The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-06-24

what was the answer Of Englands government
10 my application for the mediation OF Eng
land in our time Of need. The answer was, Her
Msjesty's government can receive no communica-
ton respecting Hungary only by the diplomatic or
gan Of his Imperial Majestyt6e Emperor Of Austria,
at the court" (Ories Of "shamenl Thus has been
treated BY England that Hungary in whose battles
the freedom OF the world your own peace and po-
siton up oday, had been at stake. (CheeJs.) And
mark still that progress. When /, as ohief mag s-
trate of Hungary, applied to England for mediation,
presented an opportunity TO your government TO
spare you in the inevitable dangers OF the coming
war. Did ask your Ynoney-did AK yonr blood
Mo- shilling ! not o. drop-only one word-Ooud
cheers)-0ne word, which, without the sacrifice Of
one shilling, and without the shedding Of one Eng
lish drop OF blood, would have spared you the pre-
sent war. (Cheers) That word was refused. We
were sent insutingiy to the doors of the Austrian
minister. It was certainly signal compliment, but
you have now TO pay for it in yourIblood in tor
rents, and your money in innumerable millions The
storm has come home to yoursel yes, and II hangs
like black cloud over Westminster Hall and Down
ing street. (Cheers.) Now, | would ask you, gen.
temeD, shall it be recorded in history that it has
been the hereditary policy of England to share in
the guilt of Austrian despotisms With these warn
ing facts sol OF history before your eyes will you per
Austria which already has been SO mischevous, and
the alliance Of which, be We victors or vanqushed
could be but fatal to you Only please to consider
how this mischieyous policy embarrasses the &C.
moment. If there ever was truth striking beyond
any doubt, undisputed, such is the truth, that ex
cept Finland. it is only in Poland, and by Po-
land. that Russia. is vulnerable. Bombardng
Odessa, Sebast0pol, consolidating Russian
prizes, burning the Russian prizes, burn the
Ruf sian fleet, il you can get at them; nay, burn
ing ST. Petersburg ITSELF may be all very noisy good
food for newspapers but merely palliative, nothing
Of permanent effect. The Russians may, perhaps,
themselves burn st. Petersburg as they burnt Mos
COW once. You will be none the better for it. If
your purpose is to fight and vanquish Russian des
potisn-if your aim is to check the ascendancy of
Russia-if Jour aim is to reduce the overwhelming
preponderance of Russia. it is in Poland; it is by
Poland that you must act-Qoud cheers)-or else
you will never attain your aim. To you the recon-
stiuction Of Poland iato an independent nation il
not an act OF compassion lurking somewhere behind
the screen Of future diplomatic arrangements at the
end of the war. To you the resurrection Of Poland
!. az urgent pressing, strategetca tactical neces
sly at this very moment. To you the resurrection
wait is means indispensable to attain
ing any rational end at all. Now you are at
war with Russia; therefore ii is certainly not
for any fond indulgence for Russia that
the expiration of former faults and the wisdom Of
present necessities advises to do. Such an indul.
gence would be weakness, bordering on collusion
madness bordering on rdicu!e. How is. it, then,
ing to the Polish refugees presently to plead for the
cause of Poland before Sheffield audience instead
Of being landed from English war steamers in
Samogitia, and calling from their native soil brave
Poland to resurrection and ibertyi (Cheers)
Why is it 1t is out Of sheer complacency for
Austria and Prussia. Your government knows
very well that the pulsatons of national resurrec-
tion cannot be restricted to toe, or any other
Your government Knows well that the mere recon.
struction Of what is Russian Poland now would be
mere and as Austria and Prussia hold part
of the plunder which will have to be dsgorged to
make again an Independent Poland, then out of re-
gard for them but chiefly for Austria you still neg
lect to do that without which you cannot succeed
in your war. Be forewarned, people of England, be
forewarned Lcok to history. There in the mirror
of the past your own future is dangerous. Remem-
Der the campaign of Napoleon in Moscow in 1901.
(Cheers.) Napoleon undertook to check the grow
ing ascendancy Of Russia just as you do now. And
with all due regard for the Lords Raglan and
Marshal st. Armand, be it said the little cor
poral knew something about war. He knew that
Russia, though not formidable abroad, is anything
but weak in defence. He prepared large army.
The forces which he employed amounted to 60 900
men, 1000 horse, and 1872 guns. What is the
compared to this? A Chobham camp parade.
Qanghter) Napoleon knew that it is not on the
sea that a decisive battle can be fought against
Russia He went on by land. lie knew-and he
there is no possibility of holding bivouac for "a
hours against the Russian army, and he took care
to have much Of cavalry The cavalry of his centre
alone was 40 900 strong. How much have you by the
bye in the Easti He did not neglect the pitifu
eypedient to substitute for Polish nationality the
idea of Polish egions just you begin to do in the
East Besides, he also looked for alliances jnst
you do, only less politician than a soldier;
addressed himself to whom To Austria and
deity Of Austria than y51 have. Having
had to dispose of the very existence Of Austria ne
just pardoned saved her. and to make the alliance
sure, he married the daughter of the Emperor
Francis Of Austria Both Prussia and Austria
yielded to the counting Of the mighty Cesar, became
his allies, and sent two auxiliary armies to aid him
in his campaign against Russia. You know the rest
and l,222 guns. One Of his dear allies betrayed him
on the battle field, the other compromised him by
inactivity, ard then botb-0ne of them being his
father-inlaw- turned against him. and sent him to
die fettered giant on the rock of st. Helena
(cheers) You have been told by superficial pro-
fessors in your schools that it was Generals Frost
and Famine which defeated Napoleon. No. he was
defeated by having taken Austria and Prussia for
allies against Russia. You will not doubt this fact
if you will let yourselves be reminded only Of the
truth that without Poland being reconstructed
and independent nation, no expedition against Rus
STA can succeed, the aim of which ia to reduce the
pean freedom. repeat, that without Poland being
reconstructed an Independent nation, no expedition
against Russia can succeed, the aim Of which is to
reduce the power of Russia TO proportions innocu-
Gus to European liberty. <C1eeSs> Now. would
you think that Napoleon, with his comprehensive
genius, did not understand that truth? Certainly
he did. How, then, came it to pass that he adj
vanced against Russia without having, in the very
onset, reconstructed the independence of Polandl
Why, it was simply tacit but necessary conse-
9uence Of his having taken Austria and Prussia for
allies. To reconstruct Russian Poland has been till
now and will be in all future, ridiculous compromise
between heaven and he'll by Which sonl is to be
saved. II would be asecond edition the Cracow
public, doomed at the very hour Of its creation to
foreign dependence and reiterated absorption. Ma.
poleon knew this-he did profess H. BIT to recon-
struct Poland, without Galcia and Posen, its vital
limbs, he could not, because he was allied TO Aus
tra and Prussia. Thus this unnatural alliance de-
priyed him Of the possibility of realizing that mea.
sure without which, in my hua26le opinion, and
have studied history, there was and there is mad
ness in believing that Russia is to be yanquishcd.
Mark this striking lesson of history WELL You are
IN the same predcament; the situation is the same.
the conditions Indispensable 10 success are the
sane, the dangers OF unnatural alliances the
the only difference in the staaton is that Russia has
grown stronger in the meanwhile by your own
f,ult anJf l,of have NOT nm nf