The Sun.
London, England, 1848-03-28 00:00:00

GERMANY

AND

THE NORTHERN STATES.

GERMANY, POLAND, and RUSSIA.
Austria and Prussia continue tranquil, but there
appears every probability of a war between United
Germany and Russia, Poland being the battlefield.
The great object of the Germans is to interpose an
independent nation between themselves and Russia,
and this object is distinctly avowed in the following
article which appears in the Cologne Gazette :
" If we look carefully at our position towards foreign
states, nothing is more certain than that we shall shortly
be in open war with Russia. ONE MONTH HENCE, AT
THE LATEST WE MOST BE IN THE FIELD. The will of
the German people has pronounced itself in favour of
the re-establishinent of Poland. Prussia will have to
give up a portion of her territory to attain the great
object—an intermediate kingdom between Germany and
Russia. This movement has already commenced. A
provisional committee has already been form at Posen
for the regeneration of Poland, with the sanction of the
Prussian authorities.
.1 If Prussia is to make a sacrifice of territory, it
must be understood that it does so with the certainty of
attaining the desired' cbject. Posen must not be given up
with a chance of its falling into the hands of Russia.
Prussia and Germany cannot remain strangers to the
Russian-Polish war. 'The words in the royal proclama-
tion of the 21st of March, recommending a federate
army, and an army neutrality, are equivalent to a call
to arms."
The same journal publishes the following address
from Prince CZARTORYSKI :
" POLAND TO THE GERMAN NATION.
" The heart of generous Germany will surely have
leaped at the solemn call which at this moment wakes
humanity to commence a new era. The voice of liberty
had, indeed, scarcely spoken in her manly tones, when
it was echoed from the shores of the Baltic to those of
the Adriatic sea. A mighty echo ! It formed the
world anew by proclaiming peace and love, by crushing
all strife and all hate That fraternization of the na-
tions which is now accomplishing is a characteristic fee-
ture of the present admirable commotion, and shows that
humanity must sot stop short in the career she has en-
tered, but proceed victoriously to degrees of perfec-
tion which were hitherto unknown. Man, the master•
piece of creation, bears within him all germs of that per-
fectibility which creates our admiration as it is shown
in the moral development of the nations.
Fraternity is to the people what love is to
individuals. Love, purified and ennobled in man,
makes him an ideal being; fraternity, if once acknow-
!edged by the people and practised among them, casts
them into the mould of a perfect serial state, such as the
human heart can dream, and the human mind conceive.
It is this perfection which our society seems destined to
attain; it is the era into which, it appears, we have en-
tered, for indeed all voices hail the triumph of each in-
dividual nation, all hearts tremble with joy at the news
of a new share of liberty, no matter what nation it is
which obtains it. Generous people of Germany I—lt is
this feeling which dwelt in your minds when France, in
February last, bore off such gigantic reforms. And
France returns this day the same sympathies for the ex-
traordinary successes which all the Germans have ob-
tained by their heroic struggles in March. But while
all Europe combats, conquers—while it unites its
millions of voices to glorify and thank the Almighty
—do ye not mark, noble children of ancient Ger-
mania, do ye not heed that deadly stillness which
reigns among your eastern neighbours? Or do you
believe that the furies of envy or of hate reside there ?
You do not believe it I Too long have the Poles and
the Germans been divided by their feuds of former
times. Poland fell, though she had been free. Her
spoils served to gild the chains with which your masters
bound your limbs. You are now free, but the Poles are
the slaves of a neighbour who prepares this very day
to crush your liberty as he crushed the liberty of I'oland.
Though fraternity, which unites the people, should fail
to induce you to co-operate to the liberation of Poland,
your own most holy interests will compel you to do so.
Poland, in her nationality in general, and in her chi'.
dren in particular, is the victim of that very Europe
which for ten centuries she rendered glorious. Free
people of Germany I you will surely this day open the
prisons of the children of Poland, the prisons of Span-
dau, Glogau, Kustriu, Spielberg, Monkacz, Kuifstein,
