The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-07-08

balloon Atlantic, was picked up yesterday In
the lake. 1t contains over forty letters, one
enclosing thousand dollar draft on New
York Bank.
The London Times Goes over TO the
Allies.
From the Times, June 1871
We must believe that Napoleon when he
has driven the Austrians from Italy, will hand
over Italy to the Italians will secularize tho
| Government Of the Roman States--will give
back to Naples its Constitution, and accord
guarantees for its continuance. We must
| give our confidence to Russia that when she
favors this chivalrous course she also has no
hidden object in view; that she also has sym
pathy with Italy, and, if any other motive
mingles with her pity, it 10 only q not unnat-
ural desire to pour some slight humiliation
upon the head of Austria, and to exalt Prus-
STA at the expense of her rival. 1t is not to
be suggested that these State papers should
speak that which is untrue. When two great
Sovereigns come forward to protest before
Europe that their policy il of . conservative
and disinterested character, and that If they
are fighting battles and conquering kingdoms
it is for the progress Of civilization, for the
advance OF moral influences, and not from
selfish motives, we are bound to believe them
not, indeed, to throw ourselves of our
guard, but still to believe them. We cannot
cease from our establishment that these things
should be so; we cannot even yet quite COM
prehend how the Emperor Napoleon should
wish to build up in Italy form OF govern
ment which would be in0onvenient to him in
France; still less can We understand why
Russia should seek to give consistency and
power and material form to those ideas which
must always be antagonistc to absolute rule.
But it is vain to argue against the probabili-
| ty Of afact when tho fact itself stands boldly
in evidence. Here are the declarations vol
UNFAIRLY put forth to Europe, uncalled for by
any special scheme Of policy, carrying with
them no particular benefit to the persons who
thereby commit their own honor and the
honor Of the nations whom they represent TO
the good faith Of the professions which they
thus spontaneously make.
Surely we shall not lay ourselves open to
the imputstion Of weak credulity il We stile
the instructive suspicious that arise while we
read these papers, and accept them with at
least the hope that they mean all they say
that the intentions Of these two great Pow
ers are those they profess, and no more that
when the Austrians have been driven from
Italy the war will be stayed, the prize Of con-
test will be won, and Italy will arise once
more in unity-a nation Of confederated
Constitutional States. Beyond that UNI
quenchable instinct of suspicion to which we
have already alluded, there is really no reaso
why these good tidings should not be true,
and why these professions should not ripen
into performances. IL is the real interest
both of France and Russia that Europe should
be at peace. The glory OF having resuscita-
ted Italy would give lustre to the name OF
Napoleon that would throw a doubt over the
possibility of some earlier details Of his his
tory. Military success would have consoli-
dated his popularity with bis army, and peace
would restore confidence to bis citizens and
prosperity to the industry OF bis Empire. He
boasts that he can commune with the spirit
Of bis age. II he be wise enough and en-
lightened enough and thoughtful enough to
comprehend the intelligence among which he
lives, and to shape his acts in harmony with
it's tendencies, then this is precisely the poll
cy which he would pursue. 1t has high
and chvalrous character, and has at the same
time all the advantages Of the most humble
expediency. 1t would astonish all men into
applause; it would give to his name the re-
nown of q great historical revival; and il
wouli at the same time considerably increase
the influence OF France in the South Of Eu-
rope, and aid her commercial interests on the
great inland sea. As to Russia, her inter
. ests are quite evident, and are at this moment
all on the side Of peace. Whatever may be
her Interior objects, her present duty is to
develope her own internal strength. She
knows that she has wastes and wildernesscs
to win within her own frontier before she
can hope to repeat with success her efforts al
= distant cor quest. Public decency is another
guarantee upon which we would place som,
9 confidence. In this nineteenth century ever
a Emperors will be held to their public prom
ses. Solemn declarations made voluntarily
! to their brother Sovereigns cannot be treated
as idle words, uttered without meaning and
n broken without hesitation. 1t is more pleas
3 ing to search the policy of powerful nations
for tokens of a rational and generous cours
: OF action, than to point out how polio,
|. based upon meancr motives would be certain
! to call millions of armed men into conflict
I and to loosen all the foundations Of civil or
9 der throughout Europe. Ii Russia and Franc
!. honestly mean what they have so distinct
n said, this Italian War will soon be at an end
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ROMAN LETTERS.
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