The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1859-06-22

foreign insidious whisperings. Cheers.
There is danger, tell you, men of England
there is danger before your doors. Do no
blindly contide in appearances. The wood
en- walls and iron bulwarks of England
went forth to the Mediterranean with sealed
and secret orders. What if those silent pa.
pers should have something to do with the
ship Orion, moored athwart the port o
Genoa so as to impede the Decentralization
| of French troops, and refusing to move ar
inch out Of the way? 1t is runored that
the indignation Of the Genocse was loud
that England's naval officers were obliged to
stay all night ashore, as even the poores,
gondolier refused to row them to their ship.
What if you should hear of the recurrence
Of petty annoyances, may be chance, may
be design. btaf ut al events calculated to an.
nOy the French md Ita1ians, and to provoke
some untoward collision, upon the ground
of which you may then hear England $
honor talked of in stirring variations, and,
as you have been appropriately warned by
the Times, you may 60 to bed one evening,
believing yourself at peace, and may wake
on the morrow finding yourself at war p
And all this for the glorious purpose of vim
dicating the inviolability Of the precious
treaties Of 1915. (Cheers.) Let the peo.
pies voice keep England out of war till
Parliament meets. Parliament will keep
her safe when it shall have met. CHEERS.
The hustings gave guarantee for this. But
if the people relax its watchfulness, the evil
of an accomplished fact may come be-
tween which even Parliament may find it
difficult to redress.
| ENGLAND AND AUSTRIA
I think it both urgent and important, my
Lord Mayor, that public opinion should be
explicit in its manifestations, because can
not forget that some distinguished members
of her Majesty's government hinted at the
possibility of England flying to the rescue
of Austria, if she were to be attacked in
the Adriatic. (Hear.) And ask what is
that Austria is to you, that she should be
huggged to the protecting bosom of Britannia,
at the cost of your blood to be shed in
streams, of your money to be spent by hun.
dreds of millions, at the cost of bringing
incalculable confusion into your commercial
relation, inhicting deep wounds, it may be
incurable wounds, on your prosperity,
checking your progress, and arresting the
course Of your peaceful reforms? C"Hear,"
hear" and cheers) What, I ask again,
what is the House of Austria to you?-
| (Renewed cheers.) Is its existence advan-
tageous to your commercial interests p
Why, just consult the latest returns of the
Board of Trade, and you will see that your
commerce with small but free Belgium is
nearly six times as extensive as your COM
merce with the big Austrian empire
Hear, hear.) Uraquay nearly equals it
the Philippine Islands, poor Norway, and
little Greece rank each before Austria But
| know that when the hereto generous COM
pound of that European nuisance is once
dissolved, your commercial intercourse with
Hungary alone must be ten times as exten-
sive as it is with the whole Austrian En-.
plre now. Or is it true, as some have told
you, that Austria is your useful ally, botl
Ilthtnl 2qa tive t1lat Sustfia Was the insa.
table pensioner of England; that she was
the bottomless sack into which England
poured millions from the life sweat Of her
industrious people. | know that in the late
French wars you gave her the little snug
sum Of seventeen millions of pounds; but
what advantage have you got from her in
return, that is not yet recorded in history ?
(Laughter.) | know what you have saved
Austria, but do not know that you are in
debted for your safety, for your rank among
the nations, for your prosperity, or for your
freedom, to her. (Cheers) A dear ally
she was to you, forsooth; only too dear
But how ''useful?" that have yet to learn.
Austria your ally, faithful and true! Why,
gentlemen, remember the Crimean war
Cast your eyes at the gloomy churchyard
field before Sebastopol. 1t is faithful Aus
tria, that pale phantom of death, that sent
your heroes to die in vain on that barren
field, while she stood idle by without firing
shot, without raising finger, in return
for all your consideration for her. (Hear
hear) But if can find no answer to the
question, What is Austria to England %
l could tell you tale of horrors about what
Austria is to the great birthright of man.
kind-liberty, what she is to freedom OF
conscience, what she is to culture and en-
hghtenment, what she is to everything that
good men prize. No, England cannot,
England will not load herself with the re-
proach Of oppressed millions by stepping
between Austria and retribution, for which
she appears to be marked by the finger of a
long -forbearing but just Providence, whose
ways are often mysterious.
THE BALANCE OF POWER.
1t is said that the integrity of the Aus
trian empire is necessary to the mainten-
ance of the balance of power. Oh, this
word, specter as it is, that cannot stand the
light of common sense, this word is a ter
rible Moloch, to which right, justice, politi-
cal morality, freedom, and the existence OF
nations have been inundated as SO many
holocansts. (Hear, hear) Let it not be
said that England persisted in perpetuating
the sacrifice. | shall not enter on theo-
retical elucidation of the fallacies of this
cabalistic abracadabro of balance of power,
which, unlike that of the old Syrians, Gre
ates the diseases which it is intended to cure
| shall restrict myself to one remark of a
practical character. Artificial States, with
out either organic cohesion or harmonizing
cement, are an Indictment to war, instead OF
constituting check uponit. (Hear, hear. }
Against what kind of preponderance is the
Austrian empire meant to constitute a bar
rier? Evidently either against Russia or
against France. Well, as to Russia. There
are in the Austrian empire, seventeen mill
ion of people belonging to the Slavonic
race; al Of them discontcnted, because not
only opposed politically, but also deprived
Of national existence. Now, imagine Russia
desiring to strike an ambitious blow any
where. Will Austria be barrier to her
Was she ever barrier at any single moment
of the past? Why, Russia need only to
say, as the Gear Alexander instructed
Admiral Tsitsakotf to say if he found Aus
tria playing fast and loose, "Ye seventeen
millions rise. against the oppressor Of your
nationality-here am to help you;" and
they will rise; and where will Austria be
This is the reason why Austria did not dare
draw her sword in the late Crimean war
Is that barrier? Why, it is high road
inviting ambition to an easy march
(Cheers.) Now reverse the picture. Let