New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-03-31
GERMANY.
THE WAR PROSPECT IN PRUSSIA.
csT1si,olss1ee Of Tie n. Y. rrbzns

/ irg contest between France and Austria is mat
ter Of general dispute, neither the government nor
the public seeming to have arrived 81 any settled
opinion. O0e fact uut haze struck you, VIZ;
that the only warlike petitions sent up to Berlin
/ came not from Prussis proper but from Cologne,
the cspi'al of Rheuish Prussia. Too much stress,
however ought rot TO be- laid upon those petitions,
since thew are evidently tie work Of the Catholic
party, which, in Germany, as veil as in France and
Belgium, naturally identities Itself with Austria.
Ia ole respect, an exceptional unanimity OF feeling
may be said to peryade the whole OF Germany.
Nobody raises bis voice in favor of Louis NaPOleo,
nobody affects any sympathy for the "l5eratcr,'
but, on the contrary, q real deluge of hatred and
I contempt is day by dsy poured cut against him.
The CATHOLIC psrtY considers him rebel sgaini.
the Pope, and cures, Of course, the sacrllegiou,
sword about to be drawn against pOSer that By
lis corccrdste with Rome has anew subjecteds
great part of Europe to the Holy Sees the Ecu.
dal party while 1t affects 10 detesI the French usurp.
err detests, 10 fact, the French nation, and latser'
sel. that by sound war against tall, the horrdm
imported from the country OF Voltaire and
Jean Jacques Rousseau, may De swept away; tho
commercial aud industrial middle class, who used
TO gloIify Louis BOrsparte as the gres. savior Of
4" order, property, religion and family, nOw abound
in denuucIatons of the reckless peace breaker who
instead of contenting himself with keeping down
the exaberant forces Of France aud quenchng the
socialist dcsperadOes by wholesome exercise 3.
I.smtessa and Cayenne, has taken into his head
II a.. r 4 - ,oJ.
disturbing the even course of business, and axak-
ing anew the revolutionary passions; the great
mass Of the people, at least, are exceedingly glad,
after years of compulsory silence, to be allowed to
give vent 10 their hatred against the man whom they
consider the principal cause Of the Revolutionary
failures Of 1879. Angry rscollections Of tie
Napoleonic wars and the lurking suspicion OF 9
war against Austria meaning simulated move
upon Germany are quite sufficient to impregnss
the phihpp,cs against Bonaparte, due To so many
different motives, with the appearance of one CON-
mon national feeling. TIE silly lies in the Nom.
tur the frivolous pamphlets aditei by the literary
condot,ieri of the Emperor, and the evident signs
OF yacs,ion, distress, and even fear, on the part
OF the fox who is forced to play the lion, have done
the rest, and turned general hatred TO general
tempt
Still il would be the grea.est mistake possible 10
infer that united Germany sides with Austria, be.
cause the whole Of Germany is aroused against b.
napsrte. In the first instance, need not remind
you OF the inveterate and necessary antagoni'm
between the Austrian and the Prussian Govern
ments-an antagoHism which certainly is not Likely
to be ,oothed by the recOectiOns Of the Congress
of Warsaw, the boodess battle of Brousel, tio
Austrian armed promenade to Hamburg and Schles.
wig.Hostein or even the RGso-Turkish war
You are aware of the cautions lukewarmness per
vadng the last msnfestoes of the Prussian Govern
meut. AS European power, they say 10 feet,
Prussia sees no reason why she should decide foe
one party or the other, and as German power shs
reserves 10 herself to inquire how far the Austrian
pretensiOns in Italy are in unison with truly Ger.
man interests. Prussia has even gone further.
She has declared that Austria's separate tresties
with Parma Modena, Tuscany and Naples, AMI
consequently the mOoted abrOgation Of those trea-
ties, ought TO be considered from European poin.
Of view, but did not at all lie within the horizon Of
the German Confederation. She has openly sdet
against Austria in the DAnubian question; she has
recalled from the German Diet st Frankfort plea'
ipotentisiy apparently too decided partisan oil
Austrisn interests; she has, finally, 10 order
TO meet the suspicion of acting unpatriotIcally
followed in the track Of the minor German States
and forbidden the export Of horses but 10 extract
the sn-Fren,h sting from this prohibition, she has
extended the latter to the whole of the Zolgerein,
so thLt the prohibition is directed against Austri
as well Is against France. Prussia is still the very
same power which concluded the separate treatyoi
Base and, in sos, sent Haugwitz into the camp
Of Napoleon with double dispatches, the one set 70
be preseIted in case the battle Of Austerlz should
60 the wrong way, the other containing ser'l'
fluctuations 70 the foreign invader. Apart from
the traditional family. policy, persisted in byfA'
house Of HOhenzolern, it is inundated by Rassi,
who, she knows, entertains secret uaderstaaa'
ing with Bonapsrte, and even pushed him on tob'
fatal declaration Of New Years day. If one sees
s1ch A pauer as the New PIussisn Gazette Eakns
I'd the cudse!s for tne King Of Piedmont agar"
Frsrcis Joseph, no great power OF divinstons
required to guess from which side the wind bowl
To leave no doubt, Herr Won Msnteufel has PUB
Eshed an anonymous pamphlet, recommendIns'
RussO-French alliance against an Austro-E niha
one.
But the real question does not 50 mu;h eoncef-
TIE intentions Of the Government as the synP|
thes Of The people. Nov, must tell you Ia'S
ave tie Catholic party, the fsada party AZ
some stupid relics OF toe TeuEOnc Drawers /"
IsI3-l5 the German people generally, and I1'