The Columbian. (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, July 28, 1898, Page 6, Image 6
6 FAMOUS TREATIES. ; MEETCH OF THOSE OF THE NINE TEENTH CENTURY. XmeWorld la Likely to See Another Thai Will Alter the Bountlnrlee of Nation*— One at Midnight That Gave Ua Alaaka hkXMff. a time when the world Is likely to see another treaty that will alter the boundaries of nations, It Is well to look over the great treaties of the cen tury. What did they effect? Km first of these began almost with century itself and arose from vents connected with Napoleon's sei zure of power and his aggressive policy iU Europe. It Is known ss the "Peace 3f Amiens" between Great Britain, Hoi. land, France, and Spain. It was face ttMMly called "the Peace of Amiens" because It really provoked war. Its most notable achievement was to en able Napoleon's irlends to invite the French senate to give Napoleon, who was then First Consul, some token of the national gratitude of France. The Senate voted to prolong the First Con oid's tenure of office. The proposition had hut one opponent, a Girondist, who loudly asserted that the flrßt steps towards * despotism had been thus laken. and that a flagrant usurpation ihreatened the Republic. Lafayette registered a noble "No," sent the First Uomsul a spirited letter, and ceased the relations he had hitherto maintained ■lth Napoleon who had already stirred up a rebellion In Holland, was the mas ter of Italy, and was now about to be come the master of France. The treaty was signed March 27, 1802, by the Mar quis of Cornwallis on the part of Eng land, and by Joseph Bonaparte on that of France, and after a long session of the Senate in consequence Napoleon was on August 3 proclaimed In these terms "The French people name and the Senate proclaim Napoleon Bona parte First Consul for Life." The London "Times" and the whole British press roared Its disapproval. Napoleon thundered back that if the English press interfered In the domes tic affairs of the French people, that the nation knew how to respond to such flagrant Impertinence, and would not be slow to preserve the dignity of the French name. Accordingly as Addlngton used to say In after years, the ink on the treaty of Amiens was scarcely dry wlieo national pride was aroused which imperilled the new peace. The promptness with which France challenged the British nation upon that cccasior !s the secret of why Hnglisbmer vw *r else they may despise, still a profound respect tor Frenchmen, and have been very shy of touching upon their domestic discords since. The blue envy of the jress had nearly ruined the Empire. The next in importance was the Treaty cf Vienna In 1815. This was :he great c. ncil ol the powers which readjusted me uisturbance caused by Napoleon In the affairs of Europe. The Czar of Russia, the Kings of Prussia, Denmark, Bavaria and Wurtemburg md nearly all the statesmen of emi nence gathered around the Emperor MYancis of Austria and his more fa mous minister, Metternich. Metter ulch by common consent presided. Lord Castlereagh represented England and Talleyrand France. The subordi nate envoys and attaches of other lonrts added to a host of petty prince lngs whose nominal titles remain, but whose power have disappeared from .he map of Europe, crowded every ho .ol or available private residence in Vienna. They all gathered like vul .ures to feed upon the caged lion whom ihe brutal Sir Hudson Lowe was at .hat time Insulting on board of the iellerophon en route to St. Helena. Phla assemblage was also likely to end in renewed war. By the secret un derstanding after the Battle of Water oo the allied sovereigns had reserved .o themselves the disposal of all vacant territory to some of the princes then aut of a job. The Ministers of Aus tria, England, Prussia and Russia de ermined to decide upon all territorial questions among themselves and only ifter so deciding submit them to France and the other Powers. This nearly caused a rupture. Talleyrand hearing of the arrangement de manded that the whole European con cert should meet In open Congress. But the "Big Four" continued their sittings as already arranged. Still It was found impossible to continue. While Napoleon reigned these powers were united against him, but now that the common danger was disposed of they were no less against each other. The Congress assembled In Septem ber, 1814, and on January 3, 1815, Tal leyrand's purpose of breaking Europe into two halves was only averted by a secret treaty pledging those powers to at once take the field against Rusßta and Prussia In defence of the Peace of Paris. France was immediately ad mitted into "the Big Four" and Europe assumed those divisions In which It re mained until a United Italy and the German Empire arose. Passing over the treaty which ended the Crimean War, those which ended the Holsteln and the Austro-Prusßlan wars and that of 1871 which gave Al sace and Lorraine to Germany, we come to the next great International conference, that of Beilin. The treaty of Berlin in 1878 stopped the victorious march of the Russian Army upon Constantinople. It thus preserved a plague spot in Southeast ern Europe, Spain being the blotch in the corresponding corner of Southwest ern Europe. These precious blossoms, the word "Jingo," and "the Princess League" are said to be the net results of that treaty in which Lord Beacons fleld flgured. Russia had perfected a treaty with "the Sick Man," the fa tuous treaty of San