Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-06-26

domestic difhcUlties-nay, even with the ex-
pressed intention of assisting the Austrian
finances by Prussian contributions or bv an
honorable" bankruptcy.
The acts of The Austrian Government
coincide only too accurately with this inten-
ton.
! have mentioned above that we are COM
PEELED to recognize direct provocation in
the declaration delivered at the Diet 1t
has only one meaning if the Vienna Cabinet
intends to follow it up Immediately with the
expressed breach, for itcannot have expected
that we should tamely submit to this attack
upon our rights. In another question, the
forced loan ordered in Venelia, which i'm
presses a sting of additional bitterness upon
circumstances, shows that Austria will only
make use Of the EXTREMIST means toward
Italy also. Corresponding with this are the
reverses with which, according to the infor-
nation received here, she accompanied her
answer to the invitation to the Conference,
and which, as We hear, are understood by
all the three Powers as equivalent to a re-
flsal
After the forms of invitation had, by ne
gotiation between the inviting Powers, been
expressly so drawn up that Austria should
be able TO accept it without committing her.
self to anything in advance, and without
being compelled to make reserves, it is pre-
cisely the Vienna Cabinet that renders all
these labors frutile.
Beyond this we can only see the decided
intention on the part of Austria of forcing
on war with Prussia, and OK, at most making
use of negotiations as to the Congress to
gain time by procrastination for her own not
entirely completed arrangements, but espe-
cially for those of her allies The fact Of
war is a settled determination at Vienna;
the only further point is to choose the IA
vorable moment TO begin.
This conviction is forced upon us with
imperative necessity by the most recent facts,
and we consider that only an intensely
prejudiced view can come to an opposite
conclusion. Facts now speak to loudly for
gossip, based solely upon conjectures, COM
binatiOns, falsely Interpreted statements,
and empty rumors as to the warlike longings
of Prussia, not to dwindle into nothingness
in comparison. Perhaps we shall at last be
believed when we solemnly protest against
any notion Of wishing to make good our
claims to the Duchies by force and with dis
regard to the rights of the copossessor. Now,
too, probably it will not be difficult to under
stand the real motives of the ornaments by
which Austria has given rise TO the present
crisis, and whose removal by means of the
Congress she has further taken care to rem
der impossible by the attitude she has as
sumed.
We may appeal with a calm conscience to
the judgment Of all impartial statesmen
as to which party has displayed Cancellation
and love of peace up TO the last moment
| respectfully request your Excellency to
express yourself in the sense Of this dispatch
TO the Minister Of Foreign Affairs at the
court to which you are accredited.
BERLIN, June 4, 1866. BISMARCK.
TIE POLICY OF THE NEUTRAL POWERS IN
THE APPROACHING WAR.
From the Independence Beige, June IL
If war breaks out what will be the atti-
tude of the neutral powers? At Vienna the
people hatter themselves that Russia will be
with Austria against Prussia. That the St.
Petersburg cabinet has seen with the same
displeasure as the rest of Europe the am
bilious and conquering feeling of Count
BISMARCK is all the more easy to under
stund, because the extension of a Prussian
maritime State in the Baltic, and the posses
sion by Germany of the two Duchies of the
Elbe might interfere with the development
of Russia's OWE navy and deprive her some
day of the keys of the North sea, still en-
trusted to the enfeebled but neutral hands of
Denmark. But absorbed as she is by her
internal transformation, connected by friend
ship with the Prussian Court. and with but
little sympathy for that of Vienna, it is to be
presumed that Russia will not interfere in
the struggle except at the last extremity. 1t
is possible that England and France will OBJ
serve the same with this difference, however,
that France, vexed, and with justice, by the.
failure of her last pacific attempts, and NOR
ally obliged to sustain Italy, should she be
threatened in regard to the results of the
campaign of 1859, might be more quickly
led to join in the conflict than the two other
powers. Already people say in Paris that
directly the first shot is fired, whether
in Italy or beyond the Rhine, the Monite,T
will announce the formation of two corps of
observation upon the eastern frontier Of the
Empire.