East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1859-09-29
ITALY AND FREEDOM.

The Villafranca treaty, on the face of
it, providing as it did for return of the
banished rulers of Parma, Modena and
Tuscany, had an ugly look for Italian
land; the treaty in its working seems to
establish the grandest results, even Italian
nationality, an Italian Confederation free
in the priceless right of self.direction.-
The war, to all human appearance, has
raised Italy to the dignity of a Power,
and those who have looked hopefully to
results in favor Of her liberty are not to
be disappointed. A wide area has been
wrenched from absolutism, and by the
same power, itself an absolutism, whose
never-to- be-forgotten aid enabled the Old
Thirteen American Colonies to triumph
over their powerful enemy.
1t cannot be denied that the sympa-
thies of our countrymen gushed forth
warm and unselfishly on the side of Italy;
and in this there was seen the same ten
dency that has been seen in former great
struggles in Europe Thus, little more
than century ago, 17590 Frederick
the Great of Prussia, was looked to as
.Lo ,ueheLon bulwarls of Freedom and
thought, and the liberties of Europe; and
his progress, from despair to victory, and
from victory to a glorious triumph, was
watched in Boston with intense interest.
Whoever will open the journals of CEN
fury ago will find this remark to be true;
and the people exulted in Frederick's
successes as though they were their own
successes. 1t was the same instructive
love of liberty that did this which led the
same order of minds to see way down
into the depths of Oliver Cromwell's pur-
poses and great heart, and Judge him to
be an assertor, in a rough way, of the
rights of man; and thus anticipate the
judgment that Carlyle and the best En-
glish minds arc now passing on the great
est statesman England ever produced
In the case of Frederick, as in the case
Of Cromwell, the republican judgment
pierced through forms to facts, and came
to right conclusion.
At this day perhaps as great an adj
vance has been made in political prog
ress in Europe in the case of Italy as was
made in Frederick's day; that is so far
as can be judged now from appearances.
Lombardy, as large as was Prussia in
the day of Frederick in the seven years
war, has over three Gllions of people;
and from State in which Austrian dcs-
potism suppressed freedom of the press
and indeed aimed to trample out consti-
tutional freedom, Lombardy has stepped
up to a higher degree of liberty; for only
in Sardinia of Italy can there be found
to-day any approach to the political liber-
ty seen in America. Things in Para
ma, Modena and Tuscany are in tran
sitive state and it is hard to say how they
will finally crystalline, though it is well
nigh certain that Austria is not to rule
them. Thus the result Of the last blood
shed in Europe is an advance of a popula-
ton as large as that of the old Thirteen
American Colonies to higher place of
political action, whence they can take
new point of departure for further prog
ress.
Thus our day is beholding events real
ly great in their character; destined to
stand out in noble proportions in the
march of history, and to be referred to as
honorable to our common humanity
Such, should present signs not fail, will
be the grand result of political freedom
to long pressed Italy.-BostOn Post