The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-05-20

or degree OF independence IN local ad.
minstration, but they seek it through an
increase OF power in the national congress,
or Rcichsrath, it being an old device pf
Austrian premiers, carried to perfection
under Metternich, to outweigh the al
ways democraticaly inclined towns by II
prepoDderant representation of rural ig.
noranco and stolidity. This ingenuity
has not been, indeed, exclusively Austri-
an there are fifty-six small boroughs in
England, having between them 100000
inhabitants, while Marylebone,in London,
has 40 ,00O yet the former have fifty
six votes in Pariment, the latter two.
That Vienna especially shall have its
representation in the diet of Lower Aus
tria increased from thirteen to twenty.
two seems nearly settled, and that will
probably secure her a proportionate in
crease in the Reichsrath-a measure
which will DC hardly Of inferior impor.
tance to the whole country than the con-
solidation of the Austro. Hungarian power.
This last.named event has unquestionably
convinced the various nationalities under
the Austrian crown thu, there is posi-
bility Of their securing the realization Of
many Of their aspirations by fraterniza-
tion, as they have lost them by mutual
jealousies. The example Of Prussia has
not been lost either upon the Austrian
rulers or the many of the tribes under
them. Solidarity has become the order
of the day; and though the evolution Of
the heterogeneous races referred to in a
United States Of Austria will involve
severer struggle than that which United
Germany has had with Junkerism, there
can hardly be doubt that the tide is
everywhere setting toward such free
dom as shall swallow up petty principai-
ties. Liberty is the root, equality the
blossom, but both must reach their fruit
in the fraternity ofpeople.
There can be no doubt that there has
been disposition among liberal thinkers
in Europe to estimate Austria more fa-
vorably as political force since it has
withdrawn from Italy. The retention of
Of Venetia especially ilnbittered the
most eminent friends of liberty against
that country t ytlsn sn4 dhPBufg "6outse, whose
crimes have been so carefully remembered.
But the repeated instances in which the
present emperor has made concessions to
the popular movements Of the times, and
the fact that hard aristocracy stand,
ready in each Of the countries subjected
to Austria to oppress the lower classes,
if made over to them, more heavily than
the emperor has ever done, has induced
a suspension of those anathcmas which
reiormers like Mazzini and poets like
Swinburne have hurled SO terribly against
that country. 1t is further now recog.
nized that Austria is necessarily a peace.
ful element in the European situation
There is no neighboring country she can
wish to invade; and though one may
trace in the tone of popular feeling some
remnant of antagonism to Prussia, the
German elements Of the country are toe
strong to suffer such sentiments to sur
vive very long. There is every reason
to believe that Austria is oontentcd, anC
l~s honestly Sc: herself to develop hN'
resources and to harmonize her govern
ment with the age.-From Vienna by
NJ. d. Conway, in Harper'S Magaein
far May.
: INDIANS AND INDIAN AGENTs.-Mrs
t Jane Swisshelm has been writing SOM
t suggestions on the Indian question Their
are glimmerings Of reason in the Swiss
e helmian mind, and these suggestions ar,
. evidently among them. Why an Indial
c living in one of the finest pasturages ofth'
e world should have his beef sent to hin
s from New York, instead of being compel
: led to keep it and kill it Of himself, is
e grievous riddle to Mrs. Swisshelm. Sh
o partly answers it by intimating that t
IS the carnal man, whether white or Indiar
y it is pleasanter to eat his bread in tn
n sweat of another mans brow than Of hi
C own. Clearly the man who eats will ca
= on those terms so long as the man VIII
/. works will let him. But that the work
5, ers, who are in this case the whole ia
d paying population, should support tf
IS drones is no. so easy to understand. Bl
Ie there is a class of white men who fin
/, their account in the continuance of tn
state of things, and who take toll fro
&c the Government and from the Indians
g whatever passes through their hands.
y is this class Of greedy and d:sreputub
S. mddle.men who are partly responsib
cs for the Indian disturbance. And ever
IL one of the members Of this class is in +
IS vor of the peace policy" which is SUI
IN to stir up strife, and Of such negotiation
d. as those which resulted in the murder
ic Candy. That man who will not wol
" shall not cat is the law of life everywhe
on on the planet. There are white m
ry averse to labor who could plead quite
ne foi chilly as an Indian constitutional i
St. disposition to productive industry. b
ch nobody except the African woman W
lc- succored Mungo Park ever remarked u
20 on that account Let us pity the po
of white man. No mother has he to bri
as him milk no wife to grind his corn !"
lie. and proposed to supply his rations. III
u. is what we are doing with the lndial
ew under advice of party Of philanthrop
tai in Eastern cities and rabble of mong
,u- rascals Oh the plains, When we of
of them not subsistence but facilities to ca
their own subsistence, and punish disob'
iencc not with negotiations but with dea
- we may hope to see the Indian questi
lrd solved without the cxtirpation of the
nts dians. Until then, not.
ave