St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-05-26
The European War.

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ciples in Sardinia. as well as else
where and it being known to every
intelligent American citizen that Aus
tra is and ever has been the cruel
champion of tyranny, they hope to
see her soundly thrcshed and essen
TALLY BUNDLED. The two great OBJ
jccts of the Austrian government have
been, first, to extend its dominions,
and, considering the difficulties against
which it has been obliged to contend,
it has been wonderfully successful in
this respect and, second to combat
with logged perseverance, uncXam-
pied in the history of the world, every
popular movement within the reach OF
its influence. Situated in the heart
of Europe, and constantly surrounded
by many of the elements Of political
progress, it has pcrSistently devoted
itself to their destruction and has
repeatedly exhibited relentless tyran-
ny that has evoked the excavations Of
the enlightened liberal world.
From the hour of the first dawnngs
of the French Revolution, in which
that Inflated daughter of the House Of
IIapsbur%, Marie Antoincttc, fell
victim to the popular rage, no Govern
mcnt has been more active, consistent,
determined and cruel in warning
against Democratic instincts. The
Austrian Government repeatedly de-
clarcd war against France for her
liberal tendencies, in the days Of the
great Napoleon it has laid the iron
hand Of power, with crushing cruelty,
upon Italy ; it assisted to subduc a
popular uprising in Spain it was an
active agent in destroying the indie
pendencc of Poland it has been the
main prop Of absolutsm in Germany ;
it gave the first great check to the
Revolution of lS4S, and treated with
inhuman barbarity the rcvolutionists
in hungary, Vienna, and Italy.
However despotic Louis Napoleon
has in some things shown himself tc
be, he is, as contrasted with the Aus
trian Government, the representative
of liberalism. The Revolution Of lS4c
first brought him into power. Sar
DINA, also, actively sympathizcd Will
the great popular uprising of that
year, and was victim of the Austrian
rcactionary movement. At this mo
mcnt, Russia, stung to the quick BY
the trcachery Of Austria, at the time
of the Crimcan war, seeks for her re
vcngc, and has allied herself with
France Prussia turns coldly upon
her Austrian rival the liberal scnti
ment in England is too powerful to be
held in check by any Ministry tina
would attempt to aid Austria The
general sentiment of Europe has bccl
enlisted against her by her prccipita
ton in Fastening the present struggle
her debt is the most oppressive in tht
world her current revenue has fol
some years past fallen far below hcl
current expenditures, and her credit is
destroyed.
1t seems, therefore, inevitable that
| Austria will receive from France, Sar
| DINA, and Russia, q series of the mos
! humiliating defeats that she ever en-
countcrcd. 1t would be but Just i
she were stripped Of all her depcndcn
cics: shorn Of her territorial grandeur,
and left in an ahect and dcplorablc
condition TO fall to decay, beneath the
burden Of her debt, and the rcvolu
tionary tendencies of her people, as al
eternal monument Of her folly, in act
ing as the cruel and unrclentine
| knight-crrant of absolutism. If the
war continues, nothing can shield hel
/ from this fate but the wonderful per
severance and inherent energy o
which she gave many extraordinary
exhibitions by the renewal of the con
hicts with Napoleon during the early
part Of the present century-and by
her mastery of many difficulties ap
parently insurmountable.
In April, lS49, the Austrians were
defeated by the lIungarians. They
had been forced to raise the siege O
komorn and evacuated Pcsth. In tn,
following month Of May, at the earn
est entreaty of Austria, a large Rus
sian army went, through Gallacia, tc
| fight the rcvoltcd Hungarians on THEN
own soil. The Emperors Of Russia
and Austria met at Warsaw, and re
newed their compact Of amity. In
the middle Of June, the Russian army
commanded by Prince Paskcwitcll, Ell
tered hungary. In the following
three months, Russian bayoncts pu,
down all insurrcctionary movements
i'll Hungary, drove G0rgey and Kos,
suth into exile, and preserved the in
tegrity of the Austrian empire. Had
Russia not afforded military aid, when
called upon by the Emperor of Aus,
tria, the probability is that Hungary
would have succeeded in establishing
her Independent nationality.
In 1858, the late Emperor Nicholas,
anxious to carry out the hereditary
policy of Russia, as regards the "an.
nexation" Of Turkey, declined waiting
any longer, but resolved to treat "the
sick man" as dead, and administer to
his effects, as a sort of rcsiduary lega-
tee. France and England decisivcly