, 1866-07-13
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An Eloquent Defence Of italy.
The Contes9 between Progress aud
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Ihayo recently seen an AmerIcan nancr
md found this In its Paris correspondence
at is trichttul, It Ia horrible to see how cool
" all Europe is preparing to XII as man,
human beings as possible, and without on
shadow of reason or provccation," I did no
expect to read anything Of that kind In d,
American paper lor the term OF nv natura
life; Tor supposed that this compound o
Mis- Nancyism and atheism had been prett,
well pounded ont Of Americans. It Is, O
rather II is used to be a fayotite form of pInu
ibildelIty to teach the rising generation tha
wars were pure results of internal passions /,
men. That, for example, Napoleon butch
cred vast number Of ncnp1e ant or n 1ove =
bloodshed. mans ewes are so Door tha
he cannot sec " o shadow Of reason or pro
vocation" Tor the present war, he IS too ole
10 preach, and should be pens1oned off Al
once. There never was nor never will ha
war without q reason for it. md abundant
prorocatfon for II. There never win he onr
thing on The planet without Its rationale
Events arc always logical. Great movements
in our time at least, have great Causes There
Is great cause for this current war;. "Is
,,ahtonsncss @ @ nnd wi" a,.H H .,.als ~ ~ uusu % une
nm, ovotea ,rors ,,non - tIe % aa.,. 's1ess ~, soE
tna. ntns;s,, ~ % e eeott
for ta,,r s Caa.s ar..o.. . ,.a1 ~ ~ n'sa VI !,
very bad, Just now.
War Kills people, I know and so do feyers-
and both have philosophy. It Is very mel
ancholy that people should die Of either
but, pray, who escapes DIVING altogether
And is not dying well 4 part Of ltyiu,- we'll
Is 1t better to die to some purposc. or Ia l,ve
without any PURPOSE whatcycr9 In s,,ort !.
II not best afier all to do your duty stand Nv
your right, fight for Your friends. wa,k hv the
light Of iaIth, and die martyrs. rather thuu
live poltroons? There are some six b,ndred
thousand Italians under arms TODAY. who
think the brave, honest, plucky way Of get.
ting ont Of the world great deal better than
The sueakipE, atheistic way of veeet atJnr In
1t until all sense and reason fail. slx hundred
Thousand men with the spirit OF the martyrs
BY which mean that each Of them has some.
what IN him that ayers that 1t is better TO die
in the path Of duty than to live, travelling or
any other road that lies between the cradle
aud the grave. Is 1t worth while, all this
struggle with the Old World of the middle
agess This demolishing to build anew; this
rc-demolishlng to build yet better: this limo
work Of social art, Which seems never 10 end
which swallows up. centuries, and IL still,
''long !" this faith in human possibilities al
good: these wo, ds Progress. Reform, Uum,n
Rishte-are they all onlY words. ant, are Al,
things only ynnities. There be those Win he.
ieye it but what ret they for taith which /.
unto deathf We prefer LIE and death ma,ch,
ing 10 the sound Of drum and ttumpet-.can.
non shot and bomb-shell, to the creed Of the
afectionate Miss Nancy, because sho does not
seem to have my creed whatever.
This war Is part of a grand movement
which extends from the Sixteenth Century ia
our days, and perhaps beyond the days of our
childrcn-past of the long struggle for cman.
cipation. All those wars Of Frederick which
Bisnask takes up where the philosophie sol.
der laid them down :; Ill that horror or the
French Revolution continued by both Napo-
Icons on new lines Of march nIl the agony
which has been In The long diving and rising
from death of tlis land of faiths and mar
ty1s all yeur untold struggles With rour
form Of barbarism-from flrst to last. hare
been ut work making better generations Of
men, and, 1t Is sais to say on the average, that
each gcne1utipp has been better than tho LAT
because each generation has been more
master Of itself than tho last,
We find IN obstruction In the path of thc
worlds progrcss apd leroIcally mt It aside
or play poltroon By trying 10 20 round II.
Eide thirty years OF your political strupple
with slavery, and four years OF manfnl NIT.
ting it awny. Just now Austria ia In the
worlds path, She hns been there n ,ood
while. For brave moment In 1859. We
tuaeed at her vast carcass and thought to
heays II back where it belongs-to the half.
civilized frontier provinces OF Europe. Then
came 4 grand panic, aud yllla1rauca and
Zurich were written to shame US. But here Is
the Old World Power again, intsenched in thu
Quadri]atcral, enthroned In Bonnc, showing
her bayonets over the Minclo aud 20, aud
supporting by her yast material influence tue
retro:rade influences which are corruptfng
The atmosphere Of Europe. II We Italians
are 10 be, the bnyonets Of Austria must be
driven even beyond the Isonzo. Austria Ia
Eenctia signifies that Italy Is not yet cous.i-
tutcd nation; Austria, refusing to recos.ize
II ally for slx years, has plainly denied our ex-
Etcnce and reserved the right to destroy that
which she automatically ignored. We begin
where We left OF In 1859. Victor Emanuel
takes up again I" the sword of Goits.''
lie goes, not to Fcrrara, but 10
Cremona- We are to fight 1t oat on
this line If It takes a century. Is
not Italian liberty worth fighting for.
"Ah, but Austria does not fight you."
What quiet, peaceable creature Austria
is! Of course she does NOT attack us when
sle las other business for her guns; but does