The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-02
THE HOLY ALLIANCE.
A Long Series of ~Butcheries Commit
ted Under It's Auspices.
New York Evening Sun.

A Long Series of Commits
ted Under It's Auspices.
New York Evening Sun.
In 1915 the treaty of Vienna for the restor-
alton of the Bourbons in France was signed
by the five great powers Austria. England,
France, Prussia and Russia. The mon
archs of three of these countries were pres
ent 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 in the concert and were
nicknamed the Holy Alliance. The prac-
teal working of the concert was seen in
1923, when the congress of the five powers
met at Verona to crush the signs of free
dom and independence then beginning to
display themselves in Europe. England
was represented by the Duke of Wellington.
In Spain the people demanded a constitu-
pies a popular movement took place-Na-
pies was Occupie 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
contented herself with getting the congress
to resolute against the slave trade!
Between 1923 and 1858 the Turk massacred
in cold blood about 120, 600 of his Christian
subjects. Russia, already the great civiliz-
ing power among Asiatics, had interviewed
about the middle of this period and secured
a treaty which would have. stopped them
forever. The jealousy of the western pow
erS induced them to step in and nullify
this treaty. The massacres then went on.
In 1874 the Emperor Nicholas visited Eng
land, and while there signed a secret memo
randum by which he was authorized and
empowered to employ all needful means to
protect the pilgrims to the sacred shrineS.
In 1853 distress in France was very general,
due to stagnation in trade, financial embar-
fering. This stat$ef affairs inmperiled the
position of a needy adventurer who had re-
Gently usurped the imperial throne and he
ugh exterior adventures to occupy the
people. Wrote a contemporary observer at
h n sfIhn I TifX r L xii No
poleon increases. and his discredit like
wise, and as soon as the u~npopularity shall
extend to the army it will be all over with
peror of Russia for doing those things at
the sacred shrines which his signed memo
randum with England expressly authorized
him to do. That memorandum was not
made public till many years after the Cri-
How did England get into that war?
When the Emperor Nicholas heard that
she backed the French brigand he was as
founded at the perfidy, but did not betray
confidence. The secret memorandum was
finally given to the world through English,
not through Russian, channels. But how
did England get into the war? England's
Nicholas was requiring no more han he
was entitled to-" Lord Clarendon drafted
a convention which he sent to st. Peters,
burg, where 1t was pronounced acceptable.
Would the Porte accept? Clarendon eX-
pressed his fear that Stratford Canning,
England's ambassador at Constantinople,
would raise obstacles instead of using his
influence to procure their acceptance and
later on he said he fully expected STRAIT
ford Canning would play some trick at
C~onStantlnOple and throw obstacles in the
way of settlement" 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
Constantinople and told him he had wit
messed 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 duar-
rel witt me and now I am raVonop1 -
This, then, is the true story of the begin
ming of the Crimean war. 1t is not true, as
popularity told, that the resolution was
come to at a Cabinet council after dinner
when the gentlemen We're drunk. That
they should have got drunk later may be
a reproach to the manners of the time.
But the true story of the Crimean war be-
ing as we have given it, it is clear that
England could not afford to have it told
quite that way. SO the atmosphere of
all later history of the affair has been thick
and blue with lying. Various myths have
STA, the Black sea a Russian lake. and
so on-all of them afterthoughts. The facts
are that the Emperor Nicholas had a signed
memorandum tor all he claimed, that Lord
Clarendon declared in these words that ''he
was requiring no more than he was entitled
to- that C~larendon's own proposals were
accepted by Nesselrode and rejected by the
Porte under the inspiration of Stratford
Canning, acting out of expressly avowed
personal pique.
The congress or concert or molly alliance
assembled in Paris, 1856, to confirm the
Christian subjects of the Turk in their
bondage, and since that date he has cut
1901 900 more of their throafs. In 1877 an
other generous and high-minded Russian
Emperor, q gentleman like his great father,
and as such unintelligibie to the new
growth of tinanCiers, pananiste 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-
would look after them. She has; he has
butchered only 0,000; 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 intrigues (of the
Stratford Canning type the holy alliance
was brought to egg on the Turk to war the
the authority of Greece's truthful Danish
King George that y similar intrigue does in
fact lie back of this war.
And this is the true story of the holy alli-
ance, the Criraean war, the concert of
Europe and the butcheries committed I'M
der their successive auspices from the
Italian and Spanish patriots to the Cretan
women and children. by whose hunger it's
fleet is to-day aiming to reduce their
fathers and husbands. For distinctness'
sake it is proper to point out that England
has been d member of the whole train of
alliances from their ini~tiation-an odium her
writers have lied with hearty industry to
repel-and in Eastern affairs, the scene of
the whole series of butcheries, exceeding
$4,000 in number, England has been the
dominant and initiating member.