The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-02-08


Democratic nominees.
In one Of MoLIEREs most charming comedies,
roguish maid-servant, disguised as a doctor,
tries to persuade an old gentleman who fances
himself sick, and is easily humbugged to submit
to the amputation of one of his arms. She tells
him, it will strengthen the other-and so, too,
adds She "you have right eye there, which, if
81 were in your place, | would have put out
''you will see so much better with the left" Pre-
cseIy in accordance with this advice of Toinete to
her master Argan, is the reasoning employed by
the Emperor NAPOLEON, for the purpose of recon-
Cling the Holy Father to the loss of the Lega-
TONS In his letter to His Holiness, dated De-
cember 3lst, the EMPEROR says
"After a serious consideration of the difficulties and
dangers which the different combinations present saw
It with sincere regret and painful the conclusion NAV
be- that the solution which appears conform
able to the true interests Of the Holy See will be
render the reyoed provinces IF The Holy Father for
the sake of the peace of Europe should give up these
provinces, which for so years have been great embar-
rassment to his Government, and if in exchange he
should request the great Powers guarantee to him the
possession of the remainder do not doubt of the mme
date restoration of tranquility Then the Holy Father
would insure to grateful Italy peace for many years and
70 the Holy See the peaceful possession of the States of the
Church."
Whether the Pore will be more easily persuaded
than the sick in the play, that the loss
of one of his members will improve the use Of the
rest remains to be seen. NJ. DE La GUERRoNIERE
had already essayed in his pamphlet -'The Pope
"and the Congress"--to persuade the Holy Father
that parting with his temporal will increase his
spiritual authority, and with no better result
than that of causing His Holiness to stigmatse his
work as "a striking monument of hypocrisy and an
"ignoble tissue of contradictions" Even since
the date of the Imperial letter in question, events
have TRANSFERRED in Italy which go strongly to
show that not even upon the basis proposed by
the EMPEROR, can the peaceful possession of his
temporal dOminions be assured to the PORE. We
learn from the correspondence of the Independence
Beige that Populations from the city of Rome and
the Papal States which have not yet revolted
have recently held an assembly at Florence and
expressed their solemn conviction that the tenn
poral Government of the PORE is no longer tolera-
BILE, and their determination no longer to endure
it. The deputies of the Romagna were present at
the meeting, and pledged themselves not to sepa-
rate their cause from that of the other provinces.
A central juna has been formed in furtherance of
this resolve, and an address signed by Count
CAMPELLo, the President, and all the members Of
the Assembly, has been forwarded to the EMPEROR
at Paris. 1t may be doubted, therefore. whether
even within the walls of the Eternal City, the
people will be found willing 10 acquiesce in
longer continuance of the Papal rule, or accept
the consultations which NJ. DE LA GUERRoNIERE sar-
casticay STANDARDIZATION, PRAYER the
''fne arts, and the ruins of the Coliseum as q
representation, no magistracy, no press! That
the Emperor NAPOLEON has no authority, in
advance of the Congress, to propose to the PORE
guaranty for the rest of his dominions, in exchange
for the surrender of the Legations, we take to be
very certain. The Powers invited to participate
in that Congress can scarcely have authorized him
to offer any such terms, and of England it may
be safely affirmed, that she will never be party
to any such arrangement No Government could
hope to keep Office for one hour which should
pledge the army and navy Of England to sustain
the power of the PORE. Of Prussia, and the
Protestant States of Northern Europe, we think
it may be predicted with equal confidence, that
they will not unite in any such guaranty, while
Sardinia, particularly under the administration
of Count CAvoUR, will hardly risk the loss of
prestige and influence at home, which would fol-
low any assent on her part to the perpetuation of
the Papa tyranny over any portion ofhe Italian pc
ninsua people. With almost as much consist
ency she might be called upon to join in a guar
anty of Venea to Austria. Nor is it at all clear
how the EMPEROR himself can consistently bind
himself by any such compact. Every argument
which he advances against the employment of
6, e, al, T
would be equally applicable to the case of the
other provinces, should they rise in successful
revolt.
Now the Congress is about to assemble the Powers
dsown the incontestibe right of Holy See
the Legations nevertheless is probable that they will
net be of opinion that should have force
TO subject them For if that subsection were obtained by
the aid Of foreign troops it would imply the military
cupaton OF the Legations for long time. This occupa
ton would keep alive the hareds and resenments of
great portion Of the Italian people also the jealousy of
the great powers; this would be, then to perpetuate
state of irritation, distrust and fear"
As the EMPEROR himself tells US, s'there is an in
'exorabe logic of facts" which leads to conclu-
sons far beyond any which his letter states, and
which points, with unerring finger, to the down
fall Of the political power of the Papacy as a
result which no foreign nation can consistently
assume TO prevent. For, if the employment of a
authority of the PoPE in one province of his
dominions, be voted inadmssible-with what
grace propriety it be resorted to in the
others? Or, if it be wrong to interfere to restore
that authority where already overthrown-how
can it be right to uphold it, where but for such
interference, it soon would be overthrown? If
the French garrison were withdrawn from Rome
how long would the Papal Government be in ex-
istence? Yet what argument justify the
presence of French soldiers in Rome, which would
not hold equally good in the Romagna-or what
consistency is there in the logic which places a
foreign sword in the hand of the Holy Father in
the one case and denies it to him in the other?
These are questions that are rather darkly
limited at in the Imperial letter, than explicit
ly disposed of. The EMPEROR could not well
say more, and it would be unreasonable
to tax him with the logical inconsistency of which
his argument in favor of the surrender of the Ie-
cations and his conditional undertaking to guar
antee the remaining possessions of the Holy See
would seemingly convict him. The EMPEROR has
shown that he is a man who has known how to
wait and be silent. For five years, he tells us, his
mind has been made up in favor of Free Trade,
yet only the other day did he begin to carry his
long cherished ideas of commercial and financial
reform into execution. From the peace of Villa
franco, until the date of his present letter to the
Pope, he has permitted his views respecting the
settlement of Italy to remain more or less subject
to conjecture and misconstruction. At length,
he has unfolded them, and it is in perfect accord
ance with his character to suppose that he has
folded them but in part 1t is equally in keeping
with his history to assume that any future devel-
opments Of bis policy will be found to be entirely
consistent and of one piece with that which he has
adopted in reference to the Legations-which he
foreshadowed eleven years ago, in his letter to
EDGAR NEY, and which has received subsequent
and further illustration in the "Roman Ques-
''ton" of NJ. ABOUT, and the recent pamphlet of
NJ. DE La GUERRoNIERE.
We trust that the supply Of patrio willing to
serve their country in the NetronOitan Police