The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-08-24
MAZZINT ON THE PROSPECTS OF
a EUROPE
A NEW HOLY ALLIANCE.

France is now expiating in her shame and oppres-
sion the crime then committed.
Europe, if she persists in the cowardy and culpa-
BILE indifference with which she regards now the
progress and acts of Bonapartism will herself suf
fer an inevitable and severe expiration. AS the ex
petition against Romew the prelude of the French
coup deta so the Crimean and Italian wars are but
two steps towards the European coup Petat The
next step will be the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of Turkey and
a war against England, then isolated in Europe
| If the Roman expedition had been arrested-if
Lord Pamerston instead of declaring through
Lord Normandy that the Protestant government of
her Majesty approved the restoration of Cathol-
icism in Rome, had then said to Louis Napoleon,
''England will not permit foreign intervention in
the internal affairs of other States" Imperialism
| would have been checked in the opening of its
career, and the wars of the Crimea and Lombardy
would probably not have occurred; only this weak
ness of England has kept Louis Napoleon audacious
and powerful.
The expedition to Rome had the triple object of
pleasing the French clergy, dscreditiDg the Repub-
lcan Assembly, and preparing the French soldiers
to combat against the republican standard at home.
But it was, besides, for Louis Napoleon a means of
learning the tendencies and existing power of the
European governments. 1t was for him that which
feeling the pulse is TO the physician. The pulse of
Europe, tolerant and indifferent spectator of the
noble defence of Rome, showed to him that he had
no need to fear of tering in the governments
either political tirmness, or faith in ruling prin-
|
people commenced to feel it themselves Bona
partisan, or the blind alteration of Force, COM
menced to sprout vigorously among the ruins Of
! Roman liberty. t1 .a..-.
Then came the coup d'etat of the I'd of December.
shuddering of rage and execration ran through
| all Europe gulf surrounded the usurper, 1t was
enough to maintain this isolation about him, so
! that, without footing in France, without other
arms besides terror, he should quickly fall. The
English government, in an unhappy moment of
weakness and political shortsightedness, extended
its hand to the guilty one. The Anglo French
alliance saved Louis Napoleon, and gave him
| power and prestige in Europe. Other people, see
ing the proud, free and powerful England embra-
cling him, began to concede to him an ability that
he really did not possess
Was it a political concet that expected the alli-
ance to limit the action of the allied? Was it be-
eved that it was necessary at every step to allay
the old tradition OF antagonism between two great
nations? Alliance limits the action of power
only when both of those allied represent the same
principle Free England, in alying itself with i'm
perialism, gave the latter-without binding 1.-THE
moral force which was hitherto wanting; and as to
the natural antagonism, facts have shown, and will
ever show, that the only remedy for this antagon-
| ism is triumph of liberty in France. France re-
quires either liberty the glory of war. England
moreover, in making treaty with the Emperor,
allied herself with man, and not with the country.
! No can believe in the Napoleonic dynasty; and
on the exile or death of Louis Napoleon, and when
France is free nation, the alliance of England with
the despot will add another link to the chain of ira
| ditional antagonsm. "You always distrusted
France" they will say to England, and only allied
ranny upon her people,"
No! the conduct of the English government was
inspired by policy of fear, and nothing is worse
than such policy towards power which equals
you in material and does not like you. Louis Napo-
leon OWNED the beginning ofthis policy and prose-
cuted with greater audacity his own plans
The war OF the Crimea was for him only the
means of obtaining that which should follow-a
treaty in nd for 6
becoming friendly with Russia. As soon as he saw
prospect of the success of his scheme he fastened
as he did at the present time, to conclude peace
insecure for his ally and declared premature bv
the public opinion of England. He more than ever
fomented trouble between Russia and England
and soon after the secret treaties with the Gar
were commenced,
As the war in the Crimea, so the war in italy was
for Louis Napoleon, the means of bringing about
an alliance with Austria. The ancient pride of the
Austrian monarchy could only be subdued on the
battlefield. "Our war; he said to Count Cavour
at the Conference of Plomberes "will only last six
weeks; after a defeat Austria will revive the pro-
posas of 1913, and we will accept them; the other
Powers dare not interfere" The Count Cavour
consented, and made of the idea Of Italian nation
atty a footstool of the Austrian Russian
French alliance Only that since the idea of Italian
nationality emancipating itself, and pointing to-
wards duty, regardless of the dynastcal ambi-
tons of Louis Napoleon, he FASTENED the peace
and proposed that which, according to his earlier
plan, be only meant to accept.
