The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-07-29
NEW YORK HERALD FRIDAY, JULY 49, ls5s-rRPLE sHERr.

class has written In tone Of mingled con-
graduation and censure. They heartily ap-
prove our condemnation Of the peace and the 40.
thor of it. But while hailing what they regard
as an altered tone In reference 10 Louis Napoleon
they ut the same time express their surprise and
regret that We could ever have trusted and sup
ported him. The answer to this n short and sim
pie. We have never trusted or supported the En-,
perOr of the French in the sense referred to by
our correspondents. From, The day he first as
sumed he purple his character ond conduct haze
been unsp0singIy criticised IN these columns. The
judgment formed ON both seven years ago has been
confirmed during the interval by fresh acts of
tyranny, and repeated over and over again.
and we have hitherto seen no reason to
change it. His best impulses are obviously
of mere selfish kind; but useful actions often
spring from questionable motives. And without
lnquirDg too curiously into motives, good
action is to be welcomed whoever does it. TO help
the great of Italian nationality is emphatical-
1y a good action, to be welcomed by all lovers OF
freedom. When Louis Napoleon offered such help,
We, in common with the greatest Italian statesmen,
willingly accepted II. There was certain amount
OF peril, no doubt, in accepting help at all from
such quarter; but while the need was urgent,
many reasons conspired to render the danger
small The condition of Italy could not be worse,
and it was the interest of Louis Napoleon to make
it better. But from the outset zoe hare supported
him only so far as he identified himself toiU The
cause OF Ial,on independencet. and zoe haze
trusted him only on the conviction that uis course
scdS IN ndny to1ys connected aot his Oon interest.
sure could at most be only an act of enlightened
self-interest. Had he, according to his promise,
freed Italy from the Alps to the Adratc, he would
have efectuay humbled Austria; have established
apOwerful friendly kingdom on his southern from
tier; secured the gratitude and devotion of the
Italians; fixed himself and dynasty the throne of
France and gained ut least the admiration of pa
trl0ts in every part OF the world.
He has to a great extent thrown this splendid OPP
portunity away. He has stopped in mid career,
and hastily patched up miserable peace when
ne might have ,.gloriously concluded noble
war; But we believe in doing SO he has betrayed
himself quite as much as the cause he championed.
He is unfaithful not only to Italy but to his own
highest self interest Had he concluded the work,
his triumph both in France and Italy wOnd have
been certain and complete but it is now only dubi-
Gus and partial A latent consciousness of this
Turks in the mendacious and apologize phrases of
the imperial manifesto just issued by the Emperor
to his soldiers. 'The principal aim of the war is
obtained runs the proclamation, "and Italy will
become for the first time naton.n Italy however
has always been, save to men of the Metternich
stamp, a nation. The war was undertaken not tn
create nation, which, as Austria herself has found
is utterly beyond the power of the sword, but
to make nation already existing independent
That it has failed to do as the next sentence of the
proclamation sufficiently proves: "Venitia it is
true, remains to Austria, but will nevertheless be
an Italian province forming part of the Italian
Confederation This is certainly very like adding
insult to injury. After promising to iberate Vene-
tia, it was bad enough to leave her in the grippe of
Austria; but to insult her with the assertion of
fictitious independence is an aggravation of the in
jury. How Venice can be politically Italian it is
difficult to see. Austrian rule is unhappiIy an
iron fact while the Confederation is at pre-.
sent myth and may never become reality.
The next sentence Of the proclamation is even
more mendaci0us and insulting =" The union
OF Lombardy with Piedmont creates for us
powerful ally, who will owe to us its indie.
pendence." Nor is the daring assertion that
Italy will henceforth be mistress of her own desti-
MES. at all more truthful. The whole proclama-
ton is indeed poor attempt to disguise the fact
that the proclaimed objects of the war have been
to a great extent sacrificed.
Yet it would be unjust to deny that something is
gained; large, populous and wealthy province
the most powerful Italian State. Italian nationality
has become question of prime European impor-
tance, and can never again sink into a subordinate
or even secondary place. The spirit of the people
of Italy has been stirred and they have learned in
this brief campaign what may be done by united,
well organized and resolute effort These are re.
suits of permanent value, which even the hasty
and 1gnominious peace cannot destroy.
From the London Telegraph (rndcal organ) July 1877
The Emperor Louis Napoleon has published his
apology for the Convention of Viafranca It is
addressed not to France, but to the army upon the
traditional pr@torian principle inherited from the
usurpers of Rome by the Caesar of Paris. Whether
the Imperial troops are satisfied with half cam
paign it would be superfiuous to inquire; to them
the war has been less one of luxury than they had
been promised. Nor need we scrutinize very close
~ the sentiments of France, of England or of Ger
many in relation to the peace proclaimed from the
Mncio. universal consciousness manifests itself
that great juggle has been palmed off upon the
liberals of Europe that Napoleonism, to suit Sc.
cret purpose, has once more assumed, for few
months, the revolutionary mask, that the enfran.
chisement Of Italy was pretence
There is another consideration in which Austria
may find at once her vengeance, her consolation,
and her hope. She has been humbled, but the
Lombards still more so. They will be coerced into
accepting what they formerly spurned; their iron
crown will be worn by " the bastards of Sayoy:''
their traditions will be linked with those of a race
to which has fallen, as the Mianese are accustomed
to protest, no share of Italian national glory. The
proud populations of the northern plains are at
length, in fulfilment of hateful prophecy long ago
uttered, to be governed in their own name by
a stranger and mountaneer. The game, con-
sentative organ has said, has been one between
pirate and despot; the former has won
but the latter, while he pays forfeit, stipulates
favorably for himself, and Italy is to suffer.
The more we reflect the more firmly are we con-
WINGED that this Vlaranca compromise will satisfy
liberal aspirations in no quarter of Europe since
it bears on its very face the characteristics of an
immoral, underhand crafty compact, bauk to
freedom and fraud upon diplomacy. And yet,
let us repeat, we rejoice even in this beggarly con-
summation since nothing more suspicious could
have sprung from the conjunction of two stars so
malignant in their influence over Europe as those
of France and Austria. ga plague on both their
houses! Let their policy mean what it will; our
ony HiIeieet Htts1 NC w coNsonudle JnaL peace
which has at once astonished rejoiced and disap-
pointed Europe.
paris July ID, correspondence Of London Gaoscl
In the new Italian federation Austria will have
not only vote for Venice, but for the rotten DO.
roughs Of Modena, Parma and Florence. Rome is
not likely to play the game of Mcguire and Pope
Hennessy's Roman Independent opposition
Naples will represent the Newdegate Spooner and
Whiteside bench in the federal Assembly and the
constitutional vote of Piedmont, cum Lombardy
will be utterly swamped. Is the republic of ST.
Marine to have no vote Take the project in any
working or practical sense, it is palpabe absur
dity and complete Austrian triumph. If Napo-
" Eclogues' composed on Mncios banks two
thousand years ago, might very truly say to him
self
Ebeul quid feel misero mihiP foribus Austros
Improbus, ct liquids mms f0ntibus aproal
One event is inevitable. The Parliament at Tu
rim was proroguea and suspended ''only during the
war; The Parliamentary" army was never