The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-02-26
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WEDNESDAY MORNING. .rEH ~. 1851.
Csmmss tens In Eureps.

The las. foreign advices bring MS indications
Of fresh troubles in Italy. The popniace OF
Florence once more are making dramaticai
demonstration against their rulers, and pre-
pairing to light again the flames ot~c'v'i war
Time was when the South, which had been
trained to echo the public sentiment OF the
North, and really believed that the people OF
Europe were very much oppressed, sympa
thixed with every popular movement whico
was started on that continent. but II nae oil
late discovered that its worst enemies IN Eu-
rore are the insurrectionists, and its only
friends the conservative classes In Florence,
the scene of the present aeita'ions, and, we
suppose, in most of the large Italian towns, it
hss been customary 10 drsmatize the most exc
cradle misrepresentation of slavery at the
popular theatres, in which the character Of
the Southern people was painted in the most
frightful colors, and 81 horrible retribution
visited upon their wives and daughters in the
midst Of the most frenzied applause of the
dirty mob whose imagined SORROWS our people
have 60 OMEN and profoundly commiserated.
The Southern revolution, which is a con.
servative aud constitutional, and not u radical
and agrariau movement which has for its Oh
lect the protection of property aud constltn-
iionai liberty, has Of course no friends among
those vs. no make war upon property and whose
only idea of liberty is that which prevailed III
France during the fret revolution, and which
perpetrated more horrors upon humanity :5an
il had ever suffered from despotism. We can
not expect the sympathies Of such people IN
our cause nor, now that we understand their
true character, can they expect ours III return.
The experience Of the United States has salts
fed Us that the extremes Of Democracy and
Despotism gravitate towards each other, and
that the first ~ naturally end i'll lle Last ar thu
clouds dissolve in rain and the rivers empty
into the sea. The section of TIE United States
which has always boosted of having The
largest liberty has proved itself more oppres'
sive than any despot of Europe IN its treat
ment of the weaker section; and its chosen
tools for their sublugston have been those
very revolutionary emiGrants whose sut'errgs
we were wont to symPathlze with III days
gone by, and whose civil and religious rights
the South, six years ago, rescued Srom IA
Know Nothing Northern crusade, which, II
successful, would have driven hem back. as
"a lesser evil, to the despotisnis from which
they fled.
Under these circumstances the future popu
lar agiations of Europe can. scarcely be ex
pected to excite any interest i'll the South
Our only friends there are the higher classes
in England and on the continent, and even
these, who ought to have the controlling in
fuence upon the foreign We'll as the do
mestc policy of their respective kingdoms,
seem powerless to do more than wish us we'll.
In return, We give them all we have, our
own symp.thies, and wish them a good de-
iverance from connections aud Instructions,
which are TO gain rev strength and ultimate
success, if the United States is triumphant in
the present conflict.