly si.ence, as the world
stands listening for the first shot—as
the Frank rushes to meet the German on
the banks of the Rhine. At length we
have arisen from the slumber of peace
and concord. What was regarded as
the darkest and deadliest of evils—what
men spoke of in ghastly whispers as of
the most remote of dread possibilities—
w hat loomed like a -spectral demon in
the vista of the years gone by, casting
the shadow of gloom and darkness over
the fair prospect of our peace and pro
gress—thus ha3 Europe awoke to behold
in all the stern reality of an accomplish;
ed fact. The silence of obstupified sur
prise has at length passed over, and she
now, in tones of mournful wrath ex
claims—Who hath brought this evil upon
us ? Who has plunged us into the hor
rors, miseries and degredation of war ?
The necessity of this war of 1870
was clearly contained in the result of the
war of 1866. The politics of the Conti
nent had arrived at a crises, which the
sword and the sword alone can decide.
Its verdict the world awaits in breathless
suspense—the future with trembling con
jecture !
The French troops have crossed into
the Prussian territories and seized and
imprisoned the Custom House keepers.
Regiment follows regiment in quick suc
cession to the Rhine, and it is now cer
tain that Napoleon intends to seize the
long-coveted Prussian provinces on the
west bank of the Rhine. The latest tele
grams announced that hostilities have
commence at Forbaeh. The French
fleet have reached the Baltic on its way
to blockade the ports of Prussia. Marshal
Bazaine has set out for to join the army
at Metz, where 100,000 men lie encamp
ed ready and impatient for the contest.
The Emperor and the Imperial Guards
are to follow immediately to the same
place, and gun-boats have set out to
co-operate with the French troops in their
action on the Rhine. Marshal McMahon
has arrived at the seat, of war. The
French army is to be divided into seven
corps, with a reserve formed by the Im
perial Guard. Throughout the whole of
the military stations of Franch all is
action and excitement. Amnesties have
been proclaimed iu all the convicts pris
ons.
In Paris all is excitement ! In the
Legislatif of the 10th inst., M. Ollivier
had a severe contest with the Revolution
ist party who are intensely chagrined at
the war being declared, as it will hope
* -«/ — — -vUluv«vljuj, VU UICU l
the sympathies of the Nation and forever
identify the Napoleon dynasty with the
interests and glory of France. Thus,
they placed every obstruction in the path
of the Ministry, who, to their great an
noyance, are unanimously supported and
applauded by the people of France. By
a vote of 246 against 10, they voted a
credit of 50,000,000f.
In the towns all unite iu the enthusiasm
that now pervades the whole of France
to a degree never witnessed, even in the
days of the First Napoleon. Crowds
throng the Boulevards, singing the
Marseillaise chaunts and Mourir pour
la Patrie. Processions are daily formed
accompanied by bands and headed by
tri-color standards. Similar demonstra
tions have been held at Perpignan, Nismes,
Lible, Tarbes, Nancy, Amiens, D’Tour,
and Havre, each was attended with un
precedented enthusiasm and excitement.
Crowds singing the Marseillaise and
shouting Vive la Emperear, and Vive la
France.
The King of Prussia arrived at Berlin
on July 16th, and was received with great
enthusiasm. Thousands escorted him
Irorn the railway station to the Palace,
cheering and singing the National an
them. The promenade was illuminated
and decorated with Prussian and North
German flags. The King thanked the
people from the windows of the Palace,
and the enthusiasm of the crowd was
expressed in cheering and every possible
demonstration of loyalty. Addresses
have been sent to the King from most of
t!ie Prussian merchants declaring their
readiness to make the utmost sacrifices
id defence of the country.
It is stated that 160,000 Prussians will
t-C on the banks ot the Rhine next week.
Another army of 160,000 is to follow
more slowly, while a third army of the
same strength will remain as reserve.
AH the German Governors of Provinces
on ieaye, are ordered l ac’: immediately.
Gereiai Maude is appointed Commander
in-cn.ct. Ail transit ot arms or ammuni
tion across the frontiers are strictly for
bidden.
THE WAR and EUROPE.
The great war has something mote
loan a merely political aspe ct —is more
than the result of the political jealousy
existing between France and Prussia—
’.vi.l be more than the contest of political
strength or the struggle for political
power. It has a religious aspect and is
the result of the-ever opposite principles
—the piety, faith and fidelity of France—
the Protestantism, Liberalism, Rational
irm and infidel philosophy of Germany,
and will forever decide with the one
stroke and with equal power the suprema
cy of either. Is France or Prussia to be
the first power in Europe. Is the Na
poleon dynasty forever to rule the desti
nies of Europe and stand as the provok
ing obstructure in the path of the Pro
testant revolution in Italy and elsewhere?
Is Prussia aud Bismarck to plot the sub
jugation of Germany and the ruin of the
Empires of France and Austria? Is
the philosophy and rationalism—those
miserable counterfeits which human
vanity has brought forth, when it dis
cards the authorship of God—to prevail
over the faith that fails not ? Such is
the question which the war must decide—
such is the question which Europe, in
breathless suspense, awaits to see decided.
On the one side is France—the France
of the Napoleons!—on the other the
growing power of Prussia—the Prussia
of Waterloo and Sadowa. On tho one
side is arrayed Revolution, Protestantism
and falsehood—on the other Catholicism
and truth. Magna est veritas et preva
lent.
THE WAR AND THE POWERS.
