The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-07-29

dcms stood in full existence created in couple Of
hours. stamped on the public mind by the ubrs-
ton OF a telegraph sire. d The Emperor of Austria
eedes the kingdom Of Lombardy :, the Emperor Of
france; Austria, then, has been thoroughly beaten
out o. her old characteristic obstinacy Peschiers
snd verona, Mantua and LegnagO the line of the
A1dlgs' ard the lagunes of venice-all are aban-
didly and without reticence confesses him
self. az Mr. Golden would say, "crumDled
up" He at ence and with his 3O0,OOo men goes
weight swels up into an iDdepend ent confedera
ton How show our face TO the world
with such news "a this upon our broad sheetl What
rous suspicious? How shall we make our apology
to the much illuminated Emperor Of the French?
How shall we meet the triumph and the Of
the friends of liberty whom we were weak enough
to werB3 Humble recsnaton II all that IL left ".
Let Us, then join the radicals OF England, the Car
bonari Of Italy the exiles Of Poland and the great
political apostle Of Hungary, in singing the gories
converts, and scarcely meet to be called con-
vert-let Us swallow In shame all our ungenerous
mIsgvings, and rejoice that now and in very deed,
Italy is free FROG, the Alps to the Adriatic:
But soft! In this rush Of telegraphic Dispatches,
In this JoStng Of quick messages that come from
all parts Of The world and minge the voices of all
European capitals there are some sounds that jar
upon the general joy. What be the meaning
OF this new announcement what can be the nature
OF this bitter drop which causes the foam
OF enthusiasm to subsde, and curdles our
free, for the Emperor has said 1t, and
who hut the unbelieving, ungenerous, untrust
ing Times hesitates to behave the Emperor
Yet This enforcement of the Pope, and this res
tordtion of the Grand Dukes, and this retention of
Vfnetia and the Minc,O by Austria. is an altered
rers,0n of the first message from The Enperorto
The Empress Yes as Is ss sas Il = res
popular sense, but in a Nap0leonic sense. Free
dom is word Of many meaning, and 1t often takes
Its color from the reflex of the interests Of the man
who uses 1t. Freedom IN Sparta did not mean that
the Heots were not to be put to ceath II they grew
too numerous or too troublesome. Freedom IN
Hdly does not mean that tie Inhabitants are to
haze amy rOice ia their oacn government. Italy is
free, but II il tree under Imperial conditions Lom-
hardy, conquered by France and abandoned BY
Austria, has been tossed over to the King of Sard-
MIA. Nobody say that Lombardy is not free.
She mghthave had notions OF the renovation OF the
old Duchy federal State, and Milan may have
objections to be made an appanage of Turin, but
she had better from this time forward keep these
foes to herself. She il free, aud she must be
satisfied. So also is Venice free She is free
under Austria. What more can she wait! Sure
ly she has not the folly to dream Of the days Of
Dandolo! Austria will perhaps give her one OF
Austria's own Archdukes an0 an army, whose
bands shalt enliven the Piazza San Marco; and
well dressed officers, who snail add to the pictur-
esque costumes that give life to the scene in that
magnificent square. Is Venice disconnected! Then
she does not know what freedom is, as Napoleon
knows, and as our ultra liberal friends in England
know. But let her not speak foolish discontents too
loudly. II il only slice of L0mbardy which has
been handed over to Sardinia. Lom6ardy to the
line of the Mincir." Betwixt the " line" Of
the Mncio and Venetia there two large rivers
which run down to the Pc, asd the land watered by
those rivers is thick with first class fortresses. IL IS
The old Austr,an iron gate by ach,ch she entered
Italy at her tc,u; ii is The lair Of Austrian despo-
tisn, 10 nhtch she retired ohen there tods danger
IN the plains. Hence she could speed her tens OF
Thousands a Crush n3SCtut eXpOs1OOn OF dis
content. Ye free Sandman Lombards, who enjoy
your freedom under he shadow of the west
ern walls of these great fortresses, and ye
liberated Venetians who, as you cultivate your
continental possessions look up to cannon that
frown upon those eastern bastions be not too loud
in your free talk. This country also ia free. 1t lies
between the Alps and the Adriatc, and it must be
| free. Witt Venice it shares the honor Of being
free under Austria. But it is free as pure Aus
vancing like wedge right into the body of North
| ern Italy; it is crammed with troops and arms as
has ever BEEN and from it armies could be thrown
out by railways and might reach Milan or Venice in
few hours. Austria still has, and by this treaty,
is to continue to have, this terrible quadrangle.
In those cities therefore, pere better to talk sey Of
the nerly acquired freedom, and TO congratulate each
other ,rhispevs upon the glorious contamination Of
their patron Emperor's promise Of driving the Aus
TRANS from Holy and making her free from, the Alps 10
| the Adridtic. Tuscany and Modena are also
| free. They are free by their own acts, for
they expelled their two soveregns and then
sent of TO the Emperor Napoleon half their youth
| volunteers. The free citizens of Tuscany and
Modena fought against their expelled sovereigns
| at Solferino and helped Louis Napoleon to drive
| them away This was a mistake on both sides.
The true freedom for which the Tuscans and Mo-
denese fighting consists in taking back their
old rulers, and, if their Grand Dukes had known
their true interests, they would have been in the
camp Of the French and not in that of the Austrian
Emperor. Hippias is going back to Athens again
the freedom Of Athens requires his restoration
Archbishop, Whately insists that half the
to its logic; people will not mind their defini-
tons. This is the of the difference that
separated us some time ago from the English
radicals and Italian sympathizers. If they had
and defined it in the sense in which it now appears,
| we should never have doubted the intentions of
| Louis Napoleon to give it them. Without being
extreme in our sympathies for Italy, we must con-
fess that if had sent Lord Stratford or Lord Ga
rendon to Congress to do what England could for
| Italy, and if Lord Stratford Lord Clarendon had
come back waving his hat and shouting "ltaly is
| free" and if it turned out that he had left Aus
tria at Peschiera, at Mantua and at Venice, and
had forced back the Grand Dukes upon Tuscany
and Modena, and that this was what he called Ital
ian freedom, should have been very much tempt
ed to cry out Justify for the impeachment of Lord
Stratford Lord Clarendon as traitor. If zoe
had had any notion that this ,oas tohdt II Kos
suth, and The gentlemen of Birmingham, and other
td0lators of The Emperor Napoleon desired, zoe
think zoe could hare got 1t for then, ,oithou streD
ing Italy tci corpses and cro,cdtng the hospitals
tClW WtSeTUOle mdny(eU SOtuterS. mere Is nothing
in all this which might not have been wrung from
Austria by force Of diplomacy. 1t ought not to
hurt her pride and greatly increases her strength
She is relieved of the trouble of governing one ur-
bulent and expensive province and she retains the
power of devastating It whenever she may please.
She is now placed in Italy like swordfsh beside
whale. Austria is all weapon Italy is all prey. Aus
tria has only surrendered what she might at any mo-
ment take back, but what she il probably now too
wise to desire. Sardinia has got what she must
hold on snflrance and what, If attacked, she could
not defend. When the satraps of Austria are re-
established at Florence and at Modena, and when
she stands armed to the teeth, dominant and ire
sstiblc in the Italian Confederation, Austria will
be greater in Italy than she ever yet has been. If
England had dared to propose this to her be-
fore the fight began, she cond not have refused
it; and it now seems that 900 lives would
have been saved, and italy would have been lust