The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-10-23
THE rRAuoo-1rAL1AN COMPLICATIONS

The last move of GARIpALDI bids fair to
give the powers of Europe considerable
trouble. We confess that we ourselves were
posed to underrate the Importance of the step,
perhaps because we did not appreciate the in
tensity of feeling of the "party Of action"
which found expression in the determination to
make Rome once more the capital Of an united
Italy. We accepted the. declarations of the
| Italian Government, in obedience to treaty
obligations to check all such movements on the
part of its citizens Wo deprecated, therefore,
| any threat of French or other foreign interfer-
ence; and we still believe that if VIcToR
EMMANUEL is permitted to conduct affairs with
out French intervention, the chances arc in
favor of his being able to repress the revolu-
tionary faction. But if the French return to
Rome, and plant their hostile standard again
on italian soil, we believe such fact can have
no other effect than to provoke the jealousy Of
the greater part of the Italian people, and
which, sooner or later, must result in war.
That NAPOLEON should deliberately involve
himself in such complication, we confess, is
to us very surprising. We read the French
papers carefully, and find many opposed to
such policy. While they do not sympathze
with GARIBALDI, and condemn his action as
rash and ill-timed, they nevertheless consider
that it is not for the interest of France to in
terfere.
| AS one of the incidental effects this new
situation of affairs is thought to have already
produced, we may mention that the German
papers state that since the breaking out of the
Roman difficulty. the tone of the French press,
in relation to the questions pending between
France and Prussia, has lost much of its
acerbity. A more pacific policy now finds
general favor,
The Courier des Etats Unis, a staunoh French
paper, though not always Bonapartist, in its
issue of the 10Th inst. in leader on this sub
ject remarks: "The grave tidings received
from Italy have produced profound sensa-
ton. Contrary to our expectation and our
wishes, France is on the eve of intervening in
Roman affairs Nothing could be more un-
popular with tour-ffths of the French people
We fail to perceive altogether why it should
be to the interest Of France to sustain the tenn
poral power of the Pope. We see clearly the
troubles that must arise from Intervention.
Where, then, are its advantages? Are French
men to be made the champions of Catholicism ?
[Pidee CathoIque.'] We admit that the Italians
arc not deserving Of interest. We have no sym
pathy with GARIBALDI and his band of offlibHsters
We admit that international laws and treaties
have been violated. We do not believe in
Italian unity, and do not wish it; but we first
of all look To the interest Of France, and we
believe that the Intervention of 1867, if it
takes place, is a more grave mistake than was
that of 1849. We alienated Italy, which, it is
true, could not have been foreseen; but we also
worked in the interest Of Prussia. We para
USED our action on the side of the North (the
only point where expansion is possible for
France), to maintain an antiquated institution
upon the Tiber, where we had no interest or
pretcnsion The French Government served
as instrument 10 the clerical party, which
always has been, and cannot but be hostile to
it, and has given formidable arms to it's ad-
versaries of the Liberal party. The best
means of effecting tho unity of Italy is to re-
fsse Rome to the Italians by force. Let them
have this CITY of the dead, and they must soon
succamb under the weight of financial Difficult
ties and official corruption 1t is nothing but
the idea that foreigners ore keeping them out
of Rome that has sustained them to the pre-
sent time
at was upon his return from Biarritz, after
that the Emperor seems to have taken the
resolution to act independently of the Italian
Government, and to interfere at once In the
Roman question. A long article in the IHOni-
teur of the 10th reproaches the Italians with
violating the law of nations, disregardng the
obligations Of solemn treaties and fomenting a
dangerous spirit of republicanism in Italy. The
Noniteu adds that the inhabitants of Rome and
of the Pontifcal Provinces are faithful to PIUs
IX The Patrie seeks to show that interven-
tion is necessary to save Italy from revolution
and from anarchy.
"The effect produced by the article in the
Noniteur has been disastrous. Rentes fell at
once at the Bourse; bullion decreased at the
bank, and even in London stocks have con-
siderably fallen. The Times advises Victor
EMMANUEL to seize Rome before either Carl
baldians or French get there, and then to
treat with France. But upon what plea could
he Justify the invasion and occupation of the
States of sovereign with whom he is not at
war? 1t would only be another assertion of
the right of force, nothing more, like the an
nexation of the kingdom of Naples, accom-
plished after an act Of piracy.
"For US, Frenchmen, nothing remains but to |
hope for the best issue possible to this ques-
ton 1t is difficult to realize that it should |
become necessary for Ms to cross swords with |
the Italians Not that the soldiers of Navarro,
of Custozza and of Lissa, are particularly dan
gerous, but because sseh struggle could'not |
be followed by any real advantage to our
country. With such advsrsaries, military sue
cess would bs without glory. Material gain
here would be none, and our moral prestige 1
would be snfeeblsd rather than increased by
,uch an encounter. clean and decided policy
"unc poltiqHs netts") whatever it may be, Is
always better than the uncertainty and indie
,ision which have hitherto characterized all
he steps of the French Government.
P. S.-Sinoe writing the above, the tele-
graph has brought US dispatches, printed on