New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-10-02
ITAIy-GBRMANY.

The interviews Of German SOvereigns and dlplo-
matists, held in the course of this Summer at
Baden. Baden and Teplitz, have been already dis
cussed BY European as well as by American jour
mails. But their intrinsic significance is over
shadowed by the deliberations held in the begin
niDp Of September at COburg. AT the Baden
Baden and Tephtz Conferences the plans and petty
combinations of Csbioets were considered; but
at Coburg met the de outIes Of the pOt-
cial societies of Germany, represent
log the Liberal party, the friends OF constl-
tutonal monarchy, and of German unity.
The President of the Conference was Herr You
Benigsen, Hanoverian noble, who stands to-day
az the leader of the more active and decided cham
pions of German unity. Among it's members were
the most advanced Liberals, some verging on re-
publcanism, and most of them new men, as well
as those bearing familiar names, such as Professor
Welcker, the surviving patriarch of German unity.
The general tone of the deliberations was anti
Austrian in the extreme, while at the same time
hope was held out to the Msgyars and Slayi that
they might be included in the proposed German
Empire.
On the 30th Of August, Signor Farins, one Of the
foremost Italian Liberals, and member o, the Cabi-
net of Victor Emanuel, sent manifesto to the
President of this cobyocation, making an appeal to
the whole German nation, whose friendship, he
says, is priceless to the Italians A reply to this
vas sent by Herr Won Benigsen, which, with ma q
assurances of good will from Germany, gives this
friendly advice: " Let the Italians go on in their
/" emancipation, being cautious not to injure the
great and direct interests of the German people
% and to avoid any conflict with other revolution
" airy ratiobs. Although Germany rejoices 10 the
regeneration of the Italians the oldest cultivated
" European people, and to whom may be traced
I" the origin of much of German culture, yet the
" Germans are determined to be watchful of their
own political interests in all directions (the
" Rhine and the POI, and will, if needed, for
their sake, suppress all feelings of sympathy
- in favor of Italy"
The meaning of all this is simply that the Ital-
ians are warned not to attempt the liberation of
Venice from Austrian rule. This accOrds with
what we have for years maintained in these col
umns TO be tue character of German Liberalism.
These men sustan the German strategic theory
that the security of Germany depends upon her
possession OF the southern slopes of the Alps, and
of the shores of the Po and the Mlncio, including,
of course Venice and the Qaadrilateral. The no
ton that all this region of country must forever
remain German property is deeply ingrained in the
mind of the cultivated and liberal German, who
finds it's justification in the celebrated reconstruc-
ton of Germany by new BatbsrOssa. Thus the
Liberals desire not merely to overthrow Austria,
but to take her place in her Italian dominion.
A theory so selfish, that it even cannot tran
scerd geographical boundaries, must tell against
the Germans. France has far more reason, geo.
graphically and morally, to claim the frontier Of
the Rhine than Germany has to assert any nat
ural right in Italy. The culture and refinement of
France have passed the German bank of that river,
where the people speak, and are proud Of speak
ing, French. But German culture has no foothold
whatever in ItSly, where the German tongue il
hated by all Italians alike.