Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-07-30

feet upon the senses OF the world, before peace
Il concluded and the political divisions Of the
world are changed Austria is driven out oI
Lombardy and is Aumbled and cedes that ter
ritory 20 the couqueror, who 10 turn, turns it
over TO Sardinia, while Austria retains Venice.
An italian coniederacy with the Pope as hon
orary President, completes all that is trans
pired Of the basis Of this peace. Whatever
may be said Of Napoleon's heartlessness and un-
scrupulous ambition, none will deny to him
force, design and iutrepidity.
How Napoleon is to make it with Kossuth
whose aspirations he has raised, is not stated
The transition from high hopes Of relief TO his
oppressed countrymen, to the tame and monot-
onous existence Of an English Asylum, will not
tend much to exhalt bis confidence in princes.
Mr.. Raymond Of the New York Times, writ
ing from Brescia, Italy, before the armistice
was proclaimed, throws some light on the prob
able motives that influenced Napoleon, and al
80 indicates the manner in which the aunouuc-
cd conditions of peace will strike tho Italians
"When the emperor undertook to liber.
ate Italy from Austria, he was led to be-
lieve that the Italians would sacrifice all
idea of republic to the one great neces-
sty Of independence. And in this he was
not deceived at least three fourthS of the
republicans have taken part in this war
I. O., have given to il either their moral or
material aid the remaining fourth, who
could not conquer their aversion TO the
murdeTers of Rome, respecting the will of
the nation, have kept digni6ed silence,
and ere waiting until the Italians have
lived through their delusion,' as they term
it--until the time shall come for a purely
national flag to be once more unfurled. =
Bot ready as the Italians we're to sacrifice
pet form Of government and to defer the
acquisition of liberty to become indepen-
dent, their resolve to obtain national uni
ty, republican or monarchical, has never
decreased. The actual sufferings of the
inhabitants of the Roman States and of
the kingdom of the two Siciles is scarcely
inferior to that of Austrian subjects and
If either of these had been the first to de-
clare for Victor Emanuel, no one would
have given them credit for any greater vir-
tue than that of a very natural desire to
better their condition. But Tuscany, mild
ly governed Tuscany, was the 6rst to de-
clare Victor Emanual king of Ttaly--to
tender her adhesion to him as SUCH Now,
as pwrote you long ago, and as I still
maintain, Tuscany was appropriated to
Plon Plon, and his imperial cousin was but
too glad to dispose of SO troublesome
customer. Plon Plon was sent to Tusca-
ny--he was received with reclamation,
praises Of the msgnanimous emperor min
gled with the greetings nevertheless Tus-
cany gave him unmistakable signs of
pure resolve to belong to Fictor Emanuel,
King of Italy, and to no one else.
''The Emperor had hoped that the graf
itude of the Tuscans would prompt them
TO proclaim Plon Plon king, and that be
should be able to say to Europe, he reigns
by the viii Of the Tuscans !; be finds in
stead that nothing short Of brute force will
. induce the Tuscans to change their resoiu-
tion consequently Plon Plon is told to
change his tone-tO scout the idea Of accept
iag Tuscany, and after three months parad-
ing from Dan to Beersheba, and back a.
gain, be appears at Parma with the fifth
corps of the French army, furious at hav-
ing been played with in this way, and the.
Tuscans under Ulloa anxious beyond mea-
sure to renew their feats Of Curtatone and
Montanaro. Now, it is possible that the
emperor might look over this little derange.
ment of bis plans, considering it easy to
find another throne for PIon Plon; but an-
other and still more serious troublearses in
the legations. The moment the Austrians
are compelled to retired .the inhabitants of
the papal states, whom brute force alone has
prevented from dethrohing the pope every
day since lS4S, will throw off the hated
yoke and proclaim Re Victor king. What
from Milan to organize themselves in a mil
itary way, to rally round the kings stand
ard, and follow him on the path to honor,
promising not to offer any impedient to
the expression Of their legitimate wishes.
They have done So Perhaps he meant
only to speak to the Lombards ? Then he
shoald have said so clearly.
He cannot now send troops to crush
the Italians for their prompt obedience to
his call and on the other hand he has
guaranteed the temporal dominions of the
church to the pope-so be cannot help bis
subjects to rebel He is between two di-
lemmas. On the other hand the French
clergy win do their utmost to rouse an in-
surrection in France if the pope be assail-
cd With even the indirect consent of the
emperor ON the other the massacres at
Perugia have set not only the inhabitants
OF the papal states frantic but all the Ital.
ians As long as they will believe that the
emperor will (if be does not help) consent
20 their taking vengeance for these infa-
mics, they are still his ardent admirers
bat already bis silence has shocked them.
Calming words from Guyon are no longer
suiicient for the Romans. And depend
On II, when the last Austrian is with
drawn from Comacchio and Parma, they
will take matters into their own hands. The
emperor knows this. He knows that Vic
Tor Enamel is profoundly gFisVsd at the
existing state of things that be does not
zee, and cannot be made to see why be
should not be king Of Italy, sines the Ital-
ials wish it. What Is to be done That
IS the question.
II repeat that / am not one OF tbe In
itlated bal the impression is stroag here
that he Is wavering as to whether, after
all he would drive the Austrians clean oBt
80 ~ n = 4 q 4