The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-11-14
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,ual,y. He has written a letter to the King
Of sardinia in which he urges him 10 carry
ou, the treaty of villa Franco in oil Its par.
ticuIars lie .spteioiiy dsnonds, In the name
of rranee-he himself being France just at
this tme--that the Duke be recalled 10 Mode
ma. that Parma Ne united to Piedmont, and
that Tuscany b restored to the Grand Duke UNA
an augmentation IF terri,ory. Instead, there
fore, of being liberated from their tyran's ana
oppressors, the unhappy Tnscans are 20 see
an additional number of Italians placed I'M
der h!s dominion. The only consolation they
can expect, 10 that they have more eohPan-
ions In Addiction than they had previously
bsrSained for Twice expelled by popuia-
ton who to \ man on both occasions, rose up
assinst his intoierabic tyranny, the Grand
nuke returns mere powerful, more hated,
and more dreaded than ever. with long list
of wrongs 10 revenge, and a huge catalogue
Of enemies TO punish. This is the reward
which the Tuscans and the Modenese are to
receive for revolving in time TO prevent the
Ausirians from using their countries rs po-
sition, from which to annoy the French army
on its flank, while it was marching to the Po
This Is the way In which NAPOLEON Ill
thinks it just, and honorable, and consistent
with his faith, not merely as a sovereign, but
as a man, TO reQuits Tuscany and Modena for
their eredulity, in trusting him, when he
called upon all Italians, from Milan, where
he had just made his entry rs victor in
great pitched battle, to arm in defence OF
Italian independence. This Is the solution
OF the difficulty which he created when
no declared that Italy must be Free
from the Alps to the Adriatic. This il
the way in which he keeps his word 10 the
Young men Of the Duchies, who swarmed by
thousands to the national standard, in obedi-
ence 70 his Imperial requistion. History Will
have but one opinion to express with regard to
all The acts Of NAPOLEON III. in connection
with Italy. They present q tissue of treach-
cries such a. were never practieed by any
monarch of modern Europe. The treaty of
Villa Franco and it. consequents, are with
out more than one parallel, even in the history
Of Rome. when Rome had begun TO enter the
dark days of her existence, and that is the
Convention between ANTONY, OCTAyIUs, and
IErIpUs for the division of the EN- pre, when
each agreed to give up TO the vengeance OF the
other 4 certain number of obnoxious individ-
uals NAPOLEON III. is more generous than
either of the triumvirs. OoTAvIUs, il is true
gave up CICERO and the world has held the
deed in execration ever since, more from the
illus,rious character of the victim than the
odious nature of the crime. He received in
return others whom he might murder or tor
tnre at his will. The bounty Of NAPoLE BON
III is more free and imperial. He surrenders
| the Tuscans and the Modenese to the tender
| mercies of their tyrants without e1acting a
victim in return. The only thing in the shape
| Of condition for their mild treatment which
We can observe, is promise on the part OF
| Austria tina. there shall be reforms. And
dou tless there Will be after the Austrian
fashion. We all know the Austrian ideas OF
reform and the means Of effecting it. Her no
tion is very primitive She thinks relorma-
| ton means more AFFECT submission to tyran-
ny. She employs grenadiers to strip and
| scourge women by way of reforming them
| into obedient subjects, and Generals in the
army 10 superintend the operation. For re-
| forming men, she ha. many expedients, the
musket and the rack being the most promi-
mont and most effectual among them. She, we
| presume, is to superintend these reformations,
| and doubtless they will be sufficiently
| thorough.
| 1t has been said that the best likenesses of
| individuals are always to he found in carrica-
| lures. 1t is upon this principle, we suppose,
| that the most accurate delineations of the pre-
| sent NAPoLEoN's character are TO be found in
| the Tory prints Of Great Britain and the least
| faIlible predictions with regard TO the policy
| he will pursue, whenever question in which
| his interest is involved arises. A writer in
| Bgack1cood's Eiaga iae foretold, in March last,
| everything that has happened with regard to
the course he would take in the Italian COM
| plication. The exactness with which he hit
| upon every point is marvellous. lie said he
| would engage in the war, invade Lombardy,
| gain a victory or two in conjunction with the
| Sardiuians, rouse all Italy 10 arm for freedom,
and then, in mid career halt, make treaty on
| his own account with Austria, leave her
| stronger than she ever had been in Italy be-
| fore and let his allies gel out of the scrape in
| til. best way they could, after he had gotten
| them into it. There is scarcely a truer pro-
! phecy upon record in Holy Writ, than this
| turned ont 10 be. Af'er the treaty of Villa
| Franca the admirer, of the Emperor, who had
been proclaiming all along that he wonld drive
the Austrians out of Italy, and leave it free,
from the Alps to the Adratic, found a vast
deal to admire in the new arrangement, as, in
deed, they would have admired anything he
did. These called upon the world
TO notice the tact with which he had
managed to throw into the hands of the TIA
iians the means of working out their own
redemption. The choice, they said, is now
left TO the Duchies, to take back their
| tyTants or not. France will not inter-
| iere, or allow Austria TO interfere
| The Italians will not take back the Dukes
md they will have things all their own way
NO such thing said this same stern prophet
If B!ackwood; "the Italians will have no
choice in the matter. If they refuse to recall
the Dukes, NAPOLEON III. will restore them
by force of arms" And so it is about to be-
We believe it was RoCHEFoUCAULT, or some
other cynic, who said the best way to estimate
a mans real character was to judge as harshEy
If him as possible. We hope, for the sake of
humanity. this is not true as general rule.
1t seems TO be strictly true with regard to Ma
PoLE0N III.
The Duke of Modena and the Grand Duke
Of Tuscany were banished for precisely the
same reason that the Bourbons were expelled
from France. Their tyranny was insupport-
tbe to the people whom they governed. The
restoration of these little tyrants by force
strikes at the very root of that popular SOW
areignty to which NAPOLEON Ill. owes his
throne. In restoring them he is doing pre-
ci.ely what the Allies did in 1874 and rs. Ifa
combination of all Europe should dethrone
aim hereafter, and seat the Duke of Bordeaux
in his place, he could have no right to COM
plain. 1t would be no more than return of
he cup. whose contents he has poisoned, to
his own lips. Perhaps, with all his cunning
hat doom may yet overtake him.
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vax delivered NV John Seldom. At the tour.