The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-27
THE PAPAL ACCOUNT-EXTRACT FROM
CARDINAL ANTONELLPS DESPATCH TO
MGR. SACC0NI, APOSTOLIC NUNCI0 AT

MGR. SACCONl, APOSTOLIC NUNCIO AT
PARIS.
''In several towns of the Pontifcal States, per-
sons, embodened by the Importance of their social
relations, put themselves forward. Thus, at Bo-
logna, the Marquis Pepo made himself party
leader. He held in his own house, assemblies of
partisans, surrounded himself with hundreds of
workmen, and collected arms. The government,
informed of everything, was on the point of secu-
ring his person, when, from motives easy to i'm
agne, he contented himself with letting the Am
bassador of France at Rome know what taking
place. The Ambassador, after conference with
PepOli at Livorno, gave the Pontifical Government
the assurance-uniortunately contradicted by facts
that we might be at ease as far as the said Mar
quis was concerned. But there are few examples
in history perhaps none, of what the diplomatic
agents of Sardinia did to the detrment of the other
Italian States for the purpose of seconding the
ambitious design of their own government. The
conduct of the Commandant Buoncompagni, in
Tuscany, has no name, or such name that viii
abstain from using it; and if the last act of the
Commandant be excepted, that which Messrs.
Migliorati and Pez della Minerva did Rome,
quite resembled what was done by NJ. Buoncom
pagni's The former went so far as to employ the
summer months in organizing clubs in certain pro-
vinces in favor of the Piedmontese party. Agita-
ton. got up with such pains and perseverance,
could not but produce effect, and did so, both in
creating and in somewhat increasing the small
PiedmOntese party which existed and which was
Joined by all the discontented, Of men found
in every country, without counting those for whom
were seductive illusion.
"But all these men were always lar from being the
people, mean the honest, moral and Christ ian
people-above all, they not the country peo-
ple The people uprose with indescribable Joy in
thousands upon thousands when our Holy Father
visited them not four years ago. Is it the first
time that this class of the people, which forms the
immense majority, has allowed itself to be master
ed by party which, making up. for want of num-
bers by audacity, profits by circumstances often
unforeseen to impose its domination? Are there not
other countries of Europe in which the honest and
peaceful portion of the populations had even al
lowed themselves to be oppressed? Is not this one
OF the effects of these very qualities? 1t seems to
me that in the above mentioned despatch sufficient
account was not made of these circumstances, when
it said that by the fact of the retreat of
the Austrians from Bologna, ''the populations
found themselves independent without requiring
any particular excitement" The truth is, that the
populations, as in all similar cases. knew little or
nothing about it. But since by the sudden retreat
OF the Ausrians the town was left entirely without
troops, that party which, thanks to previous in
trigues, was all in readiness, and was rendered
bolder and bolder by proclamation of one OF tue
beigerents, seized the reins of power and imposed
its sway the real people; which to its indescri-
babe injury, and with not less grie continues sub
ject to it. Perhaps it would uOt be going too far
to suppose that if somewhere else there were to be
a sudden withdrawal from the capital OF the garr-
son which protects it, something would certainly
happen like what happened at Bologna, without
warrantIng deduction from that fact that the
Government had till then been bad, that the
Governors were incapabes.
1t would be useless to point out here why the Aus
trians retired from the Romagna. Let it suffice to
say that Prince Napoleon, in a report dated from
his eadquarters at Goito, July 4, 1885, and ad-
dressed to II. NJ. the Emperor of the French, for
the purpose of giving an account Of his operations,
says, first, that the 5th Corps d'Armee, by assem-
bling in Tuscany, had, among other things, "the
mission to constrain the Austrian government, by
the presence of the French flag the frontiers Of
the Romagna, to observe strictly the neutrality OF
the POpes States" And next he adds, ''that the
presence of the 9th Corps ready to debouch on the
Austrian army, had inspired into that army an
alarm keen, that it FASTENED to abandon Ancona,
Bologna, and all the positions, after another,
on the right bank of the Po." Although the atore-
said party was fortified by promises, encourage
ment, subsidies, and a thousand other means which
were necessarily sent to it from Piedmont, still the
day which it sezed the reins of power, it was
so small in point of numbers, and so weak, that it
could scarcely muster few hundreds on the PiaZZi
of Bologna. Again, when it was necessary to in
duce them to lower the Pontifcal ensigns from the
public buildings, the Marquis PepoIi was obliged
to make them believe that it was to guard these
ensigns from possible insults, though one at
that time had any disposition to commit that crime.
The revolt had been prepared abroad. According
ly soon as it was accomplished it received from
abroad all the help which it trequired to consolidate
it. Munitions, money, soldiers, administrators
all came from abroad. Among these administra-
tors one finds figuring lnteudant of of the
four Legations the same Miglorate who has been
spoken of. In all this the population took no
part. They abstained in the proportion of SO to 60
| from participating in the elections which took
| place. They were exposed to all sorts of vexa-
tions. Even the right of showing their feelings
denied them. Threats, Imprisonment, pro-
scription, all the which victorious factions
know how to use, were resorted to. If these facts
had been attended to, it would never have been
affirmed that the inhabitants of the Romagna,
without needing any private instigatiOn, and it
were, without perceiving it, found themselves in
dependent. From these facts every body will easily
conclude for himself whether the Government
should be held responsible for the revolt which
took place in these provinces.
The MoRMoNs.-The Mormon faction, under the
leadership of Joseph Smith, Jr., have determined
to re-establish themselves at Kirkland, Lake coun-
ty, Ohio, where, not many years since, three
thousand of their sect eongregated and erected a
magnificent temple. This temple is to be reftted
in gorgeous style. Kirkland is village pleasant.
| ly located on branch of the Chagrin river. The
re-estabishment of Mermonsm there exten-
sive scale is said to have caused much excitement
among the rural population.
| As Mr.. Eaton, of Rockport, Ohio, was plowing
in his field not long ago. he turned up the skee-
tons of three persons. Two of these had all double
teeth and all sound. The skeletons lay neal
| together, only foot below the surface. About q
year since near the same spot, another was plowed
| up. The affair is mysterious, and excites the
people among whom it occurred.