Delaware inquirer. (Wilmington, Del.) 1859-18??, 1859-07-23

incarnation intangible power. But in one
drifted away. He had been learning for many
hours the incapacity of matter to contend with
mind. His artillery, out shot by more per-
feet aim, had proved little better than an in
cumbrance in the battle his impregnable
position upon that high hill, had after despe-
rate resistance, been taken at rush by a
more active a more intelligent, and more
enterprising soldiery; his infantry although
numerically superior in the field. had always
been "too few on the decisive point and at
the decisive minute" While lie looked from
the Tower Of Cavriana this massive organiza-
ton was being dissolved before him, this
long -prepared system of physical force had
broken at its first test, and in vexation or in
sorrow the Emperor of Austria wept.
The result of this defeat must be far greater
than the loss OF field of battle and strategic
line, or even of the variously stated killed
and wounded who cumber the hospitals and
moulder under the surface of the plain. Des-
potism can exist only under the condition of
victory. The corps of Louis the Great was
hooted on its way to sepulture, and Napoleon
the Great looked around in vain for some
hopeful friends to counsel further resistance
before he signed his final abdication. In the
army of Austria and among the people of Aus
tria, ii We are rightly informed, all is now ir-
ritaton, rising rapidly to dsaffection. The
soldiery are still as confident as ever in them
selves, but they have no longer any confidence
in their leaders. 1t was under the fear of i'm
pending mutiny that Gyulai was removed
from his command. For the first time, the
general voice in city and camp dares to accuse
the aristocracy as the cause of the great ma
tional disgrace, and to inveigh loudly against
the exclusive character of the disposition Of
military rank. The soldiery, whether Aus
TRANS, Hungarians or Croats, true to their
military esprite de corps, demand to be led
back again to battle, but by leaders who are
able to command them. They refuse TO ad-
nit the supposition that they are inferior to
the French as soldiers Ihey are eSasperated
and not cowed' ana their eSasperationi even
greater against the system by winch they
have been sacrificed than against the enemy
by whom they have defeated. They insist
upon fighting and, in the face OF the general
excitement, it will be impossible for the En-
peror, either for strategic or for political pur-
poses, to shrink from repeating once and again
the experiment so disastrously made at Solfe-
rino. But, if we may trust the reports OF
those who have most recently mixed with all
classes of the soldiery, it is no longer with the
hope or the care to save ltaly TO the austrian
empire, or to give elect to the Old Imperial
policy that other battles are demanded, put
SIMPLY Win the desire TO retrieve the hohor
OF the army, to recover TO themselves their
own self-respect, and to prove to the world
that as soldiers they are not inferior to the
French. The country to great extent shares
this sentiment. The hope is now, as in 1914,
that after having defeated the foreign enemy
they may make peace with honor, and may
then turn around ana arrange their own af-
fairs at home. The Government which was
tolerated in its prosperity, and only by reason
Of its prosperity, has become contemplate
Immediately it has proved itself to be weak (;
and all its subjects have discovered that it has
! no moral qualities to preserve it from general
detestation. Now, for the first time, the En-
peror hears the truth from his people; and
while the Pigment of his military power is be-
J ing rudely exposed by the French, the popu-
lar voice cries aloud: !" II is for this impotent
imposture that the people have been sacrificed,
and that the nation has been reduced to bank
ruptcy"
II is difficult to predict how far this very
reasonable dissatisfaction of the armed and
unarmed subjects of the Austrian Empire may
carry them. It is an exaggeration, and per-
haps scarcely an exaggeration, of the general
sentiment which pervaded the English nation,
when the Crimean campaign made manifest
the nepotism and imbecility of the aristocratic
chiefs of our own military force. In our sys-
tenn this is the only department which is
bomogeneous with despotic form of govern
ment. and which is not responsible to the
uousa Of Commons. If in those DAYS the
ENGLISH Constitution was upon its trial. in
tbis fraoment Of absolute power. despotic in
st;tut;ons were also upon their trial. Now
ou;at times are for a moment returned those
Who are most ;nterested in the preservation
of an of.ct;ve national force are allowed to re-
LANCE into their old somnolence and long tried
ohst;nacv. After all that has been said and