The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-05-20
THE DISPATCH.



yarpAy MORNING, ....-~-..MAY =. Is's
Kessuth, Masxsns - Co
Il Is evident that Koesuth, Mazzini & 20.
s,elcne to a class who are ''soldiers IN peace
and citizens in war" For years the air
has been vocal with their cries to arms, nut
s;uce the clouds of battle have gathered on
The horizon. not whisper has fallen from
THAR pusnacious lips, save some incoheren'
rawlings of Mazaini, about giving freedom
to the slaves in the United States. Gallant
italian volunteers are nurrying, with breath
less speed, from all quarters, to the banners
of Sardinia, but Mazzini, plotter, at safe
distance, of instructions in Italy, is not
heard Of in th is open, heroic and hopeful
struggle for Italian independence. The
owl is hiding himself in his congenial dark
ness, and will not be seen or heard OF among
the eagles, who are gathering for the battle
upon the Alps and the Tacino. Geribaldi,
a man of few words but of honest intentions,
has been in the field from the start, whilst
Mazzini turks in London, and writes hero
ically.
Kossuth, Ex-Governor of Hungary, is also
among the missing, at this important juno
,ure. He ought to be in Hungary, where
his adhesion to Napoleon would aid the
cause of both Hungary and Italy. When
the Magyar was in the United States, says
the New York Herald, he advocated the
cause of italian independence, as intimately
connected with Hungarian freedom. IA
war of France" said Kossuth against
whomsoeyer or for whatsoever purpose, is
the best possible chance for the success of
European revolution" ''You will proba-
bly &c Louis Napoleon brought to the ne
ccesi4y Of an offensive war against Austria.
They cannot both stand on the soil of Italy;
and whoever be ruler of France, he may
abandon Italy to herself. but never can
abandon her to Austria zone third Of
the Austrian army which occupies Italy are
Hungarians, who have fought against and
triumphed over the yellow-black flag OF
Austria, under the same tri-color, which
wearing of the same tri-color for both coun-
tries shows automatically that Hungary
and Italy are but two wings of the same ar
my united against common enemy. y
+itaiy is barrel of powder, which the
slightest spark can light, and Italy is the
left wing of the army of liberty, Of which
Hungary is the right" But where is Kos
suth?
There is no,doubt that the Hungarian de-
lection at this time would be a fatal blow
at the pnwer Of Austria. An intelligent
Italian correspondent Of the London Ex-
aminer expresses the opinion that it will re-
quire little short of miraculous effort to
wrest from the Austrians the Lombardo-
Fenitian kingdom by mere force of arms.
France and Sardinia united" says he,
''are not, speaking in military sense, more
than a match for Austria alone, and were
they to obtain too great and sudden an ad-
vantage over Austria, they infallably would
have to measure their forces against the
whole might of Prussia and Germany. To
what extent Prussia and Germany may be
kept in check by the attitude of Russia,
and how far Austria herself may be par
alysed by discomfort, or even aunihilated
by disorganization in her Hungarian and
other eastern provinces, it is not easy to de-
termine. The strength of her military pc.
sition depends ON the certainty of her pc.
iitical situation. Were her Hungarian bat.
taiions at Verona and Mantua to play false
she war might be at an end before even the
expiration of those three days allowed Sar-
DINA to digest the Vienna utimatum."-
Here, then, is the golden opportunity for
Hungary and for Retribution. Now is the
time for Kossuth to make good the fine
words uttered in the United States by brave
deeas. Now is the time to place in the hands
of the Hungarian volunteers the forty thou.
sand old muskcts he bought of George Law,
and to mount his hussars upon the admi-
rable saddles which he purchased in Cincin-
natl. If Kossdth will now approach the
Hungarian powder magazine: and set fire
30 the train, he will blow the house o.
Hapsturgh sky high, and both Italy and
Hungary will be redeemed, regenerated
and diseathraled."
For ten years Kossuth, Mazzini Il Co.,
have been endeavoring to vivify European
liberty by the aid of rhetorical gas, but il
has been q complete waste of breath and
words. They have not blown of the small
est crown upon the Continent, nor caused
even the ear rings of the most nervous old
woman TO vibrate with apprehension. A
fine figure of speech will not overthrow a
fortress, nor the grandest Grafton anDihilate
heavy battalion. The truth it, it is the
rarest Of prodigies to find an elegant de-
claimer and great soldier combined in the
same person. The man of speech and the
man of action do not often 60 together
We recollect, in the last Irish attempt at
Revolution, that the most discouraging cir
cumstance at the time connected with it, was
the highfatutin speeches of the leaders. 1t
was cleaz as a pikestaf, that men who talk
ed SO prettily, and whose periods were SO
deliberately and gracefully rounded, had
been well trained in the schools of the rhe-
torician, but that their military education
had been possibly neglected. "Don't fire,
boys, till yoa see the whites of their eyes,"
was the sort of eloquence that prevailed in
the American Revolution, and which spoke
plain and honest purpose. I'VE must
fight, repeat ii, sir, we must fight" ex-
claimed Patrick Henry, on the eve of the
great war that gave independence to this
country. But for ten years kossuth has
been talking great swelling words of vanity
and self-exallatiop, and all Europe has re-
manned unmoved, until the man of action,
Louis Napoleon, who could not make an
oratorical display to save his life, has ap-
peared upon the scene, and, at the head of
SIX hundred thousand French bayonets, ut
led these few Yords, of such profound
import to every throne in Europe: "When
france draws the sword, it is not to domi-
nate, but to liberate."
Italy and the Italians.