Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-07-21


flong letter, from workman, well Known
in 1873, M G0fbon, on She'p partiality yaStrihs
uted by some Journals t0the Paris popu-
laceia favoro6 Austriae MssGOrbon denies
rthe truthof the assertions sayinglilg. ,,t,,.ir
10 preach, from example. and without
pretending totbfihg forward any RewtArlob
guYhents Win put thislslfnple q1estiOntOea
any persuID carablalDf jpdgings correctly; 10
GH Alstrias listening to she voice Of Justice
and that of her oWn Interest, had consented uA
to the cession Of OVenetia, was the presentbE
war possible? In other worlds NVonld Rpps1dt
sin ever ave(th01eht Of taking up arms,
had she not been able to rely upon a,diver7
isiOn on the side of Italy The answer 10
this question cannot, be doubtful. No i'm
partial mind can refuse to replyASo; war
2 was not possible. Therefore II is Adstsda
wlois the frstahdy panCipalacaase of theoit
blood which lis sheing she'd at the present.
day on rs ~ many fields Of UPf battle. FL On her
7billty. Then again supposing a war be-od
tween Austria and Italy inevitable, was,itDL
not good. policy on the part of the Italian
Government to profit by the old rivalry be-
tween the two. great German Powers, and "
to combine a Simultaneous action with
o Prussia?. ?. All kriowi we'll that, without a
, miracle, Italy, operating alone against her
powerful adversary, would have been
crushed, and that FRANCE, to prevent that
consummatiOn, would have been Obliged to
7 intervene afresh. Is it not, then, a huHdFedln
times better that in such a neeessitY1the
, rival of Austria should do indirectly what =,
France would have been under the I'M"
perious Obligation of doing odireetlyP
( Where is the man gifted with the smallrri
est ,, political intelligence who would
not agree with us? The Prussian
Government had, ihdeed,i a long time since l.
excited all our antipathies, and the alliance
between il and the Italian had wounded
the public feeling in France! We iwefesow
full of the idea that in some future day weoi
should baye to complete the emancipation
Of the. noble Italian nation, that the alli-
! ance with Prussia on theipart Of Italy ap4L
peared to us in the light of an infdelity,p
and with that feeling, Joined to our antip-
athy Tor the Prussian Government, we loolSL
ed with an tirfavorable eye on the lsolidar-jq
, ity established between those two Powers.,s
But in the end wehave had to toacknowledge
that our feeling was rather generous thail
wise, and that the Italian nation has com-rI
mitted no sort of intidelity toward us in,
) sparing the forces Of France, and proftng
by those Which a born adversary of Aug
tria would have 10 bring into the fieldow
What the Italian Government has done is,,h
/. therefore, in every point of view, good poll
icy. LASTLY, the minds of iffeii may be
easily made up as 10 the Inevitable NATURAL
and necessary effects of the war that has just,
commenced. No person endowed with any
foresight could imagihe that the sovereign
tyof populations could be substituted for II
that of princes all over. Europe without
causing one day or another formidable con-
fct between peoples and rulers. Tie pub
licists of Gfrenchl 5democracy7have athOu7m
sand times since the revolution of 1886, ,pTe-or
dicted the inevitable nature Of tRiscohe0i
test. Is it destined to spring out ofotheis
present war Sh Hes-5althoughithe struggle
is -notyet eyeryyYhere, formally, engagedip.,.
the name of those two principles. IN reaI-u'
ity, the revolution Is one side aud fesisEoit
and legitimist opinion make no mistake in
the matter. Ever since the beginning Of
the crisis they have characterized It dis-s
tinetly enough In their eyes it is the oldit
religious andqmonarehicsl Werld contendT,-
ing with the Revolution.