Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-05-28
Louis Napoleon's Address Previous to his
Departure for Italy.

nc lolUWlnS Is the communication made
by the French Emperor to the Corps Leg
islatift on the Sd inst
Austria, by ordering the entering of her
army into the territories of Sardinia, our
ally, has declared war against us She
thus violates treaties and mcnaccs our from
tiers. All the great powers have protested
against this act OF aggression. Piedmont
having accepted the conditions, one asks
what can be the reason of this sudden in
vaslon? 1t is because Austria has driven
matters to such an extremity that her do
minion must either extend to the Alps, or
Italy must be free to the shores of tho Ad-
rlatlc, for every corner of Italy which re-
mains independent cndangers the power of
Austria. Hitherto moderation has been
the rule of my conduct, but now energy
becomes my first duty. France must now
to arms, and rcsolutely tell Europe wish
not for conquest, but am dcterm ned to
maintain my national and traditional poll
cy' j obse We treaties on condition that
thcs arc not violated against me. respect
tcl tories and the rights of neutral power :;
but ! boldly avow my sympathics with n
pco W. whose history is mingled with our
own, ard who now groNn under foreign OPP
preston. France has shown her hatred of
anarchy. Her will was to give me power
sufficiently strong to reduce into subicction
the abcttors of disorder and the incorryi-
bic members of old factions, who are inocs.
sanity seen concluding compacts with our
enemies; but she has not for that purpose
abandoned her civiliaing character. Her
natural allies have always been those who
desire the amclioration of the human race,
and when she draws the sword it is not to
govern, but to free. The object, then, of
tins war is to restore Italy to herself, not
to impose upon her a change of masters.
and we shall then have upon our frontiers
friendly people, who will own to us their.
independence. We do not enter Italy to
tomcnt disorder or to disturb the power of
our Holy Father, whom we replaced upon
his til Jnc, but to remove from him this
foreign pressure which burdens the whole
peninsula, and to help to establish order
there, based upon lawful, satisfied interests.
In fine, then, we enter this clussic ground.
rendered illustrious by so.many victories,
to seek the footsteps Oft our fathers God
grant that we may be worthy of them.
am about to place myselfat the head of the
army, ] leave to France the Empress and
my son, seconded by the experience and en-
lightenment of the Emperor's last suryiv-
ing brother. She. will understand how to
show herself worthy of the grandeur of her
mission. confdc them to the vaor of the
army which remains in France to keep
watch upon her frontiers, and to guard our
homes. | confide them to the patriotism
of the National Guard confide them, in
a word, to the entire people, who will en-.
circle them with that affection and devoted
ness ofwhich i daily receive SO many proofs.
Courage, then, and union. Our country
is again about to show the world that she
has not degcncmted. Providence will bless
ourefforts, foEthat cause 10 holy in the eyes
Of God which rests on justice, humanity,
love Of country a1a undergraduates.