Now that the war is accepted as a de
plorable necessity, the outside Powers
are exerting every nerve to confine it to
the two at present engaged, and localize
it in France and Germany. They are
in every manner endeavoring to secure
the neutrality of every other power while
in the meantime they are so jealously'
suspicious of each other that many pre
dict that so fierce a struggle, and one in
which the interests of Europe in general
and each iu particular are so directly in
volved, cannot be confined to the Powers
immediately concerned, aud that before
many months, every Power and Poterftate
of Europe will be upon the war-path. If
so the struggle will be only the more
fierce and decisive—the victory of right
and truth more universal and effective.
THE WAR AND ENGLAND.
In speaking of this Nation we must
always distinguish between political and
popular England. Political England is
D “& luilJ icpio&eim-U by
and statesman—the crafty designing con
scienceless “perjide Albion.” ° Popular
England is England as represented bv
the Protestant bigotry, intolerance and
ignorance of her masses.
Between the two, reflecting the senti
ments of the latter, under the restriction
and censorship of the former, stands that
organ of the father of falsehood—the
British Press. Os late, however, it ex
perienced the difficulty of serving two
masters—the Government whose policies
and relations must not be. distubed the
people whose degraded taste must be
satisfied by something that will gratify
their hunger of vile prejudice and ridicu
lous vanity. Prudently considering that
the British public is ail animal that must
be morally as well as materially fed in
dependent of every other consideration
and that it is upon the favor of the said
animal the material prosperity of the
British press and its wives and families
must necessarily depend. We can scarce
ly blame it if it inclined to the side of
the latter and braving the rod of its po
litical task-masters, sounded a paean of
national pride and bombast of sympathy
with Protestant Prussia—of hatred to
grand old Catuolic France. The Prussian
King was called a “veteruii” because his
armies won Sadowa—the guileless Bis-
inarck applauded in glowing terms of
sympathy and praise, Napoleon denounced
as the destroyer of the peace of Europe—
the provoker of the Prussians—and as
the monarch who, to secure the interests
ot his dynasty, had sacrificed the peace,
progress, and civilization of the century
on the shrine of desolation and war ! As
John Bull fully sustains both in the moral
and material sense, his proverbial repu
tation for ‘‘swallowing' 7 we can readily
conceive how he gloated over his feast
of falsehood so admirably suited to his
taste, and how lie chewed the cud of
conjecture in ah the serene complacency
of postprandial satisfaction. However a
change has passed dlcr the spirit of his
dream. The political masters of Eng
land found such a manifesto very awk
wardly prejudicial to their relations with
a certain power across the channel, whom
England detests, but fears to o much to of
ieud. The consccjucncc is that every
organ, amongst them the versatile Times,
has been iuade to eat their ow n words
itnu bridai their insolence and bigotry
in deference to the powerful claims of!
National sell-preservation. In the mean-!
time the neutrality of England has been i
solemnly ploclaimed. »
THE WAR AND IRELAND.
Catholic Ireland has not been silent on
the great struggle where the interests of
Catholic Europe is concerned. The peo
ple of Dublin have assembled iu crowds
before the French Consulate cheering
for France and the Emperor. The police
endeavored in vain to stay their progress
and the meeting has been a great success
and a manifesto in opposition to the pre
judiced expressions of the public feeiian
in England. We can promise a more
detailed account of this meeting, and per
chance of more astounding events of this
war, in our next communication.
Veritas.
ARCHBISHOP PURCELL
ARRIVAL OF THE CINCINNATI BISHOP IN
NEW YORK IIIS VIEWS ON THE INFAL
LIBILITY DOGMA.
Archbishop Purcell, of Cincinnati, ar
rived yesterday by the steamer St. Lau
rent and put up at Sweeney’s Hotel. A
large number of citizens called in the
evening to pay their respects and to
congratulate the reverend prelate oa his
safe return from the Holy City. He is
on his way to the metropolis of the great
State of Ohio, and will, no doubt, receive
a warm welcome on his arrival there.
A reporter of the Herald enjoyed the
pleasure of an interview with the Arch
bishop last evening, and ascertained his
views in relation to the great and mo
mentous question concerning the infalli
bility of the Pope.
The Archbishop declared himself an
auti-infallibist, and spoke of Archbishop
Manning as a fanatic—in fact as one
whom the Angelican party were glad to
get rid of on account of the disturb
ing influence he exercised in their coun
cils.
Archbishop Purcell is a somewhat el
derly gentleman, of quiet and courteous
manners, and carrying with him much of
a reputation for controversial ability.
He was satisfied in the belief that the
doctrine of Papal infallibility was radi
cally of such an arbitrary character that
the final promulgation of the dogma
would be almost indefinitely postponed.
He spoke of the Archbishop of Paris hav
ing declared his disposition to acquiesce
to whatever the majority of the Ecumeni
cal Counicil decided upon, but there was
evident to what Archbishop Purcell gave
utterance to, that the party of auti-iu
fallibists is not of that complexion to be
easily disposed of by a vote which places
them in a minority. Archbishop Pur
cell expressed himself to the effect that
the Roman Catholic mind of America
is not prepared to accept the doctrine of
infallibility as applied to the personality
of the popedom. That the church,
through the voice of its assembled rep
resentative ministers, should lay down
certain laws for the government of the
entire body, and promulgate final doc
trines for its acceptance, receives the eu
dorsement of all Catholics; but the ques
tion of personal infallibility is more than
it is thought either reasonable or proper
to receive. It will take, however, a
long time before the dogma of infallibili
ty is officially proclaimed to the world.
It will have to be signed by all the Bish
ops who participated in the Council; and
that process, judging by the slow mov
ing machinery of the Papal system, will
take years to accomplish.
Archbishop Purcell has no idea of
what will happen to Rome after the with
drawal of the French troops, but he re
lies upon devotion of the troops who are
enrolled under the Papal standard to
repel any Garibaldian or Mazzinian raid
on the Holy City.
A r . Y. Herald , 1 Ith
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