The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-05-14


ut crisis to recall to mind the sub
Jects really under dispute. We condense
the following statement of the question from
the Providence Journal
France and Sardinia demand that Austria
shall withdraw her soldiers from Modena,
Tuscany, and the Roman States, shall cease
TO control the policy of Parma and Naples,
and shall join with the other powers in re-
forming the governments of central and
southern Italy. They complain that by her
military occupancy of central Italy, she
continually menaces the Sandman territory
upon the east and south, and obliges Victor
| Emanuel TO keep a large army on foot, and
by the tyranny which she encourages or al
lows throughout the Peninsula, fosters dis
content and revolution, checks all healthy
growth and development, ruins Italy, and
disturbs the peace of Europe. They affirm
that she is false to the spirit, if not to the
letter. of the treaties of 1915, in making
such compacts with the various Italian
States as to enable her virtually 10 rule
them, and thus 10 destroy the balance of
power which the treaty Of Venice iAtended
TO fix. Naples is under pledges 10 make no
internal changes inconsistent "with the
principles adopted by His Imperial and
Royal Majesty for the internal government
of his Italian provinces" Rome is depend
ent upon his protection, while the Duchies
are little more than estates held in reversion
for him. So that with the exception of Sar-
DINA, Italy is only one large Austrian prov
ince.
On the other hand, Austria affirms that
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hers, she has right to rule them as she sees
best, and if she finds it necessary in order
to keep them peaceable, TO suppress or pre-
vent rebellion in the adjoining States, she
has a right to do so, after obtaining the con-
sent of the government of those States
| She claims the right to make such treaties
as she has made with the Italian sovereigns
or dukes without asking permission of
France or of Europe. She has scattered
her troops through Italy, she says, to con-
| Arm the menaced rulers, and to preserve
stable government. She has everywhere
auenched the flames of rebellion So far
| from disturbing the peace Of Europe, she
alone has preserved it. She had no designs
upon Sardinia. IL she has lined the Ticino
with her bayonets, it is because Sardinia is
the hotbed of revolutionary principles, the
home of malcontents and desparadoes, and
the peril of Italy. She will take no steps at
the bidding of that upstart power, although
she is backed by the more powerful pure
nue. of France. She will not enter a Euro
pean congress, in which Sardinia has seat
and voice, nor will she negotiate at all, I'M
til Sardinia disarms.
This subject was FIRST brought before the
great powers by Walewski and Cavour Mt
the Paris Congress in 1906. Austria object
ed to its being formally considered by that
| body, as il was foreign TO the purpose for
which they had met. But negotiations be-
tween Paris and Vienna resulted from the
interview of the plenipotentaries. The
| French government submitted to the Aus
trian programme OF changes to be made in
the Papal States, which was received in
such spirit at Vienna as left little hope TO
Napoleon III. Of satisfactory settlement of
the questions under discussion. The feeling
Of disagreement grew stronger and stronger
between the French and the Austrian gov
ernmeRts until a short time since, England
felt bound to employ Lord Cowley to medi-
tate between them. After lac had accom-
plished partial success, Russia proposed a
congress OF the great powers But Austria
would not consent to it upon terms which
were satisfactory to France, and finally, on
the 2lst of last month, she gave notice TO
Sardinia that she would declare war if the
latter power did not disarm in three days.
Such are the positions which the parties
assume. But few doubt that France and
Sardinia have other objects in view rather
than the supreme good of Italy and the
peace of Europe. They would gladly expel
the Austrians from Lombardy, divide a
large portion OF the Peninsula between
them, and exert a controlling influence over
all the Italian States. Austria's course, even
in her aggressveness, is merely one of self
defence. Once grant that she is right in
holding her Italian provinces at any cost,
and you grant the justice OF all those acts
against which her opponents protest. For
only by the coercion of the Lombardo-Ve-
netians, and the intimidation of their neigh
bors, can she retain her foothold south of the
Alps. Revolution in Rome or Naples means
rebellion in Milan and Venice.
Therefore, if the contending parties are
| fighting merely from selfish motives, shey
are fighting in the name and as the profess
ed champions of principles essentially and
eternally antagonistic. Austria appears upon
the field as the representative of the Meter
mich policy OF extreme despotism, which Sc
cures peace and tranquility by crushing all
opposition; France and Sardinia stand forth
whether sincerely or not--as the friends
! of administrative reform in Italy, believing,
to use words of Napoleon III, that TO gov
ern is to foresee, and the best manner of
securing peace is to outstrip complications
capable of producing war;
By The claim OF Mrs Cunningham to
the estate of the murdered DIR. Burdell has
been set at rest forever in New York Ii will
be remembered that the surrogate made
decision against Mrs Cunningham, holding
that she YES not the widow of Dr. Burdell
from that decision Mrs. Cunningham appeal.
ed to the Supreme Court. The matter has
been in court FOR some time, but no further
steps were taken by Mrs. Cunningham. On
Friday Charles Edwards, Esq., the counsel
| Cor he hairs took an order diSrniSSno tho