The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-08-03
Treaty of Peace between Austria and
the Alliss-Interesting Comments OF
the American Press.

Treaty of Peace between Austria and
the Allies-Interesting Comments OF
the American Press.
In the absence of the details of the treaty Of
peace between the Allies and Austria, the COM
ments of the press in relation to the close of
the war and its results will be read with inter
est The Philadelphia Ledger remarks:
One half of Northern Italy remains as it
was, and the other half is given to a king whe
is not an Italian, but as much a foreigner as
the Emperor of Austria. The Pope's rule,
under which the Papal States have been SO
FESTIVE, is more widely extended, and the Re-
publieans who entered so zealously into the
task of DISCRIMINATING despotic authority, have
got nothing for their labors- This may be .
conclusion very satisfactory to the italian pa
triets; how successfully the arrangement will
work time will tell. The people of Naples
evidently regard it as a betrayal of their cause,
for they have already attempted a revolt, and
their example may be more successfully follow
ed by the other States. Perhaps, however,
there are ameliorations stipulated, which, un-
der the new order of affairs, may compensate
for these Elusive dreams of an independents
italian confederacy, embracing all the Italian
States, with the Italians to choose their own
form of Government and their own rulers.
The French Emperor, either afraid to trust
them, or unable to conclude a peace on those
terms, has settled everything himself for the
Italians, and all they have to do is to accept
the boon granted. This is a sudden and SIM
gular end of a sudden and singular war, in
which there was nothing but victory on one
side, and nothing but defeat on the other, with
the further certainty, if continued, of Austria
losing every possession she had in Italy. Po-
IiticaI reasons induced the war, political policy
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European nation will have reason to rejoice,
and the interests of this country are affected
sufficiently by the war to make us join in the
general congratulation that peace once more
prevails in Europe.
The Philadelphia Peansyluanian says:
We have, from the start, commended that Ma
poleon's intention was not the establishment of
a free and united and strong Italy, but an Italy
distracted, weak and as much as possible at the
mercy of France. The Pope, who owes his
sham-sovereignty to the magnanimity of the
conqueror of Lombardy, will be a fit represen-
tative in Central Italy of the aspiration of
France, while the King of Sardinia, who is
now more dependent on France than ever be-
fore, will be expected to do her bidding in
Northern italy with explicit obedience. By
annexing Lombardy to Sardinia France has Sc
cured to herself for any future contingencies
the land route of Central and Southern Italy,
and by the confederation, with the Pope as its
head and Austria as an integral part, the cause
of italian freedom has been deprived Of every
shadow of hope. France will exercise a
mighty influence upon the future government
of Italy, and her aseendency will be felt from
the Alps to the Straits of Messina and the
Southernmost pointof Sicily. She has achieved
one great step in the direction of her tradition
al policy, one great step towards the dominion
over the Mediterranean and England, which
contests with Prussia the honor of having
brought about the termination of the war, will,
before hong, have her eyes opened as to the
real tendencies and bearing of the Napoleonic
ideas, which are still what they were when the
originator pointed from the pyramids of Egypt
to India. This war is only an incident in a
great drama, of which but another act has Just
been concluded, and who knows but that the
result of the conference at Villa-Franca was
in some respects similar to that of the meeting
between Napoleon and Alexander of Russia.
1t is by no means improbable that Francis 10
seph accepted at Villa Franco a proposition to
F divide Italy at some future day with France,
as the Gar agreed at Stuttgardt to the parti-
tioning of Turkey. Austria and England stood
in the way of Franco gaining a foothold in
Naples, a Franco Austrian alliance opening to
the Hapsburg the prospect of extending his
way over part of the Pope's dominions, which
seem TO nave Deen WOulu mlSnUIy strengthen
the arm of France kept in reserve for some
such political purpose, against her hereditary
enemy and rival for power, England.
The independence of Hungary and all the
glorious schemes of Kossuth, and his deluded
followers, have now ended in smoke. When
the Emperor Napoleon met Francis Joseph at
Villa Franco, he shut the door upon Kossuth.
Kossuth has allowed himself to be made a Sc
cond-hand tool, and as such he is thrown aside
the moment he is no longer wanted. Kossuth
who had exalted himself into the seventh hea.
vens, once more relapses into a state of moth
ingness-never to rise again.
The Baltimore Sun says:
All this presents the nominal result of a cam.
paign in which the real liberty of the people
T the earnest ~longings of a great population, are
disposed of as dust in the balance. Garibaldi
has fought, as he was told to do, on his own &C
i, countability. He entered upon the contest
t not simply to free Italy from Austria, but to
) establish her independence. Kossuth was
there to agitate Hungary in behalf of freedom
But Garibaldi and Kossuth may now fall as
+, singed moths before the radiant glory Of the
new master, who lords it through the persons
of the Stardinlan King and the Pope, over all
t the vast territory thus rescued from the bayo.
nets and dominion of Austria. Literally
nothing has been won for the people, and we
should have no surprise to find the enthusiasm
} with which Napoleon and Victor Emanuel
were received, subside in sullen disappoint
= ment.
! Much has been accomplished, however, to-
wards defining a basis for a more powerful
and better organized despotism. In the new
dispensation the influence of France will ex.
E tend now with fresh and extraordinary power
e and effect throughout that important section Of
s Europe thus placed, ostensibly, in more legiti,
mate bonds-an apparently self-imposed subju.
4 CATION to the Sandman kingdom, and in fact al
: Italy; Austria holding with sturdier grasp hel
and in the common league, a despotism of un.
paralleled strength will be consolidated in Eu
D rope. And against such a combination of in