New-York daily tribune., 1859-06-06
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
MADAME MARIO AND THE WAR.
The n. y. Tribune.

vzge TGio, Of The n. y. Tribune.
SIN: In your article on the Objects of ne Var you
.sv "Tbe ultimate aim Of the European war the
" part Of France and Russia, the two great Powers
whose policy has brought Il on. is very probably the
possession Of the left tank Of the Rhine for the one,
Z" and Of the Bosphcrus for the other" This view
has been taken from the first by the Italian Repub-
lean party, and by many Of the most advanced En-
gish liberals aud the fear Of seeing Europe divided
between two despots-not las has been noJus'ly as
,erted the fear of seeing Italy united under monar
ohical instead of Republican form Of Government mas
induced Italian Republicans to protest against war
initiated under the auspices Man o tue second Oh
December. backed by the Autocrat of Russia. In my
first lecture in Washington in February last said:
"U i. not mere passing fancy that leads
Jouis Napoeon thus TO disturb the peace
OF Europe; be is merely commencing the execu-
tiop Of plans laid long sibce, tO tear up the
treaties OF Vienna and to averge Waterloo, not as he
would have il believed in order to upraise the nation
ales which those treaties crushed ont, but In the
hopes Of recastiug Europe in the NapOleonic mold.
The probable war in the coming Spnsg Is but the
second act in the Imperial drama; the first was played
out in the Crmea, where he hunbled, or feigned to
humble Russia; say f-gned, -ince he never
ceeded in causing Russia 10 reimburse the expenses of
the war The taking Of Maakof by the lid Napo-
leon correspcnded 10 the Austertz of the Ist. After
Austerlitz the interview between Alexander i. and
Napoleon J. at lilst when they agreed 10 divide Eu
rope between them; after Malakoff the interview be-
tween Alexander III. and Napoleon ILL.,, when the same
compact was made. England defeated the designs Of
the first Nspoleor-the peoples Of Europe, allied d
recty indirectly with England. viii defeat the de-
signs Of the second.
''The attack on Austria in her Italian dOminions,
founded the treaties Of Vienna, will be the next step
undertaken, and in this the French Emperor has two
powerful allies. On the one hand, the King of Sar-
dniarepresenng in virtue Of a constitution and the
Italian flag unfurled large portion Of the Italian ma
tioDw rush 70 attack Austria; Sardinia, in the hope
Of enarging her dOmuOns; the Italians in the hope Of
obtaining their independence; delusive hope, since
the man Of the 2d of Dec, bcr merely aims at estsb
fishing Murat French PrO-CODsn in Southern Italy,
aud Plon Pon French Pro-COnsul IN Northern Italy
thus realizing one Of the ideas Of "My Uncle in
making the Mediterranean "a French lake" On
the other hand Russia will gladly second Napoleon in
bis plans for huHiliatBg Austria both because the
Gar pants TO ayenge Austria desertin 10 the Cnmes
in return for the service rendered by h father In ay
ing Hungary PROSTATE and bleeding at her feet IN Si9
aso because Austria is the ch ef obstacle to Russias
ambitious designs in the East. - -
"The third oct in the Imperial drama will be, should
he succeed in the second, the avengiDg OF Water
loo Like drawn sworn in the face Of England, he
has unsheathed the fortress Of Cherbourg, that monu
ment of the hate Of despDtic France against Albion
proud and free The France Of the people has had no
hand in it's erection; neither the France Of 1889
the France of 1913. Commenced by Louis XIV, con-
trued by Napoleon J., it completed by Napoleon
Ill But not daring to strike her in her island home,
which her island mastfis guard, the attack on En-
gland will be made in the East; for at 1ilsit was
agreed that the materials for the foundation of the
Europe Of the two Czsrs should be taken from the
ruins Of the Turkish Empire. EDglGnd-compeled to
keep half her feet in the Channel in order to protect
the British coast from the menace OF Cherbourg;
Austria annihlated or enfeebled-what shall prevent
Russa from possessing herself of the Bosphorus and
France Of Egypt and Of Syria And this done-the
dominion of Russia thus extended from Varsovia TO
COnstantinople that OF Napoleon from the mouth of
the Rhine to Siclyit is easy TO Imagine the fate of
Central Europe crushed between these huge walls OF
deepOtism. France, in poss essOn of Syria aud Egypt,
by cutting through the lstbmus Of Suez arrive at
the British Possessions in India in 81 days. Is il not
therefore, alike the interest Of the people Of Europe
and Of the British nation to defeat the designs of the
two Czars :"
This is the opinion shared more less by all those
lovers Of Italy who, while painting to take up arms
against Austria yet feel that change of tyrauts
would be as humiliatng prejudicial, and that TO
hope for Italian liberty from the murderer of the Ro.
man Republic is grave error, to say the least. As
yet nothing has transpred to afford them the slightest
ground for change Of opinion though nothing would
afford them greater joy than to iud themselves mis-
taken. am Sir, respectfully yours, .,.,,,
NeV- York. May II, 1859.