New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-08-19
THE PERUGIA mAssACRRs.

The N. Y. Tablet, Roman Catholic journal oil
this city, takes serious exception to our recent OBJ
servations upon the massacre at Perusia. As our
remarks upon that occasion were not altogether
complimentary to his Holiness the Pope, it is not
to be wondered at tina; thy slightly dstasseful
to The TaJlet. That journal is simply performing
it's duty We suppose, in attempting to relieve the
Head Of the Church from the opprobrium of causing
the brutal slaughter of his subjects BY his own
troops Let US see how it succeeds.
In the first place, it denies that the recent war
between Sardiaia and Austria, and the accompany.
ibg popular risings in Tuscany, Modena and tho
Roman States were movements for Italian indie
pendence. In support Of this denial it cites oar
own articles on the war, and asserts that the claim
that it was war for italian independence was
branded by THE TRIBUNE as f.lss one. The
Tablet, We regret to say appears in this matter to
be slightly muddled. 1t oyeroOks the clear
distinction TO be made between the mo-
tives of the French Emperor in msking war
to drive Austria out of Italy. and the
motives of the Italian patriots who took arms for
the same purpose If the Italians did not go to
var for Independence, Whist was their object
The Tablet does not even pretend to suggest any
other But it launches into platitudes about treason
and rebellion, and justi6es the massacre on the
ground that every Government has the right to pat
down insurrecton. 1t does not explain how 1t hap
peped that the Pope, who had just protested that
as Christian PRICE, he could net in conscience
make war upon Austria, because the slaughter Of
Chr stan men was ne1pressiby shocking to his
feelings, could yet coolly order the assault upon
Perugia, ard take upon himself all its Attendant
consequences ofmurder, rape, and every concelva-
bic Outrage Are the horrors of the battlefield
more touching to the heart of his Holiness than
those Of the sack of 4 city Or does the tender
pess which he feels fer the foreign Christian so far
exhaust bis sympathies that none are left fol- his
subjects and bis countr5meo'
The Tablet gives no exp apation Of the popular
movement at Perugia, except that it was melted
and conducted by "foreign emisssres'-that is to
say, by Tuscsns, PiedmOntese and other Italians :
With an imaginative power of comparison worthy
of great poet The Tablet Gkens the interference
Of this handful of Tuscan sympathizers' who
a..i.tsa in tho revolt at Pcrusia to Napoleon ILL.,
try, and grsvely asks us "whst would THE TRIB-
"uNE say if, when the Federal Government had
.. declared its neutrality in contest between two
" friendly powers, the Hon. Daniel f. Tiemann,
or bis predecessor, the Hon. Fernando Wood,
" should organize the militia and volunteers Of
" New-York for the service of one of the bellige-
"rents7"
We really do not know what We should say in
such an awful and appalling contingency. In view
of the fearful complications to which such conduct
on the part of the Hon. ID. +. Tlemann and the
Hon. +. Wood might give rise, we take refuge in
silence, and as the Judges Of our Courts do in sim.
liar emergencies, opinion till the case
is actually brought before US.
BY the most recent advces from Italy, We learn
that tribunal has been in session at Perugia to
try the lie ,ders of the instruction of whom in one
session Of July 20, seven were condemned TO death
OF these seven, according to the official report Of
the trials one is q banker, two are MOBILES, three
are professional men, and the remaining one
wealthy gentleman aged sixty seven. These are the
people whom The Tablet represents ss desperate
adyen .urers, seeking only confusion and plumber !