The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-07-21

crush out " arms the CONSTITUTIONAL gov
eminent Of France.
In August, 1892, the armies Of despoiism
arrived on the frontier, threatening 10 over.
turn that government, and, if opposed, to
reduce Paris TO ashes. Then, 10 the fear
and frenzy which ersued, began those acts
OF violence which have left stain upon the
French revolution. Nothing" says one
OF the most conservative writers upon inter.
national policy, can ever justify one state
interfering with the internal affairs Of an.
other the worst Of mischiets Ito wit,
the execution Of those who have aided it,
must ever be the result Of such interior
ence :" and it is to this infamous and un-
provoked attempt to interfere by arms with
the internal affairs OF France, that we must
trace the death Of Louis XVI, and all the
violence and all the difficulties which fol-
lowed it.
France had done nothing TO provoke in
reference and, left to herself, might, and
probably would, have organized and sus-
tanned good government. This assertion
/ boldly make, conscious that il does not
accord with what some OF rs have been
taught. The enemies Of liberty have not
scrupled on every occasion to distort the
truth, and have even on one occasion found
an ally in the President Of the United
States.
Mr.. Willard Fillmore, in his last annual
message TO Congress, says that France showed
o desire TO force Ler form Of government
upon all the world, and points to decree of
her Convention, declaring she was ready to
succor oppressed nations struggling for lib
erty, as the false step which brought against
her the coalitions and armies Of Europe.
Had Mr.. Fillmore but looked at the facts,
he would have found that the provocation
to hostilties came not from France, but
the despotic confederates; and that the de.
crees in question, at the same time that it
shows o generous spirit, was also measure
Of self.defence. The Convention of Mantua
was signed Goth May, 1871, that Of Plinitz
the 29th Of August, 1871 and it was not until
the 10th November, 1892, after the actual
invasion Of France, and eighteen months
after the first coalition against her, that the
Convention voted the decree which Presi-
dent Fillmore leads us TO infer was the
cause Of that invasion and coalition; the
cause, in Presidential logic, coming eighteen
months after the effect.
THE CRIMES OF AUSTRIA.
And what is this Austrian Empire, in
sympathy for which the ruling classes Of
England forget the interests Of their country
and the interests OF humanity! An agglo.
meration Of states, differing 10 nationality,
language and religion, brought together by
fraud and violence, and held by brute force
in subsection to q government the most in.
famous in history.
Bohemia, the land Of John Huss and Je.
rome Of Prague, was annexed after series
Of atrocities which make the Spanish Inqui.
sition appear respectable in our eyes. Three
million inhabitants were reduced to seven
hundred and eighty thousand, and Of 30,7OO
villages. only 5000 were left standing.
Excepting the Tyrol, the same atrocities
though in less degree, has been practised in
every one Of the different states the forces
drawn from all being used against any one
which showed spark Of Liberty. As a
general rule, the soldiers Of each State have
been sent to distant provinces, Of the Ian
guage Of which they were ignorant, and
where there was little probability that any
relations would spring up to weaken tie
blind submission on them by military servi.
tude Sometimes, as in the recent battles in
Italy the young soldiers, torn by her con-
scription from the soil, have been placed by
Austria in the front rank, and fired upon
from behind, did they tail to slay their
friends and deliverers.
The government Of this empire has, when
in danger, constantly promised reforms in
the provinces, and as steadily opposed re-
forms when the danger was passed. Its
prominent policy has been TO keep up a
state OF perpetual hostility between classes
to rule by dividing-by making appeals
to the most anarchical passions-by exciting
to plumber, and even, as in Gallicia, to assas.
snation.
This government is not an aristocracy OF
virtue, OF talent, Of birth, or OF wealth, but
OF soldiers and bureaucrats whose practice,
on many occasions, has been the develop
ment OF the principles of the mos, ex,rava.
CANT communism. Property has not been
respected by them any more than liberty
whenever the treasury was empty. it has
had no rights sacred in their eyes.
The Austrian government has not scr1-
Piled, over and over again. to repudiate a
large portion of its national debt, to cut
down TO ons-half their nominal value It's
treasury notes aud to collect forced loans.
All Europe would have rung with indigna-
ton bad any of these deeds been done by q
liberal government. The eliminating out
rage, however. Of Austria upon the rights
Of property was perpetrated in 1852, when
the Emperor proclaiming himself the guar.
dian OF all minor orphans, dispossessed
the rightful guardians and trustees, seized
upon four hundred and seventy million dol
lars-the heritage Of the fatherless-and
gave in exchange his own promises to pay.
The personal violence committed, even in
the old German provinces would seem a.
most incredible to one who had no, himself
witnessed it. The printed Law prohibits the
aogging OF women. The Governor OF one
Of the old provinces. with whom happened
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