The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-11-29
ITALY,
ITALY.
Ihe Italy of the Futurc-The Great TnsIx
Noyy Before tho People.
lFTom hc london Times, November g.


The Italians have got their country-nothinp
less, nothing moro, AL the rost is for them to do.
wayfarer had fallon among robbers, who had inst
when rescue came; he is writhing on the ground
oil stunned and dsmayed, and barely Conscious
put 1t is for him now to be up and doing, for his
96bing from him. It will bo we'll to guard against
Illusions. The Venice from whose limbs the Aus
trim fetters have Just fallen and which is thus
SISTERS, has nothing in common with old Venice.
or that Queen of the Adriatic, who welded the
Ssea-who stormed Constantinople, and oxtonded
ncr sway over "one-fonrth and half of the Roman
Empire" little moro than the corpse lis left and II
remains to be seen whether deliverance comes in
TN time to recall it to animation simply to screen
lts lingering death from that foreign Outrage which
hastened and embitterod it. Neither is Yonice nil
OF Italy that is half dead. Pavia and PISA. Fer
rara and Pacenza, Ravenna, and score of others,
part TO Of the French poet to describe Italy as tho
Land Of the Dead;" but it is for the Italians to
prove IT that at nsho is 5i not dead, but sleeping"
Will 6e looking forward to Italy's awakening The
wedding Of the Adriatic bride will be i've days'
ceremony IA and the turn Of the Papal City, with
me question. will be, what noxt2 The Italians
vii viii have full possession of the land Of their
d iatnersMa land Of beauty and renown of health
to the them from hor ruins, from her monuments,
NO "NoGesss ne e 9oge " The land is theirs may Il
was other than than theirs. Tho land is theirs to
DO with it as they plcase to do with themselves ma
they please Should they aspire to do no moro for
should they wrap in n napkin tho talent that has
been confded to their Stewardship tho world
Wonld, OF course, have nothing to say to it, A
great wrong has been redrcssed in their case, md
the ends Of justice are fulfilled But the cry of
distress which went 80 straight to the worlds SIM
Pathics was less for Itays actual suerings than for
for her forced inaction. The complaint was not so
much that the Austrian tortured the body as that he
killed tho soul. The Italian painted for free
dom not Us source of enjoyment, but as n stimu-
lus to exertion. Were the VOWS Of adyersity not
to bo forgotten in the hour of prosperity, what a
vast field of activity would now be open to the
emancipatcd peoplel The very soil Of the country
Is more than half to be redeemed from long ages
OF neglect. No one grudgcs tho Italians these
OF festiyty, but they surely bear in mind that
IL ls not by banners and tapestry, by stars and
spanges, by lights and fireworks, that air and wa
ter, and freshness aud sweetness, can be restored
to fence that it is not by shouts Of ioy and SONGS
OF triumph that tho death-like silence which in
habits her chOked-up harbors and her stnpnant
canals can be efficiently banished The Austrian
is gone; the Popo-at least so far as ho is King
grim and ruthless-King Dirt, 'I Queen Bemsa,v "a
and all the dynasty of Soth, Improvidence S,ipcr-
stltlon and Digotry-st remain to be hurled from
tho throne With these hdcous monsters it be-
hooyes the Italians to grapple for themselves for in
such contest it is little they can hope either from
French chivalry or from Prussian commun ty of
interests, Va