New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-03

tingliish the seed. Wallenstein n Bohem;an %
SISTED to subjugate his country, but Schiller has
made him the hero of German unity, saying:
Iy cares are only for the whole I have
hcart-it bleeds for fellow Germans
"ilchSlch was the precursor of Bismarck whose
'o'p"ost OF Austria was done on Bohemian soil three
years after the battle of Gettysburg 1866 at Sa
"ou' 1iu -4o years after the overthrow of Bohemia
al the battle of White Mountain Prague.
The beaten ruler OF Bohemia at that battle was
the daughter of James l. of England and them
daughter survived to the English throne PASS to
me family OF the last King of Bohemia of whom is
Victoria.
mus the two greatest powers in Europe to-day are
based upon John liuss and Martin Luther Prussia
nailed the victory OF Sadowa by singing Luthcr,s
hymn; the preservation of the Bohemian. Hanoi
'erah line OF the house OF Stuart in the Protestant
religion alone made them eligible to the Enolish
politics and CROWN
III was the year the Pilgrims landed on PlymoJth
hock that bohemia fell. What a contrast does orr
bohemian friend in Ncw-York therefore. present 70
ourselves! Every instinct and bias of our mnds
nave been gratihed; every tradition and glory of
MS country nave been suppressed in the Intervening
@oo years. Eight generations are between him and
the real story of his country; for that period his
lalhers nave been kustrans. Is ii therefore won
ueI 'hat he does not promptly grasp The situation
rising 10 the fulness of citizenship, instead Of
peing governed by secret trades associations and
perhaps by Bohemian dcmagogucsi The Austrians
drove 10000 native families with all their servants
and retaiurrs, out of Bohemia cxpelling at once
me genius, culture and patriotism Of the country
only one such expulsion is recorded in hisory-that
Oh ihc fugnenots fifty years later. The IIuauenots
are monfned IN every history. The expulsion of the
Moors from Spain is also coDsolcd with
sympathy. The little colony of French Area.
diahs, deported by the New-Englanders, caused
the beautiful expiation of Longfellow's poem
lp.Ii I.ut hat
embodied that story Of half million Bohcmians
the Hover of their country of whom "A Catholic his
'oilah mas said, Till the battle of White Mountain
the bohemian States enjoyed exclusive priyi-
reyes lhih the Parliament of England they enacted
laws imposed taxes, contracted alliances, declared
war ana peace. and chose or confirmed their kings
put All these they lost Till this fatal period the
Dohemians were daring undaunted, enterprisinc
emuions OF fame; now they have lost all their cour-
age, their national pride, their enterprisng slirit
lhcy VINO were once IA warlike nation now ied like
shecp before tie Swcdes Their courage lay buried
on the White Mountain. The Bohemian language
Tell INTO contcmpt the German succeeded it,"
VINO can doubt that the colonization of America
by Bohemians in great multitudes, and their rccov-
cry OF spirit and education here. will widen Amer
icai' literature to take these suffering. ine n1S4S
during the general revolution of Europe the Bohc-
mlans assembled their National Diet and formed n
provisional government composed of their historian
two learned doctors, a bookseller two Counts and n
inanuiacturcr. Their idea was to turn Austria
propcrintoa ScavonIc State. The national HYMN.
Swaty Wacland,' was sung. but violence arising
FRINGE NIndiSchgrltz, whose wife was killed at his
side, suppressed the new Government by arms and
Praguc was the first large city in Europe to submit
that year, even Vienna holding out against Austria
LONGER.
Placed here among the Irish, Boherninns cannot
h''p REMEMBERING tina; the greatest Bohemian of
modern history. W ailonstein, was treachcrously as
SASsinAted by Butler and DcyorcauX, Irishmcn in
the palace of the Ezra. where every year gouty and
rheumatic Americans sec NailcnStcin's sword and
the halhcrd which killed Linn in the year the first
church and parsonage were built on New-York Island
ahd the first ~choolmaster arrived among the Nam
haitian Dutch Imagine that cool dominee. Bocar-
dus eating oysters on iho Battery and saying THE
Duke OF Fricdland dead Well never. Open 'em
small and don't spare the Winegarw
COMMENCEMENT WISDOM.
Mr. Sawuol J. Randall, late the Speaker of Con-
gross. talked with Inv on the economy of posjcs a
We rode through Pcnnsy lyaAia last Wednesday. He
has been exhibiting Thomas Jefferson as the hirbe.
type oil phianthropis and statesman to the Young
mon "f Dickinson. OF Jcflrrson's namcsakc Jcifcr-
son Davis he said, however: "Iic is selfish man,
ana wanted to figure before the world n the head
OF great empire Instead of taking the advice of his
generals and saving he lives and substance of liz
be exhausted. If Won want 10 yet an INSIGHT into
IN" selhsh ohstinacY of Davis go talk with his Vice
President. Stephens stephens will tell YOU that |
the WlSest military heads in the Confcderacv not |
ably General Lee and General Johnston saw the |
end Of the strife long before they gave il up and |
toward the last saw ii with great apprehension |
and thirst for peace. But Davis could not Law down |
his phantom OF power.
"Stcphcns" said Mr.. Randall with sort Of self
conies>ng smile, for he was of Whig family also
:" stephens was an old Wing like Toombs lie has
the clearest memory for dates and facts of record
ever drew from. He can tell you when bill was
introduced thirty years ago, how long it was pend
ing, the points of railing upon it, and its final vote
on passage. He is pure, learned and patriotic
man."
Mr. Randall said that the most remarkable thing
he had found in JcncrSons writings was his express
SION that he had rather live under ncwspalnrs
without government than under government with
Gus ncWspapers.' That saying. considering the
small circulation and wealth. of the press in his day.
WAS prophetic rs it was radical
"Ihc press" said Mr.. Randall. "spcaks with n
thousand tongues" He said the late William b.
Reed. of PhiladeIphia lawyer and writer, was one
Of the best pens and heads Philadelphia ever had
" Like Mr. Tildon, Reed influenced people wholly
by brainpowcr, not by attentions or scf-interesf"
OF Mr.. Randall himself remarked that his iniu-
,ncc was cXertcd through large, wholesome ap-
pcarance, and IA pair of allurng, jovia black eyes,
and Il voice of womanly tension and sympathy in it's
higher notes. lie dilates his eyes talking to any
body, with looking mp into their faces of varying
Enjoyment, appreciation and political will. The
same lace would get Il woman u husband at fifty.
MS voice ~ mellow IN public speaking, without
harsh note i'll it. Intense rs he may be in leading