The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1847-09-10

express design Of forming the former I'M
ion of 20 small canion.repubIics, one
single military Swiss Republic on the
model of the United States. These res.
olutions. and those which will. yet be a.
dopted by the Diet. are Of the greatest
importance 10 the other States Of Eu-
rope. Switzerland, as a military repub.
lie, would become truly (morally) a pow
or of The first rank. and in the midst of
monarchical Europe would offer the dan
gerous spectacle of a fi%ourishing and
powerful Free State. Moreover, il would
assume a new position in the European
system OF balance Of power. and become
a most important ally to the Continental
powers Of Middle Europe. Austria, act.
ing in the spirit and tendencies of the old
Mettemich stain quo policy, opposes this
design i'll the most decided manner, aud
on condition of being silent to the Span
lsh marriage, and not making common
cause with Lord Pslmerston, has made
sure of the cooperation Of France a.
gainst liberal Switzerland. NJ. Guizot,
true TO the obligations he has thus as
sumed. has already sought to intimidate
the Diet by a mole sent tn President Och
senbein, by his ambassador, NJ. Bois-le-
Compte. Ia this he threatens them with
an Intervention of the great powers; but
has produced quite as little effect as when
he complained to the Diet that Herr Jen-
ny. editor of the Guckkastcn "a satirical
paper had hung the Cross of the Legion
Of Honor OF his dogs neck, which turn
ed out not to be the fact.
To the French Ambassador, t~hreatning
an Intervention, Hera Ochsenbein re-
piled, Good! if the foreign powers wish
to play IA bangue' we will play with
lhem;" aud that is the feeling Of all Swift
zerland. In the fatherland Of Tell there
reignS a firm resolution to permit nc guar
dianship, no interference of foreign pow
ers in the internal affairs of the country.
Quite as firm is the resolution to meet
force with force and not to be terrified by
threats of an intervention, or by the in
terventiOn itself. But such a measure is
an experiment on which neither Meter
mich nor Guizot will inc~onsiderately ven
ture. Switzerland, with its glaciers,
mountain passes, r%avines, tOrrents-with
its war!ike and disciplined population,
and with the patriotism, which conquer
ed at Murten and Sempatch - is no Por-
tugal where an intervention requires bat
a few ships of war, and where arbitrary
acts 60 unpublished. To Switzerland
soldiers must be sent, and these soldiers
are men; more than that they come Of
the laboring classes, in whose heads new
ideas have already litup their flames; the
French soldiers would fight badly or not
at all against liberal Switzerland. For
this reason the design here seems to be tc
leave to Austria alone the actual defence
of the Sunderland and 10 do no more
than co operate automatically, blockade
the frontier by an army of observation
and by vexalious commercial regulations
But in this case the cowardly s~ervilit,
of the July Government, its yielding anc
clinging to Austria, its COndOtterie ser
vice to the cause of absolutism and ret
rogade, makes a wretched Impression
If they come to blows you may be assur
. ed that more than 1000 Frenchmen
Poles, Spaniards and Italians will hast
en- from France to the Alps to fight a
volunteers in the ranks of free Switzer
land against Austria. And if Switzer
land conquers and gains her freedom
these foreign legions can easily become
the model and nursery, the young guar
of freedom to France herself.
In ITALY, affairs are yet worse, an
there Austria is no less %impotent tina
. F rance in Switzerland. The two pow
; ers, allied to the disgrace of the Revolu
ton of July, had already succeeded i
, checking the career of the Pope. /
the college of Cardinals they had excite.
f suspicion, had shaken Gizzi the Secreta
ry of Suite, and thus forced certain retro
!, grade measures upon the Pope. In sol
rowful stonishmentth the people oftheRon
ish State, fallen from all their dreams, sd
5 their Sovereign, who shortly before ha
! inspired in them the nobleSt hopes, 10
out of his path. A universal eXcitemel
a and fermentation seized upon them
+. The holder fastened to lay before I'll
d Pope the true state of public opinion
while u petition, with thousands of signs
:. lures, beso ught the immediate organizi
i ton of the National Guard as the on
n means of maintaining peace, order an
:. the security of personal property. Piu
II TX. at once comprehending that the dal
k ger to himself and the State came n
If from the people. but from without ar
from retrogressive intrigues within, o
dered the organization of a Nation
Guard, and Cardinal Gizzi, to whom Il
measures seemed entirely too r%evolutio
airy, gave in his resignation. The POI
IF accepted it, contrary to all expectati'
1t and summoned the honest, enlighten'
and truly free-thinking Cardinal Ferre
to take his place. Ferret arrived
Rome, and on the evening before the a
e niversary of the amnesty, a man OF Il
Of people, called Ciceronachio, whose re
name is Angelo Brunetti, a tavern keep
r. by profession, but the most popular al
In influential man in Rome, discovered
of conspiracy agains, the Pope and the ne
" order of things. At its head were Car
he inal Lambruschini, Dalla, Genga, Be
N. netti, G~rasselini, the Governor of Rom
in Col. Freddi and the Austrian Ambass
l.no.nt Intnlour Thar nlan WAS