New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-04-14
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A governmental edice or State, laboriously and to
q certain degree skllfully, nay, craftily, congom-
Grated in the course of centuries out Of various eth
mic compounds ard antagonistc nationalites Ia
menaced with ruin in Central Europe. Flssures
internal and external are becoming broad gaps the
old cement is giving way, loyalty is scarcely even
word on the lips, and has lost its hold on the heart
and the feelings. The Austrian Empire is shaking
TO its foundation and will crumble about the heads
of the HapsbuIgs sooner or later. New phenixes
will arise from the dust, the ashes, the ruins. The
world-renowned skill Of the Hapsburgs has been
poweress to fuse the various elements and particles
into such unity as France. The reason is obvious.
The Archdukes of Austria, extending their posses
sons over Slavic, Magyar, and Italian regions,
neither embodied nor mastered the great German
life; they were not in any way the representatives
or the agents of that German civilzing and trans
forming spirit, by which North Germany and Prus-
sia permeated, recast, and wholly renovated the
Slavic and Savo- Prussan natives bet Ueen the Elbe
and the Niemen Austria neither occupies, nor has
she ever fulfilled any civilzng mission whatever in
The history of European nations. Further, the
Capets in working out the fusion, the unity OF
France from eleven or thirteen nationalities and
feudal independencies, were considerably aided by
the fact, that the immense majority forming tho
substratum Of the population in these various arts
belonged to one and the same family, the Gallo
Romantic. This identity quietly flowing into the
hands Of the Capets, has perhaps not been SUM-
GENTLY taken into account Many other circum-
stances were proptous to the Kings of France, the
absence of which has been fatal to the Hapsburgs.
In the interest Of Italy, Louis Napoleon has given
the first blow; he has shaken the throne of the
Hspsburgs and disoined the edifce OF their power,
and other earthquakes will follow of necessity. The
last ten years has thoroughly uncovered the sores OF
the Austrian Empire. These are so generally known
that it is useless to enumerate them here. The love
of the patrsrchal power Of the Kaiser is dying out
even among the Tyroese mountaineers, not TO
speak OF the Pandour Croats and other Slav; still
less of the Magyar Hussars Good administration
gees great way; still it never satisfies the crav-
iDgs of people. But good administration is IN.
known to the inhabitants Of the Austrian realm.
Hapsburg, i. e., Austria, with it's German and
few Germanized Slavic possessions, may lin
ger, or, being reinvigorated, may even form
an eminent portion of German Union or
Unity, or finally it may be maintained as
diplomatic necessity, and sustained by its
historic teDacty Of life. But partial disjunc-
ton or dissolution is inevitable. Then the horo-
scopes cast long ago, and prophecies long since
made, WILDE justified, and Slavic toushness having
e.. ofa cd md Tart
oppression, will, phenx Like, rise to new and nor
NAL political and social life.
Since the emancipation Of Lombardy from Aus
tran rule-which in all probability involves that of
Venice and her dependencies other national
tiles have been biding their time These are the
Magyars and the various branches Of the Slavi en-
circing the former on all sides. Their mutual
enmity, even in the governmental embraces Of Aus
tra, has been her salvation. This hatred between
Magyar and Slavi ten years ago gave semblance
Of o revival of loyalty toward the Kaiser in some
parts of the Empire. In the struggle between the
Msgysrs and the Hspsburgs in 1883, the Slavi of
the North West and the South stood BY Austria be-
cause they preferred even her rule to that of the
Magysrs. Now agitation is the watehwOrd in Hun
gary. At the present moment, it is political and
religious; but the second merges into the first. The
Magyar magnates, the great and small nobility,
supported by the majority of the Magyar popula-
ton, demand religious liberty aud immunities, but
the nobility in concrete, desires principally the res
tcration of the ancient Constitution. privileges for
the nobles-mostly Of Magyar stOck-privileges
for the Church. and, above all, for the Bishops, and
for certain cities called Royal cities. Such is the
essence of that Magma Charta. This was the body
polite ruling the nisera eontrbusns plebs. The
great majority of this eontrbuens plsbs was and il
composed Of Slavi, Roumans, and Germans; none of
them having had any rights under the old COnstitu-
ton. They had none in its most brilliant days,
when the Constitutional dictum was: Vota STUNT pom
d,randa, non numoasda; nor in subsequent epoch,
when the numerous petty and poor Magyar nobility
reversed the rule. The Revolution of 1889
emancipated the soil and the laborer of all races.
Hungary, as claimed BY the Msgyars, is a geo
graphical and governmental denomination, embrace
ing in itself as many heterogeneous and antsgonistc
elements as the whole Austrian Empire. No nor
nal ethnic basis constitutes Hungary. Her whole
population may be between fifteen and sixteen mill
lions. The Magars, SO ol.morous for domination,