The National Zeitung of Berlin calls on Prince Bismarck to
punish the French journalists who attack Germany, and "do not know what is due to the conquerors of the country." It reminds Frenchmen that after Jena, Schleiermacher was summoned before Davoust to explain his sermons, and that no Prussian dared speak or write a word against the French. Has Germany, then, descended so low as to set up Napoleon's tyranny, which in Prussia was frightful, as an ideal example to be imitated, and even extended, for Napoleon occupied Prussia, and Germany is not occupying Paris ? Cannot the Germans be content to be conquerors, without exclaiming because the beaten race tries to avenge itself with pasquinades ? How many dollars of the indemnity will Figaro and the rest be able to sneer away, or if they excite their country- men to revenge, what else did Stein do ?
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