New-York daily tribune., 1859-07-08
GERMANY AND TIE WAR.


Tror Ire Losd9s 1iHes. Jafe.'
Prussia nss at L.. cL beea - 'Gf ~ .e.ce" u! 4"
deIrsncs q The mircr Gern en- Ccusts aud tue rised
passions Of tie German rcople as to have deermued
Il said 20 make propositions % Frcuce, The rtecto1
Of wiich wl be followed by some Gccicei step on t-e
pat cfthe Government al Beriin. We cannot "a! taat
we haze been uuprepared for sucd or evelt A:y one
pos,essec of ,ae smallest JoSedgo Cf Coutnent+ p)l'
ltic must have been tfcmtbe beSunng q these
-bsuces hat the inva-Cc of Au-a Ierrtoy by
Frsoce would later bring The Emperor Napo-
leon into kind of collision with Northern Germa
ny. TIE Prince Regent is rot no~ draggiog as sub
iects ITO que-rei which they feel no concern on
the col.rary he aId tic ct3er GerGan Princes hGd II
at 4 uetCsay for he preservation Il tteu tnroues
10 make some move 10 sympathy WITH the agitation
which pIey oils throughout Germany. Whether ;here
be tune Lo~ to arrest the movement whether the
preselt Et ct GoyCnuent viii be able @ prevent the
thrsatLec rupture. cGnDCt rreteLd % say
In thls country who are happily DeGlG- may StiA
'onk On the question with some degree Of cooGess.
We al feel th8t Germany hes Legitimate reason to
crea1 the cpc; G Cf new cycle of European warfare
ard that PTussa Ler allies Src iu,tet IN demand
irc explanations rs 60 the Emperor Napoleon pdI-
pose. Neither car there be any hartc ~ Prussia act
:. q similarly 90 tbs English Government and strength
euug her uetOLa deeLse7, 10 cts' toe wal sAouu, oy
ary ctsrces extend to the German lroEuer, or some
events ari-c Nhich would make impossible iyr tire
Coserune Mt go remAr a pesce. Our diiiereuce With
tie Germans il this Is to the Necessity OF the
denon.raicn they are about 10 make. They declare
I il unavoidable, thai French military ambition, now
roused will res: until tie Rhiue i a.tacked and
that is better TO NEE the danger boldly and at once
Tie line of the Mnco they say. Is one OF the de!enses
Of Germany, and It the LOlern coasts of the Alnat'c
serc once IN te possession Cf France Il would be ian
possible for Germany TO be sure CT tranquility Tor
,velyemoIth. To this we answer, that tie dangers
eoriu,ed up by the German imaginaton, II not
visionary, are at least greatly exaggerated. Inc
Ecench though good soldiers not those irresistible
beings which the Germans pic ure to themselves: nor
can conceive that the line ol the Guco Is really o
such iupcrt8uce TO Germany. True, the !ortiesses o
Verona sno MantDa guard the leuetlaL territory and
this latter hes 10 adygIce Of the German tiy OF
Trieste but surely il il too great refinement oi cpo-
macy 90 pretend that, because position beyond our
Own bcIGers is stroI one therefore an atach upon
il il menace TO ourselves, WHO have nOihlng 70 DO
with H. and would not be justified bJ inernati0ndI Ia"
in marching 70 it, defense. But the principal matter
to be coLsiGctd by the Germgn--aud iu justice 10
themselves AID Europe they should approach II seri-
Ously and conscieLiiOusy-ls whether they can cOns'
tebty with honesty, hbciaNy 6nd true pohcy, 20 10
war 10 keep the Austfans in Italy Now, this subject
ge would reason upon without any reference
to tie past, and without any ioregone conciu'
,ions a, 10 tie future. In times Of war nen
1--we FAST and IL il tie mcTest absuTdty TO Affect
fyv Of view az 70 events which continually chang
ing Two months since the Austri4ns had spend'd
army on the banks Of the Iicinoi they were COM
mauced by Generals, who, according to Comnon ine
were eu6Os ed With pretmlnent military krcwleuge;
Their staff their Cavalry their Artillery were 'duned
throughout Europe the most perfect OF their kad
Ia these circumstances they stood OF an equahty win
i
asmucl they held the country which was the sob
ect Of dispnte, and ii did not seem likely that any
Power conld dirlodge them Then, not only Germany
but Enl land reno nsratei strongly against any attack
Oh Austria. aud one # the bases Of negotiation, a.
