The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-10-23


us extent and fertility, and insuIar by the
sweep and the excellence of its vast sea coast.
Italy, tried by long. centuries of domestic dis.
senblon ana OF foreign oppression, and emerg-
ing from the unparalleled ordeal OF her bistors
WIN an unquenched love of liberty and an
SndimInished % I1hIds capacity Of law Italy on the
Austrian warPhp from the Lido bnd the e,eva.
ton OF the tricolor and the Gloss Of savoy 10
tho gonalons from which so long aosted the
srbiyess no9 O9 Sa Ua S., MARX becomes really the
place IN the areopagus of the nations beside the
proudest and the most powerful of them all
Inc splendor and suddenness of tbe military
achlevements which have raised Prussia dnrng
the past summer, at single bound. To tbe fore
most rank in the attention OF the world Sbonld
not Dind us 10 the facts that the work which
Suat 20 a 6,smaIk mar s. Is now doing is far from being
yet zone, and tlat, " 1t is true that ItaIv owes
tne acquisition of Venetia immediately 10 the
Prusslan victories at Gitscbin and Sadoxa n is
YET not less true that Solferino and MAGENTA
alone made 1t possible for Prussia 10 enter nnon
that Defiant policy towards the Court of Vienna
the hrst results OF which have been so starting
that they have been, somewhat premoIwraiv
perhaps accepted as its 6nal and enduring
r9lts' me debt OF Italy to Bismark il con,
SIDERABLE, indeed; but It may be fairly otTset bv
the debt oil Germany TO Cayour and N Nono.
icon. And While the consolidation of Prnes,a in
h heL new ne Posltion, and the capitalization around
heI OF tDe Gernnan race are still in nrooress
and must still be considered as Liable re tbe
baps and mishaps which attend ali hnman
sSehemes and prospects, the consolidation of
Italy is substantially an accog pIishad foct an1
as such, Of q larger Importance to mantind
even man the promising CESSATION of the Ger
many that is TO be. wy
ro The Question of Rome" which is still put
forward IN some quarters as a problem ond n
pelli lor italy, has, in truth, been resolved nv
inc disappearance OF Austria from the PENN
snla' 1t is related OF the Papal Nuncio at
vienna mat upon receiving the news of the
oVerW helming defeat OF Marshal Bnnedek M
SadoWa, he exclaimed "Ths is q harder blow
Ior us than Tor you!" and despatched a special
messenger at once to Rome with the decisive
tha neeslai nhu rumor assures us that ever since
we CONCLUSION OF the peace between Austria and
italy, Cardinal Antonelli, for wears The most
lmplacable and subtlcst enemy of Italian unity
mas altered completely the tone OF his counseis
10 the HOLY rather, and puts himself torWerd
as the champion OF cordial reconciliation he
tween the Vatican and the Court of FIorence
ana OF strictly Italian future for the Holy see
~ ~ Is one OF Tue advantages of iniallibilty that
IL may make inconsistency not only respectable
DOt even imposing,
When Protestant declaimer like Henry Ward
beecher changes his whole view of Gods poli.
tCal messages to mankind three rimes IN ,b zoo
weeks, he justly subjects himself to snch sar
casm as old Ninean Winzet, the indonitable
antagonist of John Knox, poured upon tbe
Scotush priests who went round in iiffy with
lne act OF Convention, and ''whereas at Easter
they teac1ed with great appearing zeal and
mlnlstered unto us the sacraments in the Catho-
JIG manner at Whltsunday they had changed
thelT standard to the plain contrary" But the
mead OF church which stands as the direct
IT representative OF the Almighty NAV accent the
proYldential notifications of things earthly
without loes OF prestige or sacrifice OF principle
clcar perception OF this, as well as mastery
forecast OF the drlft of modern events, NAV be
iahly enough carried to the account of the En-.
peIor Napoleon III when we review his connec-
ton with the Roman question in the light of
pass in Italy and al Rome. 'In the time of
Dante" says Ugo Foscolo, in bis famous sDis
corso, IN the time OF Dante the Church was
the slave oil france, as to-day she is of Austria
In these words, which we're written forLy
years ago, and which only began to cease to be
true on the day when the soldiers OF the French
Republic entered Rome and drove the "Trium-
vlrs" before them, we have the ample iustifca.
non OF Inc policy which France had set on foot
towards Rome before Louis Napoleon came to
the Presidency, and which Napoleon has pro.
secuted SO tenaciously and so warily up to its
now now VISIBLE and rapidly approaching culmina
or very 1lElnformed Itslian who, In the retro
spect OF the last seventeen years fails to see
how utterly fatal to the hopes of Italy would
nave been the abstinence of France from inter-
ference with the ephemeral reign of the Carl
balolan ulumvlrate in the Eternal City. Aus
ula, Vlctorlous at Rome as well as at Novara,
would have fastened herself not only upon the
Papacy, but upon ali Italy, With hold which
must have changed the whole subsequent his
tory o our times.
AS things now are, the wlthdra wal of the
N1IOp5 IlOu hOIDe ledNeS ltdIy Tree IrOH
all peril OF foreign complications in her re.a.
tions with the Papacy. To suppose that in
adjusting these relations the Government OF
Victor Emanuel will forget how delicate and
how multifarious are the ties which connect the
Papacy with the religious life of Christendom
at large, is to suppose that the able and adrot
statesmen who have already established their
flness TO succeed the great and successful
Cavour will suddenly lose in their hours of
triumph, the good sense and the sound judg-
nent which have carried them and their coun-
try so brilliantly through the hours of trial.
Whether theItalian capital shall remain at
Florence or be transferred to Rome; whether
the Pope shall be provided for out of fund to
be raised from the piety of Catholic Chrsten-
dom, or out of the eXchequer of the italian
nation-these are questions of administration
and detail out of the settlement Of which il is
hardly possible that any serious mischief should
arise to the cause either of Catholic order or of
Italian progress. The vital point in the Roman
question was settled when, by the cession of
Venetia to Italy, Rome also became Italian.
Whatever temporary passions may be excited
by, whatever temporary inconveniences NAV
attend, the recognition of this fact by the
Roman hierarchy, its inevitable consequences
must be speedily reached, and reached TO the
infinite advantage alike of Italy and of Rome.