Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-07-11
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TEE GERM AN WAR.
The Results Of Ihe Battle at Cus

1oyzo 'I5FtGgE 1'f7 T1I
The Italian army Under the King and
Della Marmora has fallen back in good
order across the Mincio, and taken up
position behind GOito, at Volta, CaYriana,
and SOlfefihO, ensLombard ground. Cial7
dlnihal lnotierossed the Po up 10 the latest
accounts, and the intelligence of the disas-I
ter at Custozza will almost certainly i'm
dnee him to abandon his projected advance
into Venetia. On the Alps, while the
Austri0ns have secured possession of the
Stelvio Pass, and come down upon BormiO,
In the Valteliina, the GaribaldiansT have
pushed forward from Brescia to the Bridge
Of GaffaTos and L0drone, on that mountain
pass whence two roads branch off to Trento
aud Riva, on the Lake of Garda. AT EodL
rome they have driven the Austrians from
their positions, not without bloOdshed.
This Alpinewarfar can, however, only be
accessory to the movements OF The main
armies in the plain, and these must be for
some time paralyzed by the heavy blow
with which the incOnsiderate dhaste of the
Italians has been visited and by thelreluc-
tance of:Austria to act Otherwise9than on
the defensive. ui fqoagl OJ ,lar ed gd J..l
/ If thereBVer was chance for diplomacy
to step in with good effect between the
4 dalhb. VIE CDAADdJtuIo3 " Will sUC
now. by this inevitable pause in military
operations. The idea Of an eventual flow
ever remote and conditional, cession of
Venetia has been entertained by the EN-
peror Francis joseph, and it has found an
utterance in the moderate and dignifed
notes and manifestoes which have won so
many partisans to the Austrian eau C..
Austria, we understand her to say, would
not yieldto threats; she would stand up in
vindication of her rights; she would main1
tain berprestige of her military power. 1T
was oply alter battle and aYictory that
she could afford to be magnaDimous. All
this; has come to pass much sooner than
uldbeexpected. Three days have barely
ELAPSED since the declaration of hostilitieS,
and Austria has already fought her battle
and won her, victoryre Enough has been
done to crafty her pride; enough to soften
her hearg toward those Italians whom she
has found upon experience to be no con-
temptible enemies, aud whom, she must be
aware, it's always in her power to turn
into very staunch and very valuable
friends By merely opening negOtiae
tions for the cessiOn OF Venetia
Austria would detach Italy from
the ,Prpssian alliance, and be enabled at
once to move from South to North 100000
of her best German troops with an i'm
mensc amount of mGteriet. All the sue
cesses achieved by Prussia in Northern
Germany during the last week would be
more than counterbalanced by this sudden
and enormous accession of strength to her
already powerful adversary. Indeed, Prus-
sia Would at once find herself in the pres
ence OF such fearful odds that it may be
questioned whether she would any longer
feel euIlal To the contest, '''''N
The settlement Of the difference between
two Of the belligerents would Of necessity
brihg the third 20 terms. Prussia and It.
ally only Ventured on hostilities on the as-
suranceur each others cooperation, and
pacification with Italy would not only free
Austria from the necessity of fighting In
the South, but even Of maintaining an army
or fl et'ttere. The squadron OF the Ad-
riatic Would be thrown into the scale
against her adversary, and Prussias career
Of conquest in the Baltic would suffer q
check. Whatever leaning the German peo1
pie may show toward one or the other of
the two great Powers, however staunch to
the Bund they may be IN the South, orpar
tial to Bismark's scheme of national Par
lament in the, North, one feeling has been
hitherto universally evinced by them
ALL and that is their unqualified abb
h0TeDoeI tOrl this fratricidaL6 waf,A+
And the war has hardly begun. Hard
ly one drop of German blood has been
split. Nothing has been done that may be
Considered irr6trievable Should an armisl
tice, with aYiew to pea @ between Austria
and Italy, convince, Prussia of the hopeless
ness OF q single-handed, struggle, nothing
would be easier than to settle the German
question on1the at poSSidetiS principle.--
elvicissitudes of the brief and hitherto
bloodless contest have brought the two
contending Powers to that pointat which
they might have arrived after seven years
struggle, to that frontier OF the Main which
viii In all probability forever divide the
NOrfbfrOmt the South of the Fatherland.-4-
Germany is too vast a country and with all
the Austrian dependencies TOO powerful,
ever to, be one; and it will be a happy day
Tor her and for EuropeIwhen the)dualisIn
which has for more than q century distract,
ed her councils and neutralized her powers
comes to be established, once and forever,
on sound and ifhtelligible basis. Let
Prussia have the North, and her ambition
will be at peace; let Austria have the South,
and her compensation for Venice will be as
ample as the most loyal Austrian can de-
sire. 1'N' N4 ~ '|I eN" 'ta''' IN -1lg
T9lIb is true that in these .speculations we
have not 3considered1the six-and- thirty
members of the Bund. But, What other rei
suits the war may have il will be sure to
accomplish the Work it has already carried
TO such an extentAthe extinction of the
minor States. Q Hanover. Hesse and Sax
ony are already dethroned, and we find, no
greatsympathy eyinctd In their cause eth
er among their subjects or their neighbors,
either ifltor out OF Geriiiai1y. AndT after
Al oil kho Drtt, ., hal, mot
nor anyiofs sthem: The unity Of q Northern
and Of a Southern Germany, with a Parlia-
fnent convOked BY Prussia, or a ,Bhnd pre-
sided over by Austria, may be compatible
with the nominal sovereignty of ever so
many Kings, Electors and Dukes, More
than nominal their sovereignty cannot be
said to have been for a long time; IL will
ioertaiTily never be for the future IBiBqoC
-ncWe have, perhaps in. the interests, OF EHt
,ropean peace, gone too tar, in our Tspee1la;7
tions as to the probable results, Of a first
Step toward a lfeconcillationl or the tive
: -Po&ersnowcrestiDg on their sHsdrds after
the bloody battle of Custozzag BUR aifre-
spective of all remote contingencies, q
peace between Austria aud Italy would be
an ipcalculable blessing, and the, present
moment should hot be allowed. to. pass
away with6utah effort to 'attaino iti The
man who could bring all his authority to
bear on the councils of the belligerepts, SO
as to bend them now to that ackno w1edg-
smefit Of the law OF necessity to which they
must needs bow in the 9eud,y would be in-
deed D a. benefaet0E of the human racer
Were such peacemaker to arise, he might
fully rely on all ths,snpport of the English
Governments nOmatter intOo whose hands
Observation-Disclosures may tall, and no less lop