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

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premeditation becomes policical crime
And no fault in politics escaped punishment, and
none ever will Remember that memorable fate
which presides over the logic of events, will NOT
always be content TO Limit the expiration of political
errors TO mere pounds shillings and pence. For
the unsonnd and false policy OF hndering natural
alliances and counting unnatural ones. there may be
yet other evils in store OF retrbuton, than doubled
income tax, or an augmentation OF the national
debt though this already be not slight matter any
how" And really, gentlemen, to no people has the
course TO be ioloweQ been more clearly traced, by
IISceoents, thaa 10 Eo2aDd the present occasion.
An you wgpt Is TO fix in yoor minds, with scrupu-
ous precision, the sln which you desire to attain by
this war. BE not!conteut.to Should've ightsagainst
aespotim-ee night for justice-we fight for the
Liberties OF Europe That's all very well said
but If your national policy does not answer that
saying, It Is mere lip. worship. Liberty is high
and sacred name; stu not high and sacred as the
name Of the Almighty and yet this very name is
taken often n vain. Define what YOU mean by
that liberty which you intend 10 light for You
wish 70 maintain thetindependence OF Turkey You
WISH TO reduce the nordnate ascendancy OF Russia.
Ihat all very good; but how in what manner
shall this be achieved This you must define. Have
you defined this Then you can but come to the
same conclusions TO which come, and they are the
foHowlng;-if YOU mean to tight for freedom you
cannot side with Austria. He who sides with des-
potic Austria, sides with despotism. (Appause.)
Ii you mean to fight for the rights and inde pendence
Of nations you cannot side with Austria. Austria is
tnempersOneu YloiatiOn Oh the rights. and lndepen
dence OF nations you desire to vanquish despotism
oppose liberty TO it aud not Austria. Austria is des
pOtism cloud applause) If you desire to secure the
independence OF Turkey, do not hinder the indepen-
dence OF Hungary; and Is means to this effect
mind not to prevent Turkey from taking the Hun
garan nation for an ally, as your government was
and is preventing at Constantinope. (Hear, hear:
and cheers.l Ii you mean to check the prep0n-
derance OF Russia, you must help Poland to re-
construct itself IN independent nation or else Rus
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT will mt he rharkp1 Rut I do
not say, reconstruct Poland say I" help Po-
land to reconstruct herself There is an essential
difference. Nations manufactured by diplomatic
treaties rever have lasted and are OF use. Gap
plause) A gift ofto-dsy may be retired tomorrow.
who would be free,s themselves must strike the
blow" cloud chseIs.) Therefore, if you desire
TO see Poland reconstructed an independent ma
ton, help Poland by fighting for it, To adjourn
the question to some future diplomatic manu-.
facture at the end of the war, would be great
mistake. IL would compromise, not only the ISSUE
but also the operations during the war. Besides.
who knows how matters viii stand at the end,
should England neglect the means indispensable to
SUGGEST And vas saying help Poland to recon
struct Itself an Independent nation, She whose ex-
istence is depending on foreign protection. is not
independent. Nations must know to stand by
TO them by community Of Observation-Disclosures with
whom they FORM one for another, q reciprocal bar
rier against foreign aggression. Therefore please
to mind this, patch of land, invested with the
Polish nation. 1t would be mere iction-nothng
else. Only Poland can be Poland-nothing less.
(Applause) Whoever remembers 1913 will &C.
knowledge my right to say that if there be one man
himself to be friend Of Poland, | can say SO
much. (Applause.) Now. know, backed by some
English statesman there are some pretended diplo-
matists, with Polish name. who are now fawning on
Austria, at Constantinople, with the purpose of
gaining her over to their scheme of patching up
some portion of the quartered limbs of Poland. /
don't know for what aim. Well, let them fawn! As
to the form of government Of reconstructed Poland
have certainly no right to interfere. It is the
Polish nation alone which must be left free to decide
this II is meritorous in the party to which these
gentlemen belong that, by calling itself democratic it
means soemnly to acknowledge that it is the nation
at large which has exclusively to regulate its own
domestic afairs. applause But, though l have no
right to interfere with the domestic affairs any for
egn nation, still, as true friend of Poland NAV
say so much that such an idea of patching up one
portion OF Poland might well suit, perhaps some
personal or party purposes but the idea is neither
Polish nor national. We have all heard of Poland
being partiti0ned by foreign powers, but trust to
Polish honor we never shall hear that that nation
has lent her suicidal hands to partitiona body.
(Cheers.) No, Poland only can be Poland any
miserable substitute would not even be an advantage
TO Europe, a, without foreign protection it absO
lutey could not stand. And again, please to con-
slider that if even such Poland as it should be,
were patched up between the three great despotic
try II never could he and would soon perish again
for wont oil free air. But Poland reconstructed
with its national territory, and having for its
neighbor Hungary, free and independent, such
Poland thus placed, will be secure independent,
fee, and insurmountable barrier against RUSSIA
entertainments upon Europe (Hear, hear.) Thus
only Is Russias power to be reduced-thus only is
Turkey to be secured. If you wish Russia to re
cross the Prath, and patch up some miserable s,ars
lno paper tresty, and then come home to sleep upon
xCr aurels: It were better 20 90 to sleep Mt once,
without any laurels. But if yon are earliest in the
profession Of your better aims then, in my humble
opinion. what you want Is, first to have the war
popular with Your own people. Now, either am
grossly mistaken, or else the case is all over Eng
land the same as we have to-day witnessed in
Sheffield: the war is popular with the people of
England because Il means to fight for freedom and
it hopes that some real advantage may be brought
about by the war for the oppressed nationaties.
have taken great care in ascertaining that fact,
and perfectly convinced that it is only by this
reason that the war is popular among those who do
not measure great objects with the short yard OF
small party purposes; with all those who know Of
some wise and nobler aims than to help either the
tories or the wings to make political capital out Of
whatever object, aud With all those who bear not
sordid piece of coin bat sound heart in their true
English breasts. Cloud cheers.) Now, if England
is joined by dcspotic Austria, and thus England
sacrifices Poland, aud Hungary, and Italy, in my
opinion, in the long run, it would be impossible t,
throw dust in The eyes Of the people. II will be clear
and the war will have ceased to be popular (Chccr,
What you further want is the support Of pob'ic
opinion abroad You will lose it by taking lcs.
po,ic Austria for IN ally, because he who fights side
by side with Austria fights for Austria: and to isht
for Austria is to fight against liberty. However
may cali the word, that is the issue. (Chcers) What
You further want is, if not cooperation at lca: the
good will of the Christian provinces Of the Turlu,
empire. Now if you draw Austria to yourselves, sol
will drive Servia, Bulgaria, and, in all probability
also Wallachia, to the Gar No European statesman
who pretends to know anything about the real condi
ton of the world deny the fact that, in all these
Turkish provinces Austria is by far hated than
Russia is. want not TO reason on this subject can
point 10 the declaration OF the Servian government
addressed to Reschid Pacba, the 18th April last
There | find these words. The government of
Scryla writes to the Sultans government:--"E Even
admitting that the Gar should attempt to enter
Selyia, we can boldly affirm that the entrance Of
Ausiians would be very unfortunate measarc.
Any auxiliary force whatever would be preferable
10 those Of Austria, The seryan nation enter aims
50 aeat mistrust. not to say pronounced hatred, OF
Austria that the whole action of the Servians would
lie turned against the Aus rian troops and all the
energy Of the nation would be employed against
his enemy, in whom we behold the personiica,ion
GA grasping ambition. Vow, is that clear enough!
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