Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-05-17
The Reason Why Austria Hesitates-
Panslayism

Some six months ago we alluded to the
private and confidential dispatch by which
Nicholas informed both Austria and Prussia
that in case they allied themselves with the
West against him he wuold reply to such a
treaty of alliance by proclamation of Hun
garian independence and Polish restoration.
At that time, and whenever we have consid-
cred the chances of a war In Poland and
Volbynia, we have always taken into consid-
Grafton the great military advantage which
such a proclasDation might give to Russia, If
put forth after the conquest of Galcia and
from the nights of the Carpathians, with
Hungary open to her victorious armies. On
that account, especially, we have always
pointed out the fact that Austria could not
undertake a war against Russia unless she
was in state AT to take the offensive
and to parry, by successful battles and an adj
vance upon Russia, the effects of such pro-
clamation. So long. therefore, as the Austrian
army in Galicia and the Principalties was
strong enough to march upon Warsaw or
Kief, there was little immediate Gangsr from
such a STEP
This dispatch of Nicholas has, however. as
we now learn, lately been followed up by
another from his successor, which contains
quite different and far more serious menaces.
The moment Austria shall irrevocably aly
herself to the West, it says, or commit any
overt act of hostility against Russia Alexan-
der III. i0W place hiBisel, at Hehedd Of tie Pan
slavist Increment, and change his title of
Emperor of all the Russians into that of En-
peror of all the &aUonians.
At last Let Alexander take such step,
and the struggle concerning the Christians in
Turkey, the independence of the Porte, Sc
bastopol, the Principalities, and other such
local trifies, may now be considered at an end.
This declaration of Alexander's is the first
plain-spoken word since the war began; it is
the first step toward placing the war upon the
continental theater, and giving it, frankly and
openly, that European character which has
hitherto been lurking behind all sorts of pre-
texts and pretenses, protocols and treaties,
Vatel phrases and Puhfendorf quotations.
Turkey-her independence and existence-is
thrown into the background. Who is to
rule in Constantinople would then no lon
/ ger be the question but who is to command
/ all Europe ? The Slavonic race, long divid-
/ ed by internal contests; repelled toward the
/ East by Germans; subiugated, in part, by
/ Turks, Germans Hungarians; quickly reuni-
I ting its branches, after 1915, by the gradual
rise of Panslavism, wonll then for the first
time assert its unity, and, in doing SO, declare
war tn the knife against the Romano Celtic
and Germanic races which have hitherto
ruled the Continent Panslavsm is not Il
movement which merely strives after national
independence; it is a movement which, thus
acting upon Europe, would tend to undo what
a thousand years of history have created;
which could not realize itself without sweep
ing from the mapof Hungary, Turkey and a
large part Of Germany Moreover, it must
subiugate Europe in order to secure the sta
bility of these results il they are ever oh
tanned. Panslavim is now, from a creed
turned into political programme, or rather q
vast political menace, with 10000 bayonet:
to support it.
Nor are these 10000 soldiers all the forces
it could command. A word from the Rus
sian Emperor at the head of an army, march
ing upon the Carpathians, and nine or tel
millions of Slavonians in Austria would b,
agitated as in l848; a victory over the Aus
TRANS, and they would be in full insurrecton
while Hungary and Italy would be hardly
less plowed by revolutionary agitation Herr
. is danger which might we'll make Franci:
Joseph pause; for unless he could at once
defeat the great Slavonian army on his from
ties and carry the war into the enemy'S coun
try, he might as well give up the contest be
. fore entering the lists.-N T. Tribune.