The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-07-02
CHARLESTON DAILY NEWs....J ULY 2, 1865.

sufficient ground fc,, r. war. Moreover. the peo.
pie of Holste'.n ere almost to man opposed
to Pruss.e rule While determined to be
Germapd and to remain an integral part of
that country, they ore equally determined to
pfeserye their own identity or nationality
intact, and will cast their sufrages for the
Duke Of Augustenburg (the protege of Aus
tria) as their sovereign.
Italy is the ally of Prussia, and great cal
culatioas are 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 B1sMARK makes use Of it as a
strong card What though Austria has as
good title to Venetia as King WILHELM to
the Mark Brandenburg,-it matters not the
Italian "detestsn Ell tedesco las NAPOLEON does
the treaties of 1885, GARlsALD1 and his
100. 900 volunteers cry Viva la gueYraW
and Venice must and shall be free. To be
sure the King Of Italy cannot find even dip.
lomatio pretext upon which to found deola-
ration Of war Making war against good
Catholic sovereign, like the Emperor of Aus.
tria, GAR1BAID1 adopts the singular policy
(for an Italian, and fighting with Catholic
troops) Of throwing himself entirely upon
Protestant sympathy, even going so far as to
speak. Of the papal rule as .''tbe b6ndage and
tyranny Of an impostor.D Poor old Pho Mono!
Why of all things should he be called an
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 read about the
great numbers Of Italian volunteers, their
ardent and incontrollable 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.,s-.=ss..s
But grant that all this enthusiasm is gen.
uine, and further, that the quarrel Of the
Italian is a just one, e,-i.e., that the people Of
Venetia have right 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 "legiti-
maten title to Holstein, and we have already
shown the determined and persistent opposi-
ton the people of those Duchies manifest
against being gobbled up by B1sMARK's
greedy nav. Then how can the advocates
Of liberty and progress range themselves on
the side Of Prussia We confess that we
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
ars mere carspuws, whom their coruno High
esness are willing to "use,n1 But what matters
our protest. A war they will have, and the
fairest land on this globe 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 IS during the greater part Of the, thirty
years. war We shall not indulge in further
speoulations as regards the probable results.
We 10 not like to contemplate the success
ofeither side, as it must necessarily involve
the defeat Of the other, and involve large
loss Of life, and an immensity Of suffering and
distress to the whole Of Germany. The war
is very unnatural, just as much so as was
ours, from which we have just emerged. We
can cite no stronger instance Of a fratrioidal
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