Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1854-04-05
A European Coalition agalsast Repnb-
HiC0miSaH.

A single sentence, received by telegraph, in
respect to the present-atttude Of the Western
Powers of Europe towards Austria, and the op-
pressed millions within the dominions of the
House of Hapsburgh, must give lis pause. eng
land and France, it is said, will prevent any move
ment in Italy" We have noticed other indca-
tons that Austria has been induced to join the
league of the Western Powers. upon guaranty
from them, that their combined fleets and armies
shall be pledged to crush revolutions on the con-
tinent NAPOLEON proclaims hostility to con.
quest and reu0Lation feature Of the coalition
with England and Austria. 1t is also observa-
Bile, that the Republican exiIes in London are he'll,
and hold themselves, aloof from the Danubau
struggle, as we should expect them to do in such
situation'of things-wl:en the same internation-
al outrage of which Russia was guilty IN the Hun
garian contest of lS49, is now threatened by the
terms of the coalition between Austria and the
Western Powers.
From present appearance, the cause Of De-
mocracy in Europe has more to fear from this
league between the Aristocracy of England and
the Despotisms at Paris and Vienna than it sus-
tained five years since, from the legions Of the
Gar Indeed, the paralelsm is complete-with
this difference only, that England adds to the,
outrage the hypocritcal pretentions, that her for
eigl policy is identical with the establishment
of constitutional freedom.
If this is true-if secret agreement exists
that France and England will suppress every re-
publican impulse of Hungary, Germany or Italy
at the point of the bayouet, condition OF
Austrias agency or neutrality in the campaign
against Russia, it will produce an immense revo-
luton in the popular sentiments and sympathy in
this country. Kossuth himself, in his late G las
gov letter, evidently contemplated the possible
ty of the present continental cabal when he sol.
emnly announced that his country, if cut off from
the hope of independence and compelled to
choose tyrant; would infinitely prefer to con-
stitute province Of Russia, than to remain un-
der the mean and bloody tyranny of Austria
"The Czar,' he remarked in substance, "would be
magnanimous master. while the Emperor Fran
els Joseph is despised, even more than hated by
the people Of Hungary .E ..
What singular combination of affairs W ould
be presented, if the Democratic leader of Eu-
rope, for the purpose OF refusing coalition
against Republicanism far more formidable than
the "Holy Alliance" which this same England
organized under Pitt and Custlereagh, should
now find in the Gar of Russia an ally in the
hour of utmost need Well may Kossuth and
MazZini ask themselves, whether England and
France, in the scale of Austria, does not afford
darker feature for the oppressed millions of the
continent, than Russia triumphant on tn, Bos-
phorus, and whe tber the influence. of the Gar
strange as it may seem-ought not to be invoked,
to arouse ireland, raise fresh barricades in Paris
and stimulate insurrection in the PROSTATE and
bleeding dependencies of Austria.
We shall see, however. The European crisis
is taking new and portentous shape. 1t should
be watched narrowly. In this emergency, we
hope that the refugees in London will not forget,
for an instant, that vigilance is the price of Lib
erty. Just now, most emphatcally, blunder
would be worse than crime Ohio Statesman