The Opelousas patriot. [volume] (Opelousas, Parish of St. Landry, La.) 1855-1863, 1859-08-13
Further Foreign News.
THE PEACE, ITS PURPOSE n ITS PROSPECT

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This question supersedes most other topics
in interest and Importance. The more Nt
ouest on is examined the less satisfactory u
becomes. English journals are strong IN the,i
disapprohation Of the result obtained, arc
foreign papers, Will, few exceptions, express
all the bitterness Of disappointment. The re-
signation of Count Cavonr has been speeal'i
followed by the resignation. en- masset OF al
the Sandman Ministers, and the Pielnonles
Gazette announces that they merely held thei
portfolios till the fertilization OF a new Cabile9
1t il suggested that i'll this fact we have al
Interpretation of the extraordinary treaiy q
| Villa Franco. Piedmont has been virtually
put aside and silellced by the Emperor OF I'M
French. Her claims have been overridden. he'
ambition has been thwarted. No doubt SIN
acquires a large accession Of territory, inci,i
ding the richest qftlie Italian provinces, but i
Austria. VictM Emanuel does not, Or vii
not. view it in this light, for ina proclamation
to the people of Lombardy. he boas'tuliy says
g Heaven has blessed our arm and he ia
tronizingly adds, A." Take your destiny under
my direction. and hope to find in yon ina
concurrence which the Tsief of a State needs il
order to create u new administration. L tel
you. people of Lombardy, trust in ynnr King
established on n soldid. imperisbable basis, he
will procure happiness for the new country
which heaven has entrusted to his govern
Fment."
A contemporary refers to the prospect of a
change in the Austrian Cabinet as sustaining
the motives OF Count Cavours precipiiate re.
treat from power. Certainly a treaty. patched
up within an hour, and signed by Two Emper
ors, was necessarily an insult to those states
men who had been accustomed to advise them
F ance. of course. is urged, since size los,
her liberty. her dignity aud her NOR | rank
among nations, has been represented by No
Minister sufficiently ind pendent to oppose his
opinions to the caprice Of the reigning power,
but the State circles of Vienna are not yet de
graded to the level Of Paris. and have been
disciplined in a far different school. Like
~CounfeCavonr, the hereditary chiefs aud cham
pions of the Hapsburg ari<tocracy, have re-
garded themselves as friends of The throne,
partakers in its responsibilities, partners in
its glory, and to be left out Of sight and hear
ing, while their Emperor was privately dis
cnssing an act of European and historical i'm.
portance, my not have been consistent in their
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or the grandeur of a leading State.
The Times says that Count Cavour's resig-
nation determines the nature of the peace, that
he believed in a constitutional Italian unity.
and unfortunately believed that Louis Napn,
leon entertained the same views as himSef. and
our contemporary precedes these remarks by a
general summary The treasury is spent, and
the blood is shed. The war is ended. and the
peace is made, but no one. SO far as we can
see, is the better for the fight. The Morning
Post thinks that Count Cavonr has made a
mistake in resigning, and that he yet may re-
greet it. as being ton hasty. Our contemporary,
by this time will have seen, however, that he
is fortified in his course by the following Of his
canfreres. The Daily News news says there
could be no daubt as to the course which that
high minded Minister wou!d take-that the war
ct Italian Independence is terminated for the
present, without securing the objects for which
it was undertaken. That the allied armies are
marching hnlneward, leaving the noble work
al most only half done, and that Italy is MOI
free from the Alps to the Adriatic. But we
are reminded tlat the slight put upon the
French. Piedmontese and Austrian Ministers.
was little or nothing compared to the absolute
insult offered to Victor Emanuel. an inderen
dent monarch, a brilliant coadjutor in the war.
who was not even invited to acquiesce after
the event. in the terms Of peace. A cotemI,o.
rary processes to explain the exclusion. T'ha,
which Austria con!d concede with a good grace
to FRANCE, she wonld undoubtedly have refused
to Sardinia. 1t would have been too much to
eSlec, the naughty llapsburg neck would bend
to the descendants Of Hubert. tie white handed
VIII" slrang from d baidit race among the pin
nac'es Of Savoy. Therefore in warning Vic.
tor Emanuel oft the ground, while he settled
the basis of a treaty with the Kaiser, Louis
Napoleon rendered a service to the peace Of
Europe, whatever sacrifice he might havp
forced upon Italy. Nor was the Piedmon,ese
King the only Sovereign thus cavalierly
treated. The Pope himself finds himself bur
dened with responsibilities which he may not
ardently desire to undertake, since they may
not impossibly foreshadow a proposal Of mod
fcation in his internal administration.