, 1863-09-26
OUR FOREIGN LETTER.
Il Glimpse at European Po1ftics-The
Gcrmln Con&ress-The age OF Prog.

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Especial Correspondence Of the Chicago Tribune ]
FnASKFonT.oA- ruE-MA1N, Aug. g, 1883.
This il a great time for Frankfort, and an
exciting time for all Germany. The hotel
keepers are making more money than they
ever did before. The city Is crowded to oyer.
flowing. Over thirty sovereign princes, nll
rhi1liug through the narrow crooked streets
of this old historical city, In all directions
aud ut al1 hours, with oil the splendor Of
court carriages, and nN thel blazon1y Of
prince1y arms md spangled Hyeries,
form a sight which Germany and the
world have not seen for centuries.
The Emperor Of Austria has been cheered
and feasted and spoken at, and has made
speeches, headed professions, reviewed SOL
diers, and made known his projects Of reform.
to your readers and come Of the extreme
liberals, here in Europe, hare even said that
they are too incongruous to merit that or
any other honor. He proposed: LIST, That
there shall be Federal Directory established.
Cd, A Federal Council. Sd, A Chamber Of
The powers granted to these different as.
se1Dtliea a1e various, but the intention Of
the reform Is, no one can doubt, the
bsir giDg about Of unity Of action for purposes
of teH defence and selfpreservat1on. The
liberal princes, the Duke Of coburg, Welnar
having the three hundred members OF the
chamber Of Depotles chosen by assemblies of
the different States, and have INTRODUCED m
amendment providing that they shall be
elected directly BY the people. Those, how
ever, who profess ,5f to :, know, say that the
The old King OF Prussia has refused to a.
tend the Congress. 4 joint note signed
by all the assembled soyerelgns VAS
carried to him at Baden Baden, By the
King Of Saxony; but he has also turned
deaf ear to the united solicitations Of his
princely brothers, and cousins: The veteran
feudalist and believer In the divine right Of
BY 1hat same spectre which affrighted Nicho-
las, and almost all the soyeIeigns OF the last
generation. This Is the spectre OF the Red
Revolution, going about to deyour all those
princes who are weak enough to listen to
upon which King William enlarged q short
time ago at Gastein, when he mel the young
Emperor Of AuAtria. But Francis Joseph has
become fariliarlzed with the spectre. He
has been taught that to dread 1t Ia to
puE%UUQ ~ LII A44 L1AAb kAEAC (Au uts
no spectre between people md the
monarch who advances to meet ita
Just 6eeircs. The Emperor Of Austria could
net be induced to take Prince Gortsehakoff's
vieT Of the Polish ineur1ection by It's being
Instructed @ to l him that Hungary might at any
might easily be converted into Warsaw. Il
is evident that the tWo Northern Powers,
Russia md Pruesia, offered to Austria to re-.
new With her triple alliance, which. set
Ting Poland after The old fashion, would defy
all the efforts and remonst1ances Of the
WeEtern Powers. This Offer Francis Joseph
evidently declined, and fair credit should
be giyen him for having done 40. Putting no
faith in either GortschnkoG or Bismark, the
Emperor ot Austria, has declared his adhe-
eicn to the ideas Of the West; and answered
that the recommendations conveyed in the
six Points, tolerance, autonomy, constItu-
tfonal government, and humanity, Offer the
only means Of pacitying Poland and that the
antiguated way Of ruling that country by the
| seaEing.ilon system-wldch Alourayieff has
reyiyed-ls no longer one TO be praetieed or
It is high time Kings aud Empelors we're
learning that the age Of despotIsin and aris-
| tocracy is passed. Austria has learned it in
Italy. Russia is sure to learn 1t In Polaad,
and Prussia Fill learn It from the present
Congress. This Is movement originated
fect1y hostile to the principles and internal
Government Of Prussia. The King has rs-
fused to have anything to do with the Con-
gress, and yet he cannot and dare not With
draw from the Confederation. His people are
are those swayed by the thirty and odd
| Princes now assembled in this city, and they
| will certainly not bear, In addition to the re-
cent Woful m1sgoVeInment, to be lefi4out to
| the cold mercles of Russia or France The
Kings Of Holland and Denmark would gladly
Ia 4ha U.n3 NV Trpf fad
| the one on account OF Luxembourg aud Lin
bou1g; and the other On account Of Holatein.
| The other Princes Will not, however, permit
item OF Prussia to leave them and become the
| tools Of Russia or France, and 80 establish in
rlace Of he present eafe Germanic boundary
whole Of what would then be their defence.
leks northern frontier. Thus the present
Congress Of Princes, IT 1t do no other good
| for Germany, will in a1l probability deliver
the rrubsians from kind Of government
tolerated under Edward III.
| In acknowledging the necessity Of reform,
| the German Soyeketgns have made q coucea-
zion frcm which they cannot now recede.
The people are aroused to great expectations,
IN old and dangerous spirit 10 abroad In the
laId-a spirit that has before now walked
| over the ruins Ct empires, and trampled up.
on tceptEes and crowns. rlacards are posted
all over the city, and distributed, It Is said ali
| over Germany, Of O nature which cannot leave
| the Princes In doubt as to the state Of public
"Whcn shall We march against the North ?''
and IS violent poetical attempt to asitate
the sch1cswig. Holstein question. Another
t1us1on Is In very dpEosc, fiery enough
| to be the ghost Of quafto-yolume Of excfa-
Tst1Gn Eont, The ~FSr " generoa1y
els Joseph, aud coplure6 him In tint war to
| establish great and united Fatherland.
| Another great benefit likely to be the result
| OF tue present Congress Is complete es-
Prussia and the consequent breaking with
and defiance Of Ibis Inter power and TINT of
Russia. Napoleon has forseen this, and Offer
| ed IN empire to the brother Of the Austrian
| Emperor. He has given Mexico for an alli-
ance with Francis Joseph. Now whist France
rope into gambling table, or seramb.ing
table, with eroWns and provinces as the
| prizes. But Austria cannot 20 SO far as that
desire, and the going with France in her
diplomatic points will not satisfy the En-
peror Napoleon unless treaty offensive and
| hat Austria will 60 this length, or indeed,
| jot further than neutrality, not that Napoleon
| would be bold enough to undertake q
| var with England and Austria merely
neutral. The reeult Of this, then, may be not
| alliance, but isolation. Russia and Prussia
almost always for epoilation, unless they are
| strictly for self Edefeuce, and defence is not
called for at present. As affairs now stand
We do not sec how Russia can get the better
| sion tantamount to the demands Of Europe
| ard the civilized world. Russla has had Po-
| land Oh her hands for fifty years, and that,
TOO, was period In which Russia enjoyed
| the tull liberty, now about to be denied, Of
| expatriating and eradicating whole popula.
lions. lin nfly years Russia has only proved
that fierce is Fower1eEs againct the mind ofa
noble people, she will never be able to prove
more against them with the knout and
hay onet, aud ehe must end by restoring
Poland, more or less, to her independeuce.
| If then. as is probable the Frankfort Con-