New-York daily tribune., 1859-08-04

rs. ard As,risn e1.ggnations, di'ensased the
raj .,... of ,bipg,. and WITH the spare and uncet
t.in means at cur disposal. OF havi's ssce''N'"0D
the relative fre-. of tie cobtendire parties IL our
critical revews of tie s,ogle battles, from Mon'e-
h,o TO Sclferino Francis Jos-ph lays g'e't stress
upon another poiD. witch must sound ra'hef
strange 20 a certain class Of newspaper "rie'''
We give bis very words:
al, tk.uise fact allowing of no oaSs, thst our
erenies in spite e the- utmost eSer''ons sea e .h
,moo,u,r, II their supersb ipdant rssourSss wnica
bsc been ope PREPARED for the intended cIhct, Aorc
not tesn ate trtn az The prIre 81 friF'snss @e',ts
ca;n Gecis.re r,cfcrs. All they have been so!s 10
gain il tie field were secondary ddrGntdges auSu.
s,rrv a. the sane time with ubshasen st3e nEtu suu
for ude usip' ed position the pos.essios ~ "ion
of, fair charcr Of success in al fu ure attempts ~
regail lort gruuid
What Francis Joseph dsres not proclaim IN bis
nsnises:oes namely, that be and hs camariua baVe
made a mess OF tee whole war BY the intrusion ef
their pets aud their cr,tchets upon its direction,
ard by the iubecie cbs:ructions they laid 10 the
wsy Of plebeiaD but competent generals, even tns
sin is now openly confessed. if not in words, at
least by deeds Gen. Hess, whose adyice was
neglected during the whole campaign, aud who was
his age and even bis rank in the Austrian Frank lis'
ought to have secured to him. is now spponted Field
Marshal: the supreme command of the Italian Tor
Gee is made over to him, and the first thing Francis
Joseph did on his srrival at Vienna, was to pay an
o.tentatious visit to the old Generals wife. In
one word, the ~hple attitude now assumed by the
Hap,bu1g sutocrat towsrd the man who, BY bis
pebean birth, his liberal sympatties, bis rude
frsnkness, and his military genius, offended the
pre,er sops of the aristocratic circles at Schon-
bruun. implies q confession humiliating to men oi
81, ,tatious. but most so to the hereditary proPre-
tors Cf maLkind.
Let US now look at the counterpart OF the Aus
trisn manifesto, st Bonaparte's apology Does De
share the silly de,usion of his admirers. that he has
won decisive battles Does be think that future
,everses we're out Of the question Does ne even
intimate that decisive point was gained. and tna'
perseverance, was the OILY thing required to push
bis victories to a GROWING result Quite the con-
trsry. He owns that the melodram,'lc part oi the
struggle had come TO an end; that the war was
about inevitably to change its aspect that revers's
were in store for him; that be was frightened not
Only by the menacing Revolution, but bS the power
Of " tie enemy in front, intrenched behind great
fortresses" He saw nothing before him out
"long ard barren war His words are these:
Arrived beneath the walls Of Verona the struggle
was inevitably about TO change lis nature, As wen IN
pnltsr, as il political aspect. Obhged 70 suaoh
the sn,mx in front who was iu,rer ched behind great
and protected on ais TANKS by the neutral
ity Of the .urroupoIg territory and about 10 oegin
Ior ana barren war found myself IN face OF Europe
in srs resdy either to dispute our successes, VI "
sggravate our reverses
In other words, Louis Napoleon rot only made
peace because he was afraid Of Prussia and Ger
mary, ard of Revolution, but because he
was afraid Of the four great tortresses. 10
lsy siege to Verona, he would have required
as We are told by semi-oficial article III the
Indtpendanee Beige, reinforcement OF 60,ooo
men: add these he could not bring from France
and leave there the strength necessary for the
northern army under Pelissier; and after be had
DOPE with Verons, Legnano and Mantua would
remain to be disposed Of In fine, Napoleon ILL.,
and Francis joseph fully confirm, after the war;
hat we have said before 1t and during its progress
both as to the military resources Of the two coun-
tries and the characteristics of the campaign. We
cite these two witnesses as invountarily vindicat
ing common sense and historical truth against that
swash of insane exsggeratiOn and silly deluslon
which Tor the last two months has obtained cur
rency, which it will not be likely soon again to
ppioy