St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-05-19
The War in Europe.

that strife is lneNltaDlc. NOT, WIFI
all it's horrors, may the true friends
of humanity justly rcpudiate the horrid
ordeal. There are wrongs it is impi-
Gus to compromise, -prospects it is
base to forego and if Austrian des-
potism can only be quellcd by arms
so be it. 1t is disgrace to the nine
teenth century that imbecile and SUI
pertitious tyranny should crush Rome,
and beastly cruelty degrade Naples,
and vigilant power ban education,
prosperity, free press and domestic
peace in Venice and Lombardy-while
close upon the border Of these domin-
ions is a state full of energetic civil
life and individual privileges under
constitutional rule. Around the from
tier of this progressive kingdom Aus
tria has reared forts and gathered ar
mics to limit the natural cncroach-
mcnts of liberal ideas and humane
government and keep the less favored
children of Italy in perpetual despair.
Right and honorable and auspicious
is it, therefore, that France should sus-
tain Sardinia against Austria, and la
mcntablc that England remains neu-
tgal, with P9rio and his brothers
clankinG their broken letters in their
ears, and Gladstone revealing the Sc
crots of Bomba's prison house to Par
Lament. AS to the twaddle about the
treaty with Nicnna-Austria herself
has forfeited her title to its immuni-
ties, and it is absurd to argue that
its conditions are binding upon Eng
land, when she has recognized Louis
Napoleon in direct contradiction t.
her pledge to sustain the Bourbons.
Let Austria consolidate her Italian
powcr-lct it be received as fact
that Italy is to be hers, and that she
is to govern it as she may see fit
and her position in Europe, and in
Christendom, must become far great
or than that of Franco. This France
cannot submit to, and the old rivalry
Of France and the House of Austria
has come up in full force What hap
pencd in the times of the Nalois and
the Bourbons is happening again I'M
der the Bonapartes. Dynasties may
change, but nations remain the same,
and the causes of the quarrel of the
sixteenth century show themselves
with equal potency in this nineteenth
century, when we hold Peace Con
crosses, and make Dahlgrecn guns
Russia sides with France, in this dis
pute, and apparently under the domin-
ion of the same feelings that cause
France to move. She cannot bear
the prospect of Austrian increase of
power. She unquestionably hates
Austria, but her hatred would not
make her active if she were not
alarmed by the prospect Of Italy be-
coming nothing but series of out.
lying German dependencies, with all
their resources at the command of Vi
emma, and developed and directed by
Austrian proconsuls. With the whole
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of Italy at her disposal, as nearly all
the Dalmatia now is, Austria would
become altogether too powerful in the
Mediterranean, as a maritime empire,
for the good of Russia, which country
has no idea of abandoning its plans
respecting Turkey and Greece.
France, too looks with alarm and
jealousy on the rapid advance of Aus
trian commerce in the Mediterranean,
and the development of naval power
consequent thereon. Ever since 1915
Austria has labored strcnuously to III
crease her commerce, and not without
signal success. Few persons in this
country are probably aware how
large the maritime commerce of Aus
tria now is, or to what good purpose
she has turned her Adriatic posses
sions. Politically she is detestablc
power, and we hope that France and
Sardinia will drive her barbarous le-
gions beyond the Isonzo, for they
have no right to settle down in the
bosom Of Italy like collection of
armed and organized nightmares ;;
but Justice should be done to all. and
it is but justice to say that she has
created a great commerce, and that
under her rule has revived the COM
mercial glories of the Adriatic.
French commerce has been seriously
injured by this advance of Austria.
Trieste is undoing Marscilles. Let
war break out, and the immense navy
of France would annihilate this Aus
trian trade, and commerce would re-
vert to its old course. Thus we see
that France has a double motive for
seeking war with Austria, and that
by removing her rule from Italy she
would gain both politically and COM
mercially, decreasing her rivals pow
er, and increasing her own.
The Statesman newspaper Demo
cratic) "owned and edited by Will
hanson & Tomlinson," at Des Moines,
has ceased to eXist-reason, want of
patronage. Williamson is a man of
property, but of course did not wish
to squandcr his money in an unprofit-
able enterprise. Tomlinson is a sharp,
industrious and energetic editor, but
Democratic politics in Iowa don't pay,
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