The Kanzas news., 1859-07-16
WHOLE No. 101.
The War.

The War. -.- 1f t
:, From the n. 7. 9Eibans we condense the
/ following very able review of the causes of
the present war, and the side with which
our sympathies should be. Il seems To-
cover the whole ground: seot -
The war is exceedingly complex, being
made up of the ambition and the necessi-
ties of Louis Napoleon, the wants of the
Bonaparte family, the ambition of the Sar-
/ dinian royal house, and the ardent aspira-
ton of the Italians for national Indepen-
dence. These various springs of action
having combined France and Sardinia to at.
tack Austria, that power, knowing that war
| was resolved upon, and that all proposals
of negotiation. meditation. aud what not,
! were but so many diplomatic devices to
gain time for the completion of the French
and Sardinian preparations, finally took the
Bold resolution of commencing bostiiities
herself, and, at the beginning of May, oc-
Icupied the Lomellina, rich Sardiaian prov
! ince between the rivers Tieino, Po. and Sesis
with an army of some 15o, 600 men. By
/ this step she assumed the immense respon-
sibility of actually breaking the peace of
j Europe; she has gained by it the support
of her army of occupation, for 8 month at
i least. at the expense of Sardinia. 49,
But let us look little closely at the ele-
ments of which the efficient cause of the
war is composed. Of these the personal i'm
pulses which govern Louis Napoleon are
j the most influential. Emplous of the renown
the first Napoleon, he desires glory, but he
j desires also to leave his son and the Napo-
leonic dynasty in possession of the throne
of France. To this end, war and military
success are Indispensable, not only as sat
isfying the appetite of the army on whose
bayonets he was borne into the Tuilleries,
but also as enlisting in his service the en-
thusiasm of the French nation. Martial
triumph abroad makes tyranny, and the ty-
rant, and the tyrant's successor, beloved
and safe at home; and such triumph, Tor
such objects, Louis Napoleon is now pur-
! suing. The traditions and interests of the
:, B onaparte family he also no doubt keeps
4 steadily in view. Il is plain that he intends
to establish his burly aud bothersome cous-
!, in, Prince Napoleon, on new throne IN
Central Italy, where the King of Sardinia
, has Just been compelled 20 abandon his
claims to Tuscany, which he bad begun to
annex to his own dominions. Whether Ma
poleon III. viii try to restore the Murat dy-
nasty at Naples is not so clear-the pres
J ent representatives of that branch of the
; Boraparte line being rather too much of a
fool to make tolerable King of; but nobody
can well dispute that to aggrandize himself
and the Bouapartes in general along with
Y him is the supreme end of his career. Il
this respect he faithfully cherishes the in
] functions laid down in the famous will o
i his putative uncle.
5 The ambition of the King of Sardinia is
more genial and generous passion than
any we can attribute to Napoleon III, fol
the reason that he is much more genial
and generous fellow. The Representative
! of one of the oldest ruling families in Eu
/ rope, with dominions which the settlement
3 of 1915 considerably increased, and with 6
: degree of political fairness and honesty
!. which has not been common among Euro
pean princes we can easily tolerate if no
: applaud his wish to add to his dominion:
the rich and populous provinces Of th'
= mbardo- Venetian Kingdom. fsgas z
But to find a truly noble motive in thii
, war, we must 60 to the Italian people
! Centuries of internal division and discord
: and of foreign oppression have only mad'
o them loathe the one and detest the other
5 And as the foreign influence chiefly main
tains the national disunity, it is the foreign
or rather the Austrian domination which
h above all they hate, and whose abolition
= they most urgently long for. 'fOut with
j the Austrians E' is their cry; and in The
o whole range of European politics, there il
no hope more worthy of entire success thar
/ this of theirs.
o This brings US to the question: Will
: which party should Americans and Repub
d lcans feel a sympathy We answer tha
: our sympathies must be entirely and exclu
e sively with the Italians. No generous hear
e in the whole world but must be warmly en-
S gagged in their interest. But. for this yer,
reason, our regret is only the more poign
: ant at seeing them and their noble patriot
: ism used for his own selfish ends by sucl
It man as Louis Napoleon. IF they wer
II animated by any base and contemplate mo
o tive, one might see them fall, into his wile'
e without pang; but at it is, there is some
. thing inexpressibly tragic in the spectacles
e We know verv well what many inteiligen
: Italians say on this point: We have ais
i read Kossuth's speeches; but, in our iudg
9 ment, they are misled by their feelings AM
y their desire. They are not so much th
+ Idupes of Louis Napoleon as of their. ow
hopes. Forgetting that il Italy is freed b,
his arms she must then submit to his dicta
,fl ton, they delude themselves into q willfu
= confidence In his present honesty. Putin
e the anteeedents of the man ont of sight
J. they conceive that he has now become sin
|: cere, disinterested and philanthropic. Bu
l. what sort of liberties is the tyrant of Franc
likely to bestov on Italy, Will he tolerat
;. in his Italian dependents . degree of fres
1t dom which he does not permit to his Frenc
subjects? VIII he give them the libert
l. of the press Will he allow az indepen
le dent legislature among them VIII the
b be whit freer to manage their own affair
l. in theiEown way after the expulsion of th
Austrians than they we're befors An