Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1855-05-12

d,rS shorn Of her strength will be OF no
service TO any of the parties, but VIII she
IN the downward road stop here. Is II
no, more than barely possible that the
louo unbalanced account OF 'h'S fanny
will have an adjustment VIII the down
,rodden masses of her own proper terrific
~ submi, to her sway ! and will her
,reacherv and ingratilude, which seem TO
he heir looms in her family, give her any
claim for protection from those whom she
has be,raved. or from those whom she
has oppressed. Let us recur briefly TO a
Ichanter or two in her eventiul history, and
see where she will stand, in view Of the
righteous judgment of Heaven. In 1858
the Turks had overrun all South Eastern
Europe, and finally laid siege to Vienna.
Their code of war, the world knows by
heart. The Capital Of Austria was sur
rounded by myriads of the common
horde, and in the distance might be seen
moving, the very pride and flower OF
Paynim chivalry. In that dark, dread
hour, when the heart dies within us, and
when men give up all as lost, there ap-
pears a signal upon the distant mountain,
to tell that help is near. A long dark line
is seen rising out of the earth. The meas
ured tread, and tie bugle note tell
that lis an army--its the army of John
Sobieski, upon lis banners floats the white
Eagle of Poland, which becomes the
guardian angel of the devoted city-i
saves her from all the horrors Of assault,
from fire and plIlage ; the father, the hus-
band, the brother, from the barbarian
scimitar the wife, the sister, the daugh-
ter from barbarian lust. But for Poland
the star of Austria had then set. The
house Of Ilapsburg had ceased to reign,
and It's name as a living dynasty been
bloued out forever from under Heaven.
Less than a century passes, and the house
of llapsburg, at the suggestion Of Prussia,
and upon the invitation of Russia, is found
in treaty for the dismemberment of Po-
land-it is divided among them. We
will not 90 through the subsequent, loaih-
some, sickening scenes Of violence, blood
and treachery for the next % years. In
the final struggle of 1895, upon the hor
rors Of the siege of Warsaw, the blazing
city, the shrieks of the ravished, the
groans of the dying, the wall of helpless
infancy, and upon the final lhunders of It's
fall, no eye gazed and no ear heard with
more rapture, no heart leaped more oy-
fully than the heart of the house of Haps-
burg. Her ambition had been glutted
with share--a small pittance of the spoiIs
of her benelactor-of the people who had
saved her. SO also when Maria Theresa
the Empress Queen, in her wars with
the great Frederick was defeated and hum
bled, she threw herself a feeble, help
less woman upon the sympahles of Hum
gary. The appeal was not in vain, they
responded like brave, high souled, gen.
erous people, and soon Hungarian yaloI
reinstaled her and restored her affairs. 4
century after and her descendants under
took 10 change the constitution and laws
Of Hungary, and when with the aid of
Russia, she is crushed her then Empe-
ror having some qualms Of conscience,
about his coronation oath, resigned in ia.
vor of the present, who has not taken
the oath, lest il might curb him in his
violation of her constitution, and in tramp.
ling upon her rights. Her history since
As we need rot recite here. The resto-
ration Of the nationality Of Poland then,
and The deIiverence Of Hungary and Italy,
! is the phase of the war now, and what
citizen of this free country, does not bid
it, with this object, God speed in his very
heart of hearts What more noble deed
could illustrate the reign Of the present
liberal minded sovereign of Turkey, than
that of freeing Hungary-his near neigh
Dor, and whose oppressed and exiled sons
he has cherished and protected. What
more glorious idea, for old England and
for France, great with all their faults,
than TO lift up out of the dust in which it