The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-08-17
TY, oHIOs WEDNESDAY, MORNING., GUsT Il 1859
THE CRIMES OF AUSTRIA AND THE
CAUSE OF ENGLISH sYMPATHYH

THE CRIMES OF AUSTRIA AND TIE
CAUSE OF ENGLISH sYMPATHY9
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Mr. George Sumner, in an orationl delivered
in Boston, on July 4th. took occasion to allude
considerably at length to. the existing war in
Europe, and giving the result of some years of
] foreign travel, study of European institutions
and history. He warmly espousedth the cause of
Italy, and maintained the sincerity of the EN-
Epefer Napoleon in his manifestoes. OF the
erin of Austria, he said:
An what is this Austrian Empire, in SYM
pathy for which the ruling classes of England
}jor e the interests Of their country and the in
terests of humanity?s An sagglomeration of
States, differing in natienaIity, language and
religion, brought together by fraud and yio-
lenec, and held by brute force in subjection to
a governments the most Infamous in history.
Bohemia, the land of John Huss and jerome
of Prague, was annexed after aseries of attro-
cities which make the Spanish Inqnisition ap-
pear respectable in, our eyes. Three million
! inhabitants were reduced to seven hundred and
eighty thousand, and of thirty Thousand seven
hundred villages, only six thousand were left
standing. lz2 s@s.-ssses.
Excepting the Tyrol, the same atrocities,
though in a less degree, have been practiced
4 in every one of the different States !; the forces
drawn from all being used against any one
which showed spark of liberty. As gem
eral rule. the soldiers of each State have been
sent to distant provinces, of the language of
which they were ignorant, aud where there
was little probability that any relations would
| spring up to weaken the blind submission nm
posed on them by military servitude. Some
times, as in the recent battles of Italy, the
young soldiers, torn by her censcriptioni from
the still, haze been placed by Austria in the,
front rank, and fred upon from behind, did
Z foil o1o f1o.-e de I1f.~
| The government of this empire has, when
| in danger constantly promised reform in the
provinces, aud as steadily opposed reforms
when the danger was past. Its prominent pol
icy has been, to keep up a state of hostihties
| between classes-to rule by dividing-by ma
king appeals to the most archial passions-by
exciting to pluuder, and even, as in Galieia.
to assassination. bssass eA@ 1s3tsi sesstss -
This government is not an aristocracysof
virtue, of talent, of birth or of wealth, but of
soldiers and bureaucrats, whose practice, Or
many occasions has been the development ..
the principles Of the most extravagant commu
| nion. Property, has not been respected ssby
them any more than liberty; whenever the
treasury was empty, it has had no rights sacred
in their eyes .93
The Austrian Government has not scrupled
Overland over again, to repuliate large por--
ton of its national debt. to- cut. down to one
nail value LlettSuiy DOleS anu
| to collect forced loans All Europe would,
have rang with indignation had any of these,
deeds been done by liberal government. The:
eliminating outrage, however, of Austria up
on the rights of property was perp. t afed in
1852, when the Emperor, proela m;rg him self
the guardian of all minor orphans, ,dispossesse1
the rightful guardians and trustees siezed upon
four hundred and seventy million dollars Athe
heritage of the lfatherless-and gave in sex--
| his to
A You've GIRL OUTRAGED By A PRINCE :
-THE CzAR AyENGEs HER WRoNGs.-Last
December, an officer in the elegant uniform of
the Chevalier Guards, galloped along one Of
the most crowded and fashionable streets In st..
Petersburgh, Passing psagasis ades modes,
he saw charming, young girl enter He, fol-
lowed her, and, was struck by Der cheerful but
modest grace and the freshness and tenderness
which distinguished her. On her retiring, he,
learnt that she was the daughter of a poor
chinonick, (civilian,) }, that the shop-people,
worked for her at low rate, from admiration
of her youth and character, and that she would
return at six e g lssF
The officer, with two of his friends, fadulgedl
in sumptuous dinner, inf1aming his passions:
with costly champagne. But exactly at Ska
large and gorgeous troika, "a double seated
sledge,) stopped near the naaqasin, harnessed
with three splendid horses The poor Olga adj
vanced was instantly halfstihed in fur cloak,
lifted into the troika, carried ON to Czarsko
Zelo, where convenient and lonely house uf
entertainment awaited them, and was there
brutafly rayished, after Indignantly rejecting
every kind of bribe. But her resistance was.
SO violent that she disfgured the faces of her
assailants. sfs ao gbnts iG9
On her return her father appealed to the ha-
ted police: but in vain. The police master as
sured him that the criminals could not be iden-
tifed On this her brother, an officer IN the
country regiment was written to. He was in
defatigable In his inquiries, discovering that
three officers had sudc enly announced them
selves sick, to hide the scars of their faces,
wrote petition to the Emperor, and succeeded
in awaking his sympathy. The policemaster
was summoned, and the Caar charged him in
stantly to procure, true report of what had
passed. This was done. The criminal was
Prince Gailtzin.
But mark the punishment. The Gar in
stantly compelled him to marry the sufferer,
endowed her on the spot with half his worldly
goods, making her at once very wealthy, and
then Immediately issued ukase Of divorce,
leaving her entirely free. sAll the three OH
deep in the heart of Russia, and we're refused
any rise in military rank fia sss, ss,s4l "a;
-ee-s-s<- a.4F
RICHARD RUsH-PEoPLE he HAD Met,
i'm q modest mansion, in quiet street, in
this quiet city, repose the remains of man
who, in his day and time moved among the
most conspicuous personages of the past, and
who has left behind him record which re-
calls the lines of the poet
eThe actions of the just,
Smell sweet and blossom IN the dust. - Il