The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-04-03
News by the Canada.


The accounts we published yesterday from the
Continent of Europe are of the utmost political i'm
portance. Not only do they furnish us with the
intelligence that Russia is more than ever fright
ened by the advance of liberal ideas in Northern
and Central Europe; that the Imperial Guard,
which rarely if ever leaves the neighborhood of
ST. Petersburg, has been sent to the western from
tier, in order to watch over the movements of the
PoIes-but we learn also that the whole penin-
sula of Italy is making strides rapid than ever
towards the accomplishment of those objects for
which its people have for ages sighed. At length
the Italians seem to be in earnest and with their
earnestness they have acquired that clear-sghted-
ness which is so apt to be granted to those who
strive with an eye single to a great and noble OBJ
ject. The Romans are doing wonders in the way
of government The Pope seems to be poweress
in his attempts to work on the superstitious feel
ings of his former subjects. The National Assem-
bly, is coniscating the church property for the use
of the State and is preparing to repel the Aus
TRANS who have invaded the Roman territories
and levied contributions on the Ferrarese.
Tuscany, too, is not idle. There Republic has
been declared and the intention is maintained to
act in the most friendly concert with the Roman
may be that before another year is past, Charles
Albert will have cause to repent his treachery and
groan in agony that his ambition too vulgar to
aim at being the first citizen Of the great Italian
Republic. five were disposed to initiate the cant
of conservatism, we might go on tdsay how speed
lily the crime will be followed by its punishment !;
how soon the player-patriot King will be the gibe
of those his treason served, he is now the scorn
of the subjects and allies he betrayed. But the
string of national retribution has been so much
harped on by conservatives that people have grown
tired of the sound.
The course of events in Italy must cause the
the deepest joy to every one, throughout the world,
who knows the past or looks with hope to the
future. Not the revolution of France, not the
awakening of Germany and Hungary, not even
the fruitless struggles of Lombardy against the
Austrian army, are SO full of interest or call for
so much of our sympathy as the recent revolutions
in Rome and Tuscany. Small as are these States
in comparison with France and Germany, and little
as is the power they have in the affairs of Europe,
yet by their history and traditions they have in
fuenced infinitely all the civilized world. The
government and laws of Rome are felt throughout
Europe, and in a large part of America at the pre-
sent time; while the poets and artists of Tuscany
have, to a great extent, moulded the taste and
Imagination of modern society.
The efforts, then, which Rome and Tuscany are
making for freedom and independence call for the
sympathes of all civilized nations, for these States
have been, in their time, the creators, the pre-
servers and propagators of civilization itself. The
shades of all the Roman patriots and statesmen,
the spirits of all those divine geniuses that have
made the vale of the Arno immortal, rise up and
demand from us as debt of gratitude, our prayers
and wishes, and if need be our heads and hands
for the delverance Of the Roman and Tuscan
States from the bonds that have so long kept them
back in the race of progress and improvement
Has your heart ever warmed over the story of Ro-
man valor and Roman patriotism You owe your
sympathies to the descendants of Brutus, Rienzi,
and the Gracchi. Has your fancy ever been fired
by the verse of him who sang of Heaven, He'll and
Purgatory-or charmed by the meAuous words
that dropped from Tasso's golden lips-or delighted
by the brilliant wit and nexhaustible incidents of
the Orlando! Have you admired the creations of
Raphael's pencil, or been awe-struck by the lofty
and grand embodiments of Angeles imagination
Or have you derived wisdom and instruction from
the profound reflections of Machiavelli, and had
your heart saddened yet betered by the pictures of
crime and tyranny the sagacious Florentine so
truthfully depicts! Then your soul must glow
with gratitude when you hear the tale of Tuscan
deliverance. Then must you anticipate the day
when Florentine genius will again break forth to
gladden. and ilumne the nations. Then must you
breathe the hope that Santa Croce contains not all
the noble dust of Tuscany-that hereafter, under
the influence Of republican laws and republican
manners there may arise compeers of the lofty
beings who repose in the consecrated aisle-that
the race of Dantes and Alters, of Galileos and
Machiavellis is not yet extinct. And all Italian
courage and wisdom and genius are not yet dead.
Let but the present efforts of the Italians be
cessful, and we may expect future age brighter
than the Augustan-an age more brilliant and more
lasting than that of Leo the Tenth.