The peace OF Nillafranca is the Inauguration of a
new Holy Alliance between the three powers that
represent despotism in Europe-imperia France
Russia and Austria. The object of the alliance is,
according to phrases spoken at Pomberes and
Stuttgard to imperialize Europe, by overpoweriug
by means of deception the national ideas, and sub
shutting the question of territory for the question
of liberty. The means-following the war in
Lombardy-are the dividing between the three
members of the Alliance of the Mohammedan pos
sessions in Europe and Africa, and the against
England.
If Austria had not accepted the proposals of Vii
latranca, the plans would have been carried on
though in modified manner by the Emperor and
the gar hungary, emancipated from Austria,
Wonld have shared the fate of Constantinople; the
Mediterranean, become French lake, would have
been given to the Emperor; Russia would have
been directly or indirectly the mistress of the
north and east OF Europe, while imperial France
would rule the west and south. At present the
designs of the three powers are limited, as | said,
to the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of Oriental Europe and war
against England and Prussia. ....
aflrm, not from mere conjecture, but by knoWl-
cage OF the TACT, the existence of these designs.
assert that the basis of the treaty between the En-
peror and the Gar, relating to the Orient, were
conveyed from Paris by La Ronciere during his
last mission to st. Petersburg little before the
war in Lombardy broke out. assert that the
preparations OF war, particularly the maritime
rangementS, continue in France more active than
ever; There lives in Europe who knows the
truth of which l speak, aud could confirm nv
statements, but will not do it; nor shall betray
him who thus prefers to be silent.
Inc genius OF Louis Napoleon is the genius of
the spirit OF evil. Condemned to ignore quell
the germs of good the sublime instincts that trem-
BILE In the hearts of every man and nation, he is
master IN the knowledge of every egotism, every
interest, OF every wrong tendency, and of every
base passion, which browns those instincts. Like
the tempter, he causes the blow or the weakness
that draws the victim to ruin. He cannot estab-
lish, but be knows how to dissolve. In this remains
the secret OF his maintained power A free and
logically moral policy would condemn him to spec
dy ruin. The persistence of poor, dismembered It
ally, IN her desire for unity would suffice to upset all
the dynastic plans OF Louis Napoleon. b.
war is for the Empire absolute necessity
Inc Empire does notrepresent principle; such as
liberty, nor tradition, such as legitimacy, nor a
faith, such as theocracy. The Empire represents
fact-a force created by usurpation and this fact is
necessarily involved, this force cannot maintain it
sell except by actions that fortify it. Glory and
territorial ACKNOWLEDGEMENT the only things the
Empire can give to France in exchange for liberty.
! w here power consists of chief and an army,
war is but the normal condition of its life. 1t is
but an Illusion to believe that the Empire can be
peace; it would give the lie to history.
| And the alliances with the Empire can only be
alliances with despotism. Alliances are founded
upon an identity OF principles and interests. The
Imperialism in Europe. The natural allies of Louis
| Napoleon are Russia and Austria. 1t would be
with Prussia if The Rhenish provinces, destined,
according to imperial tradition, to belong to France,
ana not prevent. The statesmen who allied Eng
land with the Empire committed a crime and at
tempted an impossibity. r.--
After defining the moral and political meanings
OIL neutrality, and declaring that tremendous ex-
patton will be required of those nations who seek
neutrality to evade the duties which God charges
upon nations as well individuals, and warning
the English against the increasing power of France
ana Russia, Mazzlnl proceeds with his diatribe
against the French Empire. sg.4i-7-. -.
Imperialism is the imminent danger in Europe
Europe should combat it, and conquer or die. I'm