Stefano, by which was secured complete Independence for Ihe Christian populations of Montene gro and which created the new state Dt Bulgaria with a seaport on the Elgean Sea. Bulgaria was to be a tnere blind for Russia. The British Bovernment took alarm contending that any such step reopened those ques tions already settled on the abdication of Napoleon. A Congress of "the Big Five" was accordingly called In Ber lin. This time Prince Bismarck pre ilded. Prince Oorchakoß represented the Czar, Count Andraasy, Austria and Lords Beaconsfleld and Salisbury the Interests of Great Britain. Under the tonditions of this treaty Turkey was thorn of some of her territory, which was added to Austria; the principality of Bulgaria was recognized as an au tonomous Power with a Christian Gov ■rnment and a national militia. Stlpu ated reforms were to be Introduced ln lo Crete, Epirus, Thessaly, Armenia, tnd other parts of the Ottoman Em lire. Lord Beaconsfield went back from Berlin with the cry of "Peace with tionor," the ludlcrousness of the situa tion being that there was neither peace nor honor. Two years ago the most frightful massacres took place in Ar menia and when Lord Salisbury who was a member of the conference was ippealed to by the Christian sentiment >f England to enforce the treaty. Lord Salisbury jauntily declared that the redreßS of Armenian Injustice was not i function of the Conservative party. The great leader of the Liberals Who lad formerly stirred England over the Bulgarian atrocities was not in Par lament, and Sir Vernon Harcourt was is silent as a heap of baggage on the ipposltlon bench. The next arrangement which mlght >iy affected the world's destinies was :hat at the Town Hall of Shlmonosekl n April, 1895. Count Ito was at home in this occasion and Li Hung Chang with Mr. Foster of America and Count Jaselni In the back ground safe guard ing those of China. As most of the Chinese fleet waß either In the hands if the Japanese or at the bottom of ;he Yalu river or In the harbor of Wel- Bel-Wel, and the victorious armies of ;be Mikado were In sight of Pekin. the Jhtnese had no alternative but to con i :ede whatever was demanded, knowing ;hat Russia, Germany and France, which constitute the "Triple Alliance" lor the control of the Orient would reto any immoderate terms. Japan lemanded the cession of the Llao Tung peninsula, the warships already in lapanese hands, control ol Port Arthur ind 1200,000,000. The Plenipotentiaries held five ses- Uons, the result of which was that the mailed hand of Russia was seen be hind the Chino-Japanese war. Japan lad to be satisfied with the money ln lemnity and Formosa, Russia more re :ently taking the Liao Peninsula and valuable railroad rights in that terrl- Mty which 13 now virtually a Russian province. Great Britain apparently lid not know that anything was hap pening until the Russian bear had :ompletely fortified himself In the Gulf in ice-free port and an outlet in the Pacific Ocean which It destines ere long io be a Russo-Amerlcan Lake. But England finally assured the contlnu ince of peace by taking Wei-Hel-Wel. While these events were taking place In the far East, this country was creat ng a diversion of momentlous lmport ince in Venezuela and the message of President Cleveland In December, 1895, was admirably timed whether Cleve and so Intended It or not, to create mch a disturbance In London as would lot only vindicate the Monroe doc rine In Venezuela but also repay Rus ila for the famous "midnight treaty" if 1865, under which Alaska was ceded :o the United States. To Russian as ilstance and Russian friendship for the United States we are Indebted for the present encouraging foreign policy un ier which, particularly with the pos lesston of the Philippine Islands, we ire sure to have an "open door" in the Jrlent independent of any Power on sarth. In fact it Is no longer either he "Big Four" or the "Big Five." It s now the "Big Six" as any further reaty making in consequence of the present war with Spain, will abundant ly reveal to anyone who does not al ready see the United States looming iminously upon the destinies of the :entury that is now at our doors. America is henceforth going to have foreign markets for her manufactures ind a foreign policy of her own and Europe will have to reckon with our ralleyranilß in the great events of the future. tirevlUe'i Reply. Mr. Grevllle was persuaded, when he was over sixty years oI age, to attend a iplrltualistic seance. Foster, the pro dding medium, was in great form, and ;he revelations were astounding. Gre irille sat silent, and his aged, wizened face was emotionless as a mask. Sud lenly the medium grew excited, and said to the old gentleman: "A female form is bending over you. [>h, the extraordinary likeness!" Greville sighed. "She lifts her hands to bless you." Grevllle Blghed again. "It Is your mother." "Ah, poor thing," said Grevllle; "1 im glad." "She smiles. She says ail is well with her." Grevllle sighed again and said, '1 aca lelighted." "She says she will see you soon. You ire old, and you must meet her before i long." | Then Grevllle quietly observed, I "That's very true. I'm going to take tea with her this evening." Tableau. "Is it true that Blgley has met with . business reverses?" I "Couldn't Bay, but his wife is riding i last rear's wheel."