New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1849-09-18

messed the CgttOhsbmcnt ana OFeIt"lO" % VIC
Republic Of Rome, aud say whether Wslshs i'm
| putations can be honest. The only foreigners
known 70 be concerned in the brief and almost
bloodless Revolutionary struggle were the SWISS
troops. who fought alone on the side OF "a
| pel Absolutism. Beside theirs there were not q
handred hands lifted on that side among the
Three Millions Of Roman People The Swiss be-
ing vsnquished, the Republic was proclaimed by
acclamatoa throughout the Roman States. No
CITY. no section, not even post or village resist
ed nni the Republic, having been established in
Rome with the loss OF not more than nall dozen
lives including Rossi's wa adopted throughout
the country without resistance aud without result
ing boodshed save AZ Ancons, where vengeance
was taken on a few who had abused power under
the old regime Bot the Republic rested on Opin-
ion alone i, had at the outse. en- empty treasury
no allies no miitis, and but the shadow OF an army
Il appealed at once 10 the whole People, and
only the Romsa People, and was ratified and con-
frmed by a large and unanimous vote. II was by
the Representatives of the People, So chosen,
that the resistance TO French oppression was de
creed and Mazzin and his compstrots invested
with comprehensive executive powers. Another
election was aiterw ard held for Municipal officers
every citizen OF the Roman States and they
only votine-with like unsnimity in favor Of the
Il public. And it is that Republic, SO instituted
aud ratified that Walsh pronounces "ioreisn
usurped domination" and declares that II " mer1
ted expulsion by the force Of what regular gogcrH-
rarnf scorer" As ours is believed TO be a toer
ably regular government we shall see If little
expulsion cannot be prsctced by tss well as by
| the French sham Republic.
But what truth is there, asks reader In this
story Of foreign usurpcd minstioni Just this
much that long after the Romans had SO unsnl-
mousy established Republic, when It vas threat
ened by the Overwhelming power OF France and
Austria, not to mention Spain and Naples, n few
thousand ltsliaus who were not Romans volun
tecred to assist in It's defense. Some oil them were
fagitives from Novsrra, where Upper Italy had
jast been lost iii is said by treacheryl 70 Austria
some from Tuscany, and some perhaps from Sicily
both recently crushed or betrayed. The Re
pubhoars of Italy rallied 10 the defense Of their last
foothold, seeing the despollsms combining 20 des-
troy il. Our Republican Consul deems this al
abundsu, Justification OF the French invasion Of The
Roman States, bombardment Of their Capitol, and
destruction Of their Republic Aud this he tells
u., in fall view Of Rome in chains her municipal as
we'll as political authorities subverted her citizens
Subject to martial law, compelled 10 be al home by
an early hour at night their Constitution snnul-
led their elections abolished, their press iettered
will perhaps be teen and proved fortunate for
French renown and Homsn welfare, including
enough Of Constitutional Freedom. God forbid
| 70 ia for any
people how much Freedom IS enough.
Mr.. Walsh is welcome TO his opinions, and to
ours We have looked on deeply interested
throue bout this Roman drama, besiuuirg as oar
readers know, an ardent sdmirer OF Plus TX, and
a eontemner of the means by which his temporal
power was first resisted. We held out on that
side IS long ss In good conscience we could; we
have listened 70 all tha, has been offered 10 def nse
or in mitis alton Of the policy which Oadinot put
in execution; and in our deliberate judgment al
who were resPousbly come cted with that policy
are as guilty murderers as mankind ever shronA
from. IL lis net War, when great Nations like
France aad Austria fall without excuse on feeble
deieuselsss States like Rome or Nenice-ltis o's
COW srdly Murlor, and o! this the slain defender
OF Rome were victims Among the accessorie.
Z, that murder both before and after the fact, u
Robert Wash, late l. 5. Consul at Paris.
But Walsh otlleses he is risht--hs Is only speak
ing in accordance win his own convictions.
w ell. then. we answer, He is no, a hs man to re
present this Republic in Paris at this crisis :
Bu, We must jadse him BY his own coarse, an
this seems 70 us the reverse o, honest. Passia
by for the present his unQasliied assertion OF "th
general jog" Of the Romans st the entry O. To
French congueroTs into their battered and blood
stained city, In connection with his exul'ng state
ment tha, E GIT Thousand peerless Spanish troop
are to compose the Pspal garrison Of Rome, "
ask the Advertiser to consider the following ea
tract from one o; his letters Of July LAST
ave have to-dsy. profound lsment OF the Na'sorl
= over the tate OF Rome IL j. quite becoming IN the u
c stssr OF the Roman Republic There will De proof q
thousand francs. from the rriumvirate. subsidy
the scheme OF insurrecton here. The French Govern
b. nent had ground OF agsinst the Roman for n
esgue of Tie latter with the Revolutionary faction
" srsnce; complete unreniiang concert Of mschlni
:, ioH and seaon.
Did no. ths writer OF that paragraph mean TO ds
> cevei Where is his boosted proof Of the tran,
= mission Of money fton Rome 70 aid the Red 4,
puhlcsn demonstration Of the 18Th Of June ass
We have waited two months FOR Il. Where IS i
III Bat.uppose this lie were truth, Walsh Is 81
' a deoeiver. He pats in the alleged hos"l'y
;. the Roman Repablie 10 the present French ru
as q MASON for the French exPed's'oo-a "a
;. rroand Of war by France against Rome no
mark that ths Roman hostility, 50 far as l; exsie
xs.s Consequence OF tho Freach INVASION, and
course no case Of il. Suppose Rome Aaa, while
French army was Kidding her dwellings ana ties
: ing in pieces her women and children By boz
:. hsrdmept, sent money to Gus, iron power her a
..isnts at Paris and bring In the party viii
would have instantly changed the expedition fro