New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-06-04


Arms, ammunition, every requisite of war must
be brought thither by the lberators; and then
the nation must be armed. aud the country or
ganized under the fire of an enemy before the
chances of success can dawn. Finally Gar
toryski and his gang, forming the aristocratic
party Of the Polish Emigration and representing
with the other Frustrated signers Of the humble
addresses to Louis Napoleon the Polish nobility,
have never done and never will do anything for
the masses of the people to win them over.
Not they. They are the same men who could
and did do nothing during the Instruction of
1890. No serfdom now exists in Poland, and it
is sham to talk of a future emancipation OF
serfs as these men venture to do. The peas
antry is free; but having no homesteads
in a poor country without manufactures or
commerce. is free to starve or work as hard
as serfs for the nobility owning the soil. Only
the crown-peasants form an exception The
vital question is-from the soil owned by the
MODESTO form absolutely independent free
holds for the peasantry. This never will be
done willingly by Czartoryski, by the bulk of
the mobiles or any of the admirers of Louis Bona
parte. When during the struggle of 1881 daily
paper called Ner Poland, edited by Mochacki,
j. b. Ostrowski and its owner Gurowski, adyo-
Gated mperatiyey the instantaneous abolition
of statute labor, and the creation of homesteads
as the means to raise the spirit of the people and
procure hundreds OF thousands of defenders
against the Russians, the noble Diet presided over
by Czartoryski impeached the writers for high
treason. Afterward the Diet made an effort
promising to distribute among those soldiers
surviving the war a quantity of land worth about
five millions of dollars, to be taken exclusively
from the crown-domains These paltry, shallow
promises were all that the nobility did for the
peasantry during that memorable crisis.
In the same way that Poland is disabled from
rising through a distant appeal, Hungary and
Lombardy are disabled Also Their actual posi-
ton is more or less similar to that of Poland
In I54s Hungary had its own distinct Govern.
ment, which, headed by the Archduke Stephen
originated the revolution A legal Diet exist
ing previously called the nation to arms, and
Hungary undisturbed for months, organized her
forces in quiet legal way. At that time there
were special Hungarian regiments and several
fortresses well filled with all kinds ofammuntion
were commanded by Hungarians-for example,
Comorn, one of the best in the world instantly
unfolded the national colors. Now Hungarian
recruits are distributed among Austrian regi-
ments, the land is disarmed, the fortresses gar
rsoned and commanded by devoted Hapsburg-
ians. The easiest access TO Hungary would be
10 the Danube, but in the Principalities the
Austrian General Coronini stands on the watch,
Al, Co. h. .bn not
friendly to the Magyars.
When in 1913 Milan reyolted, Charles Albert
of Piedmont at days march had his Golfers
filled with millions, and entered Lombardy at
the head of hundred thousand troops, who
were excellent in every respect. For more
than year of the struggle the Lombards-
Vienna excepted-did not raise forty thousand
men, who came principally from the cities as
according to the ayowal of Italians themselves
the country people were rather partial 10 the
Austrians. AT present Piedmont is crippled;
has scarcely forty thousand troops, and an
empty and always borrowing treasury. The
Lombards are disarmed, as are the Hungarans
and the Poles. Still Lombardy is the most
easily accessible of the three for liberating
army, and any attempt to reyolutionize the coun-
try even with Bonapartism, has many chances OF
success. Lombardy to Austria is the heel of
Achilles.
In this situation the subjugated European ma
tonalities are placed at the present time, and
pure diplomacy-or war diplomatic, not revo-
lutionary-wil injue if not destroy their
chances of future emancipation. Revolution is
their only redemption. Above all let them be-
ware of Louis Bonaparte Wo to the nations
that link their fortunes with his, or that base
their hopes of a bright future on that of a
blood stained adyenturer