—Detroit Journal. THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURG. PA. THE CENTENARV OF VINEGAR HILL Recalling the D.eu. ot Irish Revolu i t lon of 1798. "At noon on Oulart's moss-clad heights Loud rang the musketry. And Wexford flung upon the foe Her peasant chivalry. For vengeance nerved the patriot's arm And pointed where to strike." I Such was the spirit In which an old ballad records the Irish Insurrection of 1798 which some have described as the last expiring shriek of Irish free dom against English class oppression. | It la well to make the oharge of op pression against "the governing classes" rather than against England as s nation, because It Is only very lately that the people of England ob tained the right to rule their own coun try, and It Is but simple justice to say .that ever since the masses of English men wrested their freedom from a rul |lng ring of nobles, they have been no |bly undoing the past and making the Relations of England and Ireland more sweet and kindly. It Is not, therefore, in any spirit of hostility to England, or to the English people that the Irish patriots will this summer hold appro priate ceremonies to celebrate the gal land stand of the peasantry a century ago, against the laws which crushed 'the Irish people and who, strange to relate, numbered about 4,700,000 then as now. The Irish have not numeric ally Increased In Ireland during the past one hundred years, but they have Improved In wealth and in education, and they are now in the enjoyment of 'more political rights than were their fathers In 1708. A hundred years ago the condition of Ireland was utterly, wretched. The people had no prop erty, no political rights, no schools, no manufactures; they were mere renters at the mercy of a body of taskmasters planted among them and whose lands ■they cultivated for the bare necessl-l ties of existence. . } Their natural leaders had been driven out of the country after the Hanoverian wars, and thus is furnish ed the solution of the puzzle to Amer icans, that the names cf an O'Donnell as Duke of Tetuan, or a Senor Moret jd'Prendergrsst now occur respectively as Ministers of Foreign Affairs or of the Colonies, in the dispatches we read from Spain. These are the descend ants of Irish gentlemen whose estates were confiscated in the numerous wars for the conquest and subjugation of and of which train of events the rebellion of 1798 was the sequel and the natural consequence. | The rebellion of 1798 was, however,' the revolt of a freedom-loving Protes tant democracy touched Into explosion' jat sight of the horrid wrongs of a loyal,' jbrave, and oppressed Catholic peasan-! |try. It was also as much a conse-1 jquence of the action in 1776 of Jeffer- i json, and Washington, and Adams, as! |was the French revolution of 1793. j ■Though it fizzled out during the sum- j pier, when the year 1798 opened there were nearly 600.000 of the 2,500,000 of! males then In the country enrolled In a secret non-sectarian organization, and , pledged to die for their native land, i But the Government found means to' disarrange this formidable organlza- ■ tion. They succeeded in sowing dls- 1 trust between the leaders and their ■followers. When the peasantry were ' 'drawn away by the Government prom ising concessions—that substituted; Maynooth College for the old House of College Green—these Ottoman lords turned upon their brave and faithful leaders who were hung, Imprisoned, or exiled. Only three out of the thirty two counties therefore came to the front in the rebellion, but In these the ■peasantry fought bravely; and Wex iford, Oulart, Vinegar Hill, New Ross, •and Ennlscorthy remain In Irish song 'and story to attest what a change might have been wrought In Ireland had the united Irishmen, North and 'South, stood together in 1798. The 'rebellion was timed to take place in ;March, 1798, Ulster agreeing to furnish >llO,OOO, Munster 100,643, and Leinster 66,672 men. | The Government, however, having captured the leaders stunned the chief end of the revolt so effectually that [the great body of the people did not rise at all; and hence it was in coun ties where no preparations were made and no promises given that was seen jthe most gallant struggle for Ireland'* liberty. The people who did rise were armed with pikes for the most part, a primitive sickle-shaped weapon with a long handle and which was utterly in adequate to contend with the sabres of the yeomanry. Others had old flint locks, but by far the larger proportion |Were armed only with pitchforks, l scythes, or anyavaliable weapons found around a farmyard. That the peasan try could make any defence whatever against British power under these cir cumstances is marvellous, particularly as the insurgents were not always able, bodied men, but were recruited from, boys, old men and sometimes even wo men. Yet at Vinegar Hill and Oulart. the King's troops fared as badly as at Concord or at Lexington. At the lat-' ter place the royalist troops attempted .to dislodge the insurgents who skill fully manoevured to draw the fire of (the soldiery. For this purpose the in surgents withdrew behind an embank ment and raising their hats upon the handles of their pitchforks a little over the level of the embankment, the sol diers, mistaking the hats for heads, fired over the fence or into the Held, beyond. As soon as the soldiers drew near the embankment fancying the Irishmen were all killed, the latter sprang np and simultaneously dls-| charged a few weapons they had into the faces of the red coats with tre mendous effect. Then with a wild •cheer the main body scaled the