The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1859-06-29


not unduly partial to the Italians "
Captain |, commanding officer of the 2lst
Austrian regiment of the line, posted at Pc
rouse, has commanded forty blows TO be ad-
ministered in the public place to an esumable
citizen, NJ Monganeli, simply because he re-
fused to receive a second Austrian officer when
he had one already quartered on him. There
were only ten to be divided among all the IN
habitants. This arbitrary sentence was pre-
ceded neither by inquiry nor formallty The
same officer, few days before, inflicted forty
blows on poor peasant, who happened to have
cotton handkerchief round his neck which
once had been of three. colors, though they
were nearly obliterated BY repeated washings.
Not less deplorable is the universal venallty
of the Austrian administrators, civil and mill.
tary, in Italy; they regard it as conquered
country, TO be pundered ad llblum. This
will account for those enormous fortunes which
so many have accumulated Nowhere is this
exhibited so unblushingIy as in the conscrp-
ton, where youths utterly unfit by bodily IN
firmities for military services are inscribed as
fit, merely for the purpose Of extorting money
to obtain their release If they ae suspected
of patriotic or liberal sentiments a different
course is adopted; they are first permitted to
pay for a substitute, and then seized and com
PEELED by threats and blows to enrol IN an
Austrian regiment, to be sent to the marshes
of Croatia, to be forced to fight against Their
own flesh and blood Ii is said that the Lom-
bard soldiers have returned with aIacnty to
their regiments. If SO, the reason lies, doubt
less. in the fact that the communes to which
they belong are heavily fined for every
soldier missing; that in addition, their rela-
tives are label to the most cruel treatment IN
case of their desertion. Several cases OF this
description came under my own observation.
Austria appeals to the treaties of 1915. Even
supposng that any treaty can be sacred in
which one nation is recklessly sacrificed, bound
hand and foot to the ambition of another, how
can Austria dare to invoke them? Did she
remember them when she annexed the repub-
lie of Cracow to her dominions, in defiance of
the protestations of Europe, under preteXt that
the tranquility of Poland demanded that an
nexation? Dare she invoke them now that
the peace and security of Europe, the best and
hottest interests Of humanity, are at stake =
Surely the time is at hand when Europe will
perceive that, even in an Interested point OF
view, an Italy, strong, tranquil and indepen-
dent is preferable to one perpetually agitated
by the commissions of agony and despair, and
in its turn agitatng all surrounding nations
1t must be remembered that the police, as
we have said, are armed soldery, character
ised by the manners of common soldjery; the
Italians are very sober people They alb
stain from going near the Austrian canteen not
only because the spectacles there are intolera-
Bile, almost unimaginable to the Italian, but
because the proximity is actually unsafe
That is not the worst. The Austrian soldiers
are men of strongly developed physique; Ital
ian women are peculiarly attractive; the sol
diers feel themselves free to assal any woman
any lady, any where-even the presence Of
her husband not shielding her. And should
he be provoked into brawl with the sodiery,
the police authorities, of course, know which
side must be in the right. We have said moth
ing here of the drain of wealth from Lombar-
do-Venita to feed Austrian tyranny; nothing
of social misery flowing from political oppres
sion; nothing OF restrictions forced upon a
land naturally made for commerce; we have
spoken only of those sufferings which become
personal in their pressure, and which make the
Italian hate and loathe the very sight or sound
Of live Austrian. London Spectator
To THE AMERICAN PARTY OF GEORGIA.
The undersigned, Jour central executive COM
mittee, appointed by the convention at Mill
edgeville, in July, 1857, having been requested
by various American presses and individuals,
to call a convention of the American party,
according to usage, preparatory to general
Reorganization for the approaching fall elections
beg leave 10 announce that, after due con
suIlaGon and deliberation, they have deemed it
advisable not to call said convention.
Still true to our principles, and cherishing
the iyeiest regard for their maintenance, we
ects to be accomplished, of much higher and
more pressing Importance, than any questions
connected with the rights of foreign citizen
ship
There is a party in power, composed of the
worst elements of all parties which, under the
sanction Of the democratic name, has commit
ted unparalleled abuses and frauds upon the
American people.
1t has perpetrated the Kansas swindle-
squandered the public money in the most
shameless manner-run up the national ex-
penditures in time of peace, to near 90 mil
lions of dollars per annum!-encourage sec
Gonal feudS for its own aggrandizement, and
even conniyed at mormon protection! Worst
still-it has elected an abolition governor
over southern State!-a State which owes
more to slavery than all the south besides
having acquired riches and power by the pro-
iessonal business of breeding slaves for sale
These are some OF the enormites which
have recently been covered by the sanctions
OF the modern democratic party.
To hurl this corrupt party from power is
now the highest duty of every good citizen;
and to accomplish this noble purpose, we are
willing to ignore, for the time, all questions of
minor importance.
Trusting in the good sense and patriotism Of
our countrymen, we are satisfied that the evils
connected with the naturalization of foreigners,
will in due time be corrected. And here we
rest the subject.
We now call upon our American friends
everywhere to unite with the opposition, against
this spurious democracy. Let US make COM
mon cause, together with conservative wings
and independent democrats, make bold de-
scent upon the sposmen and together share in
the honors of victory.
Already the good sense of conservative men
throughout the length and breadth of the land,
has revoted at the misdeeds of the modern
democratic party; and many who once adher-