New-York daily tribune., 1859-08-04
TRUTH TEsTlFIED.

Klausewitz tmarks somew here 10 his work on
the italian campaign Of l7. and % that after all,
var is not 90 theatrical al affair az people are apt
to fancy and that victories and defeats If cOntem-
plated with the eye Of science, look rather the re-
verse of the picture Of them reflected on the brains
Of the political gossip. The knowledge OF TINS
truth has enabled us to bear with some equanlm'ty
the ussy anger which our appreciation OF the mill
t,ry events Of the recent war has from time to
tine called forth from various Jealous, not lotel-
gent, Bonapartist organs in this country, whether
printed in the French the Ens slish language.
We row have the satisfaction of finding our judg-
ment Of these events confirmed much sooner than
We could have expected, and by the principal belli-
geren,s themselves, by Francis Joseph and Louis
Napoleon
Leaving a.ide questions Of mere detail, what
was the pith of our criticism On the one hand
We traced the defeats Of the Austrians not to any
genius displayed on the part of the Allles-not to
the fabulous effects of the rifed cannon-not to the
imaginary defections of the Hungarian regiments
not to the yaunted dash of the French soldiers, but
simply to the strstegical faults committed by the
Austrian generals, whom Francis Joseph and his
personal advisers had put in the place OF such men
as Gen. Hess. 1t was this faulty strategy which not
only coptrived to oppose numerical moorties to the
foe at every point, but on the battlefield itsel'
was able TO arrange the disposable forces IN the
most absurd manner On the other haud, the stub
born resistance exhibited even under such eircum-
stances by the Austrian army; battles almost equal
" contested, notwithstanding the dlsproportion
eok Atba fka sfyaf fa0ipa al
blunders committed by the French, aud their
objectionable lsziness, which paralyzed VIC
tory and almost abandoned its fruits BY neg
lectipg the opportunities of pursuit-sii these
thrps warranted US in stating that BY the transfer Of
the supreme command Of the Austrian army from
incompetent into able hands, the positions ofthe bel
liaerents were likely to be reversed. The second
point ard the most important one, upon which ~e
insisted, even before the oubresk Of tie war, was
tbi,: that from the moment the Austrians turned
from the offensive 10 the defensive, the var would
he divided into two parts; the Delodramstlc, car
ried on in Lonbsrdy, and the serious commencing
behind the liDe Of the MDcio, within the terr bic
petwork Of the four fortresses All the victories Of
the French. We said, weighed s. DothiDg, when
compared with the tr,s they still had TO encounter
il po.ition which il had cost even the real NapO-
leon nine months to overcome, though IN his time
Verona, Legna, and Pesehiera we're cpbers In q
military serse, and Mantua alone had to bear the
whole brunt Of the attack. Gen. Hess, who, OF
course, was better acquainted than We with the
status gro of Austrian genera.hip, had, as We now
ascertain from the journals Of Vienna, proposed in
the ouhet OF the war not TO invade Piedmont, but
rather 10 evacuate Lombardy aud accept battle only
behind the Mineio. Let Us now hear what Francis
Joseph and Louis Boraparte say in their apologies
the one for having abandoned part Of province,
ard the other for baviDg alsifed the programme he
put forth in beginning the war.
Francis Js.eph states two facts in regard to tie
war in which be s Dot contradcted BY the Mont
tew In his appeal to his army, he says that the
Austrian forces were always opposed to superior
numbers The MoniteHr dares not controyert thia
statement, which when rightly considered, lays
the greatest blame on the Austrian Emperor's own
shoulders However that may be, We may clrim the
merit Of having from the most contradictory state.
usLa Of "owl cOyrssPondsnts,' from French