The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-07-02

sulnoleht ground for war. Moreover, tho poo
ple of Holstein are almost to o man opposed
to Prussian rule. While determined to be
Germans and to remain an integral part of
that country, they ore equally determined to
preserve their own identity or nationality
intact, and will cast their suffrages for tho
Duke of Augustenburg tthe protege of Aus
tria) as their sovereign.
Italy is tho ally of Prussia, and great cal
culations orc based upon the moral and ma
terial assistance to be derived from this ac-
cession. The cause of Italian Unity has such
strong claims upon the poetic sympathy of
the world that BIsMARk makes use of it rs n
strong card. What though Austria has as
good title to Venetia as King WILHELM to
the Mark Brandenburg,- matters not; the
Italian "detests" ell tedeseo las NAPOLEON does
the treaties of 1815); GAR1pALD1 and his
100000 volunteers cry "Viva Ia guerra p'
and Venice must and shall be free. To be
sure the King of Italy cannot find even dip.
iomatic pretext upon which to found decla-
ration of war. Making war against good
Catholic sovereign, like the Emperor of Aus.
tria, GARIBALD1 adopts the singular policy
for On Italian, and fighting with Catholic
troops) of throwing himself entirely upon
Protestant sympathy, even going so fur as to
speak OF the papal rule as "ths bondage and
tyranny Of an impostor." Poor old Pho Mono!
Why ofall things should he be called On
impostor? We should think if any sovereign
on the globe had good and unimpeachable
title to his dominions, the Pope of Rome is
that prince. We learn from very good au-
thority that much of what is road about the
great numbers of Italian volunteers, their
ardent and inoontrollable enthusiasm, and the
great preparations for war making on the
south of the Alps,-is mere sound and fury;
manufactured Wholesale by the Italian cor
respondents of the French papers
But grant that ell this enthusiasm is gen.
uine, and further, that the quarrel of the
Italian is q just one,-i e., that the people of
Veneta have ight to determine who shall
rule them; and that in this lies the great
strength of Italy as an ally. If this be 80,
then Prussia must be singularly weak, NOR.
ally and materially,-for in her case we have
the reverse of all this. She has no "lepiti-
mate" title to Holstein, and we have already
shown the determined and persistent opposi-
tion the people of those Duchies manifest
against being gobbled up by BIsMARK's
greedy nav. Then how can tho advocates
of liberty and progress range themselves On
the side of Prussia /? We confess that wa
have to do violence to our feelings and pre-
JUDGES in siding with Austria and against
Prussia. But justice first, and sentiment
afterward. This whole quarrel is one of
princes and not Of the people. The latter
are mere catspaws, whom their Serene High
esness are willing to 'use." But what matters
our protest. A war they will have, and the
fairest land on this globe is perhaps even now
being turned into wilderness. Our extracts
from the foreign papers show the present
position of the respective armies. The battle
ground in all probability will be much the
same as during the greater part of the thirty
years. war. We shall not indulge in further
speculations as regards the probable results
We do not like to contemplate the success
of either side, as it must necessarily involve
the defeat of the other, and involve q large
loss of life, and IN immensity of suffering and
distress to the whole of Germany. The war
is very unnatural, just as much 80 as was
ours, from which we have just emerged We
can cite no stronger instance of fratrioidal
quarrel.