The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-05-14
BON VOYAGE.

The Austrian corvette Fasana, which IS
now serving as schoolship sails from this
| port to-day after a stay of three weeks IN
! our waters. Her officers have exchanged
] ciyilities with our people and pleasant
! friendships have been formed. Many lace
| handkerchief will fiutter from the eleVa-
| tons on North Beach as the Fasana
| passes out on her way to Honolulu, and
! some Of the successors OF the gallant Teget-
hof Will cherish agreeable TeeollectioDs of
the good cheer they found at San Francisco
| in the days of their boyhood.
In their hundred years of national life
the United States have had little to do with
Austria. and that little has not been always
pleasant Nearly a hundred years ago
President Washington wrote an autograph
letter to the Emperor of Austria, begging
for the release of Lafayette. who was con-
fined in a dungeon at OlmutZ If the letter
was answered twas answered in the mega
tive. Lafayette was not released until Ma
poleon demanded his liberation in tones
which admitted Of no controversy. 1t was
more than fifty years afterwaTd that the
Koszta affair occurred. Captain Ingraham
of the St. Louis compelled the surrender by
an Austrian frigate of an Austrian who had
| Of the United States. and Mr.. Marcy sus-
tained him in an elaborate correspondence
! with Baron Hulsemann. Whether Marcy's
law was good or bad, the incident impressed
the European powers with sense of the
growing strength of the United States and
Of the danger Of crossing their path. Some
correspondence, not altogether amcable,
occurred between Mr. Seward and the Aus
Fofe
milan tried to make himself Emperor of
Mexico.
These incidents tTifing in themselves,
have had a tendency to prejudice Ameri-
cans against Austria and the Austrians ;
! and yet there is no people anywhere who
| are better entitled to our admiration and
respect. Within the past quarter of cen
! tury radical change has come over the
/ Austrian mind and Austrian methods. The
/ race of Austrians Of which Metternleh was
! the type, and whose ways are amusingy
/ depicted 10 The Dodge Club" have diSap-
/ peared. In their stead a bright, intelligent,
! liberal, broad-minded school Of statesmen
! have come to the surface. Education has
/ taken a liberal shape. and the power Of the
/ sOldieTy has been reduced. An excellent
/ electoral system has been adopted. There
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| property are safer than in Austria, and no
! city in which larger measure OF personal
! liberty and freedom Of opinion is enjoyed
! than in Vienna.
Like many nations, the Austrians have
been educated by defeat kossuth taught
/ the Emperor the necessity of treating the
Hungarians fairly. Napoleon the Third
! drove the AustTians out of all Italy except
! Yenetia, and to hold her own at Sadowa
! Austria was compelled to surrender that,
! too. Thus tie worst Of the satrapios OF the
century was swept out Of existence, and
with it fell the abomnable system of
! tyranny which has made Austrian rule a
! byword. Austria's defeats have been the
making Of her, and Frances victories at
/ S0lfern0 aud Magenta were the ruin OF
the imperial regime.
Austria is an inland state, and has never
been q maritime power. Her only coast is
| long strip on the east end of the Adri-
attic, and her only great seaport is Triest.
But her navy includes twelve irOnclads,
some Of which carry aston guns; and the
/ Austrian sailors showed at LISA what they
/ could DO when the signal to engage was given.
! The young men WHO are going around the
world in the Fasana, TO complete their
/ naval education, will doubtless show that
/ they are not degenerate, if the time shou d
come to try conclusions with an enemy on
/ the deep where the stormy winds do blow.