Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1859-06-11


lcss ,he chose to plunge Into II Of her own ucoosd.
What then aid those armAmcnts mcAnF IN hia
oplnion tbey meant that thero was Au ldteNslou
somewhere 10 mako England provoke that ~
srsssion In order 10 get pre,sncc fbs isunchihe
into the war In spport Of dsspotio pfiest.vIodAn.
bankrupt Austria lhear, hcar1, whose very exist.
ence depended ubon tissue u condnet which
eysn In tho ancient heathen times was rekafded
a. hateful 70 the gods and deserving ofno dyfence
from men. Look 10 thVfactp, The EuKiip6 ship
Orion. after ships had been sent 10 80 with -
cret, sealed ordsfs, vas Nuud moorsd at Uenoa,
90 a. to impede t6e dissmbarkAsion offNueA
troopa, lust at the moment when the AuetfMAe
therefore evcry moment Of fetnrdation miHhS6svS
become fatal to Italy That might be more %.
cidsus, but IL certainly looked like avery pastial
accident [IIear. hear.l Another English shin
refused the commonos, mark Of international civ
iity to the 6ng Of Tuscany refused TO salute ths
Bar which WINS rot that of the Grand Duke who
had deserted 10 tho enemy, but wss that of Tas-
cany IA much M the flag Of England was the dag
Of England, and of nobody aud nothing else. The
demand made by the English government that tho
shores of Dnlmntia. In tho Adriaic. should be re-
earied ~ neutral, would, if complied with, have
bsen eonivalent to Austria to the direct aid Of na
army al 30. 900 or 40 900 mcn This was not i'm.
partsnl neutrality; il was positive intermcddlng
with the war In ihvor Of Austria was n vulncrabls
point In Austria's ilgotten powor; and the ohjcot
Of tho demand that that country was to be regAs.
dol as neutral was to distance tho war from Hun
gary, aud thu, to deprive that down .troddcn coun
fry' Of the chance Of emanci patton which prcv
dence appeared to 10 preparing In the logical
course Of those retrihn.ivs trals which were as
lnst setlipg upon the crime loaded House af Aus
trim. Hear, hoar II was reported In the paper
that this monstrous prctcnsion had already led 70
angry correapoude ence betw cen England and France
and 4 mrh, lend IN n war IL IL waa not cksd IN
timo by the peoples voice. Bns for thess Aus.
trian leanings in high and official quarters there
would bo no chance Of England drifting into war;
fnr-nnd it might cn,me pang to some--thcre
wns no chance that the government would be
tom pled to shake tho trident Of these realms
in favor of tho independence Of Italy or Of any Of
those nntionutics to whom tho logic Of the pres.
rnt complications might promise chance OF de-
Ilverance That was out Of the question. He
was suro that the people of England were oppo-
scd to tho wckcdness of aiding to tho preseryA-
tiou of Austrin aud 40 Of stihing tho aspirations
of freedom and numbering tho innocent life
Of oppressed nationalitics. (Applnu.c.) There
Epre tho peopls must speak out; for the
danger would come when tho war extend
eds extend it must--to other portions Of
tho Austrian dominons II was extremely i'm
portant To make II understood that the people Of
Enplnnd would bc as unwilling 10 pay subsidy
or to shed one ,rop of blood, Cor the preservation
of Austria in the Adriatc or on the limo OF tho
Danube or that of tho Thesis. as it would be for
her preservation along the Po. lie did not ask
England TO 'gbt for Italy or for Hungary. no only
asked England TO keep out Of harm. and not to
fight for the enemy of italy, of Hungary, and of
mankind generally 1t was said that the question
was simply Of the exchange br one ,nskmastcr for
another. Suppose IL were 49, The greater the
reason tor England to stand aloof. Hear. hear.
England hud no right 10 prop up one despotisui
against another. Let tho tasknasters do 10 each
other as much harm as they liked. Hear. hear |
The better would It be for tho ,ause of tho peo-
pie. n thcrc was really no chancc left but an
exchange of masters then let tho nations concern
cd decide in tho matter for il wns their business.
not that of anybody else. IIIear, hear.l Whvt
woula tho EnIlisb rhilo. .Austrians answer n they
wcrc told from, tho Pc, for instance TINT IN France
iespotism was personal, and therefore temporary:
TINT In France It was but form Of sovernmsnt.
Int in Aus,ria tho murder ~ national life that
whatever NAV have been the form Of government
In France. there wn. awnys n nation rs well ~ n
government md that that nation was and 10 one
of those foruses whence the pht Of ciyilixaton r-
dinted over the world but that Austria wns no
nation hut only a dynasty, which wns at all timea
IL. and will be- ns long NJ it exists, focus from,
which intellectual political and religious darkness
Ia feltt Woe 10 the mnn who. when the ftste Of
nation. trcmbled in the stnle. would allow him.
rof 10 be guided 10 his Judgment by his personal
.vmnothics and autinatLies rather than by what
h.. owed n his country, lie. for himself. was no
such man !! TIC had calmly weighed all aspects Of
The matter and he had concluded that nm OK.
change of tnskmnsters was not the only chance,
but thnt there wa. another nnd better one In
store-a chance of national emancipation, and
consequently Of liberty. (Chccr) This .conclu-
sion re.ted frst. on the incontrovertible axiom,
Tint tho dif6cuifies of the opprcssor were aiways
a chance of deyerance f,r the oppressed, and
,ecoudly. on the fact that he deded Fnte iself to
make the condition Of italy and Hungary worse
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