of his family. Of course the first emperor was a great genius, but one of the most selfish and cruel men in history. Outside of his military skill I do not see a redeeming trait in his character. He abused France for his own ends, and brought incredible disasters upon his country to gratify his selfish ambition I do not think any genius can excuse a crime like that. The third Napoleon was worse than the first, the especial enemy of America and liberty. Think of the misery he brought upon France by a war which, under the circumstances, no one but a madman would have declared. I never doubted how the war would end, and my sympathies at the outset were entirely with Germany. I had no ill-will to the French people, but to Napoleon. After Sedan I thought Germany should have made peace with France, and I think that if peace had been made then, in a treaty which would have shown that the war was not against the French people, but against a tyrant and his dynasty, the condition of Europe would now be different. Germany especially would be in a better condition, without being compelled to arm every man, and drain the country every year of its young men to arm against France." Any one," said the General, "who looked at the conditions of the war between Germany and France, and who knew anything about war, could not help seeing the result. I never in my own mind doubted the result. The policy of Germany had been to make every male over eighteen years of age and under forty-five a trained soldier, enrolled in some organization. When reinforcements were required the new levies were fit for the most desperate work from the first moment of taking the field. The French policy under Napoleon was far different. The empire distrusted the people-never gave the people its confidence. The people were not only distrusted, and kept from the discipline of arms, but were rendered as unfit as possible to become soldiers in an emergency. Losses sustained by the Germans were at once replaced by men as effective as those who had been disabled. Losses sustained by the French, if replaced, were by men who were an element of weakness work dem the first morcat of tela 12 *12 ten disalled. sses sustained E- the Trea, were by nes who were an elencat of |