Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-30

baGiS Of our foreign pOrcy.'-L0nis Espols0h a
AureTTs.
At this simple sentence, uttered by the
third Napoleon in a three minute speech
at Auxerre, the whole of Europe shook
On hearing it every Stock Exchange il
Europe reeled and staggered Panic SAT
supreme in the marts Of London and
Liverpool; the armies of all Europe, from
Messina to the Yistula, from the British
Channel 10 the Dardanelles, were set in
motion; and every n opened their eyes
to see war imminent-war more momen.
tous, mora costly, more bloody than any
since those which crushed the first Napo-
leon.
These words are the vengeance Of the
Napoleonic dynasty upon combined Eu-
rope. Fifty years Ggo, after the allied
soYereigns of the civilized world, united
against the first Napoleon, had hurled
him from his seat and exiled him amid
the loneliness of southern seas, they
divided the spoils among themselves by
the treaties of Vienna, in 1915. It now
happens that, after the lapse Of hSf q cen
tury, the descendant and representative Of
Napoleon, wearing the title and ruling
the realm which we're taken from his
ancestor, announces his d~etestation of that
treaty, and Europe, recognizing its mas
ters' voice, trembles like a spaniel. Time
At last makes all things even.
What was the treaty Of Vienna2 II
was an agreement by which France lost
everything which the ambition of Napo-
leon had won for her, and victorious Eu-
rope gained what PROSTATE France was
robbed of. It was also the revenge Of
absolutism upon democracy. It meant
the humiliation of all such self-made
mcnarchs as him whom the allied powers
had united 10 Danish.
The provisions of the treaty of Wen
na established the boundaries of European
nations very nearly where they remain at
the present date. The original contract
ing parties were Russia, Prussia and Aus
tria, but afterward nearly all the powers
of Europe Joined in it. Austria obtained
Lombardy, Venetia, Istria and Dalmatia.
Prussia pushed her boundaries southwark
and absorbed the greater part of Saxony-
The smaller German states we're virtually
divided up between Austria and Prussia,
by the establishment of the Germanic
Confederation, ruled by these two powers,
to which the weaker powers were obliged
to furnish contingents of troops. Poland
was rs-diTided to Prussia, Austria and Rus
sia. Finland was wrested from Sweden
and given to the Gear, while Denmark,
Sweden and Norway were despoiled and
weakened. Holland and Belgium were
taken from France and made a separate
Kingdom, the Netherlands. And, not
sasisned with thus reducing the pristine
glory Of France, the allied powers by this
treaty eternally excluded the Bonsparte
family from within her limits.
It will be seen that France, equally
with the Napoleonic dynasty, lost by the
treaty Of Vienna. France, therefore, de-
tests that treaty equally with Napoleon.
It is this fact which lends to the Auxerre
sentence its terrible significance. The
possession Of the Netherlands and the
Rhine provinces has for two centuries
been the dream of the French sovereign
snd people. Louis XIV. extended France
to the Rhine, but his successor permitted
the conquered territory to be re~-eonquered.
Napoleon again established the Rhine
as the French boundary, but the treaty Of
1878 re~-established the old lines. The OBJ
iect of the present Imperial ruler Of
France is 70 make the limits Of his nation
the ocean, the Rhine, the Alps, the Ned
i~terrsnean and the Pyrenees. To do this
the treaty of 1915 must be abrogated, and
war is necessary for its EbrogatiOn. An
Europe read this stern logic in the speech
Of Auxerre, and knew that wal was
coming.
It by no means follows that France viii
take any active part in The now impend-
and almost inevitable hostilities. Ma
poleon Is much too shrewd 8 ruler to
waste men and money when his object
can be as well attained by diplomacy. In
the present case it was only necessary to
arrange the alliance between Italy and
Prussia, and to pasture both that his sympa-
thyand,if necessary his material aid, would
be with them. Both these powers have
sufficient motive of their own for conflict
with Austria-Prussis in the prospect of
obtaining possession of Schleswig and
Holstein, Italy in order to regain Vene-
tia. Napoleon meanwhile quietly stands in
the background, the Deus sr maehina Of
The quarrel, patiently biding his time to
I've turn tkearrangements Of half centu-
nv ago, and insist upon a new ppOrtion-
ment in which France shall resume the
power which coalition of opposing
rulers wrested from her in 1915.
The state Committee.
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