The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-08-01
From thc London Times, JlIy II.

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From the London Times, July IL
1t is painful to see what straws
drowning man will catch at. Emperor
Francis, Joseph, perceiving that the
ground is sinking uuder him in Ger
many, puts his trust in the Hunga-
rtans. Now that the burgesses OF his
capital wait upon His Majesty with
"hopes that their good city may be
spared the horrors of siege and Storm"
now that crowds at the railway termi-
nus hardly give way for him to pass,
and do him no more obeisance than If
they were unaware of his presence;
now that sullen citizens debate as to
the expediency of casting in their lot
with Prussia rather than with Austria
the i'll starred Monarchis reminded of
the "hereditary fidelity of the peoples
OF his kingdom of Hungary" and calls
upon them to rally round his stand
ards.i Where he fears that the words
of his manifesto may fail, he trusts
that the tears of his lovely Empress
may succeed, and, in the meanwhile,
he is busy packing up his valu ables at
the SchatZ-Kammer, ready to be sent
under strong escort to Comorn, that,
If the evil day come, he may follow the
example of his royal cousins of Saxony
and Hanover. Truly, the sins of the
Hapsburgs are being visited on their
children, and we hardly believe SO in
veterate an enmity can harbor in Ger
man or even in Italian bosoms, as not
to be disarmed by the sight of the mis-
cry and humiliation into which that
dynasty is falling, and not to wish to
break its fall, and save as much OF its
greatness as may yet be found compat-
ible with the exigencies of the age .ly1
It is difficult to imagine what good
results the Emperor can expect from
his address to the Hungarfans. He
valves his right to levy troops in that
Kingdom by conscription, but hatters
himself that the nation will rush to
arms as volunteers. Even if the Elm
by as ready and general a LeUee de 6Ou-
ctiers as that which followed the appeal
of Maria Theresa to the Diet at Pres
burgh, it is doubtful if the Hungarian
bands would muster in time to change
the fortune which will so soon be deci-
'ded under the walls of Vienna, unless,
indeed, we are to suppose that the En-
peror contemplates a renewal of the
contest in Hungary itself We are told,
indeed, that the Austrians, falling back
from Olmutz, are marching in the di-
rection of Presburg; but the impor-
tant question to our mind is not wheth-
erthe Hungarians be able, but rather
whether they be willing, to strike a
blow in behalf of the monarchy, and
on what terms they may be induced to
lend their aid. The men who think
that the interests of the country may
yet be made consistent with those of
the dynasty, with, NJ. Deak at their
head, are at this moment in Vienna,
driving as hard bargain with the be-
wildered and demorAlized Councils of
che Emperor as dire necessity has pow
er to impose. No doubt the Emperor
may concede all their demands. He
may throw himself entirely into their
arms. He may allow himself to be
spirited away from his German to his
Magyar capital, but the remedy may
prove to be worse than the evil. His
condition may become more desperate
than even his Prussian and Italian en-
emies would wish to make it, and he
may find his way out of Vienna much
easier now than his way back to it at
any future time.
From the time that the petty Dukes
of Austria first aspired to the Imperial
purple, and by the lucky chances of
marriage and Inheritance came into the
possession of vast nom German terrific
ries, their policy invariably consisted
in turning their vast nom German pos
session into an electoral engine to Sc
cure the empire, and, again using their
Imperial ascendanCy as n means of
aggrandizing their non-German patri-
mony. The HapsburgS were EmperorS
because they were Kings of Bohemia
and Hungary, and they held their own
in Hungary and Bohemia because they
brought all the might of the Empire to
bear against their competitors in those
Kingdoms. Their German and their
interests were made mu-
and the Imperial Crowns became,
either by law or by long custom, hered-
itary in the family. Safe from foreign
aggression, the dynasty had soon to
stand its ground against internal COM
motions, and 1t sought its strength in
the very conflict of those elements
which had Co.operated to its elevation;
it pitted its German against its non
German people; it sat upon those two
stools between whichit seems even now
so likely to come to the ground. So
long as the Hupsburgs held the Empire,
the Magyar and Czechian Kingdoms
were fain to sink into state of quiet
vassalage; Germanism was in the as
cendancy over the whole monarchy,
and its colonizing and civilizing powers
exercised their beneficial Influence all
along the banks of the Danube. But
upon the gradual decline and the final
extinction of the Imperial dignity, upon
the frequent exchange of German
against non-German territories, the
proportions between the rival elements
were sensibly altered, and since 1905
the German has found himself in mi
nority for which his connection with
the Frankfort Bund had hardly COM
pensated. From 1903 or 1914 the an
tagonism of race became the great
danger of the monarchy, and it brought
it to the very brink of ruin in 1S4S,
when the seat of Empire owed its safety
to the irresolution or magnanimity Of
the victorious Magyar, and when the
integrity of the State could not be pre-
served without the ignominy of Rus
sian intervention. At this present
juncture, Gerrnapism is in arms against
Austria from without and from within /;
her only refuge Is the once rebe1lious
Magyar, whose support must be pro-
pitiated by concessions which will
place the dynasty in his power, and
forever set it at war with the German.
1t was the purpose of the Emperor
Francis Joseph, and 1t was the will of
the Emperor Napoleon, that Austria
should come out of the present strug-
gle with undiminished lustre as great
European Power, and we believe that
the extinction or abasement of the
Austrian Monarchy does not enter into
the views either of Prussia or Italy,
We believe that were the Kaiser to
come to terms at this moment he might
yet save every inch of his territory,
with the exception of those possessions
south of the Alps he has already sur
rendered.; but ii he is to be put out of
the pale of ths Germanic Confedera-
ton; If he is to renounce all ascendan.
cy over Germany, If he is to make
Pesth instead Of Vienna his capital, It
cannot be expected that his eight mil
lions of Germans will long abide under
his Sceptre. That those eight millions
of Germans who were hitherto the
Sovereign State, the leRven and salt Of
the monarchy, Will submit to absorp-
ton bV Ma0Yar and SclaYonian ele-