Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-11-09
Napoleon M and Italian unity.


Ministers at Paris, might perhaps make a
SO resolnte man and less deep calculator
in the present cause of Italian unity.
1not imagine that much can come even
Oh such combined pressure In the present
case. AS for the fOamiug torrent of invec-
tire which is being discharged from the
mouth OF the French Episcopate, he can hard
| ly think it worth more attention than the
| fiattery from the same mouth little time ago.
These fawning adulators, who have but just
risen from licking the dust before him. have
well earned an extremity of contempt. These
| eaitiffs who made themselves the scorn OF
| Europe, should for mere shame stink back in
| to their holes when their idol disappoints
them and refuses to be their puppet. Are
these men in position to give advice? They
committed themselves, body and soul, to the
elected of the 9Th of December upon his first
start; they worshipped him as God; he was
| to think for them, will for them, act for them.
Well, that is what he is just now doing.
What have they to complain of! Do they
| think they have mistaken their man? If they
have, il is too late to correct the mistake now;
and if they do not know this, there is some
| body else who does. But what is their ad-
vice when they give il? Is there anything
| in it that could for moment move man
of sense? 1t is maze up of the stalest as
sumptions, the refuse aud dregs of the old
and cut and dried plstitudes, OF which the
history of three centuries has proved the alb
solute falsehood. sit is true,H says the
Bishop of Poictiers, ''the Pope has more than
St. Peter ever bad, but it is required for the
spiritual CHIEF the whole world the guide of
two hundred million of consciences."
But is not the direction of 200, 100000 of
conseiences quite work enough for any man.
without the addition OF a whole temporal
l., Of -
tiers does not see this. 1t does not occur to
him TO ask himself the question, why does
the guide of 200,G00,O00 Of consciences want
this temporal appendage?" He a sumes If {;
he asserts tit does hot need q reason; it is
too self-evident to him for that; it is an axi-
ON, a fact, truism, law of nature; it is
written in the sky that the Pope must be
king. He can no more argue about it than
about any necessary assumption in matters
of eason or practice. Why do we want to
breathe; why do we want to eat. or drink, or
sleep? Why DO we assume our own existence
or anything else? Because we find we must
DO so, and in the same way the Bishop of
Poictiers assumes the necessity of a King
Pope. But this is not reason, il is mere i'm
preston, it is mere habit, it is one of those
Irrational, artificial instincts, which grow out
of the simple continuance of particular
state of things; one OF those manufactured
delusion; the fiction of brains which are too
weak to unite suy present combinations. and
separate principle from any existing state of
fact. The reason Of Europe has been long
undermining the status quo of the Papacy,
aud it can appeal 10 nothing in its defence
but mere shadow of itself, or the assumed
necessity OF its own existence, which is the
mere reflection of the past in the minds of
is followers, and only shows the force of
Al Il 4
reason must yield to the substance. There is
one who sees more clearly than the French
Emperor the growing evidence on which Ca
your rests 90 much, to the fact that the infiu-
ence of religion is not connected with this or
that secular shape OF things, and that it is q
mere sham and imposition upon such
ground to sound The alarnist CRY that reIi-
gion is in danger.
The Russian and Austrian screw may pos
sibly work little deeper than the clerical
one, but the arguments of these courts will
not gain much. at any rate, from the general
position and Intrinsic credit of the advisers.
Their fundamental relations to the new
French dynasty, are not such to impart a
very genuine character to any such sugges-
lions they may offer for the benefit Of French
policy. Napoleon Ill, has from the very
nature and basis of his throne, one absorbing
and engrossing interest and that is the sue
cess of his dynasty. His first thought on
ascent was a spouse of the royal blood of
Europe, for royal alliances are the natural
-Op of European throne. But he could
It one, because certain Courts were re-
. look upon him as an adventurer.
Courts, however, have given him the
treatment of real king, and given him SOL
I'd help and support as the founder of n dy-
nasty; and those are the English and Sardin-
iaan; the one gave him royal reception
which would have suited the descendant of
hundred kings, the other gave him royal
into the casuistry of the original commence
ment OF the Italian interchangeable, now
the cause of Italian unity is fairly af1oat, Ma
poteon's liberal NGlian policy has cemsrlted and
confirmed English fduor. We do not vouch for
English appreciation of all the acts OF the
French Emperor connected with this move
ment but it is not muck to say that the pat
ronage of the cause of Italian unity has Civ
en- French despotism much more favorable
light to stand in before The English public
than it would otherwise have had; and this
applies, we need not say, in a much stronger
degree to Sardinia.
1t is certainly question, then, whether
Napoleon III could possibly gain much by re-
ceding at this time OF day, when the stream
of events has been allowed to flow so far
from the cause of Sandman and Italian uni
ty at the suggestion of two Courts Who nat
urally support dynastic interests wholly OPP
posite to his own. Ii may very likely be the
case that the cause of the Italian unity has
outstripped his original design, gone faster
than he wanted, and taken a shape which he
had never intended for it. His idea was that
of a confederacy wh'ch would have raised no
new Power in Europe, have given ample OPP
portunity for French interference, and posi-
bly, issued only in an exchange of French in
fuence for Austrian in Italy. That idea has
been obliged to vanish before facts. and the
form which Italian unity is now assuming is
that of one compact kingdom in powerful adj
ministrative hands. This is different thing
altogether and the dream of French posses
sion of Italy is over, Still Sardinia is his
ally, his relation; he wants royal connexions;
it is his interest to support them and make
the most of them when be has got them. Il
great Italian monarchy in alliance a9d afini-
ty with the Napoleonie dynasty would be a
gain In his light, even if it left less room fer
the control OF France as an empire over
Italian politics.
The French Emperor is too sagacious to be
angry with movement because it has not
quite answered his expectations; he knows
The uncertainty of human events as well as
any one, and the wisdom of meeting them
half way. and extracting all the advantage
which can be extracted from them, il more
cannot be. With al drawbacks his interest
even now lies in the cause of Italian unity; it
will give him. at any rate, one great Europe
an royal alliance; whereas, TO recede from it,
now that il has made such way, would be to
lose one alliance and possibly not get anoth-
er In its place, to smbitter Sardinia, to dis
gust England, and to abandon that whole
ground which strengthened his throne in the
feelings of the liberal nations of Europe
CHARCOAL FoR TURKEYs.-Four turkeys
were confined IN pen and fed on meal. boiled
potatoes and cats. Four others of the same
brood were alsoat the same time confined in
another pen, and fed daily on the same ar
ticies, but with one pint of finely pulverized
oh xa1 with their meal and NOT faaa