New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-04-24
GERMANY.

REVOLUTION AND COUSTER-hEVoLllioN'
The first months of the year ls49 were
e,o,IovsJ nv the Austrian and Prus-ian Govern
ncnts in following up the advantages obtained IN
October and November last. The Austrian Diet,
ever since the taking OF Vienna, had earned on d
merely nominal existence IN small Mofa'iah
country-toun named kremsir. Here the Slave
MAN IDENTITIES, who, with their constituents, haa
been mainly instrumental in raising the Austrian
Government from its prostitution, were singuiariy
uunisbcd for their treachery against the European
Revolution: as soon the Government had re-
covered it's strength, il treated the Diet and Its
Slayonian majority with the utmost contempt, and
when the first successes of the imperial arms FORE
boded speedy termination of the Hungarian war;
the Diet. ON the 4th of March, dissolved and
the deputies dispersed by military force. Then at
last the Slayonans saw that they were duped, and
then they shouted Let us go to Frankfort and
carry on there the opposition which we cannot
pursue here But it then too late, and the
very fact that they had NO other alternative than
either to remain quiet or to JOIN the ippotent
Frankfort Assembly,-this fact alone was sufficient
to show their utter helplessness.
Thus ended, for the present and most likely for
ever. the attempts of the Slayonians of Germany
70 recover an independent national existence.
Scattered remnants of numerous nations, whose
nationality and political vitality had long been ex-
tingushed. and who in consequence had been
Obliged. for almost thousand years, to follow IN
the wake of a mightier nation their conqueror,
the same as the Welsh in England, the Bosques
in Spain, the Bas-Bretons in France, and at
more recent period the Spanish and French Creoles
in those portions of North America occupied Of
late bv the Anglo American race-these dying ma
tionaEties the Bohemians, Corinthians, Dama-
tians, &C.. had tried to profit by the universal con-
fusion of lS4S in order to restore their political
status quo of A. ID. S00 The history OF thou
sand wears ought to have shown them that such
rerogresson was impossible; that if ali the terri
tory east of the Elbe and Saab had at one time
been occupied by kindred Slayonians, this fact
merely proved the historical tendency, and at the
same time the physical and intellectual power OF
the German nation to subdue, absorb, and asslIni-
late its ancient eastern neghbors; that this tend
encv of absorption on the part of the Germans
had always been and still was one of the mightiest
means by which the civilization of western Europe
Iau been spread IN the cast VI SohtHioh''
that it could only cease whenever the process OF
Communication had reached the frontier of large,
compact, unbroken nations, capable OF an indie
PENDENT national life, such the Hungarians and
ia some degree the Poles and that therefore the
natural and inevitable fate of these dying nations
was to allow this progress of dissolution and alb
sorption by their stronger neghbors to complete
itself. Certainly this is no very hattenng pros
pect for the national ambition of the Panslavlstic
dreaAlers who succeeded in agitating portion OF
the Bohemian and Soutl-Slayonian people; but
can they expect that history would retrograde
thousand years in order to please few phthisical
bodies of men, who in every part OF the territory
they occupy are interspersed and surrounded by
Germans, who from times almost rnmemorIal have
had for all purposes of civilization other language
but the German, and who lack the very first con-
ditions of national existence, numbers and COM
pactness of territory Thus, the Panslavistic
rising, which everywhere in the German and Hun
garian Savonc territories was the cloak for the
restoration to independence of all these number
less petty nations everywhere FLASHED with the
European revolutionary movements, and the Slay-
onans, although pretending to fight for liberty,
were invariably 1.-THE democratic portion of the
Poles excepted found on the side of despOtism
and reaction. Thus it in Germany, thus in
Hungary thus even here and there in Turkey.
Traitors to the popular cause, supporters and
chief props to theAustrianG Government cabal, they
placed themselves in the position of outlaws in
the ewes of all revolutionary nations. And al
though nowhere the mass of the people had al part
in the petty squabbes about nationality raised by
the Panslavistic leaders, for the very reason that
they too ignorant, yet it will never be for
gotten that in Prague, in half-German town,
crowds of Slavonian fanatics cheered and repeated
the cry Rather the Russian knout than Ger
man Liberty After their first evaporated effort
in 1913, and after the lesson the Austrian Govern
government gave them, it is not likely that an
other attempt at a later opportunity will be made.
But if they should try again under similar pre-
texts, to ally themselves to the counter -revolu-
tionary force, the duty of Germany is clear. No
country in state of revolution and involved in
external war can tolerate Vendee in its very
heart.
As to the Constitution proclaimed by the Empe-
r0r at the same time with the dissolution of the
Diet, there is need to revert to it, as it never
had practical existence and is now done away
with altogether. Absolutism has been restored in
Austria to all intents and purposes since the
4th of March, lS49.
In Prussia the Chambers met in Februarysfor
the ratification and revision of the new Charter
proclaimed by the King. They sat for about six
weeks, humble and meek enough in their behavior
toward the Government, yet not quite prepared to
go the lengths the King and his ministers wished
them to do. Therefore, as a suitable &C.
cason presented itself, they were dissolved.
Thus both Austria and Prussia had for the mo-