Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-03-05
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From the New York Evangelist.
The Austrian Empire.
NO. 2.
BY REV. JOHN S. C. ABBOTT.


oles were occasionally in the habit Of sending their
rs to enjoy the instructions of professors in foreign
aWersltles. The Emperor, apprehensiye that some
nm0rng rays of civil and religious freedom might
Is penetrate his realms, in the year 1915 issued de-
3e, torbddlng the young men Of Austria to leave
4 empire in the pursuit Of knowledge lie prefers
they shall be instructed by professors Of his own
bointmcnt who will illustrate the tendencies of re-
)can governments by photographic prints of
ycholder Aorging negro. Alas that republican
lerca should, with SO much seeming justice be thus
temptuousy exhibited to the slaves of European
apotlsn.
This prohibition to leave the empire in the pursuit
knowledge, indNced some opulent parents to invite
Hned men, whose minds had been furnished and en-
ged by the more free institutions of other lands, to
,ome the private tutors Of their sons. And these
inguishod strangers were received with marked
1lsderatlon. The eagle eye Of Metternich instantly
" that this was measure fraught with fearful dan
to the Austrian despotism, And hastily, in 1921,
pther decree was issued by the Emperor folbidding
family to employ teacher from foreign Uniyer-
And this decree was followed by another in 1922,
bhbiting the distribution Of the Bible in the Aus
Ian domnons-that sacred volume, the chaittf.uf
man liberty, and the guide to all whchis noble in
folect-which every tyrapt fears, and which every.
bhgato hates, The4Rpmsh priesthood deyotes its
most supernatural nfa9hce to sustain the uncontro-
and irresponsible power Of Ferdinand Ii may al
psf be said that the Emperor Of Austria is t& Pope
Rome. For that tdcbo old man, Gregoy'AVIlI.
no now occupies the Pontical chair is bat too hap
to receive any inLmaton from his rood faiend Met
mich, respecting any measures to sustain the civil
ID RELIGIOUS dcspotism upon which the thrones of tia
and Austria reposo. Not lone AFRO, the Council Of
Jenna adopted the plan of placing all the elemental
-7icheea in the hands of the rc-csablshed Jesuits
Oye ever willing tools Of temporal and spiritual oD-
cssion And theyn0w decide -,F4+s-aIl9Il teach and
lat shall be f$fT1It If -41-z-
The censorship OF the press is effrc@Ia36dk
9r to inaress of knowledge 1t surrounds the empire
rha pl0any wall. which can neither 1e-1nderIpined
" overloapcd. Twelve public.censors are establish
at Vienna, to some of whom cVefVV book" published
thin the empire, whether origina 6arnurn,fF must
referred. And if thor6 B6 ant;allbsop even to re,
I'M. either in the religion Or the b5iitits of ie com
Z, the book is acmmarily condemned Ia, The same
nd censorship extends 10 MI f6raiga Journals (which
E permitted to enter the omDife No man can take
v foreion publication without pernsson Of the con
rs. Andno publication. which does not advocate
sDotic principles can be taken at all,
The Austrian Observer, whicf;js pubiisbed at fine
pita is the ORGAN of the Government # contains
IL those items of ioreion i3teGrcnca wbichtbr En-
ror IS WILING that his Subjects sbonld know, And
voice IS ohsoouiouelv ocbood l,, tbn Gavy journals
lich, also undar vipilant consorsiin o.a a
the provinces. In th6 wtdl6 Austrian empire, CON
ninr noptlation of about thirty millions of inhab-
lts there are but eiohtv-one journals published lad
mber probably exceeded hv the single city of NeH-,
1rk. In Protestant Prussia there are two hundred
d eighty-oight journals. What a.comient is this
on the zeal of the Roman Catholic church for the
sruction Of the people, and for the progressed civil
ID religious liberty.
Russia, Austria and Prussia, were thet impefial
bbers who pundered Poland All are aware Dist a.
years AGO. the Poles inhabiting chat portion of pO-
nd which in the bandtt division of that empire be-
me the spoil of Russia. made most heroic attempt
escape from the thraldom Of the Gar and to rees-
blish Their national indeDondonce Nicholas rushed
on the province with his countless Pcgions and
lotborcl the bold attempt in flame and blood. Some
the Austrjans. in The vicinity of these scenes Of
raoe and Of woe. sent 10 their SUFFERING neicobors
sistanco in ployisions and money. The Emprror of
,sfria immediately marched an army Of fffv hon
nd mon into ri. y;llaaa, and o,or+arod Non, non
o. nhaLifants Mon Or nh classes from, tbo n,ost H.
sirons houses to to Inmbosf neosants ,gero dragl
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