Rumania's sacrifice; her past, present, and future . -six voices againstten. I have taken cognizance of this vote, and inthe name of the Rumanian people I have proclaimedthe union in the midst of indescribable eight oclock in the evening divine service took 157 RUMANIAS SACRIFICE place in the cathedral. Everybody rejoiced. I amhappy. A. Marghiloman. Mr. Arion replied: Right has conquered. I congratulate you withall my heart for this brilliant success. The woundsof the country shall find some amelioration. The important act which ratifies this union con-fers new strength for Ruman
Rumania's sacrifice; her past, present, and future . -six voices againstten. I have taken cognizance of this vote, and inthe name of the Rumanian people I have proclaimedthe union in the midst of indescribable eight oclock in the evening divine service took 157 RUMANIAS SACRIFICE place in the cathedral. Everybody rejoiced. I amhappy. A. Marghiloman. Mr. Arion replied: Right has conquered. I congratulate you withall my heart for this brilliant success. The woundsof the country shall find some amelioration. The important act which ratifies this union con-fers new strength for Rumania, who has becomegreater. Long live Bessarabia! Long live Ru-mania! C. C. Arion. It is incontestable that the union of Bes-sarabia with Rumania constitutes a claim to glory for the Govern-ment of Mr. Marghilo-man and at the sametime a great consolationfor Rumania. This province was apart of Rumania until1812, when Russia occupied it without anyother claim than that of force; three parts ofthe population is Rumanian. After the fall of 158 AUSTRIA-,. BESSARABIA AND RUMANIA the czarist regime, Bessarabia was proclaimedan independent republic under the name of TheRepublic of Moldavia. On the occasion of her union to Rumania theNational Council of Bessarabia adopted a reso-lution which contains the conditions underwhich this union is made, and which commenceswith this declaration: The Moldavian peoples republic, lying between thePruth, the Dniester, the Danube, and the Black Sea,and the old Austrian frontiers, which more than ahundred years ago had been torn away from old Mol-davia, is now permanently uniting with the Rumanianfatherland on the basis of historical and nationalrights, as well as of the right of self-determinationof peoples.^ iThe New York Tribune. 159 CHAPTER XI THE CAUSES THAT DETERMINEDPEACE TO enable the reader to understand thecauses that determined the RumanianGovernment, presided over by Mr. Marghilo-man, to conclude peace, we reproduce the ap-peal made by the
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