The New York herald., 1869-09-17
NEW YORK HERALD FRIDAY SEPTEMBER IT, SHEET

position would Imply an undeserved suspicion OF his
causes which made him turn hs mind 70 the sub
ject which brought him TO an untlmey death IN the
body and immortality IN the spirit The contest 10
from the above. Is By no means 30 novel as people
would have VI believe but stood at what might then
have been thought Its height and that long before
the word Panslavism or the idea 1t stands for had
ness, men sraked their lives on the issue
which Ia far from one even now, though tnat issue
at present may be foreshadOwed by all but the most
y 81 Was apoS 6y esc
cry, was more political repr6satue than religious
one. Those who most exerted themselves to bring the
heretc" to the stake were for once not the Italian
fanatics but the Germans. who owed hlp political
grudge for his valiant and patriotic conduct ana ne
who lured the unfortsnate man to his fate by oner
ing and actually sending him the safe conduct,
which was 30 shamefully disregarded, was the Ger
man Emperor SglsmuRd. the same who must have
felt most outraged by Huss' attachment to his c0un-
try and his people and his opposition TO the imperial
power suspect these indications, few and hint-llke
Is they are, will startle many reader; but then
history plays strange tricks sometimes, when sub
mitted to test than is applied to 1t for the
benefit OF sch0olbOys, and often Will appear very
different In the eyes OF manhood from what we are
taught to see 1t In childhood. The habit OF con-
slderlng and expatiating on only one side OF ques-
tlOns totally ignoring any other, nor, lndeeo car
ing TO inquire whether any other exist at all, mas
become inveterate In students OF general history
fostered is by the political passions or at least
Das which Il Is SO difcult in our Jme for any man
wholly to escape, that new aspect OF an old his
tOricai topic sometimes has scarcely less startling
effect than II the moon, after having Tor ages IN
Vulnerable turned on US only one Of lts sioes, were
suddenly TO present to our view the other until now
hidden from uH.
While preparations are actively carried on for the
Huss festival on one side and the great Council ON
the other an CONFERENCE.-The nun case, as reported
has taken place In Craoow, which, though IN itself
perfectly Independent Of these two great events be-
comes connected with them by coinciding with both
in point OF tm6 and as It nearly concerns the organ
iZaton and abuses OF the Catholic Church, II cannot
fail to produce more than usually lively sensation,
rather favorable than otherwise, though In an ind
rect way. to the Slav0nc and orthodox cause
Apart from this 1t Is by no means q
novelty In the annals of Catholic mOnasterles 1t ls
this circumstance that lends the most importance
to the fact; for II the Poles once begin to quarrel
with their Church. to lose faith in its mnsters and
that, too, at Q moment when, among the Polish
clergy In our western provinces. signs begin to ap
pear las wrote IN preceding letter. OF declded
leaning towards reconciliation with the Established
State and Church. and general attention Is drawn
towards the Catholic Church affairs by the proapect
of the approaching Council, which, 1t appears, Will
be more numerOusly attended than any f0r centu-
ries-the prestige OF Catholicism In the eyes OF the
Poles Ii well nigh gone. DssensOn and dlssatlsfac-
ton in that quarter play the game into our hands
without our moving one finger to win It, and SlavOn-
dom, along with orthodoxy, may congratulate them
selves on great advance towards triumph In mems
opinion Let the Poles lose their attachment to
and faith in their clerical instgatOrs and their belief
In their impossible political schemes Will soon follow,
and then they VIII 70 the way that all the other Sla
vOnic nati0Is 60, and which they alone refused to
tread until nOw-the way OF identification with tine
remaining SlavOniclnterests under Russian leader
shin.