Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1860-02-14


tries made their best efforts to evcnom the
debate. Short Of an actual conflict, the cX'
acrrbation could not have attained to higher
pitch, when, all at once, both parties discovered
that they were fighting in the dark, and for a
phantom; since for the present time. Auslri:
may well be called only the phantom Of her
self! 4 truce Immediately takes place-the
French are told to sing. q new song, and they
do it; the English papers, instead Of snccrina
at the rccantatlon, praise and exalt the Emperor
Of the French for that proof Of moderation
The lesson was double and served both
ways. England learned that she had endan
ecred her alliance with powerful ncighbor fnr
the sake of powcrlcss and distant friend Ma
poeon understood, at glance, that, if an en-
pirc like Austria could brrcduced to impotency,
and 10 the contempt that follows it, more by It's
beggarly and pcnnilcss condition, than from
the result OF bloody battles he himself might
see the whole fabric Of his imperial rc.construc
ton blown to atoms by a fnancary crisis,
whose spectre has perhaps been visible TO his
eyc-thc only eye which is really behind the
scenes and sees what is there passing. Money
is power: What can he envy in England, il
rot that wealth and prosperity that bears heavy
taxes, and walks along with them, with the
ease of an elephant who carries an armed tow
cr on his hack.
Mutual concessions followed the iinling out
Of the mystery. The one wants to initiate Eng
land and make money, the other is best pleased
10 ingratiate herself with Il close nclghbor,
whose despair would be her greatest danger.
The manifesto on free trade followed hard upon
the pamphlet on the Papal question. All the
good and wishcd-ror effect OF the latter must
have been produced in the course Of Il few days;
but if the public mind had been left to prey upon
this only pabuun, the further results would
have been fraught with dangers. Those wrhng-
lngs on the spiritual and the temporal power ot
the Pope would soon degenerate into rank.
ling dispute, in which abstraction idealogy and
E.na,cism must play their wonted part. Like
every other people, we were ourselves aston
ishctl at the auflaclty with which Napoleon had
cast n lighted torch in the public way; that
feat would not have been possible without such
corrective, already in hand, as the manifesto
on the new commercial policy proves TO be-
Interesting as is the fate Of the Romagna, yet
the growth Of agriculture, industry and ex
rortation OF goods, is much more TO the point
and affects cveryhndy's direct and material in.
lcrcStS.
We d. not mean to suggest that the ideas
advocated in the pamphlet are deserted by
their originator; they have, OH the contrary, re-
ceived their sanction from the E,nperor's own
hand in letter addressed to the Pope in an.
swcr 10 one written to him by the latter at the
date OF the I'd Of December, which date, il
purposcly chosen, must huve been intended by
the Holy Father rs memcnto gNia pulcis Is
to his naughty protector reminding him Of his
origin as I government. and Of those troubled
times Of bis when after the coup detat his
own pontifical influence had been Of some SER
vice 10 the usurpcr The Emperor did not
answer until the eve Of New Years day, and
then he tells the Pope very cody that the diff
cu!tieS under which he labors are Of his (thc
PoprS j making
If he does not find himself in q worse pre-
dicanent let him be thankful to his (thc En-.
perur'$) Efforts. lie had more trouble TO pre-.
vent the inSurrecton from spreading than in
anything else he succeeded in achieving from
the day the war broke out. But something
more remains to be done; for this state OF TN.
certainty cannot last for ever. Let 1.-THE Holy
Father, for the sake Of the peace Of Europe, give
up those provinces which have been for fifty
years great embarrassment to his government;
and should he, in exchange, request the great
powers to guarantee to bin the possession OF
tho remainder. he has no doubt Of the in,nr-
date restoration Of tranquility"
That is to an ota the policy Of the Pamphlet;
and what the Pope must have thought Of the
letter we know full we'll from what he thinks
Of the Pamphlet. Owing to the circumstance
Of the long delay of the EmpcroT's answer, the
aIlocutipn of the Pope, on New Years day. in
reply TO the congratulations of General Gnyon,
Coul,nandrrin.Cl,icfo of the French Division in
the Papal States, is tIest explicit answer to the
letter from the Emperor. even before it had
reached its destination. We have here the sin
gular phenomenon Of two correspondents ad-
dressing each other nearly at the same time
one on the 3lst December the other on the 1St
OF January--with the greatest discrepancy Of
opinion, and each trusting that his correSpon.
dent will understand the necessity Of coming
to terms, as "hc will. in no respect, chang. his
line Of conduct"
The emphatic declaration OF the Holy See is,
that he hopes that the august leader Of the
French army and nation, guided by the light
Of God, will admit again the alscness Of certain
principles laid down recently in . pamphlet
which may be styled n monster monument Of
hypocrisy and a dcsplcabej ejuinble Of contradic.
tons. That strong condemnation Of ideas
which were known to emanate from the Enpc-
ror, is followed by the disclosure Of the fact
that "wc Qhc Pope) have in our possession
some pocu,ncnts which his Majesty, some short
time since, had the kindness to send us, and
which arc a full condemnation Of these princi.
Piles.
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