New-York daily tribune., 1859-09-27
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aid. IL br0ught Out Oh mohp oouH'ooonoo' 'N''
expression which in this lsmentably imperfect pen
and ink sketch is best represented BY the word
f.bberess.ednes. To describe something of the
change which this impression and expression have
,ince undergone is tie difficult task which your
reporter undertakes in this letter
The article was communicated direct from st.
sauveur That it was pleDsrily inspired BY the
Emperor, and even verbally, appears in the first
sentence wherein you will notice just that certain
tart irritsbility that marks several OF bis lister
eforts-the address 70 the Great Bodies of State
at ST. Cloud the other day. for example A de
CLEMSON, by the way, from the calm OF his early
style that il WORTHY of remark. When facts
speak for themselves if seems at first sight use
lees TO explain them" His Majesty reminds one
of an impatient schoolmaster scOldng the boys for
not understanding by instinct what he so well COM
prebends that he oyerlooks the processes BY which
the knowledge was attained; or Of that youth who
knew his father easy that the ignorance OF Others
ia that regard surprised him. However, he recog-
Dizes in the next sentence that these sell speaking
facts. these simplest things" have been 50 dis
figured by passion and intrigue that an explanation
is become Indispensable. He is quite right then.
Very few people knew what the simple things we're.
Even the explanation has required as much study
as Bradshsw's Railway Guide, bringing US all at
first as said 70 -still then Leading search.
ers for the truth into a labyrinth OF corjectures,
mauy of which are already relinqushed as er-
Toneoue, and now guiding the foremost OF US into
little better than cui de sac, turn-agaln alley
The simplest things were 10 the voting poPuia-
tions Of Central Italy to English statesmen, own
correspondents able editors, and the rest OF the
world official and 1on official, inscrutaoly complex
things. Upto Friday morning last past, they we'e
ignorant Of the most important chose IN al toat
Vlllairanca business, to wit, that the restoration
of the Dukes was the SINE qua non condition
urged by Austria and accepted by France, to the
recognition by the former OF an Italian nation Alty
and of the rights of humanity in Nenetia, II not
even Of all the conquests Of the Franco STdiniaa
arms. Directly they came TO know these
things" and recovered from the surprise the
ln0H ledge brought with it We grew exceedingly
curious fO learn who were they who, already Know
irg, had been oisfguriDg them by passion and In
trigue Not Francis Joseph and his party, who
knew indeed, but whom the explanation repre-.
sents as having frankly and resolutey renounced
the devil and all his works-I mean the old Aus
triaD policy, (which is dangerous, perhaps, out
mot without glory" Of dominion-ln Italy on
above mentioned sine qua non condition. Not the
Zurich pleDpOtentiarles either who were knowing:
and 20 proceeding by that process OF reasoning
which we style rOie d'eIcipsion we came conclu'
siyely TO Victor Emanuel and his Ministry aud the
heads of theprOyls0Dal governments and Gafloaidi,
the late close allies and companions in arms aud
policy of the Imperial editor. 1t must be those
persOnages to whom he refers when be writes:
If after the peace, the destnes OF Italy had been
/" "intIusted to men more interested IN the future
" Of the common country than in little partial ad'
" yantages, the aim Of their efforts would have
"been to develop and not TO tramnel up
I" the consequences of the treaty OF Villa
4" franca." 10 this conclusion, among others,
the Indispensable explanation had led and vas lead
ing people shortly after its publication How could
they escape it But how could they keep to it
For they compared it with Victor Emaauers re-
sponse to the Tuscan delegation the other Sunday,
with the significance attributed to that response
not merely by the mass of the Tuscan people butby
solennly constituted Tuscan snd Sandman officials
at official banauets and otherwheres, and with the
fact that Louis Napoleon had had time and oppor
tunity, which it not conceivable he should neg
lect to be informed Of its terms, not to say to "in-
spire" them. But if we were forced by the seyeri-
ty Of this condemnation to suppose that the pro-
ceediDgs of the Italian leaders were really disap-
proved of by its author, We were stu greatly
puzzled to explain the late date he chose for It's
publication. If the great body Of Italians, who,
with an approach to unanimity that almost suspl-
ciOus have declared the forfeiture OF the Dukes,
instead of being encouraged to Tree expression oil
their wishes, had been told, by the same authority
that promised cit zensbip of great country as re-
compeDse for their soldiership on the morrow of
yctory-bsd they been told, instead that they were
rivettlng tae chains of the Venetans bringing upon
themselves an unaided struggle with the armies OF
Austria, and so far as Parma and MOdens were
con :erned, throwing away chance for the fulfill
ment of the very wishes they were SO idly express
ing, it is possible that, wiser than their leaders,
they might have profted by the warning. Now,
when the evil is done and alarmiDgly pact remedy,
a ,a1 l.o Ifahl
correction nor Instruction.
Before going further let your reporter again OBJ
serve that be is not giving bis own comments on
the article of tn. Moneur, but his attempt at edit
ing those of the public, CT at least those of CON
siderable portion Of the public. To record Ia de-
tail the opinions of ali parties, so far ~ they have
come to light, would form most volumlnous and
chaotic collection. am to give some notion OF
the general drift of public opinion, which
has changed its course from day to day, but tends
more ard more to set in one direction. l reserve
for the close of the letter side comments, and
would not venture to guess what quite different
course it and they may take or be driven into
within the next twenty four hours; for to quote
phrase from brother of the quill which has the
merit-LOt pcoDsiderable for an own correspond
ent-Of being at least half true 81, cest Ia sagesss
qm rtgne arjOudhui, c'est fmprers qai Ia
" rtrie." A new Imperial leader IN tomorrow
mornings MOnieW may upset all the CONCLUSIONS
of To-day; and the telegraphlc report reaching you
by the same steamer that brings this letter may
throw my Ms. into the useless waste of past his
tory. His reigning Majesty reveals his wisdom
by surprise, which is the essence of kind of Wit
be is very fond of iEdulsng at other peoples eI-
pense.
Officials in the ministries were ss much taken
aback" as the general reader last Friday, By the
famous article that was probably peDned on
Thursday. Something anticipated from the
visit of the Austrian Emba,sador to st. Sauyeur,
but not this definite thing. The first emotion WAS
very great and general but of the sort Mr. Carlyle