Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-10-23
rhe statesman and the soldter.


Count Cavonr's message to the Sandman
house of deputies, is the most statesman like
paper which Italian politics has elected, from
the outbreak of the Piedmontese war, uutiI
the present time. 1t is at once broad and
patriotic, firm and temperate; it is polite.
generous and forbearing: personal feeling
Is nobly merged in the public interest, and It
is especially remarkable for its recognition
of ultimate moral principles. Highly as we
have estimated the abilities of the Sandman
minister, and much as we have respected the
chivalric nobility of his character, we were
| not prepared for paper evincing wisdom
SO comprehensive, and which must give him
the first rank among living statesmen.
| The highest evidence of ability is afforded
| by the Statesman who can judge impartially
and broadly of matters in which he is q
| mover, and which are OF personal Importance
and interest to himself and country. Count
Cavour speaks of the great movement of his
| own nation and time calmly and philosophi-
caliy, as If they were subjects of history.
Yet his judgment is redeemed from any sus-
| picion of apathy, by glow of patriotism, of
| loyalty, aud Of genial admiration for the
very man who had just denounced him. which
could only exist In spirit as ardent as it is
pure.
1t is clear from the tone of this paper, TO
| what master mind the judicious measures
Emanuel, especially in the present war, owe
their origin. The Sandman king is happy
! in such minister. The heroic but impuls-
i've Garibaldi well knew what hand it was
that Strengthened and restrained him. In
the presumption of success, like the prince
in the fable who sought to draw off the
troublesome magic ring, the dictator de-
manded the dismissal of the prudent minis
ter. Cavour was too great to be angry ; he
felt proud of the glory of Garibaidi; while
the letter-as just at heart as be is hasty in
impulse-soon acknowledged his error and
the unanswerable strength of the minister s
position. At this very time, too, the provi-
dence which both acknowledge sent the hap
py repulse of Capua; at the moment worth
more to Garibaidi and to Italy than victo-
~. This salutary and decided check helped
his better reason.
Cavour says, in effect: while we painfully
sympathiZe with the people of Rome and
lNence, we can only help them by strength
ening and consolidating what we have gain
ed. We must leave something to that neces-
sity of event, which will bring about har-
mOnious result in process of time. Treat
ing the opinion and feeling of Garibaldi with
generous courtesy, be goes on to show that
the provisional and revolutionary state in
Naples and Sicily must be changed for q
regular aud stable government, before fur
Their operations can be conducted with the
least hope of success. What he relies upon
to work for the deliverancc OF Rome and We
nice he does not say; bat that the influence
of the prosperity of the other provinces upon
the people of those states, and the probable
change in the attitude of Napoleon as the
protector of the Pope, making the fndepend-
ence of both practicable without collision
| with France, are among the results expected
from the lapse of no distant time, we may
confidently believe.
The respect which Cavour manifests for
Napoleon, while it is polite, commends itself
TO The better feelings of all who know what
moral obligation is. If gratitude was ever
due for a service which made the difference
| between independence and slavery, it is due
| from Sardinia to France and Count Cavour
| honOrably acknowledges the debt 1t is
much the fashion 10 cavil at NapOleon's mo-
tives, and it is easy to argue that they were
selfish. But, however that may be, the fact
remains that Sardinia owes her independence
to the gallantry of France. Cayour is not
willing to incur the penalty of ingratitude
by rushing upon destruction. I'm our pres
ent circumstances, to confront the French
troops" says he, would be not merely un-
heard OF folly; it would be grievous fault
and guilt"
The part of the message, however, which
shows most clearly that the mind of the Sar-
dinian minister has grasped the subject OF
Italian liberty in its broadcast view, is that in
which he refers to the Popish see. We quote
a part of the paragraph:
1.-The question of Rome is none of those
which can be solved by the sword alone. 1t
meets on its way moral obstacles only to be
overcome by II eral forces; and we are fully
confident that, sooner or later, those forces
will bring into the gates of that glorious me-
tropolis a change consistent with the wishes
of its people, with the aspirations of all good
Italians. with the true principles and the
lasting interests of Catholicism"
These words are, indeed, worthy of Chris
tian statesman. With wonderful force they
| come from the lips of a Piedmontese minister
of state, standing in judgment upon the old
enemy and oppressor of his country--Rome.
The same confidence in divine power aud jus
tlce is manifested. now that prosperity is ia
king the place Ut that former low estate, as
when the unresisting vallies were watered
with martys' blood, two hundred years ago.
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