Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-07-26
Austria and Her Policy.

Austria and Her Policy.
We do not doubt but that the government
ofAustria would violate every article Of the dec
alogue which political corporation can yio-
late, and yet we believe it is just as worthy Of
confidence as the other cabinets of Europe. II
cannot then be because Of its superior integrity
that we pronounce the policy of Austria better
than that of any other European government
Austria has had the sense to be neutral in the
great contest now going on almostin her hearing.
She has resisted the appeals of Russia, and the
threats Of the allies She has only SO far de-
parted from the impartiality of her position as
to occupy the disputed principalities, and will,
we presume, hold on to them to indemnify her
expenses unless the General Diet of Germany
shall authorize an assumption of the debt as
incurred on common account But the wis
dom of neutrality may in this case be estima-
ted by the amount of life and money wasted by
the allies large proportion of which would
have been incurred by the neutral nations, had
they taken sides, These are consequences of
civil revolution, also, which would have followed
had either Of the great States of Austria or
Prussia involved themselves. The only path
of safety was the isthmus Of neutrality be-
tween the warning nations.
The American policy, Of avoiding entangling
alliances and balance-ofpower wars, is compar-
atively new, but it embodies an original wis
dom that commands its adoption to all who
dread wars and taxes We are satisfied that
if England could find purchaser who would
take this war off her hands at cost, she would
agree never to plunge into such another She
is loaded down to the barge-boards with debt,
and stands indicted before an Ohio justice Of
the peace upon charge Of filibustering for
Germans and Irish. Such is her extremity
for soldiers. Austria we consider equally
honest with the rest Of Europe, and much
more wise. She has initiated American neu-
trality as measure of interest, not of justice.
Is 1t a Wing Trick9
Our God-save-the-King contemporary Of the
Union allows some of its clerical contributors
to apply very INDIGENOUS terms towards the
Americans generally We annex a list of the
State Rights Democrats in Alabama, who are
advocating the Philadelphia Platform. We
should suppose that what would be satisfactory
to those gentlemen ought to be so to Mr.. Pierce
of New Hampshire. Read the Southern State
Rights Democrats who endorse the Platform in
the State of Alabama, such as Hon. Samuel F.
Rice, Judge of the Supreme Court; L. Pryor,
of rhinestone Messrs. Cook and Mason, ofTus-
caloosa; Thos. r. Woodward, of Taladega;
Gen. II. p. Watson, formerly of the same
place; Charles Stone and j. Cook Afford of
Tallapoosa; John I. Morgan, of Selma; Col.
Myree, of Perry Edmund Harrison, of Lown-
des; w. J. McBryde, of Pike; McWhorter, of
Autaugua; Henshaw, of Clarke; not to men
ton George D. Shortridge, the candidate for
Governor; Percy Walker for Congress, in this
District; T. B. Bethea, Jones NJ Withers, and
w. B. II. Howard, for the Legislature, and U.
7. Cleveland, R. L. Watkins, John I. Taylor,
G. A. Bradford, formerly editor of the Mobile
Register, Price Williams, and score of other
well-known Democrats of Mobile, and host of
others in various parts of the State, whose con-
nection with the Order has not been publicly
fScoSniSeu, dilu Wuooc hduiCc, ehoioioie, Nohioe
properly be mentioned here.
The CONTESTED SEATs.-We publish to-day the
report of the committee of the Common Council
on the subject Of the contested seats. 1t is able
and conclusive, and was adopted unanimously, as
stated on Tuesday. The votes of the anti-Ameri.
can members even were cast for its adoption, thus
contradicting in the strongest possible manner the
false and unfounded charges so hastily made against
the American party after the election, by the or
gans of the administration, including the National
Era.
This question being settled in both branches Of
the city government, We hope that peace and har-
mony will once more prevail in our Councils, and
that for the remainder of the year, the important
affairs of the city will form the sole topics Of dis
cusson by the city fathers.
American Cause in the south.
Hayward w. Guion, Independent candidate for
Congress In the seventh district of North Carolina
has withdrawn, and leaves the field to Burton
Craige, anti-American, and Colonel Stowe, Aneii.
can.
There was a large ratification meeting at MUIR
freesborough, Tennessee Speeches were made by
Governor N. s. Brown, Major A. j. Donelson, and
Lucien Temple. The National platform was also
tad