The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1859-06-22
WHOLE NO. 40.

If Austria held not Italy in her grasp
would an Italian question be possibley No
Austria is not barrier; her very existence
is the sword Of Damocles suspended over
the settled condition of Europe; it is the
cavern from which the European volcano is
fed. ('Hear, hear" and cheers.) Let
Austria vanish into the gulf of eternal per.
dition which is yawning for her (cheers, J
and we may yet hear perhaps of local revo-
lutions, but they will remain mere domestic
affairs; European wars of ambition will be-
come forever impossible, and you will not
see any longer the lifesweat of Europe
drained by the keeping of large standing
armies, because the independence of every
nation will find . guarantee in the indepen-
dence Of all. (Cheers.)
I INTENTIONS or YSAScE. ~s
| II Is said that the Emperor of the French
cannot be actuated by any other than am
bilious views-=(hear, hear that he means
conquest; and this England should not
allow; nor should Italy, or the other
oppressed nationalities, lend their hands for
exchanging one task-master for another
(Hear, hear.) These are grave considcra-
tons, indeed, and here is my brief. plain
answer to them. 1t is easy to say that the
oppressed nationalities should act alone
Unity of will and harmony of design are not
everything; action must be combined on
preconcerted plan, and before that combi
nation can be arrived at in countries where
speech is stifed, and the press is gagged,
the disciplined army crushes the unorgan.
lied popular masses, and the haneman and
the scatfold do the rest (Hear, hear
This is the key to the my stery that with
couple Of hundred thousand soldiers mill.
ions of brave, liberty-loving people may be
held in bondage for ages. Rare are the in
stances recorded in history in which deliv.
erance from oppression was achieved with
out foreign assistance. The United States
Of America had the assistance of despotic
France in establishing their independence,
(Hear, hear.) Even England, heroic and
brave as she is, had the aid of I5 900 Dutch
grenadiers and Dutch feet of 500 sail: it
was with these that William of Orange came
| to the rescue OF her liberties. (Hear. hear. }
We Hungarians achieved our independence
without foreign assistance, but it was bv
foreign intervention that we were enslayed,
w hat curious change has come on sudden
over the minds of governments and of aris
tocrats that they raise a hue and cry against
what they call the Intervention of the French
IN Italy! Why, my Lord, for about forty
years we have scarcely heard of ANYTHING
else than foreign Intervention against liber-
ty. There was Intervention in Spain. at
Naples, in Piedmont, in Sicily, at Rome, in
Moldo Wallachia, in Hungary, in Hassia.
Baden, in Schleswig Holstein-eyerywher
there has been Intervention against liberty.
and do not know that England has ever
drawn her sword to forbid it. Sometimes
a tame remonstrance may have been offer
ed; but III the case of my own dear native
land, England's government had not even
one poor word Of observation to offer
(Hear, hear) Well, here at last is case
in which chance of emancipation from the
yoke ct Austria is presenting itself by; bx ~
hue and cry is raised against it, and prin-
ciples are invoked in favor of oppress-
ion which were never invoked in fa-
vor Of the oppressed. (Hear, hear. y
1t is discreditable hypocrisy. Let
Austria be replaced in the position in
to which the heroic arms of nv nation had
buried her in lS49, before foreign interyen-
ton had lifted her up from the dust, and be
sure neither Italy nor we shall want any
assistance; but if England permitted Aus
tria to be saved, and the rights of national.
tiles to be crushed, by foreign Intervention.
let it not be recorded that, when such in.
tervention might have turned to the advan-
tage of the oppressed nationalities, then
only was it opposed for the first time by
that England which was so much indebted
herself to foreign assistance for her deliver
ance from opposition. (Cheers.) Besides.
IN this case there is not exactly interven-
ton-there is war between established gov
ernmentS. That one or more nationalities
may take advantage of the opportunity is,
l should think, not exactly proper reason
for England to throw, Brenus-like, her
sword into the scale in favor of Austria, a
name synonymous with oppression, and
with the murder of nationalities CHEERS, }
What may be the special motives which in
duced the present ruler of France to engage
in this war do not pretend to know; but
l know what cannot be in his interest, and
therefore cannot be his intentions. 1t can
not be his interest to enter on the career of
conqueror, because that would be positive
ruin to him, as it was the ruin of Napoleon
l. Nay though that great captain was GER
tainly an ambitious man, yet l feel perfect
ly certain that if he were to rise this day
from his grave, with all his high-towering
ambition, not even he could enter now on
the career of conaueror. At certain times
certain things are impossible and this is
one of them. Furthermore, know that it
cannot be in his interest, nay that it is Dos
itively against his interest to aim at the op-
preston of nationalities. (Cheers.) 1t is
the irreverent disregard of the sentiment of
nationality which sent Napoleon l to die
. fettered eagle on the scorching rocks of
st. Helena it is the same irreverent disre-
gard OF the sentiment Of nationality that
will shatter to atoms the tottering throne Of
pertidious Austria. And verify it does
strike me that Napoleon Ill is not exactly
the man to repeat the fault by which Ma
poleon fell. By doing good to the op-
pressed nationalities he may earn great
moral advantage; by doing them harm he
could not earn anything but ruin for him.
self (Cheers.) In forming my opinions
take for starting point interests, not
men; and knowing that in matters where
so much is at stake men are not likely to
disregard their interest, dare trust to the
soundness Of my conclusions.
! HUNGARY.
Suppose give 1t you is a supposition
suppose that the logical development of
the present war should offer to my own ma
ton, not an Indictment to hazardous desul-
tory riots-these should sternly advise
her to ayoid--but should offer her such q
chance as would, with reasonable prospects,
place her independence within the reach Of
her own denomination, would you advise
her to reject the chance because, under the
mysterious dispensation Of Providence, it
would have come to her from Bonaparte :?
Why, she would be a fool to reject IT,.
CHEERS. Hungary cannot be made a
French department; she is both too strong
and too distant for that; her distance alone