New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-24
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Russia has evidently three long thoughts
first. Asian enterprise: second. Ottoman reno
walton; third, Panslayism. The monster OF Eu-
rome dreams dreams, and, however large their
seope. the world cannot ignore them. Many
years will elapse before Panslavism will be an
actual fact, and certainly not soon, at the best
calculation, can Europe manage with comfort
an overland trade with China. Nevertheless,
in all three points we have named, the Rus
slams have an instinct that their destiny is nat
urally mapped out for them. Panslavism is so
vital and enterprisng an idea, 50 religiously
believed in by sanguine and speculative Rus
slams, so fascinating TO Slavic scholars, that 1t
has won to itself literature and Dropa-
ganda, the latter established at Moscow.
The Moscow propagandists have for ostensi-
bic aim the unfying and famiharizing Of
Slavic peoples and languages, and their means
of operation are principally in newspapers and
committees, several OF which are established
in cities of the Austrian empire. They are
Jealous without bounds, and leading
Savophilst, NJ. Samari, in advocating the
thorough Russifying of the Baltic provinces,
has gone so far as TO say that Peter the Great
when he signed the treaty guaranteeing those
provinces the institutions which they are now
trying in vain TO keep, was drunk. Perhaps
in Russian point of view the great Car was
but he never took occasion to appeal from
Peter drunk to Peter sober, and so the argu-
ment is altogether with the Baltic Germans
In this case Panslavism has proved aggressive
and not missionary, but in that of the Czechs
of Bohemia the SlavoDhilists have taken
to deeper sounding and subtler workings.
The Czechs, who, as Slays, belong
TO a majority of Austrian subjects sixteen mil
lions strong, are subjected, by the dualistc rule
of Austria, 10 some fourteen millions OF Ger
mans and Magyars. The rights of their old
kingdom, as ancient as Hungary, have ceased
TO be regarded in the partnership between Aus
tria and Hungary, by which the latter has an
autonomy, whereas the Czechs have none. In
this state of affairs the Panslavists have gained
interested listeners, and it is but little curious
that Czech leaders, although it is said they
afterward repented the step, attended the Slav
Congress of Moscow in 1867. Now it is urged,
with the rumored approval of Baron Won Beust,,
that federation, composed OF the old States
of the empire, shall take the place of the
reigning duaism of Hungary and Austria.
The new journal of the national party of
Bohemia AYERS that the Czechs no longer
sympathze with the Moscovian designs, and
we presume therefore, that they have pros
pect of final justice from Austria more tempt
ing to them than the dangerous ground Of
Panslavism. But, by late telegram, it appears
that the Czeehs feel their position strong enOHgh
to refuse representing themselves in the Boho-
mian Parliament, unless Austria shall grant to
Bohemia something like Hungarian autonomy.
The settlement of the Slavic question in Aus
tria must soon DO reached for peace and safety 3
sake, and federatve system of States may be
best, after all, for the pOlyglot and multiform
empire. Russia can direct her Panslagic pro-
pensities with better success TO tire Turkish
provinces, where, Notwithstanding tho admitted
lberality of the Sultan's late paper concessions
to his Christian subjects, much discomfort pre-
walls, and the Slavophilists find some rampant
sympathizers. mo reforms are possible in
Turkey says VOulSalovitch, the ox-insurgent
of Bosnia and Herzegovina, "but such rs are
introduced lby the rifle and yataghan," and
he remarks in a manifesto issued from Odessa
that Austria and Hungary would be glad To