proposed by Lord Msmosbury wa that the Treaties
OF 1915 SHOULD be held sacred ard nvioable Nothing
would have given us mO1e pleasure than that these
bases Il oud have been accepted, and that no shot
should have been fired in an Italian war. But this
! wa- rot 10 be; and the Germans cannot take upon
Themselves TO ignore history. BY fair means or foul,
by chance. or policy, or simple olunoenog, war broke
out. The results We all know. Ihe Ausuiaus,
! who bad advanced some thirty miles within the
/ Serdibi-n territory, neglected to follow up their
advantages with unaccOuntabe timidi'y or stupidity
they allowed French army TO be landed aud brought
into position in front If their overwhelming forces and
then they commelced q retreat with desperate rapid
ty, which is as utintelgible as their advance and
their subsequent apathy. To do them justice they DO
net to have been beaten as they were beaten by
Napoleon or Moreau, but they have been drawn OF
after each encounter leaving the field and the honors
of the day 10 the enemy, and now without striking
blow they have been marched from the field of Ma
genta to tie fortresses Of Peschiera and Mantul. All
that they had established with such care and toll and
cost during forty year has been abandoned IN week.
Placer 70, which has always been main grievance
with be Italians and the ior,ihc stons ot which threat
ened TO delay Indefinitely the advance Of an invading
army was eit with such haste that the Allies have not
only captured a vast number If guns, but provisions
and materials Of sufficient 20 give no small help 10
T. cir army. Not oLly have this great fortified place and
PavIs also place of note, been abandoned but some
half iozen positions where 4 battle might ~eu have
been fought have been passed IN march, the rapld
ty cf which has almost converted L into fight. The
co1se quencts have been most momentous. The whole
Of Italyis in fame. Every town which the Aus
trians have left has risen appointed a Government
and placed itclf under the Dictatorship Of the King OF
Sardinia Toe important city Of Milan, the Duchess of
Parma and Modens, ard Tuscany, have been rev0lu-
torzei. We need not further eCapitulie tue failures
and Disasters Of General Gyulas army. We would
merry whether the position of the present time u
tie s'lc as that OF Easter Sunday. How, then, can
GER any expect tia. the hand the clock of time
can be put back so a. 10 allow Austria the same
chsuce she poe e:sd before Der Generals had given
proof Of ncspsety ahd her armies OF weakness After
an when nations appeal 10 they must abide by It,
and Il s Guie impossible that Austria, who has done
he par tearing the treaties OF lol can now claim,
up6er their sanction, what she has lOst by arms How
can Austrian troops again garrison Milan except aIer
some important victory How can an army winch Is
bes ged in forire;ses at the extremity OF L)mOardy
claim TO return to territory out OF which has been
driven except by showing ltse superior to the enemy
who has for the present wor-ted It :
il Germany had made these propositions TO France
when the Austrars were the llcino, then tAere
would have been some reason Tor tins Warke hsI-
tude: but - expect that Louis Napoleon can, aIter
two great victories abd after driving hls enemy some
two hundred miles before him. acquesce IN the c0nd
tons which were acceptable before the peace Is most
vain. he would ask, first, why Germany supports
Austria in Iialy az al; aDG secondly, nov Is tAal
such policy having been adopted the Propositions oi
rrssia were lot made while there was stu chance
of their aeceptance Il seems to every impartial BY
sardeI that the interference which Is nov tnreatened
ous ht rshtuly have taken place on tie hrst news
that Austria had crossed the Icino.
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