The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-02-07

| QOmlQatlOQ mas an imperial and military CuH1-
While Eneland processes severe and sustere
the On tns To h
people even Of the south Of ErToPe Russia pro,
Vision ny IN ,ss y
the bosom OF Chrisfianfty people b7rn IN the
it Is that the fears of England about Asia, in
presence of the progress of the Russian empire,
| hxed on the distant horizon OF Asia when the
arbitrary question OF Europe to-day, the question
ns Of psings OPP o
as II WERE around central controlling event.
econsmy Of the heavens From 1885 until 1858
the events OF Europe were grouped around the
az the empire ,ps n Fance the
until 1889 Europe was governed by the
events arising out OF The war Of France and Eng
France against Austria. From 1889 until 1855 ali
politics gravitated between France and Prussia.
| To-day, since the modification OF the treaty OF
Paris, which was the prize obtained by R1ssi
for the humilliations suffered In the Crimea
around the most dreaded question of the East.
And, in tracing the question OF the East, the
problem already indicated in dwelling upon the
social life in Russia reappears in all its vigor.
| With IL we have also the awful question of the
wars and catastrophes than the unity Of that
i German race, which only came with such blood
shed and strife.
THE SPREAD OF sLAvIsM.
This mighty Russia has. with the municipal
sentiment of young tribes, and, with the
national sentiment of ripened peoples, another,
which commences TO spring up in Russian
hearts, and which will assert itselfin the future
the sentiment of race. Slavism surges and
swells with robust and eager life. A few days
ago In the house of the Princess Troubertkoi,
net Riegel. the celebrated orator OF Prague, one
Slavonian principles. which to-day possess
some of the most eminent spirits. and which to-
morrow will descend, by the mysterious ultra
ton of ideas, from speculation to reality, until
they penetrate to the very depths. And Riegel
with much clearness OF expression, how slavon-
ism has come TO LIE among prosecuted and OPP
pressed nations among the slavonic races, who
support, which they could not find
IN In the bosom of saSs haze ave-
not been the promoters of Slavonism; 1t has
been the slavonic peoples who could not sup
German, Hungarian or Turk. In such oppressed
races Industrious philologists were born who
have shown that the litarsic language OF the
Russian church stands, with respects 10 modern
, Slavonic idioms, the same as the ecclesiastical
Latin with respect to modern Latin tongues
From these oppressed people came the histori
ans who have appealed 10 the ancient united
past. Among these oppressed peoples they
! praise those who ask that the Muscovite eagle
should open his wings and direct his night To-
snnbe @ Of scsttersd Slaves 70 the borders
I OF the Euphrates; to those snow-covered Alps,
elevated by God to be so many temples of liberty
.
heard, TO those dark forests and the depths Of the
J Balkan, where the crescent fingers In the
heavens, dark and sinister star; to
those Imperial mountains, which, to convert
| themselves into fOrtresses of universal enamel
must be raised in the regions OF the North. The
truth is that If we look for ideas more precise
su more n aeo1s S %s emnan
| writers. There its fundamental character is
recognized to its depths. The half German and
, half Monaghan empire, sneered at in Russia, is
given its historic originality and its anterior in
! dependence. The Germans and the Magyars are
accused ofbeing tyrants and oppressors. Poland
is bitterly reproached for rebelling against the
interests of her own race; she herself from being
the oppressed. to become the oppressor, when
! her serfs awakened at the crack OF the Musco-
5 vite whip TO redeem themselves. The confed-
eratfons of those young races, whose so is have
) had one and the same cradle and origin in the
3 distant past, will have the same country, not
: wlthstanding the existence OF their divers ma
tionaltt1es, IN the far OF future.
THE HERZEGOVINA QUESTION.
e This very numerous race is divided into
( Northern and Southern Slavs. The latter oc.
cupy part OF Isria, Dalmatia aud Albania, and
A Croatia, Savonia, Bosnia and, above all, on its
( military frontiers. Herzegovina ard the two
. principalities OF Montenegro and Servia. Hid.
den there in Slavonian genealogy, first by erudi
, tion and then by poetry, their interests have
| been CONVEX ed into all the races who think
n them elves brothers by origin and by blood, and
r who feel themselves called upon to fulfill SINH
: lar destinies. For this cause the rising of the
8
the slaves. In their enthusiasm the desired
: that the of ignored tribs 8, lost in mountain
; create the most lively interest such al
? was awakened by Greece at the hour
OF her independence. when all nations remem
/ elements of heroic life. and some reflection o.
her brilliant and imaginative arts and the
( warmth OF splendid ideas in the mind. AS 9
general rule, all believe here in Europe that the
e present organization of the Turkish empire can
: not last longer, but all fear the consequences
that may arise from its complete collapse. Thus
e the enthusiasm for the insurgents is contrastee
heirs of that sick man who is in the last agonie.
on the banks OF the Rosphorus. l. rd Russell
alone had fallen into great extravag ancd, and
D trusting old principle Of English policy, con
o POUNDS the Greek instruction, that captivated
|, him so much by its changes, with this SlavoniC
i peculiar passions OF Christians. but also many
]. maneuvres OF Russian politics. Carl
e that of heroism ard whose mind burns at ths
fire of liberty, q soldier of every democI attic
: and the influence WHEN he exercise over al
S hearts, has called the free TO succor the op
. pressed by means of proclamations, in which
5 warlike ardor completes with a tone of prophecy
!. and even he has not been able to find the
ready sympathy of other times, when the cause
4 OF an enslaved tribe was COMPOUNDED with the
9 proper cause Of liberty by those who love the
s sacred principle of universal emancipation
1 And 1t is certainly not because Turkish despot
: ism has defenders, nor the generous impulses o
a an enchanted people toward liberty have enc
T tended and have taken root, so that our hear
beats as much for the mountaineer In Bosnia al
for the negro in the forests of Flo ida-for al
those who suffer or who have suffered barbarou
i oppression In the world. Unfortunately, in thu
a Instruction of Herzegovina strange phenom
: enon is seen
> AN INTRIGUE OF DIPLOMACY
. rather than a movement toward liberty. Tn
: Germans and the Russians. more and more enc
? mics at the bottom of their hearts in proportion
: as they appear more and more friendly by tn
courtesy of their words, attribute the movemcn
: to intrigue. The Germans say that IL is a ma
noeuvre of Russia to revive the Eastern question
4 | The Russians murmur that IL is revenge o
2 Germany, fol- the veto opposed this spring b,
O Russia to all attempt at war. The truth is tina
s such rumors cool the spirits and take from thos
: poor mountaineers In arms that suffrage Of tn
4 public conscience, to which they have perfec
e right by the hard stern fate of their oppression
8 and by the heroic efforts Of their resistance