The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1859-05-18
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WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY Is, 1885,
THE EUROPEAN WARTS CAUSE.

exists in Europe. The powers engaged
on the one hand are France, Russia her
ally, and Sardinia, with Austria ON the
other. The easus 5eM is simply stated
thus:
In the year 1914, on the overthrow Of
the elder Napoleon, large portion of the
northern part of Italy, known as Lom-
bardy-now divided into two govern
ments, Venice on the East, and Milan on
the West-was secured 10 Austria by
treaty, and confirmed in 1915, after his
exile to St. Helena. This territory COM
prises an area of $4,000 square miles,
and has population of 100000. The
,Austrians and Italians have never been
able to live in amity. III feeling, hatred,
envy and jealousy have prevailed tosuch
an extent as not only to produce mech
trouble and commotion in this Austria
Lombardian territory, but great uneasi-
ness To the Austrian Government itself.
Hence to prevent frequent instructions
and outbreakings Of hostile demonstra-
tons that Government has been long COM
PEELED TO keep large military force sta
toned at different parts throughout Lom-
hardy to overawe and keep in check the
excitable Italians-and these soldiers are
most cordially hated by the primitive in
habitants of the country. On the other
hand, the Austrian soldiers, from the gen.
eral to the private, perpetually indulge in
the most vexatious tyranny whenever
they have an opportunity to exercise it.
In this they are encouraged by their SUI
periors. They uphold with their bayo-
nets the dreadful system of espionage,
secret, false imprisonment, torture and
death. Against this hard Austrian rule
the Lombards have long chafed, and fire.
quent conspiracies have been the result,
but no decisive blow ever struck for liber-
ty. Those who have been the leaders in
the attempts to throw off the shackles Of
cruel misrule, have been betrayed by spies,
seized, thrown into the most dismal Aus
trian dungeons, led to Che scaffold or driy-
en- into exile. Thus matters continued
l from bad 10 worse till ssssI'>o great
year Of European revolution, during which
Louis Philip, heruling mouarch Of France,
fed TO England, and Louis Napoleon
] crawled forth from his obscurity to as
sumo the Presidency of that vast Empire.
Successful revolts took place in Sicily,
Naples, Tuscany, Parma and Rome. Al
that time the Austrian provinces in Lom-
hardy loudly demanded reforms which
Prince Metternich refused. Thereupon,
Charles Albert, then king of Sardinia,
dispatched an army Of succor into Venice
but overcome at length by the Austrians
under Radetsky, he was forced in ls49
TO abdicate and resign his throne in favor
Of his eldest son, the present Victor En-
manuel, king of Sardinia. Thus the hope
of uniting Lombardy with Sardinia was,
for time at least, abandoned. On the
breaking out of the Crimean war Victor
Emmanuel united with the allies against
Russia, and rendered them good service
in the many well fought and Closely con-
tested battles of that sanguinary war,
and thereby emitting her to assume the
rank and dignity Of second power of
Europe. Ever since that time France
and Sardinia have been constantly ce-
menting closer and stronger the ties of
concord and friendship.
At the commencement Of tho present
year, Louis Napoleon notified Austria in
unmistakble terms of his dissatisfaction
with her hard rule in Lombardy; and, at
the same time, Sardinia gave notice of
her design to interfere against Austria, in
Lombardy-Austria in the mean time in
timating that her management of her
own provinces was none of their particu-
lar business and choosing to carry out her
own plan Of government.
The present peculiar position of these
powers may be thus illustrated: A big,
saucy, bull-headed boy at school takes ev-
cry opportunity to annoy little boy dis
posed to mind his own business; calls
him hard names; gives him occasionally
a sly kick or cuff; knocks off his cap
hits it kick after it is off; steals his din
ner; hides his dinner basket; tells now
and then a lie to the master TO get him
"licked." Little boy is forced to bear it
all, grievous as it may be, till al length an