The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1861-02-01
The Coming Struggle with Austria.

Inc courts and newspapers OF the prlncl-
pal countries of Europe are more occupied at
this moment with the Venetian question than
any other. Napoleon is apparently using
direct and indirect means to induce Austria
to consent to peaceable solution by the sale
Of the province to Sardinia, and the Paris
papers are arguing tha, if Austria succeeds
in defeating Garibaldi in the spring she will
be no better of than before. She will still
hold Eenetia onl hostile province. at an
expense twice as great as the revenue she
derives from it. This view of the case is
mere likely to commend itself to the prudence
of the Austrian government on account of
other difficulties now pressing upon her. The
HunSarans ore In a state of resistance little
short of revolution. and there is a scheme of
revolutionary propasandism, instigated bv
the Hungarians and Garibaldans. likely to
involve the whole country of the Danube in
an effort tor great ServIan empire, compre-
Eendlng the northern provinces of Turkey.
the southwestern corner of Russia and a
considerable portion of Austria. Large a.
mounts of arms and ammunition have been
landed from Sandman vessels on the Turkish
side of the line, and the Turkish government
is warmly demonstrating with Sardinia on
the subject. There is evidently an under
standing between kossuth and the Hungari-
an leaders and Gardaldi, that the attacks up
on the power of Austria in Nenetia, Hunga-
ry and the Danubian provinces shall be SIM
ultaneous. Austria is universally looked
upon as the great obstacle to all political
progress and amelioration in Europe, and
there will be general joy over her humiliation
if it can be accomplished
kossuth, in recent letter to the commit
tee of the Garibaldi fund at Glasgow, Scot
land, among other significant things, said:
austria still stands in arms on the Min
clio. Her lmpious foot is still planted upon
the neck of talr Nenetia. Unless that foot is
removed, unless Austria is thrown out, Italy
is not one, and her independence is not worth
one years purchase. shall say more: to
have the Italian question detinitel, resolved,
it is not enough to throw out the Austrian
from lta y, she must be thrown out in a man
mel that will leave her rowerless, even to 60
there again. Europe is sick of those hand
,o-moulh diplomatic trickeries of antiquated
craft, which solve no problem, decide no
question, and only leaves to posterity the
curse of ever-recurring disputes about aggra-
waited uncertainties. The political problems
OF the age require solution. Europe wants
not armed truces which drain uselessy the
ite-sweat of nations. Europe wants peace
which only the rule of right founded on lib
erty and contentment can give. Europe
wants secure tranquility, which only the sat
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can give. In the way of that peace, of that
tranquility stands the House of Austria
Her very existence as tirst-rate power is a
source OF eternal discord, troubles, wants, re-
volutons in Europe. Good for nothing on
earth, she forms the grea: European NUS
ance, without the removing of which there
can be no peace, no tranquility in Europe.
The removal OF that notice Is an imperative
desideratum and a logical complement of the
Italian question.
"But as to Austria and her rule over Ven
ice, that is different in the opinions and as
pirations of the British government. Still
nervously clingng to long exploded antiquated
prejudice (which was at all times prejudice
but which to-day is a prejudice scarcely fiji
for nursery tale; still clingins, say, te
the antlquated prejudice that Austria is nee
essary to England the English government
while advocating the principle OF non-inter
ference, actually do in every possible manner
intermeddle with the natural logic of the 1t
. allan question as far as Nenetia is concerned
they use persuasion, menaces. threats to pre-
vent Italy from emancipating Venice; hostile
most decidedly hostile to the national aspira
tons OF Hungary, they set themselves up a
| Keepers and protectors Of the unmolestet
) safety of that great European nuisance which
answers to the name-Austria; they 70 4.