New-York daily tribune., 1856-05-22

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keep men slaves, you must keep them poor. Bus
if the Hapsburgs ever make any concessions 70 tnt
public feeling of their Italian provinces, we may DC
sure that they will be made too late, and win
bad grace-and they will be far from satsfying the
nation. The Hapsburgs will not give up their hold
on Italy without life and death struggle. Whaf'
at such heavy cost they have had in their grippe
for centuries they will only resign when it can ao-
soutely be kept no longer. Besides, the same
guarantees which secure to them the actual pos
session of Lombardy and Venice also confer the
reversion in the second third generation OF Tus-
capy and Modena. In a struggle to hold all these
provinces, every German power will be on the
eide of Austria. Not only the soverelgns, but the
pation-the professors, historians, poticans-stiil
consider Italy as a German ieE In 1545, public
opinion in Germany proclaimed that Italy could not
be given up saturated as she had been for centuries
with the best German blood, and that geogrsphi
cally and .trategicsly the southern slopes OF the
Alps were but the continuation OF German soil;
and this opinion doubtless remains to the present
day. Such are the indictments to italian inde-
rendence on the side Of Piedmont and Lombardy,
and such the obstacles to be met and overcome.
A far heavier and deadlier incubus on Italy than
Aus'ris. however, is the temporal power OF the
Papscy. Until that is torn away, there is no hope
or possibility of ameliOraion. The Papacy will
alway. 90 hand in hand with the Austrian soldier,
as the only security for both Of them. Tae Papacy
will always use its religious power over minds and
consciences in behslf of Austria. In this way can
il alone preserve its temporal authority and world
" possessions But clerical rule is not susceptible
of improvement. OF this the past, as we'll as the
present, is evidence. The salvation of Italy at
large, as well Is of that portion of it rOanng un-
der the curse of the Papal Government, is only to
be found in secularization. The territory now
forming the Papal States must become wholly free
from the slightest connection with the POpes.
If the Roman Catholic world stands in need OF
Popes. then can it support them as pensioners; but
the burden Of keeping them should not fall on the
population now forming the Roman State. The
Papacy, with all ts requisite cOrtege and pageant
nv, was nodded from an epoch when the whole
European world bowed to and supported the See.
Both reverence and support are gone, and now the
Papacy preys upon q small strip OF Italy. Justice
requires that this region should be emancipated,
leaving the Popes to occupy the Vatican, but moth
ipp more. 1t may be asserted that by once drawing
the wealth of the Catholic world to Rome the Pa
pscy made the immortal city the FOCUS of art; but,
still living generations should not be forced to pay
the debts of dead ones.
So long as the Pspscy rules the Roman States the
Administration will be in the hands Of the clergy.
II will be impossible simply to bind the Pspacy so
as not to leave predominant influence TO its ton
sured servitors. The more reduced the incomes
of the Cardinals and the other retinue of the See
become, the greedier will they be for emoluments
and civil appointments. The papal clerical, or
socalled spiritual train, will seek to preserve their
hungry family connections in the offices of the
State. IT. therefore, sort Of civil admins
traiive or constitutional power should be consti-
tuted under the temporal supremacy of the Pope
whatever may be its character, it will become
prey TO intrgues and be incapable OF doing good.
To Qiye-according 10 the suggestion OF Lord Clar-
endon-ciyil independence to the Legations alone
would but throw weight on the Roman people
and provoke them yet more to rid themselves OF
the incubus. For these reasons we do not see
any possibility of smeliOration in Italy without
radical change in all the existing social and
government relations. But is the Roman Catho-
lie world ready to be just toward the Italians Is
j. ready to apply the meaning Of the word cas''so'
in its worldly, practical, financial sense, to pay to
the last farthipg the expenses of the Papacy, and
require the present subjects of the Pope to contrib
mo M ynoro than thair char In its yvants
When reform Is spread over Italy, Naples aud
Sicily will readily be subject to its influence. BY
deprviDg the Papacy of its worldly interests and
kickipg the o-German jsilers over the Alps,
the remains of the Ghibellines will become efete,
and the Swiss hireliDgs will disappear. But it
must be borne In mind that hereditary, priesty and
civil oppression has so degraded the nation in that
country, that the work of regeneration must be
slow. But such s the elasticity and vigor Of the
italian mind, and the illumination derived from the
Italian storehouses of ts treasures Of the past that
in spite of popular degradation, it has vast re-
sources to draw upon. History, legislation, polti-
cal econoDy-those levers Of social amelioration-
have never been abandoned there, and are still sub
iec.s of devoted study BY many of her sons. There
are numerous Italians from the Alps to the Tanaro
as theoretically well prepared for good government
az other continental nations more experienced In
self guidance. Freed from the Papal and Austrian
lced Italy will respire aud regain her normal state
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There are some men whose luck even death cam
not kill. The late Duke of Wellington was surely
ona r. ,ha.a What a child of GOOD fortune he was