The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-11-03

ct prompt understanding On this matter, nave
Cooke put on trial before district Judge OF
the United States, and process issued to compel
the attendance Of all persons In this section OF
the country whose names have been associated
with the traitorous and murderous acts Of Os-
sawatomie Brown. We will then know to what
extent Seward, Sumner, Smith, Lawrence,
Greeley & Co., were aiders and abettors in this
vHlanous conspiracy. Hurry up the indict-
ments.
THE ZURICH TREATY-NEr RESULTS or THE
ITALIAN CAMpAIaN.-Th ratification Of the VIII
lafranca armistice by the treaty Of peace which
has just been signed at Zurich has again fur
nished occasion to the journals hostile to the
French Emperor to quarrel with the general
results Of the italian campaign. Because the
treaty embodies no fresh stipulations guaran-
teeing the independence Of the duchies, 1t is
pretended that Napoleon has done but little
in fact, next to nothing-for Italy. The very
absence Of any new clauses in the treaty Is, In
our opinion, proof of the sincerity and good
faith of the Emperor. Were he really intent
upon the restoration Of the HapsburgL Lorraine
dynasties, there Is no question but that the ra-
tifcation of the peace arrangements would have
contained some proviso, positive or contingent,
ton Of his views on this branch Of the italian
question Is to be found in the satisfaction ex-
pressed by the Parma and Modena delegations
at the result Of their recent interviews with
him. That fact, taken in conjunction with the
omission from the treaty Of oil mention Of the
exiled dukes, entities the world to conclude
that the Emperor has accepted the p1ebiscitura
of the States of Central Italy as total bar to
their restoration, and that he leaves to gene
raj Congress the task of ratifying or rejecting
the disposition which these States have made
Of themselves in connection with Sardinia.
How, in the face of these facts, it can be
argued that Napoleon has done but little for
tho future Of Italy, it is beyond our power to
understand. II is true that the Italians have
materially helped their own cause; but who
placed them in position to do so with
guarantee against failures If France had not
first broken the power OF Austria and driven
her armies out Of Lombardy, where would the
question Of Italian independence be now?
Italy would, perhaps, ct the present moment
be laboring In the throes Of another unsuccess-
full revolution, provoked by wild Missionaries
like Mazzini, to be again thrown back into q
state Of abject slavery and degradation. By
the aid Of France alone could the Italians
achieve their liberties, for no other Power held
the key to the difficulties which interposed be-
tween them and independence. That it
was Napoleon's intention to drive the Austrians,
to man, out Of Italy, there is no reasonable
ground for doubt. He was prevented from
doing 50 only by the action Of Prussia and the
certainty Of league being formed against him
in Germany. Now that these dangers are re-
moved and that the feeling Of the German popu-
lationsis drifting into an opposite current, he
will leave the Italian people the fullest latitude
to carry out themselves the programme Of his
Italian campaign.
Doubts are expressed as to the willingness
Of Austria to 60 into congress on the ques-
ton Of the future settlement of Italy. We en-
terrain none whatever on the subject, for the
position Of that Power is becoming SO critical
that she dare not return to her former state of
isolation, vis-a-vis Of the other European gov
ernments. Matters are In fact assuming so
threatening an aspect in Germany in regard to
her, that if she were again to attempt to offer
any violence to public opinion In Europe she
could not count upon being sustained
by single member Of the Confede-
ration The prosecutions which she Is
secretly instgating the smaller governments to
undertake against those who took part in the
recent great national movement are arousing
such spirit Of indignation and resentment
against her that It requires but another act Of
overt political imprudence on her part to call
into existence league having for it's object
the total extinction Of Austrian influence In
Germany. Austria never has been regarded
as German Power, strictly speaking, and the
selfshncss that she has manifested in compro-
missing German interests for the advancement
Of her own particular views has turned against |
her almost every man who sided with her in
her struggles for federal ascendancy against |
Prussia. II would be singular, but not at all
an unnatural revolution, in the present state of
political feeling in Germany, if Louis Napo- |
leon were to be called In to do for the German
liberals what he has done for the Italians
namely, to free them from the busy informed |
ding and intolerable despotism Of Austria.
TIE REGBrRAT1oN OF Worms, under the new
law which our black republican cotempora-
ries invented, and about which they have been
so severely exercised, was completed yester-
day, and the exact result will probably be made
known in day or two. Considering that the |
process was entirely new, both to the regis