Abbeville press. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1860-1869, 1866-06-15
THE TREATIES OF 1916,
MAIN POINTS OF THE TREATY OF vIEENA
AND THE HOLY ALLIANCE ARRANGE

MEST.
From. thc Pail Null Gazet,e,aAfay H.
As tho treaty of Vienna may onco moro
be made tho stalking hore Of Donapartist
ambition, it may be interesting to the general
reader who is moro learned in present than
in past history to DO reminded what that
famous treaty really was. In the first place,
it was signed by n larger number Of States
than had ever before united in setlcm ent
of European affairs including Austria,
France, England, Russia, Pruse in Spain,
Portugal and Sweden. Coming also i'm
rncAatcly after the widespread sllattering
OF old land marks consequent upon French
conquests, the Encouragement of territorites
amounted almost to reconstruction-Th:s
reconstruction was based almost exc lusively
on dynastic considerations, the real wei
fare Of nations and the tendencies Of " hat
are now called "nationalitios "bcing scarce.
ly thought Of Every where were nations
or fragments of nations, placed under
foreign sovereigntics.
Eng gain, indeed, was fully equaled
by her loss in the new plan. She kept
Malta, which was essential TO her position
in the Mediterranean, and where her rule
was not unwclcomc; for tie sake Of Europe
generally she undertook the pro,eetorate
Of the 'Jonian Islands, now got rid Of; and
to satisfy royal, prcjudiccs sho also pre-
served the kingdom of Hanover, now also
got rid Of.
In Italy, Milan and Venice were given to
Austria, and Sardinia was confirmed to
Piedmont; while the duchies Of Tuscany,
Parma, Modcna and Placentia were recos.
nized as sham independent sovcreignties,
governed by collateral branches OF tho
Austrian 1Iapsburg. Austria still further
obtained possession Of tho Tyrol, Illyria and
Dalmalia.
Prussas gains ere enormous, and, unlike
many OF the Austrian, wcro acquisitions of
real power. With half of Saxony, nearly
all Westphalia, Swedish Pomerania, and
almost all the Lower Rhine provinces, she
started afresh rs a rival of Anstria far more
formidable than before.
In the North of Europe, Russia received
Finland from Sweden; as compensation
for which Sweden received Norway, which
was taken from Denmark, who was not
represented at the Congress, cot moth ing in
return.
AS to Poland, the three great partitioners
made some fresh rectification of boundaries
The innumerable small Geaman States
which had existed before the French rev.
olut:on, and which had been what diplo-
m'sts call mediatized, or, as plain people
call IT, swamped, at The setting up of the
Bonapartist Confederation Of tho Rhine
these all remained swallowed up by their
powerful neishbors.
Holland, having coded her German DOS.
sessions, was consoled with the Belcio
provinces, and became as before.
In the same year, 1915 5pharisaism accom-.
plishedit its masterpiece the "IIoly Alliance"
between Austria and Prussia, by whih they
bound themselves to act for the future on |
Christian principles only, and Immediately
proceeded to enforce the absolute suprem-
acy of kings as the one great principle of
All Europe acquiesced in tho
with three notable excep-
tions-the Sultan, whose opinion was not
asked, and England, and tbe Pope, who
both declined to have anything to do with
the imposture.
A western editor says that man in Mich.
igan got himsel: into trouble by marrying
two wives. MANY a man in New York