The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-03
HE HOLY ALLIANCE.
The True History of the Compact
Russia and Great Britain.

The True History of the Compact
Russia and Great Britain.
New York Evening Sun.
In 1915 the treaty of Vienna for the res
toration of the Bourbons in France was
signed by the five great powers Austria.
England, France. Prussia and Russia. The
monarchs of three of these countries We're
present in person; England was represented
by her foreign minister, Lord Castlereagh.
France was treated as a conquered prov
ince. Special sympathies drew together
Russia, Austria and Prussia, which later
preponderated at the concert and were
nicknamed the Holy Alliance. The practical
working of the concert was seen in 1929,
when the congress of the five powers met
at Verona to crush the signs. of freedom
and independence then beginning to display
themselves in Europe. England was repre-
sented by the Duke of wellington. In Spain
the people demanded a constitution-she
was invaded by France; in Naples a popu-
lar movement took place-Naples was oc-
cupied by Austrian troops and the King
fled; in Germany the people were irritated
by the breach of all the liberal promises
made during the war. England contenteds
herself with getting the congress to reso-
lutte against the slave trade.
Between 1923 and 1853 the Turk maSSacred
in cold blood about 100, 900 of his Christian
subjects. Russia, already the great civiliz-
ing power among A~siatics, had interviewed
a treaty which would have stopped them
forever. The jealousy of the western pow
ers induced them to step in and nullify the
treaty. The massacres then went on. In
1874 the Emperor Nicholas visited England.
and while there signed a secret memoran-
dunn by which he was authorized and en-
powered to employ all needful means to
protect the pilgrims to the sacred shrines.
In 1853 distress in France was very gen.
eral, due to stagnation in trade. financial
embarrassments resulting in mu9@As popular
suffering. This state of affairsl1mperiled
the position of a needy adventurer who had
recently uSurped the imperial throne, ana
he sought exterior adventures to occupy
the people. Wrote a contemporary observer
at the time, The unpopularity of Louis
NanOIQOn inPTpq SOS and his diGQTa6jt like
wise, and as soon as the unpopularity shall
extend to the army it will be all over with
him." A quarrel was fixed upon the En-
peror of Russia for doing those things at
the sacred shrines which his signed memoir
andum with England expressly authorized
him to do. That memorandum was not
made public till many years after the
Crimean war.
How did England get into that war?
backed the French brigand he was as
founded at the perfidy. but did not betray
finally given to the world through English,
not Russian, channels. But how did Eng
land get into the war? Englands foreign
minister, Clarenden, said that Nicholas was
requiring nc more than he was entitled
to- Lord Clarendon drafted a convention
which he sent to st. Petersburg, where it
was pronounced acceptable. Would the
Porte accept? Clarendon expressed his fear
that Stratford Canning, England's embas-
sador at Constantinople, would raise OBJ
procure their acceptance, and later on he
said he fully expected Stratford Canning
would play some trick at Constantinople
ment." Six weeks later the Turkish Council
of Ministers adopted their declaration OF
war. Four months later Lord Bath came
into Canning's room one day at CONSTANT
nople and told him he had witnessed the
fleets sailing into the Black sea, when he
replied: You have brought some good
news. for that is war. The Emperor of
Russia chose to make it a personal quarrel
with me and now | am r~evenged."
This then ia the trlIn story of the hppin-
ming of the Crimean war. 1t is not true, as
popularity told, that the resolution was come
the gentlemen were drunk. That they
should have got drunk later may be a re-
proach to the manners of the time. But
as we nave given it, it is clear that Eng
land could not afford to have it told quite
in that way. So the atmosphere of all later
history of the affair has been thick and blue
with lying. Various myths have been in
vented, as Turkey q vassal of Russia"
1.-The Black sea a Russian lake" and so on
that the Emperor Nicholas had a signed
memorandum for all he claimed, and that
Lord Clarendon declared in these words
that 'he was requiring no more than he
was entitled to-" that Clarendon's own pro-
posals were accepted by Nesselrode and re-
1ected by the Porte under the Inspiration
of Stratford Canning, acting out of express
ly avowed personal pique.
The congress or concert or holy alliance
assembled in Paris, 1856, to confirm the
Christian subjects of the Turk in their
bondage, and since that date he mas cut
100, 600 more of their threats. In 1877 an
other generous and high-minded Russian
Emperor, a gentleman like his great father,
and as such unintelligible to the new
growth of financiers, panamiste type, asked
his concerted despotS to join him in check
ing the butchery. They declined. With
Russian blood and treasure he single
handed rescued Bulgaria, Servia, Bosnia
and Armenia, and then the rest of the holy
alliance, led by England, stepped in. The
last, in consideration of a bride paid and
accepted, required the Armenians to be re-
turned to their butcher, promising that she
would look after them. She has; he has
butchered only 10000; he might have butch
cred more! He had given orders for a
butchery in Crete; this has been proved
and is not denied. Greece interviewed to
save the victims. BY what i%ntrigues (of
the Stratford Canning type) the holy ALI
ance was brought to egg on the Turk of
knows on the authority of Greece's truth
full Danish King George that similar in
trigue does in fact lie back of this war.
And this is the true story of the holy
alliance, the Crimean war. the concert of
Europe and the butcheries I'M
der their successive auspices from the Ital-
ian and Spanish patriots to the Cretan
women and children by whose hunger it's
fleet is to-day aiming to reduce their faith
erS and husbands. For diSfinctness' sake
it is proper to point out that England has
been a member of the whole train of alli-
ances from their initation-an odtum her
writers lave lied with hearty industry to
repel-and in Eastern affairs. the scene of
100000 in number, England has been the
dominant and ipitiatino napnber