The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-06-08

n e.nTogrsphc studies The unnatural compouhu
OF hs' eroeeous elements formed by long series
Of "surpstons, which goes by the name OF Austria, Is
far from beng kindred in race TO nglane-s SO Isr
from being Germar-tha, though AT the Las, census OF
1881 he Government of Austria employed both artldce
ana terroTam 10 establish for their dominons the charac
Ter OF German nationality, they found il impossible %
the number Of their subjects higher than 10
abou, COO GOO OF population Of 81 900 coo dear
In aG ASs Characters Of s'T NO Of
no race il just dynasty and nothing more II is sim-
ply house Of Hapsturg-no, not even that everything
10 that accursed s usurpson down TO their very
mons re6clllous crown officers Of France, Napoleon
bgb Of the house Of Fielding, are the only Hapsburgs
on earth. (Chsers.) However, since such declara
psssn ID ebs Aas went fcrS IN an ocs
manner from the English government, it Is not 10 ee
wondered at mat tne Impression prevails nfoG isni
spite of the declaration OF neutrality England will come
round by-andbye, and in one way or another viii ind
sssistipe Germany in supporting her (6ear hear rhis
impression exeris such detrimental influence on the
spirit Of the oppressed naonates as am sure every
liberal minded Epgishman will lament. On the other
hand it pushes Germany into false direction, which, II
no, checked IN tme w sooner or later, ire, entsngle
England INTO urtoward combinations and then drift. her
under eventual pretext, into the war. think H.
therefore argent that while approving Of the policy Of
impartial neutrality and intervention the pub
c opinion OF the English nation should emphaicay reod-
date the idea OF lending under any circumstances her
support Austria against The emancipation Of the nation
| altes oppressed by her Ooud cheers) come 70
the pretended nvolablty of the treaties of 1915.
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| preudices cleared away in this regard, il
| can admit of no doubt that, should il SO happen
| (Which God forefend) that England were TO depart
from the principle Of neutrality, would be done favor
Of AUSTRIA it would be done the ground and uoder
woiul to remember my lord that the soveregns who,
on preence of asserting the liberties OF Europe, ened
the nations to shed their blood in streams for nearly
full quarter of century, and to waste away the prospe
rty generations for the preservation Of dypas.es at
last reQu.ed the deluded nations at the Congress Of
Vienna by selling and bsr;erng them like cattle aud oy
| W.
Thus that Lombardy thus s that Venice, the Fairy
City robbed OF its glorious independence OF thirteen
ball into the grasp Of the House Of Ausra. (Hesr(
| growing hatred and discomfort, with their
! ring connections, consplaces, revots, revolutions,
with their scanolds soaked in the blood Of patriots,
the chatting anger with which the words "Out with the
Austriaus temble the lips OF every Italan-these
against those mpous treaties The robbed protested
| loudly enough agaIs. the compact OF the robbers
Of 1915 are ipvioaoe why, have heard il reported
that England ruDg with merry peal when the stern H.
suicide; and sha in 1852 be offered the sight Of Eng
land punging into the ncalculabe calamites Of great
for no better purpose than 10 uphold the accursed
works of the Casereashs, and from no better motive
than TO keep the accursed house Of Austria safer heers
Inlolatle treaties, indeed Why my lord the fsrtyfonr
years that haue passed have cTtttsd . treaties lire
The Bourlons, uhcn, they restored TO The throne Of
France, haze rdnihed, and the Bonaparte', ,chom they
a,s ~ Srom n
States into conederaed State and the independence of
Belgium. have been accomplished lin spite Of those treaties,
10 the profit OF liberty but for the the distinctive
feature of the cribbng process through which those
treaties have passed this, that every poor plant Of free
dom which they had spared has been uprooed by the
| unsparing hand of despotsm. From the republic Of
Cracow, poor remnant Of Poland, swallowed by Austria,
but reduced to the condition that in the native land Of
Gutenberg not one square yard OF soil is left TO set
aee press upon everything that was not Of evil those
of desposm, of concordats of Jesus and Of benghtng
darkness All these violations of the nviolable treaties
we're accomplished without England once shaking her
mighty trident TO forbid IT. and shall il be recorded in
history, that when the object TO drive Austria from
Italy, when the natural logic of the undertaking might
present my native land with chance Of that de-
verance 10 which England babe God speed with mighty
outcry OF sympathy, rolling IKE thunder from John
prayers have assembled and ascending still TO the
Father Of Mankind from millions Of British hearts
sha,l il be recorded in history that at euch time,
that under such circumstances, plunged INTO the
horrors and caamties Of war nay that she took upon
purpose Of upholdng the invoahihty Of those rotten
treaties, those hghwaymen compacs in favor Of despoc,
except to spread darkness 20 perpc,sae servtude9
cloud cheers Then You have that Austria in Piedmont
the horrors Of the bygope ages Of blrbarsm Cloud cheers
allowing her vigorously disciplined soldiers TO act the part
Of robbers let loose upon an offending population, TO
violence families Of women to outrage daughters
presence Of their parents, and revel in such other
crimes as the blood OF civilized men curdles at
hearing related. and the tongue falters in relating.
