, 1866-05-31
FROM EUROPE.
Our Florence Letter.

OF tne AtaI'nns-
tconetponaenee OF .ne chicago Tdbune.1
,,os, o,,o r. asSof; F..oa Mv 10, les~;
80 80 rse...,a 1872 " s,. ..ops i"uipset ~
f1susA A1D'p..o. uaotouise 70 LUG peasant
Of Auxerfo 20 sene1aa threat sgai1st tn
enemies OF his uncle. You carnot critictse hi
tasso IN selecting an audience; for your "Bl:
mum = docs NOT always hnFanRue seioct as
sen'ohss, anu au1esfe shepherds ana goat
hetos, axe Hosea blgeio~'s "kebblges,"
a.len -, "ai' don kick up when ron eeols
An cI they've tongues, 1,ey sense enough to hold
en-
as laatter Oh iact, the emperor SAID Vefl
Nl1le, ana MS allusion to the treaties OF 16ls
can only mean something BY series Of long
drawn inieFeaces, If he meant to intimate
lhat the hour had come to rebuild the Flrs
Em pife, he 1oreshadowed mora bloody worl
than any of us dream Of The Au1eTre speecf
to bis kebbtgcs" only means, probably thai
Napoleon is particularly happy to sec thai
the devotion Of hts neighbors to the 1916 mal
Of Europe las brought them all to q very
pretty h1 and given him the power to Cor
rect some Of the lines on that map without
danger OF a Waterloo.
Fnclcud cuts a vcrr 1nof,est f,c,,ro T., +1,oc,
d.re nnd - Il o,,,tca t,,1 far y,,,.. - sss ~
easS' nuo ~ Sno.ec !ua 'of Aankee 10 Eek
how mildly John Bull draws his indignation
It Is very uncomfortable to remember tha,
onlv Inst summer the TWO payies yerc trvino
IN h. t,11, to,ro,rar 4, ,Io o,,.,,o, ..a - ~
~, 1..t,s 80. s-s" aA"u, =. ,c 'n1 w 4e
eaa 4set saioonlc warning, IL you vert
only IN f!ent )oi!y earnest" Just how the
Emperor will make his map nobody can tell
but that he can do pretty much rs he uleases
-w1,,;n ,l, ho,,nis or no+,on.,,,ios-ss ,,o,,a
~. .n.l,.. ~. 9o"Aas " n"''ooaiilas-s gene
fally aamitlea'
Two years ago l called the attention Of au
American journal to a new map of Europe
that went round In d}plomatIc c}rc1ess md ras
1,,l;o,..a T., 800 ~ ~" ..S,."., ~. ~
'e. ~ "ass oweu 40 Pine!pA1 italt0et
10 the hand ofthc Nephew of his Uucle,. and
then expressed the h.llef that the new mag
was not oil visionary. The present tauzlc IL
ike diplomatic traccs reyIyes the dream. o1
nv. :" tne iuAau, VI niasy. IL t4at H'ap
fF1ssla swept northWar6 TO the SEQ, and swal-
lowed up about half Of the: nasty little Ger.
man dcspotfsms, aud Franco Law alone the
whole course of t},e Rhine. w1,i,e 1,ofn -,
,,icei, +, yenteo ,ud Rome r.o,, 1e.. ~,
- -: ~" .''. -. ''o"' too7 outil
no" Dishhfh mas bee7 toilsng st that map,
and il is probable that Louis Napoleon has
occasionally rested from his I" Ials of Ctssar',
to Eirs the doughty Gerlnan little friendly
advice. The cnll for European Congress 10
settle these ycAcd questions, ut o time when
Eussia, Austria and Enelapd were certain to
decline tsat klud Of d discussion, wa, most
adEoitAnethod ot shifting the responsibility
Of u war IS the shoulders oI tliosc who viii
suffer most in gunpowdcr debate. : / told
yOu il would be ho,'' is he sardonfc rctort OF
Napoleon wien consulted abort the present
muss. .tIf you lul taEcn nv ndvfre' r..
might have arranged it all quietly. disbard..l
cur afrrfcs. and left our rNople 10 cultivate
their cabbnges in pcuce.''
To come 10 the Italian part OF this bus;-
ness, Our position is iuyulncrable on any
uloral ground. We have an unou.ytiopabla
right to Venicc-Austria Is there bV force Of
aims alone and VIC have as much rishl to eS--
Eel licr how and when VIC can as yOa would
lave to drive Englishmen out Of New Or
hans. Nobody preteuds that Veniiin il Ger
man, or believes that Austria has any hnld on
the sympathies Of that pcoplc, Tie theorr
TINT the Quadrintera1 is the natural deience
OF Germany is false in fact and prcpostcsops
In principle. II. natica must plant her de-
tcnces hundred miles inside the limits CT a
ne1EhborlnE nation, she Aud better not build
aug defcnces whatever. That forty millions
OF Germans ars in any Danger from twenty
Eve millions OF Italians ia too ridiculous ior
discussion outside OF diplomatic circles. Aus
tsia must get out of. Italy-that is the plain
'nct. II she chooses to trust the question Of
right 10 debate ny cannon, Italy Will not
6uIlnk from lEht terrible l9rn OF discussion.
We are driven to fight Austria ont Of Vrnitfa
hy the necessities ot our position, Austria in
In tue Qnadrilsteral threatens US aud forces
US to large ar1haments % secure ourselyes
from attack. These armameuts are bcggaEing
US. We must fight or die Of bankruptcy.
While Austria holds foot Of 1ta!ian soil, sic
Threatens all the rest Of our acres.
AS to our alliance with. Prtssia, we are not
careful to defend Bismark. We would ally
Win satan to get our own Eroperty-because
We Know that no sense Of Justice prevails In
European diplomacy. We must have allies,
an! and Bismark is as good as any Of them. Is
this immoral: Pray remember how Europe
l!as sacrificed us from 1915 until now. When
dtd ever its peaceful councils heed for mo-
Mcht Inc demand Of the Italians to be regard
ca Us a natio1s What shameful sales OF our
people "eEc effected at Fillatranca and at
zurich! We have made Al alliance, aud We
propose TO trust the issue to the dread arbit-
rament OF var; There q boundlcss cnthu-
s'Asm III tue land-the' like Of II wns never
sentiment snd action, and there Is scarcely a
cOt,pyrlead l,ctwccn Syrncusa md rono
TEc Eirr bas coiiea ~ I.;,aSi Mu Soul9, ~;
s,rn,,, nn,, tnc stn,,t ~ ,0i ~. uts
npd t1,r m emil. Tho nv, a l,n.,-.... Al ~.