Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-01-15
Two Pictures.


he Philadelphia Inquirer thinks that
in case Of war between Austria and Rus
STA American sympathies should so with
Russia. Il then proceeds to mveigh
against the treatment Austria melted ont
to Hungary after the rebellion of 1913,
and paints in lurid colors the suffer
ings Of the Hungarian patriots.
Its picture ~ not overdrawn. The
events that followed tho failure OF the
Hungarian struggle for independence
constitute hideous page in the history
of Europe, We have no sympathy Tor
Austria. But facts are facts and JUS
tice is justice. The Hungarian re-
belhon was q rebellion in the strict
est sense Of the word-an uprising
of subjects against sovereign-and
while Austrias cruel measures are to
be reprobated, who will say that con
sidering the spirit of the Magyar these
measures were not necessary for the main
tenance of the integrity Of the Austrian
empire? However, in 1869 we find
Hungary with a restored Constitution;
in 1867 that Constitution was extended
to its ancient limits, and n few years
later the spectacle is presented Of
many of the leaders OF tho re-
bellioD OF 1913 dominating the policy
of what the Inquirer says is "a group
of Municipalities held by an iron despot-
ISM" No question is raised ss to An
DRAssY's part in the rebellion. and not
whisper is heard impugning the patriot
ism of TIzsA and others.
Now look upon another picture. In
1861 in this country a lumber Of
sovereign States, that were mem
bers Of a confederation, attempted
to withdraw, as they believed they
had a constitutional right to do,
from that confederation. The rest of
the parties to the compact denied this
right, o civil war resulted, and in 1865
the Southern Confederacy went down in
blood and in tears at AppomattOx The
soldiers OF the southern armies accepted
thesituaIon, and from thc close of the war
to the present day there never has been
moment when there was the slightest
danger that hand would be raised
against the authority Of the Federal
Government. The South renewed her
allegiance to the Union and has kept her
faith inviolate Following Appomattox
came the arrest and imprisonment of Mr.
DAVIS, then the reconstruction period,
and the only reason the Repubh-
can extremists did not resort pro
miscuonsly to the halter was they
knew the enlightenment Of the period
would not stand it. Their petty perse-
cutions Of the South were but little less
cruel than those that blot the escutcheon
of Austria. At no time was there reason
for raising the question OF southern loyal
ty. Still in many respects our people
were as much under the heel of a despot-
ism as were the people of Hungary i'm
mediately after 1913. Finally the south
ern States. having ratified certain amend
ments to the Constitution, were readmitted
to representation in Congress, and most
of their citizens rehabilitated as regards
their rights ald privileges. Yet a quar-
ter Of century subsequent to the close
of the war and nearly twenty years after
reconstruction was accomplished, Ameri-
can senators who call themselves states
men are opposing the elevation TO
the Supreme Court bench of a
man who sympathized with what they
are pleased to term rebellion. Does
Austrian craftsmanship lose anything
when compared with the craftsmanship
Of these men? All things considered, is
not the course of Austria towards the
during the last fifteen years
a scathing rebuke to the American ma
lignants? What says our Philadelphia
contemporary