The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1866-05-12

besuesu Aastria and Prussia aust appear
strangely vide Of The mark o. The Only /
quesIlon really atissge these documents OBJ
serve an absolute silence Neither Count
KaroIyF uor Coant BIsmark 50 much IS men.
lions The name Of Schleswig or HOlslsIn:
For ali TIA. the world can discern In the
language or aFeumsnts Of the notes, the diff
eEeuce betHeea the two powers amounts 20
nothing but vague and baseless sentiment
of mutual distrust- Each charges the other
with assuming IN attitude Of hostility, and
requests to knOW what such an attitude
means. and how It can be justified Austria
said that Prussia vas calling out her troops
and yet laying al the blame Of the proceed
/ ing on the Government at Vienna Prsusia
retorted that Austria had taken the initiative
/ n these armameEts and compelled her to
/ follow the lead. But then Count KarOlyi
declared for The Emperor of Austria that he
had not the sITshtegt iuteatiOn of attacking
/ Prussia, and Count Bismark, when thus
challenged. pronPsly replied that the King
/ OF Prussia bad not the remotest idea of hos
tilities against Austria
/ Though, however IN this reply. PFuss IA
had given the assurance which was asked
for. It was not accepted as satisfactory.
/ Austria resumed the correspondence by as
serting that Count Bismark had spoken Of
L war as inevitable, and that The ornaments
of Austria lad been OccasIOusd by that de-
elasatIOu- She alleged. too that Prussia
had been iEtFiguiBg against her IL Italy.
aud demanded thar the Prussian armies
should be forth With placed on a peace foot
ing again as evidence that no war was in
tended
l This method of conducting the ccDtro-
rsy suits the purposes OF both sides. for
neither chooses as yet to speak plainly about
the true question al issue The real bone
of contention Is SchIesWig- HoIstein, of
which, while Austria holds Que end and
Prussia the other, Prussia desires ALL Re
cent proceedings on the part Of Count Bis
I mark gave reasonable grounds for the sus-
pieion that the government of Berlin medi-
tates the actual annexation of the two Ouch
les by some maueuVer or other.
The present attitude of Austria. It must
be owned is strange enough to occasion
some uufeigned embarrassment at Berlin
/ Count Bismark may naturally wonder that
Austria, after going with him thus far,
should now positively refuse to go any fur
Their. He must have oyershot the mark IN
pretensiou aud menace, otherwise Autrira
would never have turned round with the
anger which rot Oaly her govern meut but
her people are now displaying. Il is prob
able that she suspected and disliked the pol
icy of Prussia from the beginning; but af-
ter she had once embraced it and Joined her
arms with those Of PressIa for the spoIia-
ton of Denmark, there could be In Count
BIsmaFk's eyes but one end to the tTansac-
ton. If Schelswig and Holsteiu were to be
WFested from the Danish Grown, aud yet
not assigned under new prince to the Ger
manic Confederation, they must deVolve up
on the conqueriug Powers. and ultimately
upon Prussia alone. Il might suit the pur-
pose of the moment to make a temporary
partition of the pluudeT and divide the oe-
cupaIiUu of the Duehies between the two
invading armies; but Austia wanted no terri
tory In those regions, nor could HoIsteiD be
valuable possession Ia her eyes Sooner
or later, as Count Bismark might fairly cal
culaIe; Austria would be willing to part
with her share 10 the spoil, not, indeed for
nothing. but for an equivalent IN some
shape or other. Nor would Prussia have
been unreasonable at this point of the bust
ness. Count Bismark was ready to buy
Austria out at a fair valuation. He offered
between f7.OOO. 600 and E8.OOO. 600 IN
money, and would have been open to any
other reason ible proposal in the way of bar
ter or sale But Austria has upset all these
calculations Whether she has at length
determined &c resist the sggrandizement Of
/ Prussia, whether she has been ineensed by
the overbeaFiBg insolence of her rival, it Is
needless to conjecture; bat COW, at the eIs
veuth hour. she has announced a policy
which IS fatal to the expectations of Prus-
sia- She no longer admits that the Danish
( Duchiss have Iapsed, In default of lawful
claimant, to the eouquering powers. She
treats the question of succession as If It had
been merely su<peued. and coutemplates
the possible establishment Of certain preten-
sions to the TILE. Finally, she talks Of re
feTing the dispute TO the tribunal provided
by the GermaRie constituti0u-that IS. to
that very Assembly the authority of which
she combined with Prussia at the outset Of
this business 10 repudiale.
The question now Is. TO what extr, nifty
the two powers are prepared to go IN sup
port of tbier respective demands Briefly
and plainly. Prussia demands both SehIes
wig and Hclstein for heTself. being ready
I at the same time 10 pay an Indemnity for
the csssion Of HOlsteiB Austria demands
the abandonment of these projects aItogesh-
er. aad the transfer Of the Duchies 10 the
Confederation for disposal or allotment If
Prussia yields this. she yields all; bat It Is
not probable that Count BisInark Is prepar-
ed Tor any such concession His design
was to ply Austria By variety of measures
at once; TO lead her and drive her az the
same time: to bribe Der with one hand and
threaten her With the other But his tkTeats
were carried too far, and Austria, when
menaeed with war. suddenly accepted the
issue She could not attempt to save her
1 snail ANY of ncennation In Hnlslsin hnr