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

when 10 come on the stage, and when 10
leave IL. The sovereigne appeared, and the
people came In and took their places, with.
out the slightest noise or confusion. ina.
fierce thirst for vengeance, that yenemen'
Italian passion, that violent revolutionary
enthusiasm, which We were taugnt 70
licve would desolate Italy, as vesavas ue-
solates the country within reach OF ''s ia'a,
the moment the wholesome restraint o'
Austrian tyranny was Withdrawn, IL e1-
list at all, certainly did not make It's appear
ance. The conduct OF the Italians on each
| Of these occasions, was the conduct OF calm,
resolute, passionless men, who knew their
rights and the cost of maintaining them,
but who, oppressed as they had been, yet
scorned to revenge injury, when the enemy
| was no longer able to resist. 1t approach
es indeed, nearer to the scenes OF our revo-
luton in its incipient stages, than any
thing we read of in the revolutionary por-
ton Of European history. We profess to
he neither statesmen, nor historical philoso-
piers. But II men, who upon the oc-
casion Of such q triumph are capable OF
preserving their equinimity to such re-
markable extent, are not capable OF attend-
ing to their own affairs, then history is not
philosophy ,eachingly example, and all its
lessons are mere vanity and vexation of
spirit.
Some OF the examples to which we have
alluded, are too remarkable to pass without
notice. At Florence, the people assembled in
the grand Piazza, tsquare) mingled with the
soldiers of the Grand Duke, sung patriotic
songs, and rejoiced with exceeding JOY
They took peaceable possession of the for
tresses of San Giorgio and San Giovanni,
(St. George and ST. John, built to curb
their petulance, because the troops OF the
Grand Duke were all on their side. In i'm
mense crowds, they then issued forth into
| the streets, surrounded the palaces OF the
| French and Sandman Ministers, received
addresses from these functionaries, and the
revolution was completed, fop everybody
was on the same side. The Grand Duke
abdicated, and left Florence, nobody offer
| ing to modest him, or even to insult him, by
word or gesture. In Parma, the scene was
| still more striking. The populace assem-
| bled before the Palace of the Duchess, the
officers of her army went in, and requested
leave to join the army of Piedmont. She
instantly resigned, and everything was set
tied without the least difficulty or blood
shed. All this proves how hateful the Aus
TRAN domination was to the Italian people,
and how villainous was the policy which
subjected Italy to it.
The London Times, arguing from the ex-
treme facility with which the Italians threw
off the chains forced upon them by Aus
tria, comes to the conclusion that there was
no cause for Napoleon Ill TO interfere. We
arrive, from the same premises, at a conclu-
sion directly the reverse. The moyemen,
would never have been made, but for the
hostile attitude of France and Sardinia
Austria would still have stood ready to pour
her Myrmidons into the independent States
whenever they attempted to reform their
Governments, and Italy would have obtain.
ed no relief from those congresses, which, in
certain quarters, are recommended as a
panacea for all ills, bat which have never ye1
| cured any.