On Friday was published a very touching and dignified message
addressed to France by Captain Dreyfus, who is now living at the residence of bis brother-in law at Carpentras, Val:tell:Ise. He declares that liberty is nothing to him without honour, and that be will not rest " until there is no longer a Frenchman who imputes to , me the abominable crime which another has committed." At the same time is published General de Galliffet's report to the President recommending the pardon- ing of Dreyfus, and also General de Galliffet's address to the Army. Both documents are most careful to save the " face " of the Army, and not to assert, or even to suggest, the innocence of Dreyfus ; but, at the same time, neither specifically reasserts his guilt. The message read to the troops dwells with great insistence upon the fact that the incident is closed. The Army bows to the decree of the Judges, the object of universal respect," but it also bows before the act " which a sentiment of profound pity has dictated to the President of the Republic." " The incident is closed. I ask yon, and, if need be, I should order you, to forget the past in order to think only of the future." We suppose that it was the best that General de Galliffet could do, but it is a sorry business.
