The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-05-14
NEW ORLE A N S:
roreisn News by Telegraph.
oNDAY MORNING, MAY IA, 1s4o.


II ia pity that the telegraph transmits to us any
thing but facts: certainly it would be far better for
us If il allowed us to draw our own deductions and
form our own opinions from the facts themselves.
Here wa have been for the last five or six days
under the impression that the French Government
had turned traitor to the principles on which it is
founded-that the statesmen of the Republic had
no far permitted place and power to dazzle their
perceptions as to let the present President overcome
the convictions of their and the dictates of
their conscience-and all because the person who
sent the news from ST. Johns to New York saw fit
to conclude that because force of IA 900 men had
sailed for Civita Vecchia they were going for no
other purpose than for that of renstatDg the Pope
in the possession of his temporal authority. Now,
it will be seen by the speech of Odillon Barro of
which we publish to-day the outline, telegraphed
TO the New York papers, that the French Govern
ment have not yet said word about the Pope or
about his authority temporal or spiritual. me
Prime Minister of Louis Napoleon says that mas
much as the Austrians have overcome Charles
Albert at Novarra, and threatened to overrun the
whole peninsula, it is deemed expedient to send
French force to Civita Vecchia in order to protect
French interests in Italy. 1t is but reenactment
of Louis Phippe's celebrated possession of Ancona
France is terribly afraid that Austria will get
power in the South, and it is probable that Mr..
Barrot's ideas of Italian politics no more adj
vanced than they were ten or fifteen years ago. He
may yet think that the patriots of Rome and Tus
cany are a set of black faced carbonari, who need
French assistance in order to protect them from the
Germans But he will find out before he with
draws his force from Italy that he has revolutosts
and organizers to deal wIlh-not rebels and con-
spirators
It may be that the deduction which the tele-
graphic reporter drew from the fact of the French
force being sent to the Papal States is correct
that the Barrot ministry only made use of the
Novarra defeat in order to wheede the liberals of
the National Assembly out of vote for money and
men. But even if this should prove to be the case,
1t shows that the heart Of France is not with Louis
Napoleon and his ministry in their attempts to
force monarch on the republicans of Rome. The
speech of Mr. Barrot, if false in its pretences and
hollow in its professions, shows that he is aware
how insecure would be his power if he were to
avow the aims which he may hope to have the
opportunity of accomplishing. Even as it was, the
vote was taken twice before sufficient number in
favor of the expedition could be obtained and the
members of the mountain, belying by their conduct
the accusations Of those who represent them as
violent and blood. thirsty, resolutely refused to
sanction the ministerial measure. We hope that
the French people may not be seduced into any
attempts to fasten the Italians a government
which they hate and despise and that if their
present authorities show disposition to act con.
trary to the genius of republican institutions the
people will Indignantly refuse to cooperate with
those who may happen to be in office.
The news by the Hibernia is calculated 10
strengthen confidence in the will and ability of the
Italians to overcome the opposition which may be
offered to the establishment of their independence
The Sardinians seem not to be disheartened by
Novarra for although Novarra placed them some-
what in the power of Radetzsky yet it relieved
them from the friendship and assistance of Charles
Albert. They have refused, it is said, the terms
of peace offered by the Austrians The resistance
of the Genoese shows how these Italians can fight
when they have determined on maintaining their
position. So that if the Sardnans, the Tuscans
and the Romans can only form a league among
themselves, there will be fair chance of driving
the Austrians from the peninsula.