The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1867-10-09
Napoleon's Intervention in the
Roman Question

Louis Napoleon has once more saSerteo5 ,s
the. blow which. threatened 10 crush Tue
Secular Power of the Papacy. But 1or
his intervention, the fallsoi the Temporal. n
Power! would have been certain. a large
number of the sPapal troops had oeen
eained over for the. cause OF Garioaloi,
and q the few volunteers which are IN Inc
,Paplal service, would certainly not have.
withstood long the thousands OF volun-
5tccrs whom Garihaldi, as he has shown
ON many occasions, cain call together at Il
few days notice. Butior Napoleon,s IN.
Prevention. Garibaldi would never have
6een arrested, but the Government when
accepted from his hand the two oicllles
and part of the Papal territory as a
present, which last year gave him the
command of -an2enti larmy corps, which
has frequently declared its intention to
annex the Papal States, would long ago
have sent Garbaldiat the head of an ar
inv ae..inst Rome, c5dld it have emanci-
snated itself from the nfuencc-of Franco.
: France.did not, ,confnc herself to order
ing the arrest of Garibaldi, but, as the
Atlantic telegraph announces, at once
despatched troops to, Rome in order to
again garrison her. and prevent an nsur-.
rlection Of the people. TIis stepis in
open violation of the treaty concluded IN
1861, between France and Italy, by which
France consented to withdraw her troops.
if Italvewoi,ld prevent an invasion of the
Papal territory. Italy. has been com.
PEELED to strictly execute her part OF the.
-trea ty,; wbile France has never paid to IL
the least Respect omsher part. 'Flie French
.Govea,ment:lras Of late repeatedly inti-i
mated thatany new danger to the city OF.
Rome;wouIdat once lead TO q return OF
the French troops. Only o few weeks
ago, "a FRENCH General reviewed the.
French volunteers at Rome, telling them
stiatstheY were still regarded as French
troops, and eXhorting them to defend the
.Papal territory. Thus Louis; Napoleon
continues to act in open violation OF the
very principle which he, first of the mon
archs of Europe, endeavored tointroduce
into European politics. Whenever great
.complications arose whicir-it seemed
France could make use Of Tor her aggral'-
.dzement, Napoleon made himself the
champion of tic national aspirations. lie
did not satisfy the leaders of the great
Liberals5party. but it was readily re-
cognized that he proclaimed l'rlnclric
which was much more profitable to the
progress Of Liberalism than the principles
professed by the statesmen OF the cid
school. But willie asp;ringat the honor
Of being Liberal, he has hardly missed
nm occasion TO violate his own principles.
we need not dwell lat length on his expo
dition against the Mexican Republic, or
on the long occupation of the city OF
Rome by Frencl, tro, ps, or his desire
stealthily 10. obtain territory. from Prus-
si,i. ssAl these moves arc still in the re-
mcmbrance of.our readers.
In Italy, Napoleon has for the present
carried his point; G:ribaldi.is prisoner,
.hisfvolanteers .hase sesdispered, :l~riot in
Florence has been promptly suppressed.
But this is not the end OF The Garibaldian
movement. The italian people smart
.under-tte ..ffront which, France has offer
ed to them. They only need u Bismarck
to destroy their disgraccful scwitude to
France; and the greater the arrogant
claims of France are, the sooner the ltal-
ian people will learn to spurn them. y
New York. Tribune.
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