| Hear, hear.) Such che always. These horrors
|
her 10 our late war. (Hear, hesr) And rhall Il be
sad that England the home of gentlemen sen. her brave
sons te shea their blood to stain their honor in ght
| ing side by side with such " sodatesca,i for the
maintenance Of those hghwaymen compacs OF 1915 to
the profit Of that Austria? cloud cheers No, lie, the peo
pie Of England raise loud their mighty vocele them thur
der forth the forbddng words, 49, this shall not be
let them give 10 the government Of tse nation the pillar Of
the naons clearly expressed will 10 lean upon, remind
them that they the ministers of England ana rot o,
Austria. and fortly their national position against the IN
fuence Of foreign nsdlous whsperngs (Cneers There
| danger. M ana-tnarq 10
fore your DOORS Do not blndly confte in appearances.
The wooden and iron bulwaks Of England forth TO
the Mediterranean with sealed secret orders. VIVA. If
those ,t papers should hare had something 10 do Nth The
ship Cion, morcd dth0a,t the pert 4 Ga, as to i'm
moe inch gu. Of the ,ooyi 1t is rumored that The
dgnaon Of the Genoese loud that Englands naval
officers were obliged 10 Say all night ashore the
poorest gondoer refused to them TO their ship What
If you should hear Of the recurrence OF petty annoy
may DC Hnnncs may os design but at all events
woke some unowRrd collision upon the ground OF which
you may then bear Eoglands honor talked Of in stirring
by the TINES, you may go bed evening, believing
yourref at peace and may wake the morrow finding
yourself at war? And all this for the glorious purpose Of
vndca'ing the invioably Of the precious treaties OF
1918 Cheers.( Let NE peoples rnoe KEEP England om
sofs chcn it shall hare met (CAers Tts hastings gave
guarantee for this But if tie people relax ia watchul
ness, the evil of an accomplished fact may be
tween which even Parliament may find difficult to re-
dress The third point which have Is eucida:e is what
dplomatsts call the locaizatiou Of the II this
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to say that the war shall be fought out on Italian
territory. Well, my lord, I apprebend that those
| who say so talk absolute nonsense; they have no.
consulted the most elementary principles of strategy
! If the war is TO have any issue at all, the
Austrians must not only be elected from tally they must
be elected in such that they shall not be able ID
60 back again Tactical victories, without sratescal
result never have finished war, hor ever will. (Hear)
Now in the rear of the fortified defensive position of the
Austrians between the Mncio and the Adge and little
distance beyond the Tagameno s the frontier line which
separates Lombardy and Venice from the other denim
ions OF Austria Well, imagine that the Austrians at
tackled in front in that famous position despair of holding
their ground, and retire behind the ragiamento Does
England mean TO say that France and Piedmont shall be
forbidden to follow them (iear hear) Does Eogland
mean TO say that Austra being at war; should enjoy all
the advantages Of neutrality In her seas her own
territoryg-that she has only 70 retire beyond certain
line, there stop, and mock her enemies because these
would be obliged by the lcallzaton principle no. TO
eyerstep the Italian territory Hear hear Why this
sabsoutely preposterops (Hear, hear) We in our own
war Of Independence elected three armies in succession