The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1854-01-20

/ must be Withdrawn, or else Austria shal
iconsider II a Legitimate cause Of war,
And what is II that the same Austria does
now! She has concentrated 10000 men Ia
the immediate neighborhood, on the north.
western frontiers of Turkey; and has she
given any satisfactory guarantee of the
neutrality, accompanied with such threaten
ing attitude! No, sir. Mere words!--emp,y
words--words of that dynasty which has
never yet held sacred even an oath. And
even these "as her interest will permit her TO
remain neutral" Or has Great Britain and
France guaranteed an impartial neutrality of
Austria! No, sir, they did not-they cannot
and they dare not do it; therefore, what is
the result! The result is, that the Turkish
Government was forced, in contemplation of
the hostile attitude Of Austria, to garrison
the iortresses Of Servia on u war rooting,''a
to keep idle an army Of observation in Bosnia
BY this necessity $4,000 men have been
distracted from the active army of Omer
Pasha; and that is positively SO much as if
Austriu had sent $4,000 men as reinforce.
ment to the headquarters of Prince Gortchak-
of. Nay, it is worse; since the sending of
such an auxiliary force would have relieved
the Turkish Aoveinment from the difficulties
of an ABSURD diplomatic convenience, pre-
venting her until now of making use of the
heroic willingness of the Hungarian nation
to afford such aid as soon would have made
Austria unable either to harm Turkey or help
the Gar; whereas, by her false neutrality,
she abstracted such force from the entire
Turkish army as her open hostilites could
not abstract. Therefore, please to tell Inc,
Sir, are these diplomatic endeavors Of Great
Britain, backed even by parade of your feet
up to the Bosphorus, which had no other re-
suit, and no aim, but to uphold this position,
are they Of any assistance to the Turkish
Empire! No, sir, it is no assistance; it is
worse than Indifference. 1t is the entry of q
guest who, with his very presence, absorbs
the independence of the house-owner.
Fortunately, the force of events has so far
favored justice and right that there can ..be
no more harm done by protesting it openly
that the Turkish Empire can neither in its
present struggle have a more valuable ally
than the Hungarian nation, nor Its future can
get any better guarantee than the restoration
ef Polish nationality and Hungarian inde-
pendence.
Without this, Turkey will have always to
fear in the present struggle, that Austria
might at such a moment throw down the
mask Of her false neutrality, when the Turks,
though victorious, will be worn ou: by their
very victories. 1t is not for the first time that
Austria will have played such foul play
In 1887, in that Turkish Russian war which
ended with the treaty of Belgrade, it was
Austria who took upon herself to act as
mediator between the beligerent parties
But while she was mediatlng at Niemeroffi,
she, Austria, the mediator, concentrated her
armies, upon the intelligence that Marshal
Munich had taken Oczakoff, and Marshal
Lasey advanced in Crimea, Just as she does
now, and attacked Turkey on the whole line,
from Bosnia up to Wallachia; alleging that
the treaty concluded between Austria and
Russia in 1876, and confirmed in l722 ,obges
her not only to aid Russia in any war against
Turkey, but, should Turkey be the aggressor
even to declare direct war against the
Sultan.
V.u ATE weil aware, Sir, that, from the
Time Of the wolf and the lamb, whoever is
willing to commit violence is never at loss to
pervent truth. You are aware that the Gear,
in this manifesto of Nov. |, declares bare
Iacedy, even now, that Turkey is the aggres-
sor in the present struggle. And that treaty
Of 1926 is still ready for use; it may be TAX
en- out at will from among the diplomatic
rubbish. Since the spirit of the treaty has
been confirmed by the so-calcd Holp ALI
"A md tlnf A L,., ,,,.
gain been confirmed just now at Sanssonci
in Prussia, after the imperial conferences at
O'mutz, and has still more forcibly been con-
frlned hy the Russian Intervention in the
Hungarian war, which, from an ally, and pos
sibly rival, converted the Emperor of Aus
trla into an obedient servant Of the Gar.
"No. Sir, no imaginable diplomatic ad-
lnStment can settle the Oriental question,
unless it does raise harrier between Turkey
nnd her ambitious neighbors. AS long as
Austria is dependent on sthe Gear she will
always be in danger Of the independence OF
Turkey in the interest Of the Gar. On the
if we imagine her--a strange imag-
nation indceG--independe and strong, she
will always threaten Turkey in her own in
terest. Austria, if deemed first rate power,
reckons it to be her inherited policy to spec
ulate upon the position of the Turkish En-
pire as well as the Cabinet of st. Peters
burg. Russia is pushed to that speculation
by the wish of becoming great maratime
power, while Austria is pushed in the same
direction by mightier reasons yet than those
of an inherited ambition. Be it that she To-
ses hold of Ituly--whch sooner or later is
hevitable-be it that Prussia gains an as
cendancy over her in Germany-in any pos
sibe emergency, she looks for compensation
only to the Turkish Empire. Morever, after
all that occurred in lS49, Austria can never
be sure of her dominion over Hungary as long
as in her immediate neighborhood there exists
a power which, in the case of a conflict
possibly delayed, yet navoidable-must be-
come ready support, to Hungarian nation
ality in all the future, as it has been in all
the past, against Austria.
Upon these considerations, may now with
confidence claim a verdict ON the question.
What is the policy convenient TO Great Bri-