New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-06-20

We answer that our ~ mp stnles Dust Dc cnH0'
and e,rh.isely with the Italians. No generous
hesrt IN the whole world bat must be warmly
engaged in their interest But, for this very
reason our regret is ouy the m"rs poignant a.
seeing III. n AID their noble p,tri"'ism used Tor
bis own selfish ends By such mau - Louis
Napoleon. IF they were Animated by any
base and contemplate motive one mignt zee
them fan into bis viles without psng
I bit Is Il is. there ia something ineSprrs-
slbly trsgic in the spectacle. We kno"
very well wn,t many intelligent Ita ,nss,y on THIS
point We have also re- u KOssuth's speeches. bat.
IN our Judgment. they are mlsed by their feelings
and their desires. They sre net ~ much the dapes
of Louie Napoleon a. of their own hOP-s Forget
tirg tbst if Italy i. fired by his arms she must
then submit to his dct.tion, they deludc them.
selves into wilful confidence in bis present
honesty Putting the sntecedents Of the msn out
of sight. they conceive that be has nOw become
sincere, disiDt-rested ard Philanthropc. But shat
sort Of liberty the ralt France likely to bestow
on Itsy VIII he ,olArste 10 his Italian d-pecdeats
degree Of freedom uhich be does not permit 10
| hs French subjects VIII be sise them the
liberty Of the press VIII be allow an indrpend-
eut legislature among them. Will they be whit
freer TO msDsee their own affairs 10 their own way
after the expulsion of the Austrians thsn they
were before And will the change be any other
than that which consists in receiving orders from
Pan. instead OF Vienna And what viii be the
advantage of being under French rather than
Austrian de-potism II is true that IN some
respects the French is the less brutal. the more
| cunning. and Infinitely the more hypocritcal
of the two; but. respects the great In
terests Of political freedom and social progress IN
Italy, the one il, in Judgment jus. AZ good as
the other And as this war Is, to all substantial
| intents. wsged between the Preach and the Aus
TRAN autocrats, with the Italians only used as
prete1t and make-weight by one Of them 1t ap-
pears to US prominently war for Americans and
Republicans 10 observe as dsinterested spectators;
Judging the acts Of both parties and the varying
phases of the struggle with equal and impartial
justice; and hoping that from the Efforts at mutual
| destruction of these two gigantic despotisms some
unknown higher good may yet be proSidrntlally
| evolved for mankind.
We are willing to agree with the friends Of Ma
poleon III. who contend so DANGEROUSLY that he
does not now aim at acquisitions of territory by
| Conquest, as if that were something OF great mo-
meni in bus favor. OF course be has birga'ned With
Sardinia that the boundaries Of France shall be c"f-
recied BY the incorporation of Savoy with the En-
| pire in exchange for Lombardy, which Is T. be
| taken from Austria and added to Piedmont But
what is the essential difference whether all l,aly Is
| pou,inuny annexed to France aud ruled directly
| l.. a ha har a
three or four States, ruled BY the Nsp"eonc sys-
TEN and with leuienants Of Napoleon III. as their
ostensible mouarchs The controlling power
would be the same, and the d-spotisu would be
just AS thorough in the one case as III the other
| And the despotism would excel that of Austria in
this important respect that Piedmont hitherto the
only free country of the Peninsula, would be COM
| petrly subjected to lite pernclous Influence. Con-
sttutonal government there, however its Pretenses
m.y be kept up, must date ts demise frum the day
| Of the Bona partist alliance.
We now come to the next question, Which party
ia the more likely 10 succeed The campaigns Oft the
first Napoleon naturally incline TO the belief that
| the Austrians cannot stand against the French
| The defeats Of the Austrian armies by the lungs
risns in l5i9 are also fresh in our minds and are
| not calculated to increase our confidence In the
| proves of the Imperial arms though We msy BAL
| ance them with Radetzky's splendid exploits OF
| 1913 In the present campaign, while the Aus
t'ans have fought well on every OCCASION as far as
We are yet able to judge, including the great battle
or series of battles which have just taken place IN
the neishborhood of Milan, the fact that they have
stesdy retired before the allies is strong
against them ard indicates that equal terms they
| are still unable to cope With the French But
| supposing them row to have been us declsisely
| defeated rs Napoleon pretends, the advantage OF
| position will be henceforth enormously i'll their
| favor. They must now retire behind the
| Mincio, and occupy the region between that
river and the Adige, protected by the iodr
| fortresses Of Mantus, Pesehiera, Verona add
| Leanano, from which in 1913 Radetzky resumed
| the offensive recOnquered the whole Of Lombardy,
| and drove Charles Albert across the TIcno. One
| of these foItresses, Mantua. occupied the great
| Napoleon nine months in It's reduction; and
| il IS not only much stronger III Itself than
| il was in his time, bu. has been im-
mensely strengthened by the erection and
| improvement. Of the for.ifcs,ions at the other
three places. The weakest Of these, Peschera,
WAS tsken By the Italians in l543; but as long as
the Austrisns have an army in the field and retain
| their communications with the Tyrol, even Pes
chiera must be very difficult TO capture. At any
| rate in this position two hundred thousand men
are match for four hundred thousand assall-
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