Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-09-20


10 attention.
Correspondents should write only upon one side Of paper
We cannot undertake to return risctel communications
KAUFMAN Coz and not personally IL either OF the fro'
49,
! Affairs SE Central ItaIy.
The New York Journal OF Commerce says, those
popular pro-~rtiA expressions, ''prOcrastinAiiOn is
the thief of Tine and delays are dangerous" do
not alEsys hold true. Ia great political and moral
revolutions, as che history of the word has shown,
TINE, much Tine Is need d, to bring things to mats
rity. Each nation pus: achieve its own political
aud civil education. This lsmsp Is much time. ia
the education Of the indisidu4l man, progress 10
slow and long years are required to work cut the
proper development Of character. There are peri
| DDS in youth and early manhood in which no ad-
vancement whatever seems to be n .de; indeed,
there sometimes appears be complete stand sill,
| II not reirogrsde movement. Then again, there
there is sudden spriug and a rapid sdvano4, IN
der propitous and i2ViIiDg circumstance Just so
| It is with nations. Sometimes they are stationary
as to all political life; sometimes they positively
trocede, owing TO unfavorable and influences.
But after time, they seem TO wake as from long
Sleep get on 10 their feet, and 60 forward with
amazing rspiIity. To illustrate these positions, we
I might cite eur own history. Certainly there was no
great progress in naosd! ls and dspsoPrgsat il orr
{ American colonies before the year 1865. Bat from
J lhst epoch to the year I790-a period Of only
quarter Of century, greater progress was made in
Cue study of the principles Of Government and Ju-
rsprudence Of tie duties sf ihs r9er and the rights
/ of the ruled, Than was made in al The proceeding
! one hundred and fifty eight years Of our colonial
| era And one OF the great causes Of cur success
was he fact that we had not Only the great guides
4, of the English evolution. -HAMPDEN, STDNlI AID
other iIlustri0us eadeIa-but also our own distin
quished. Eell-rained. aud safe statesmsl and wri-
| ters-our OrIs, ADAMS, LEE MADISON, JEFFERSON,
/ Henry, nAN1Lrov, WAsHNdrox, AMI others, whose
names ought never 10 b, spoken but with profound
respect.
Central Il ,y, aod especially Tuscany, which IS
not only tbe isFgest aud mo-t powerful, bu, by far
Inc raost advanced il her ciYzatoo, Of tte Duchcs
is at this tune continues the JoarHa! Of COmu1ee
psssins through just sgeh psTiod,-sOu!. stirring
and prolific of.a sd AID large advansemeutlia pOlt,
cal science and po,ii cal 0rGan;zlt;ou AID life. ~
mos every city and ceitaigly every State of ltsly.
has produced aathcrs Of merit who have discussed
questions in urispTGleDce, politics, political econ
omy, with eminent ability, Florence has been NEST
illustriouq in tbis respect daring the last three
! four centuries. che higher, Weather, and more
intelligent classes Of all ranks in Tuscany mugt be
well informed in all that relates TO ths theory Of gov
ernueut and civic administration. S0W is toe
time for them to reduce their knowledge practice
! This they ara certainly doing il way thai inspires
I hope IN The minds of Ialy's best friends.
! We may say, too, hat the conduct Of the peoTls
! Of Parma, M0dena and Rom lgua is full Of encour-
agsm.nt. 1t exceeds all that We had dared to hspe;
| for the people Of those Dlchiey have not been
thought to be as well advanced in general education
| and higher culture az the cOuntrymen Ct Dante,
Machiavelli, and Guicciardini. Still less sspgunc
were we in relation - Rymagua, and the Legations
in general.
Il is eminsntIy favorable TO the people of the
| Duchies and to RomsgDa, that the Conferences at
Zurich advanced slowly in the great work Of carry
ing int detail the sEtcl of the Treaty OF the EmPe
rOrs at Vi!lafraucs This delay will give time fOr
the people of the Duchies and Romagna to organ
| i7e something like a Confederation for defence
against both Austria and the Pope ns well as to de-
eide TO annex themselves to Sardinia. All this
they are doing, 10 a manner that il emineny cheer
ing to all the friends of Italy, both in the Old World
and in the New
But this delay-occasioned by the slow progress
Of the Congress at Zurich has its pe1ils too Whilst
it is important. indeed absolutely necessary, that
the people of Central Italy should have time to con-
aider calmly ard fully Whist they had better do and
| prepare to sain the conclusions to which they
may come it gives their enemies, the exiled Dukes
and the rejected Pope, backed by Austria, the or
portunity to work by secret emssares, and most Of
all by the priests aad monks, with The Jesuits as
co-adutorsl for the overthrow Of all the hopes OF
the people. by exciting dissensiens and divisions
among their ranks. The sooner. therefore, they
can complete their political organization AID con
solidsts and train very large military force, and
prepare to ght if fight they must, the better it will
be for them.
We hope il will not be necessary fOT them to
6ght, hat we are far from being sure that such q
misfortune does moi await hen. We are reluctant
to believe that Louis >;apclcou would alloy bis 90
900 troops in Italy to engage in the dishOuOraolc
work Of restoring toe self-ezilcd primes OF the
Duslies hut it is possible that he may not be will
ing 10 interfere prevent performing that
contemplate task. 10 that ease Sardinia would
certainly staud by Central Italy; and with the pes
tge of the Piedmont csc army fresh from the vietO-
ries Of the recent war, and with the desperation
whick wou'd be likely TO inspire the troops of the
Duchies and Bologns, and may add the LON
bard, we may readily belie7e that the Austraus
would meet with such reception IS would not be
agreeable to them. But a formidable attitude On
the part Of the people 90 Central Italy, if promptly
taken AID firmly maintained, may have all the happy
fscts, without TIE evils, Of sexual war.
This movement 10 Central Italy is greatly embar
raised by the scon Of the people of the Legations
We do not believe that the EmperOrs of France ant
Ausria would have any irsuperable o. jscts to tht
annexation Of Parma, Modena, snd Tuscany, T.
Sardiuia or to the formation Of them into an indie
peudent kingdom But what is to be done will
Homsgua win the EmPerOrs allow any part o
the States Of the Cbufch East of the Apeuniues
AID bordering on the Adfstio, tO,be taken from tn
= Popeo We do not believe It. They scarcely dar
TO do that. The Hierarchy of the Roman Csthol.
Church is, very powerful in both empires; and "
cannot think that either FRANCIS JosEPH or LOU
sNGpoEEos would be willing to encounter the stOrl
Of indignation which would arise in both, if the
were 10 dttob ever A1ioBha anu the Northern POI
lion of the little kingdom of the Pope 10 be tor
from the Head Of the Church, of which they al
the main supporters, as well as the most prOmi2in
sens!
Here, irst here, ia the rock on which fear thel
will be . dreadful shipwreck. what is TO be dOI
with Romsgua? The people Of that country n
s, willing to return under the yoke of the Pope.
Austria is allowed to compel them to do SO, will 81
net 20 farther and attempt to restore the fugiti
Ankes? There is bare possibility that the Ell
pef5fuf France may be able to persuade the POl
4 To- give sSlsa constitution and such free insttut
gsE tsshsvspple of all his kingdom, that the ROmag
sse ytllhe persuaded to submit. 1t may be, b
g WshEsss B. doubts As things now stand, we $
II, no othsr sotion Of the difficulty, and this is
trsnsly impfSessas. few days, or few Ssel
"A wln give Us lighAon this great question.