em-' bankment and wielding pike and: •scythe, blade and pitchfork, they soon' discarded the attacking regiment and; •©cured from ths soldiers more for midable weapon*. No less dexterous and brave was the conflict at Vinegar Hill, where envelop ed In smoke and flame both sides fought valiantly, disputing every Inch of ground, the same position being cap tured and lost by each party In suc cession. An English observer of this battle says: "A small number of them (the Irish) only had fire-arms, but the pike-men, wonderfully tall, stout, strapping, able fellows, fought with their pikes In the most furious and desperate manner, thrusting at the sol diers whe had much ado to parry with their bayonets after having fired and before they could reload." Better arrangements could have shown no braver spirit. For three weeks the rebels held possession of Vinegar Hill, making It the base of their operations, and from which strategic position they commanded the town of Ennlscorthy. Field glasses were not In vogue In '9B and In all en counters between the patriots and the forces of the Crown, the hills were strong objective points. In Antrim too there were some stiff brushes between the Presbyterians of the North and George the Third's mili tia, and In one of which engagements a grand uncle of President McKlnley's fell nobly fighting, the sept of the Mc- Kinleys, of Dervock, being among the staunchest patriots- of the period. It Is one of the sublime romances of his tory that In the first centennial year after the passionate resistance by An trim Presbyterians, of the cruelties perpetrated by the last Marquis of Cornwallls In Ireland, the grand nephew of the patriot, McKlnley, Is president of the greatest nation of the world; and the same power that ruth lessly executed the ancestor. Is now a suppliant for favors from the descend ant! Such are the chances and changes of realms; such the fortunes of retributive time. Hunk In the Navy. ! It will be of considerable help to re member that military and naval rank correspond In this way: Admiral (when the office Is created) to general. Vice admiral (when the office is created) to lieutenant general. Rear admiral to major general. ; Commodore to brigadier general. . Captain to colonel. i Commander to lieutenant colonel. Lieutenant commander to major. , Lieutenant to captain. Lieutenant, junior grade, to first lieutenant. , Ensign to second lieutenant. Considering only the two highest grades now actually held, the number of officers In each since 1882 has been six rear admirals and ten commodores. The present rear admirals in order of seniority are: William A. Kirkland, commandant of the Mare Island Navy Yard, San Francisco, retires July 3, 1898. i Joseph N. Miller, commanding Pa cific station, retires Nov. 22, 1898. Montgomery Sicard, on duty In the office of the Secretary of the Navy, re tires Sept. 30, 1898. ; Edmund O. Matthews, president of the Naval Examining Board, retiree Oct. 24, 1898. ! Charles S. Norton, commanding Washington Navy Yard, retires this jrear. Francis M. Bunce, commanding Brooklyn Navy Yard, retires this year. 1 Officers of the navy may be retired on their own application after forty years' service, and those above the rank of lieutenant commander must retire upon their reaching the age of 62. Those below that rank are re tired for physical or mental disability. The pay of retired naval officers is 'three-quarters of their sea pay of the jrank they held at the time of their retirement. At sea a rear admiral jreceives 36,000 a year; on shore duty, 36.000, and on leave or waiting orders, 34,000. Commodores are paid 31.000 less in all three lines of employment Retired officers of the navy cannot be assigned to active duty except in time of war, and the purpose of the Administration so far has been not to assign retired officers in the army or navy to field or sea duty, but to let these posts of danger be held by those still on the active list. Of course, such work as the command of the mos quito fleet along the coast is expected. This has been given to Admiral Er ben, who was retired four or five years ago. Until the second year of the civil war the highest naval rank was that of captain, though generally the title of commodore was gtvep to a flag offi cer who commanded a squadron. In 1862 the rank of rear admiral was created by Congress, and to this grade were appointed Farragut and three other active captains, and about a dozen retired captains. In 1864, for his capture of Mobile and subsequent successes, Farragut was appointed to the newly created rank of vice admiral, and later D. D. Porter and Stephen C. Rowan were given the same rank. Af ter the war ended. Congress went a step further, and made the grade of ad miral, and to this grade promoted Farragut and Porter. There was a special provision of the laws creat ing admirals and vice admirals which caused the grades to die with the men holding them. When Porter and Far ragut vacated their commissions as vice to accept the higher office, it left Rowan the only holder of the second place, and upon his death in 1896 tb* office lapsed. Farragut died in 1876, leaving Potter sole possessor of the commission of full admiral, and upon his death in 1891 both grades were vacated until Congress shall revive them, perhaps, for the heroes of this war. Clancy—Phwat do yes t'ink av thot ter a parade 7 1 Caeev--Shure. an' it beats th' Dutch! 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