The southern press., 1851-09-04
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the eve Of violent and sanguinary revolution.
Almost every foreign newspaper that We read
every one which dar es To intimate its opinio s
lis full Of foretodings AS To some great trouble
at hand Ever the conservative papers OF
London and Paris do not suppress their fears,
and the silent military preparations Of Austria
show that the governmen. are not unaware OF
what Is in the wind. American travellers re-
Gently returned from Europe, with whom we
have conversed. bring with them the same CON
yiction.
This vague but almost universal feelings has,
doubtless, grown out of the discoveries " ~hieh
have heen recently made of the systematic aud
protracted cruelties pfaetlsed by the different
despotisms of Italy. Men are instinctlvely
persuaded that such outrages must provoke re-
action and revenge. Yet the daily reports show
that these inhuranities, unrestrained by the
fearful Indignation awakened by Mr.. Glad
stones exposures. are continued in more
severe and brutal spirit than ever. A letter in
the London Macs, written at Naples, confirms
MIR. Gladstone thus:
"The prisons are full of persons not yet tried ;
their number amounts to twenty thousand,
without including those who have been arrest
ed, but shortly after liberated In this num-
Der there are about ten thousand imprisoned
by measures of police (misure di potizia) be-
cause some book or print was found Ii their
house which aroused the suspicion Of the au-
tn critics. Sgnor Corrasio an old man of sew
enty five, was sent to prison for having written
some extracts from Taeitns in his memorandum
book, and certain Signor Cisto was impris.
oned for having had in his possession 'Guzol's
Democratic en- France In Lecce, Signora
Arpa was arrested because she would not tell
where her husband, a wealthy birrister, sus.
pected for his liberal ideas, had fed In Nh
pies, a widow, Donna Maria Ricci- -Deyernois,
was doomed to six months Imprisonment for
having visited her son, priest, who had es
capped from gaol. and was to leave his country
forever on board of an English steamer. In the
provinces the houses of the liberals are sacked
ard destroyed by the rabble, instigated by the
authorities and in Salerno, General Palma had
had hogged more than twenty persons publicly
in the market place, in order that they should
confess where they had concealed their arms.
In the councils of the cabinet the plan was dis
cussed to establish an extraordinary commission
under the name of Giunta di State, with the
power to pass sentences without the judicial
forms"
That such atrocities should awaken pro-
found feeling of indignation, is natural, and we
are glad to see that the English journals, which
are conservative in character, and which express
themselves commonly with great caution, put
no restraints upon their words when discoursing
of Italian denominations. The London Netcs, for
instance, which is semi LIBERAL in its turn, but
which is yet supposed to represent most infu-
entail part Of the present whig ministry, speaks
in such vehement language as this, of the dongs
OF the Roman court:
"The Pope has allied himself not merely to
despotism in principle but to cruelty and tyranny
in practice There he s, the bosom friend of
Ferdinand, the pc jured and the brutal himself
the great Sanfedist Of Italy blessing the SAN
culinary hordes of Croats by which Austria for
a little while longer Keeps down the flllen lib
critics and the growing intelligence of that PEN
nsula; plotting against the constitutional free
dom which Piedmont is consolidating as an ex-
ample for all Italians; willing to sell the politi-
cal influence of his church in France 10 the
highest bidder against human progress; inter-
changing comp liments with the very Gar whom
his predecessor summoned to meet hin in the
courts of heaven for his img erial crueties to
women; driving thought intelligence, learning,
and science away from the temples of religion
teaching end imbuing, as Mr.. Gladstone has
shown, the mind of youthful purity and inno
cence with principles demoniaca and views anti
social and attempting in the name of that Re-
deemer who above all things declared his king
dom not to tie of this world to disturb the ran
guilty, if not to tear TO pieces the integrity of
this empire.
"A popedom so allied, 50 acting; thus asso
cated, thus dependent, cannot last. Ii were TO
disbeheve in the goodness aud mercy of Al
mighty God to his creatures to suppose it could
1t triumphs for a while; but day of refrbu-
ton and punishment must be approaching
England has but TO LET loose the democracy Of
Europe to give rein to that demogogy which is
eager for the fray; TO withdraw her moral resist
auce to those caamities which are mpendiny
over the continent and Italy would itself settle
for ever the popedom. Popery, Romanism, the
fifth, the church of Rome, might and probably
would be left But that subtle, fihless, re-
lentless, celibate court of priests, which is the
hugest fraud as well as the most remorseess
cruelty ever practised on mankind would be
swept away, with all its congenial organizations,
10y those who have felt its heavy, icy, clammy
hand most.
Human endurance has limits they have
long been PASSED in ITALY, A chaos of COM
munsm would be preferable to the destruction
of humanity now in progress in that unhappy
land. It's rulers and oppressors have TAUGHT
the world their own worthlessness, and the
Pope Pic Mono has blessed them for their ty
and Italian despotism are in the same boat. il is
ready to sink with their weight Lord PaIm.rs-
ton, in sending around Europe Mr. Gladstone's
has warned the world of the ap
proaehing storm has intimsted the policy of |
England when the swelling waters of the del |
uge shall arise; he's notified that, though we
may pick up drowning prince here and there,
it would from motives of humanity, and not
from wish to restore him 10 power. No, they
have neglected all opportunities thrown away
the means of safety, cut off all retreat, sown the
whirlwind, and must reap The storm: and, as
there is God in Heaven, Italy will rise again |
free from popedom."
Such paragraphs in the radical prints OF Eng
land in the Leader, the Despatch, &C., would |
only prove the convictions of the writer ofthem. |
bat as the leading articles OF the Daily Neos,
whose relations TO Lord palmerston are more
ihan suspected, they possess the highest signf
canoe. As the extract well remarks, England
alone stands between the dynasties of Europe
and the wild democraces, ard if she once with
draws her hand, there will come such flood as
has not been seen in these late DAYS.
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