The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-04-10

couhotions LOOK place where the governments had
denounced the war OF Independence; the fact
proves that even the largest conceptions of the
warmest lovers OF liberty in Italy were, and are,
ansnrcd with the intention of turning all the energy
Of I've nation to carry Oh the national war.
Inc sSaTdinlan government, which first entered
upon ,thas war, consulted only the right and the
WiiFcf the nation, contracted more particularly the
goligai,on OF continuing IT, since the fusion OF the
Aombario-' enetlan provinces and OF the duchleS
with the Sandman States, unanimously wiled
by the people of those States, had imposed upon ii
Che obligation of defending and hberatlng the ter
3itories in which the war was carried on. Second
ed by unanimous efforts, by still more unanimous
sacrifices, it did not retire from the enterprise,
when it was left alone, after the first glorious sue
Cesses, on field of battle on which many unge-
nerous passions had sown seeds of discord among
che Italians. But the days of misfortune came;
Sardinia, betrayed by fortune was obliged to bend
10 the necessities OF the moments an armlstlce was
concluded between the two armies.
~ But the strong and unanimous protests which
arose on all sides against the armlstlce and Its
sequences, convinced the Sandman government
xhat the thirst for national independence could not
BE allayed in the Italian people, either by the mis-
iortunes they had suffered, or those they were
threatened with, till the last effort had been made.
Some hoped that an honorable solution of the TIA
Han question might be obtained by the observance
Ot that military conventions but the Sandman GO
vernnent soon became aware that such hope was
vain, with the pretensions of Austria, her manner
OF interpreting and executing the SAID stipulation,
and the constant subterfuges and the studied slow
ness in which she took care to conceal her designs.
. In fact, scarcely had France, to whom the Sar-
A1inian government had applied for the aid which
SHE had promised to all those nations that wished
10 regain their nationality, proposed, instead of it,
her mediation and that OF England, and scarcely
had Sardinia accepted 1t out OF respect to those
two grear powers, and from desire not to endan-
ger the general peace OF Europe, than Austria I'M
snediately let it be perceived that she had no Sc
flOus intention OF accepting an honorable cOmpro-
mise, and merely intended to take advantage of
The armstice and the mediation, to recruit her
strength, and take measures to restore her shaker
empire. This sole idea pervaded Austrian policy
motive for all the regeneration, both open and
concealed, with which she has for the last seven
months been deceiving the good faith of Sardinia
and the well-intentioned advances of the high me-
dating powers.
Austria has in several ways violated the express
stipulatons of the armistice, well as the inter
national condition of those countries which she
was only to occupy In a military way both accord
ing to the articles of the armsiice and the obvious
attention of the mediation. She violated them by
retaining half of the park of siege artillery of
Peschera,. under the pretext that the Piedmontese
troops had not evacuated Venice, but, in reality,
TO place Sardinia in the mposslbility of recon-
mencng the. war. She violated them by hostilities
against ve,yice BY sea and land, although the ces-
station OF hostillties sanctioned also for that
wonderful city, She violated them by the political
restoration of the Duke of Modena by all the gov
eminent acts, and by. prescribing permanent mea-
6ures, which she published IN the LombardO- Vene-
them by the excessive war-taxes imposed upon
various classes OF cmlgrants, according to lists
compiled IN hatred and rage; and by the intma-
tion to all the emlgrants to return, within very
short time, to their former abode, under pain Of
having their property put under sequestration,
measure equivalent to confiscation. She violated
them by the, edict of the 9th of January of this
year, in which an imperial commissioner directed
that deputies of the Lombardo-V Venetian provinces
should be elected, and sent to Vienna to consult
about the political reorganization of those provin-
GEES. She violated them by all those arbitrary laws,
by all those fraudulent intreues, calculated to give
color to the assertion that the revolution was COM
pletely slfed in the provinces occupied by her. and
that the desire and love for the old state of things
had been e-awakened. She violated them at the
same time infringing the eternal principles of right
which, regulate every civil compact, and treating
with contempt the sacred feeling of humanity hy
allowing her marshal and his lieutenants to have
recourse In the territories occupied by them to the
most atrocious exercl se of violence, to the most
outrageous raplne and most provoking insolence.
ALI Europe has learnt with disgust the details of
all the excuses either tolerated committed by
Austrian military authorities in the Italian provin-
ces, and Europe asks herself how a civilized GO
vemment, government which declares itself i'm
bued with the elevated spirit and sentiments of the
present age, can commit or tolerate such acts In
our times.
The Sandman government respects itself, and
the people whose fortunes 1t protects, too much to
neglect that measured language which is to be used
when government, even hostile one, is the sub
Ject OF discourse. But We really do not know
what name to give to certain more recent acts of
the Austrian government, in the the territories of
which 1t has the military occupation. Still, what
check can a government be expected to impose
upon itself IN the countries it occupies mtarily,
when 1t tax upon itself to act in territories in no
way comprised within her supposed jurisdiction,
as the Austrian government lately did at Ferrara
And whilst she allows herself such enormities
while she Expresses the provinces occupied by her
10 such degree as to threaten their most complete
financial ruin, while she spreads among them the
seeds of moral deprayity, the consequence of mi
sery and the cessation of habits of civilization,
Austria daily gives new pretexts to defer the OPEN
ing OF the conferences OF Brussels to which she
has not yet sent representative to consult with
1he plenpotentiares of France. England, and Sar-
DINA, that have long been awaiting him. This is
an act so little suitable in itself to the dignity of
zhe medlatlng powers and to the sincerity Of their
good Offices in the interest of the peace Of Europe
That Austria could hardly find an excuse for it in
her great respect for th treaties of 1885,
ing which, however, she well disposed to
yield in June last when she offered the provisional
government of Lombardy the absolute indepen-
empire. After such behavior, it is indeed difficult
10 foresee how far Austria intends to go in her con-
tempt Of all the rules which bind civilized govern
ments and we, therefore, come to this necessary
VIOLENT interposition of the medating powers an
expedient to aggravate Sardinia with excessive
charges, to ruin the occupied provinces, to drive
the generous populations to desperate attempts
and to sow seeds OF dscord in the whole PENN
sua.
In such state of things the Sandman govern
ment has felt 1t its duty seriously to consider its
own condition of right and fact, its relation with
the medating powers, and the general condition
of Italy, for the purpose of taking course censis
tent with ITS honor and with its most legitimate
rights.
On one hand, it oonside RS the right and the duty
incumbent upon it to provide for all those popula-
tons that have joined those of the ancient Sardi-
nian States, and their unanimous desire of ma
1ional independence on the other hand, it has
weighed all the sufferings of the people of the
Lombardo-V Venetian provinces and of the duchies,
from the 9th of August to the present day. and the
innumerable sacrifices supported by the whole
state in this same period, which loaded the country
either the hopes or the advantages of it, The Sar-
dinian government also particularly takes into ac-
count the many manifestations Of the national