The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-05-28
Parties in Austria and her Future.

Considering the great changes winch
have taken place during the past Sic years 8
IN the relative Importance, strength ana
-..ources of the great Powers OF Europe,
a.. following article, from the London
.U,b1et. a paper of marked ability, Will be
....a With much interest by our readers:
Tha position and prosperity of Austria
.nattara of more than mere passing In
tarast to Cath1lics. Mr.. Urqunart mas
scain and again urged that . the o,eomas
Empire is the bulwark of Europe tSnt ,on an 10
W form;dable q population as one OF over
~ OOO 600. can be held together as the
Gamer stone of Europe and the East, cne
Tmn;re of the Sultan is buiwark agalnsC
the encroachments OF huss,a o occ;dental
IT, of self-interest, and even OF
oalf. nreserva alton, the Crescent can over
fsacome the real friend OF permanent any
Of the Cross. There is, however, ;a ano ,nag
looked upon as the chief stay of the Ca
thoi;c Church in the civil and political or.
Ter in Central and Eastern Europe-and
that ia Austria. Napoleon saw this, ana IN
weakening AIstr,s;' ne &c 9i Pripcs Naroleon
in 1860, that Catholicity must be crusheo
Whsther Prussia and Russia are bound
mn in one common policy and INTEREST, IN
landing
Tast hetween them, when the time is ripe
"a some believe or whether their intese ~.
are only identical for the present, AND q: ,a
Germnn Empire is to form, as tue C a1'.0
Caoca mag ca.h ~ POWER e Of centra
Enrone to check the advance OF Ruseia,
mot our present object to inquire: we y.
now concerned with Austria. we nave =
desire to see that Empire papceiied ouS ~ y
tween the Cossack and the Prussian. AN
vet. unless the Emperor and Cabinet
Vienna are wise, it must come to tna
prussia, or rather the Fatherland, cialI
as its natural boundary the whole Germ FERN,
race. Alsace and Lorrisne are not aosof
ed into the Empire, simply as measure
Drecaution, but they are absorbed on
HES of race and they have been aosors
against their will, as runaway ch ano.r;a
German element has for the last year .
mora or less in a ferment; anu there
gravitation towards the policy OF FRI
Won Bismarck. The grandeur Oh t ne,
pire of the Fatherland has been q tenn
t;on to many a German lord and pea
in Bohemia, Moravia, and Austria:
nnre Germans in the Austrian ED
number about 8,OOOO OO. were InesS
ted to the German Empire, the EmPlt
Germany would then be half Catholic
would number some %, O06,oo0 Cathe
Rnt sncb an annexation would destroy
Empire of Austria. 1t would ne, asIu
ireland and Scotland were Withdrawn
En1land aud annexed to the Ame
TJn;on. 1t would destroy an EmPil
Ss 600. 600 of Catholics, to create gig
Empire of mixed religion, in when VI
lies. in point of number as we'll as IN
ticai authority, would be in mins ~.
thouph they might number y, Wh
There is every ground for believing
Prnss;a covets the German popuiatio
Arstr;a-thst Count Beust is aware o
and has done all that he cap to conc
Prince Bismarck, and to preserve 10
tria her German people.
ON the other hand, Russia mas ne
mon the Slav populations, which co..
neerlv one-half of the Austrian FL
rsha. cannot be counted at less ths
1nn 1n0. The plea of homogeneity Of
ia the principle of RUSSIAN as We si
Prussian diplomacy. Russia would
unfayorable to the Accomplishment
Prnssian programme. She has favo,
unity of Italy, and has been covert
effectively. an active friend of Coui
YOUR and of those who have sue
him.
Again, in favor of the covetous'
Prussia and Russia, is the ois
which lie rife among the various ma
ties composing the Austrian Empir'
II popular theory that language an
~ and natural boundaries, are the j.
ton of robbery and, il necessary I
aion and war meets lite most hagrt
4radictiOn in the actual compostttO
AuAtrian Empire, with ita distinct
-1E.;o. aud difTarent races.