and many others. Such an net will harmonize with the
praud flight of your minds. But the German fatherland
will be sore and vexed at heart as long as a hated yoke
presses upon Poland, her sister in God.
" You will never suffer—you, who this day are free—
you will never suffer that Poland should remain en-
slaved, for in 1831 already you hastened to the rescue of
this same Poland, and you did it in spite of your despotic
lords; arid when the gloomy pall of death covered the
blood which stained that country, how glorious was your
enthusiasm when you opened your arms to the wrecks
of Polish liberty! Germans and Poles came at that time
to an understanding. They cursed the blindness which
caused them to share the hate which their detested
masters imposed upon them, and heart to heart, and
hand in hand, they recognised each other as brethren.
It was a happy omen! It was the morning dawn of that
grand time which now shines upon us. The past and
its sorrows were forgotten. You knew, and so did we,
that the blood shed in moments of blindness, or by the
wretched tools of a bloodthirsty despotism, could not
stand between us. And even now, in spite of the executions
of Fischau and Megdeburgh—in spite of the severities
of Berlin, Posen, and Bromberg—in spite of transporta-
tions to America—in spite of emigrants hunted down
and peaceful citizens butchered in Galicia—in spits of all
this, oh, generous Germans 1 we are not the less your
brothers. Neither Prussia nor Austria have, in our tears
and in our curses, ever been mixed up with the despots
and their tools. We have excused even the craven con-
cessions to the demands of the Autocrat which venal or
unpopular Cabinets made. Nay, we pity even the Rus-
sians, stained as they are with patriot blood, shed at
Praga and at Osebmiana—we pity them as misguided
brothers, as senseless executors of those sanguinary com-
mands of that single man, of that incarnation of the
genius of evil on earth, upon whom earth hurls the
curses of posterity for all times to come. There was a
time when Poland and her advanced civilization
shielded Europe against barbarism ; without con-
sidering her own interests, Poland arose in arms
to shed her blood under the walls of Vienna.
She did not traffic with her aid, and grand was the
enthusiasm of that grateful city for her liberators. Even
at that early time did our ancestors embrace each other
as brethren. Yes! men, people are brothers at all times
warms their souls, and when the petty
when a holy fire
interests of those persons who would rather profit by the
faults and make a harvest by the passions of nations
than encourage national virtues, fail to separate them.
And now, generous Germans, since your heroism has
broken your fetters, you will not suffer other nations to
sigh under the yoke of tyranny. To suffer it would not
only be a want of providence, but downright fratri-
cide. You would be ungrateful to God, who has thus
blessed you. The arms of the aggressor broken in
his hand, their fragments will serve to break the chains
of the savage conqueror. But it is enough fur this
day if France and Germany, free and brotherlike, pro-
nounce but their will in a manner worthy of the prin-
ciples which they proclaim. Their word is enough to
liberate their Polish brethren.
" But if, in spite of the anticipations of human wisdom,
the torch of fraternization should not be allowed to Ulu•
mine those hyperborean regions—should their Sovereign
in his blind infatuation, attempt to oppose the holy alli-
ance of the nations—should this be the case, then we are
entitled to think that Providence purposes to give a novel
and awful lesson by the overthrow of this modern Na•
buchodonosor. Yes, generous Germans, we call upon
you to let your representatives form a supreme tribunal
in union with those of France. Their demand shall be
the liberty of Poland 1 And if their thundering voice
should preach to deaf ears, then call the Poles to arms,
and may the tricolored banner and the sword of justice
fulfil the Divine mission which God himself gives to
the nations.
" PRINCE ADAM CZARTORYSKI."
If we are to believe an announcement which ap.
pears in the Breslau Gazette of the 21st, a collision
between Russia and Germany is imminent. Quar-
ters have been bespoken at Kalish, says this journal,
for 600 Russians, and nearly 150,000 Russian troops
are assembled on the Polish frontier. It would ap-
pear that the greater part of Poland, including the
Grand Duchy of Posen, is in a state of insurrection.