New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-06-20
NATURE AND OBJECTS OF THE WAR.


We have received letter from "a Reader OF
The TRIBUSE" in Western town. from which
the following is 90 extract:
"Pray tell Us what is the real Of the present
war in Italy BY whom and for what purposes Vas 1t
s4t CD foot With which party sh'uli American he.
pubncals feel a sympathy Which party IL most
likely to succeed Ard what Influence is the success
Of the French and Ssrdnans, supposing them to gain
tLeir ends likely to have upon the freedom and indie
pendeLce Of Hungary
The questions Of our correspondent take pretty
vide range but We will endeavor, as far as posi-
be 10 answer them in their order. FIst, then,
As 10 the real cause Of the war: it is exceedingly
complex being made up of the ambition and the
necessities Of Louis Napoleon, the wants of the
BopapaIte family, the ambition of the Sardio'an
Toy al house and the ardent Aspiration Of tie Ital
isps for national independence. These various
springs Of action having combined France aud
Sardinia to attack Austria. that pc YER knowing
that war was resolved upon, aud that all proposals
of negotiation, mediuhon, and what not, were but
50 nispy diplomatic deEices to gain time for the
C, mpletob of the French and Sandman prepare
tons finally took the bold resolution Of commencing
hosiiiiies herself. and. at the beginning Of May,
occupied the Lomellina rich Sarcinian province
between the rivers Ticino, To, and Sesis, with al
amy Of some 10000 men. BY this step she
assumed the immense responsibility of actually
breskIns the peace of Europe; she has gained BY
it the support of Der army of occupation, for
month at least, ut the expense of Sardinia
But let us look little more closely at the ele-
meuts of which the efficient cause Of the war is
composed. OF these the personal impulses which
govern Louis Napoleon are the most influential
Emulous of the renown OF the first Napoleon, IA
desires glory; but he desires also to leave his son
and the Napolecuic dynasty in possession Of the
thfcne Of France. To this end, war and military
success are Indispensable, not only as satisfying the
appetite Of the army on whose bayonets ne WAS
borne into the Tuileries but also as existing in bis
service the enthusiasm Of the French nation Mar
iia triumph abroad makes tyranny, and the tyrani,
and the tyrants successors beloved sad safe at
hcme. and such triumph, for ouch objects, Louis
Napoleon is now pursuing. The traditions and 10
ier,sts of the Bonaparte family he also no doubt
keeps steadily in view Thus il is psln that he IN
tends to establish bis bury and bothersome cousin
Prince Napoleon on a new throne in Central Italy,
where the King of Sardinia has just been compelled
to abandon bis claims to Tuscany, which he had
begun 10 annex TO his own dominions. Whether
Napoleon Ill will try to restore the Murat dynasty
at Napless not so cear-lhe present representative
of that branch Of the Bonaps line being rather
too much OF fool to make tolerabe King Of; but
nobody can we'll dispute tha. to aggrandze himself
and the BOnaparte- in general along with hln IS
the supreme end Of bis career. In this respect
b. faithfully cherisbes the iDjuucti0ns laid down
in the famous viii Of his putatise uncle. AT the
some time he probably finds keen pleasure IN
the consciousness that he il undoing the work of
the Vienna Congress and revising and reversing
all that long history of the coalition against Na-
poleon l. which eliminated in the catastrophe of
Waterloo. That catastrophe too vii also be
avenged al the right moment if Napoleon Ill. can
have his way; and then, if not before, he viii
Restore 10 France her natural northern boundary,
the Rhine But il will probably be some time
before that contamination is reached
The ambition of the King of Sardinia is more
genisl and generous passion than any We can
attribute TO Napoleon Ill, for tue reason that
he is much more genial and generous fellow.
The representative of one Of the Oldest ruling
families IN Europe, with dominoDs which the se'-
Element of ISIS considerably increased, and with
degree Of political fairness and honesty which has
not been common among European princes, We can
easily tolerate if not applaud bis wish TO sdi 70 his
donnons the rich and poPulous provinces of the
Lombardo-Yenetian Kingdom But to fad truly
noble motive in this war, must go 10 the Italian
people. Centuries Of internal diyi.ion and discori,
and oiioregn oppression have only made emio'the
the one and detest the other. And as the forelga
influence chiefly maintains the national dIsunify II
Is the foreign, or rather the Austrian domination
which above al they hate, and whose abolition