The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1859-06-30
From the London News.
Louis Napoleon and Victor Bman-


From the London News.
Louis Napoleon and Victor Bman-
uel.
If for q moment We can survey the
great struggle in Italy with the calm
eyes Of a historian two centuries here
after, we may think the personal char
acter of the two sovereigns allied for
Italy to be worthy Of special study,
strikingly contrasted as they arc. A
strange pair Of hounds 20 hunt in leash
togetherl Louis Napoleon VIC better
know as dark and difficult to fathom,
unscrupulous and apparently without
conscience, but patient, cautious, dill
gent in detail, long-headed, slow to act,
but eminently enorgetioand unshrink-
ing when the time Of action comes, and
resolved to go through with the work
he undertakes. tt has Of late become
known in certain circles that in the
Russian war he distinctly proposed to
the English Ministry TO restore Poland
as a barrier against Russia. The ad-
vice was rejected. A pamphlet, noto-
riously from Prince Napoleon, ia favor
of restoring Poland, was published, to
feel tho pulse of England but when II
was cOldly received here, the scheme
was of necessity abandoned. 1t is
matter Of public history that when NJ
Drouyn do lHuys quailcd at Vienna,
the French Emperor dismissed his Min.
ister insisted on perseverance until Sc.
vastopol should fall, and confirmed our
wavering Cabinet. When such was his
obstinacy against the solid empire of
Russia, whose throne rests on the at.
taohment of nearly 50,OOO,O0O peasants
that speak one language, he is not likely
to vaCilliate when matched against the
rotten dynasty of Austria, which cannot
claim as loyal subjects One-ffth, per.
haps not one-tonth, part Of the million;
whom it CrUshes--men of many tongues
bitterly remembering the institutions
Of which they and their fathers have
been troacherously despoiled.
At the side of Louis Napoleon stands
Victor Emanuel, having all the quail.
ties which the other has not. Frank
and open-hoarted, generous and winn.
] AAR1 DOlA W gOugllldIG ulGu uuGCblOI
and trust, his faithfulnoss has been tried
! by his subjects at most a critical mo
ment. In the reaction of 1849-5O he
might have easily re-established a des
potic rule, as did nearly all the other
princes. Scarcely in Prussia could any
real cOnstitutiOnalism be maintained
The Austrian forces occupied even Ham
burg. But Victor Emanuel flinohed
not for one hour, and he reaps the har.
vest in his peoples love and trust. He
is known to be as brave as a lion, hav.
ing certain physical Joy in danger
What is better, he is stalking his crown
for the deliverance Of Italy, and is
thoroughly believed to be in earnest
when he says che will gladly lose it if
that end be achieved"
Such is the monarch into whose hands
Piedmont has confded all her liberties
during the crisis of invasion-a mag
unanimous proceeding highly conducive
to safety and victory. A King Of such
a temperament might be too rash; but
he is balanced by Napoleon's patient
sagacity. Napoleon III. might be tempt
ed to some new treaohery, but Victor
Emanuel will take no part in it; and the
great army of Italy which will soon be
formed, devoted to the Sandman alli-
ance, will secure that Napoleon shall not
be tempted by too great facilities.