The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1860-10-17
From the Philadelphia Inquire
CAVOCR AND GARIBALOI.

{ The revolutionary fever in Italy is rapid
reaching crisis The symptoms are just as
expected, and the issue cannot long be delaye
, 1t has been long notorious that Garibaldi place
! no confidence in Napoleon as the friend of Sa
8 dinia, or as disinterested advocate of liberty
{ Italy. He is known to have resisted the polio
of Csvour as being opposed to the unity and re
prosperity of the Peninsula. Whether or not
may have had any well-grounded suspicious d,
ring the war, that any gains in the direction ,
, Lombardy which might be acquired BY Victo
, Emmanuel, would have to be balanced BY th
loss Of Sandman terri Ory on the west, after a
the blood and expenditure of the struggle, is III
certain. 1t is believed that the King of Sardinis
his Minister and Napoleon kept their secret wit
remarkable success until the time for its deve
opment arrived; but even during the war it wa
publicly known that Garibaldi did not conces
his hostility to the French Emperor, and his en-
nifty broke out beyond all control when th
plan for the partition Of the Sandman ,erritor
was made known, and when il was found tha
Count Cavour had drawn over Victor Emmanue
to consent to the loss of Nice and Savoy.
All along it has been the determined object O
Garibaldi to clear the Peninsula of every foreig,
intruder, the Hapsburghs from the northeast,
well as the BourbQns from <he south, and from
this determination he has never swerved. Th,
great leader Of free lsnces operates in the camp
however, rather than at the Council Board. snt
accordingly there are difficulties perceptible t,
the cautious mind of Cavour, who is not excited
by the successes of the battle field which Carl
baldi never pauses to contemplate. To mine
like that OF CavOur's, it appears as an act Of in
sanity 10 launch the comparatively undisciplineC
bands, which may be collected in Southern anG
entral ltale against the solid columns and mas
sive -quadrons OF the Austrian army, sustained
as that army must be by all the adventitious aid
OF the strongho!ds of Venetia. If Napoleon
himself, with all his legions, with the cOnsolida
TED resOurc 5 OF France at his back, flushed with
victory from the brilliant fields of Montebeo
Magenta, and Solferino, paused in dread of the
result when he looked upon the resources OF
Mantua and the other strOngholds of the Quad
riateral, vel, may Cavour tremble for the fate o:
Lombardy, the Duchies. and even Sardinia it.
self, when he cOntemplates the prospect of a
contest with the might of Austria, when that
power draws the sword in a struggle with Italy,
unsupported by any other power for life or death.
Were Garibaldi not driven onward by The i'm
pulsiveness Of his own ardent nature; We're it
not that the impetus Of the Revolution carries
him and his forces forward with momentum,
that it is almost impossible for the parties them.
selves to resist, there might be hope that he
would listen TO the calner councils of Cavour.
We're there time given for the consolidation Of
the different Italian States-tOr the perfect or
ganizatiOn of the united army-fOr the infusion
into the NeapOlitan forces of the same ardent
spirit that anmates the Sardinians-fOr the col
lection of material of WARRIOR financial arrange.
ments commensurate with a struggle-which, to
be successful, must be protraeted, for Austria 10
dOggedly determined to maintain her hold on
Italy-there might be a possibility of finding
Cavour as ready for the struggle as Garibaldi is.
Of this needful delay and foresight in the coun-
els of the successful General we fear that there
is no hope. The demand of Garibaldi that Vic.
tor Emmanuel should dismiss CavOur from his
councils and dispense with his present advisers,
argues nothing but evil for the cause of liberty
Garibalii is an honest man. of great integrity,
simple and unsefsh in his views and of enormous
force Of will. Once. then, his mind is made up
to course of action, il is almost hopeless to ex-
pect that he will renounce his purpose, change
his policy and turn aside from his ismeasures. All
the more unlikely is this the case when the poll
cy which he adopts is in accordance with the
views of his enthusiastic supporters who have
carried him nobly forward through difficulties,
and crowned him everywhere with success.
IL is questionable if he has paused to look
over the Alps and consider the declared policy
even of liberal Germany. We have had mee
ting of crowned heads at Baden, and they have
deliberated about political affairs in Central Eu.
rope. Then, again, Austria and Prussia have
decided on their course at Topltz, to be adopted
under given circumstances; and latterly, liberal
Germany have had meetings also. and the result
of the conference ia most significant. To the
surprise of the world these liberals declare that
the possession of the southern side of the Alps
is essential to the safety of Germany. Well
might Louis Napoleon desire to secure the side
of the Alps which looked down on France. Had
he only waited until these German sages had
propounded their ideas, he might have ventHred
on a much larger demand that he has done. II
the southern side of the Alps, if Venetia be ne
cessary, in the hands of Austria, as a safeguard
for the integrity IF Germany, on the same prin-
ciple the same side of the Alps must be held by
France to be indispensable for the safety of that
power To have Savoy, then, will not do for
Napoleon; he must stretch the sceptre over the
MAJ isinno Alps and reach it down into Sardinia,
even to Turin. Admitting Ihe reasoning Of these
blundering German theorists, on what ground
could the demand of Napoleon be resisted by
Germany, had he sought to annex all Sardinia at
the end of the war?
True it is, Napoleon has not done this, but
these German philosophers have set forth their
views, and the influence of their policy on the
contest in Venetia is obvious. Count Cavour
knows that Austria has pleaded and plotted. and
coaxed and wheedled in order to gain from Prus
sa a similar declaration, but without success
Let war, then, be commenced between Austria
and the revolutionary forces of Italy on the sol
of Venetia, and Francis Joseph feels that aid
may now be relied on from Germany. Here
then, are Austrian and German resources on the
one hand, united with all the doggedness anC
tenacity OF the national character, to oppose {
congloneration Of fiery, impulsive spirits no
thoroughly fused, and unsupported by all thos,
resources which are requisite for an arduous con
test-courage alone excepted.
That the Sandman monarch can afford to dis
miss his Ministry at the present time We do not
believe; and even if Cavour we're to retire, d.
we believe that Garibald or any of his assOci
ciates, can do the fighting that is yet required
even in Naples and in Central Italy, and atten'
to the political strategy which the condition o
Sardinia requires. 1t is hoped that the visit o
the King to the city of Naples may be produc
tive of happy results, and that he may succee'
in establishing harmony between Garibaldi an
his Ministry again. We confess that we look OF
the prospect as being very clouded. We fea
that Victor Emmanuel, who is a brusque, dash
ing, energetic man, well fitted to be the leade
OF division of cavalry, but unqualified to direc
the intrigues of council chamber. or conceiv
the strategy Of campaign, will be foun
unable to change the determined policy Q
Garibaldi, who evidently desires to remov
from around the throne every one who woul
hold back from his grasp every instrumental
ity that could be used ty him in an immedias
a.