The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-08-14

mn A. Ia Nc a, sre tho re.nousble sni guiding member
Of the Confederation, tae mght ls, 90 ap racs Mn,
bringing upon herse the crushing weight OF french mil
ncyer IN tbe south sne herself upbraided by
Austria for Deserving ole coniederaoJ OF @nion ssc
Was the wacb word and where around her IN Ger
MANY Abe met web intrigue woveh with the view o.
bringing ali Germany rto the ~M 10 ne east sne iounu
herself indirectly threatened BY Russia she dd 60 70 war
as well as course, 10 open hostility With France These
difficulties much greater than those which surround
cd Prussia under Haugwz and Luccheini in the can.
paign OF Austerz and credit oerainy due to ae Court
OF Berlin for the open aud manly way In Shi,h II add esh
cd itself to solution Of lis difi culnes.
The Prussian government. sympsthizsd With Francis %
seph IS German Power but Lot as the oppreesor o, AZ
Italy. This distinction is, ia fact the key 70 ~ pocY Il
prepared itself to defend German prelensons wneihes IL
directly directly eEeaied but II distinguished PEI seeu
those claims and the indeiensble arrosstons OF me o
Of Vienna hey ond its frouters After aSo'lns 'us
ann sse Ss, Of Of Ssy se ss
efforts tended before all to avoid premhafey ensAsSs
the Confederation in the war and Se nae 20 aou
more right to act thus that, after the most @ ~, 40
examination OF the federal conventions We naa not as
yet found any valid reason any motive, tnaI cDau aS,s
a federal war Thrown therefore oy principie, tue
soundness of which be dspuied into position Of
present neutrality, Prussia frankly endeavored 10
come an aasnI WIN amss ~ mt bsr
self in the armed mediatorial position occupied by
Austria in 1913 She accordingly despatched General
explanations from Austria the objects she pursued in
the she had commenced and in case Of coming to
sV a. Wh By
any attempt at mediation between the beigerents; and
more active part"
We cannot however, let this despatch 70 wholly free OF
criticism. Although In this paragraph Baron Schleintz
limits the Intervention OF Prussia to the contingency Of
the federal territory, he elsewhere Offers to main
tain the Austrian possessions in Italy "0ur gov.
ernment," he admits, repeated in a categori
cal manner the ASSURANCE that the intention
Of Prussia to work for the preserva
ton Of the Austrian possessions In Italy and that would
act accordingly the that those possessions
seriously menaced" Here is marked inconsistency
well as q great political mistake. Prussia has By this
course brought the Italian question to what bids fair to BE-
dead lock once She interrupted the settlement
which might otherwise have taken place. Bat while we
say this must remember also that Prussia quite as
German the OF Germany had long hung soof from
the opportunities Of the minor courts and that in part
OF the strong grudge for her France
had at another II TO be observed, also, that while
Prussia agreed to Obtain beha. OF Austria dee
ton Of neutrality from Russia che refused allow Aus
tran troops to take part in the federal Army Of 0oservs
ton on the Rhine. The great blunder ch2rgeabe upon
Prussia is thai she endcavored to arrest the when
the time obviously not ripe for adjustment OF the
Italian question Had ehe reserved her intervention for
the time at which Italy bad been freed from Austrian
domination, she would have come forward in equal
strength and with far greater discretion But was
as We have seen, encoppassed by extraordinary d,a
ties, and she acted with an honesty which II would be
unjust to deprecate This is fully ackuo Tledged by Lord
John Russell In bis newly published despatch OF the 7h
Juy and We have only to wish that Prussia could have
followed the same course OF abstinence from inerve
with that which bag distinguished Lord john Russell