The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-10-17
Italy Free--Whaf Will the Italians Do e-Is
Emancipation Regenerafione

Emancipation Regenerafi0nY
From the London Times, Oct 81
+ The treaty Of peace between Austria and Italy was
signed on Wednesday. Imperial and royal commission.
es expedtng all tho transactions connected with the
surrender Of the forresses The Ay ceremony Of the
and before the end-possibly by the middie-of this
month tho last Of tho Au-trians will march the
rvnter and Venice will hail King Victor Emanuel within
Dor wallis Tho destinies OF Italy assured With the
exception o. few ongnihcant strips Of territory the soil
ton Of few hundred thousand Romans, for whom also
the hour Of deiveance Is probably the strike the
whole nation has rcasseed Us mastery ITSELF None
than the Peninsula has finally attained II Italy
s useful pscs ss any Of her more forSpsse ss sHq
nations, the fault will no longer lie with her foreign
doinators Italy 10 out Of her political homage She
the full responsibility Of self government For the
present however the MAGNITUDE or the event that has
inclination for prospective speculation Italy free from
the Alps to the between Austria and Italy.
the end Of the fifteen hundred years quarrel between
the Latin and tho Teutonc II the import Of
the two lines telegram which reached yesterday from
Vienna II Is the full daylight for which few Of the
TO the ars aiut gcanl but died IN vain longing Il
IL the promised land 70 which giants Of brain and heart
which their unified hands fell Il i the CHANGE Of
which born within the century hardly hoped see
the beginning and OF which they have lived TO the
end
Great a. the event is II docs not altogether stand
alone. Memory may travel so far back In the past
hardly ever been entirely free Of INVADERS but there
day In which she had almost achieved hor emau-
cipaon-schsved Il single handedachisved it against
fearful odds, and after most desperate strife Little
less than centuries ago, In 1885, 81 Constance,
there was such another signature Of peace between
memorable scene rhey paint the small band Of their
dark browed, long robed Legatcs stepping fcariessly
through the throus Of mail clad Harons Of the NORTH
minded Barbarossa, WHOSE name had for many
years been the terro OF Italian mothcr That peaceful
thirty years struggle SIX times from the Empe.
rors accession 70 hts overthrow at Leghago had that
stubborn mons, r crSsssd me Alp: a. the head Of the
thriving Lombard towns lay In ashes Milan itself was
twice prostraisd The track Of the invader desert
from the Pc TO the Thor but the bones OF i German
hosts we're srewn that track From the Of their
basions unwarke burghcrs learned 70 look the fierce
walls; they routed him in the ned Three thousand
youths Of Tho Mlanese Company OF Death" bore down
those iron ranks before them Frederick himself lost
shield and Standard he hurled from his stesd lost
sight for three days 10 friends and foes waited for
three nights by his Queen, whose heart hope sank at
last and who had already come down from her watch
and shut herself up in weeds and darkness when
he last restored BUNDLED and almost heartbroken
10 her arms Proud days were those for I,aiy, and
strange contrast 10 Custozza Lisa but I@gnaeo and
Constance gave real peace TO Italy no freedom,
union Even during the struggle, Lombardy was half
hand was against every man. There was Imperial Italy
and Pspal Italy, then Fronch and Spanish French and
~s an, lack d strength in those aays Thsr. WERE
giants In the land Milan, Venice Florence Genoa had
The wealth. and almost the might Of Empires; but TIA
liam strength turned against itself spent itssf Ia
civil brols and neishbcrs feuds Italian fury nrst
ils brothers. throat, and then ts own
II 10 TO be hoped that the Italians will look upon
the peace OF vcnns suspicious than that
Of Constance. Mon do not triumph by the sword
alone The present peace has been won BY moral
struggle Infinitely more glorious than the material
success Of the old Lombard League Austria was
overpowercd before she entered the field II little mat
tered In whose favor tho fortune Of might declare
sr the Italians had fAs ~ovlds opsnfor and the
vivid had long hidden Austria 70 depart The victory Of
mnaec dssensons The defeats OF Custozza and LISA
ana the ,os .cool Of adversely which preceded w. may
MAJ s,% country Ak unanimous nation no less than
csNss and devotion that AFTER alt Italian patience,
nee. NO moro Of the humil sfH zoe victory. Iet US
achieved by France Prussia II littr6 "a dehverance
Isalv was actually won by the Italians The ssgncther
that Il was won for them. II little signifies how theS
came BY their own, " they only learn ho,1 70 KEEP u
II Of great moment for the world, no less than Tor
themselves that their country should be closed against
wrought no trinins coed 70 mankind 70 y
pits Of Europe Il wiz be by triaing
sxctious that the Italians win a. themselves for tho
task Of scfdcfencc Notwithstanding thor disappont
ment about Trent and IstriA notwithstanding the
enercachments Of French, swiss and German neigh
bors upon Italian territory, all along the chain Of
the Ape the position OF North Italy 10 fornIdabis
suticisnt strength 70 hold against all eomea That
the Italians should b. before they aspred free
men h what the Emperor Napoleon nrsf recommended
Them Bet 70 BE- men they need not be soldiers the
sary establishment: what constitutes Ne strength mot
army, buf As phyfSoai and mrsl vSeyv, dat study
~ vsieaos sho proud trdepsnde Aoss ywbss osd pr
vac virtues WHICH svpsv Ne elements fr s~ any ~