The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-09-25
rbs Party OF Action In Italy.

A telegram from pIOIehVe VI Ouhudy . udIe
announces the publication OF an address from
Gsr;baldi to his followers, in which he pro
o,,,r,s bis nurposes to advance with hostile
-, into tbe domains of the Sovereign OF
Ror,e-to overthrow what he calls the tyranny
80 .bo pone 'to restore Rome to Italy and
r,;r,o the Eternal City its ancient supremacy as
tba oapital of the Italian nation"
r1,aro ia something, no doubt, to commend
=, this consistency of patriotic effort by the
Italian t,narty of action" That party has
%vorked under every sort of adverse circum-
stanoes. 1t has taken advantage OF whatever
International disputes seemed to promise AID
in the achievement OF its ends. IL mas USED
Cmsarism in France. 1t has made the domi-
nant sentiment of national unity in Germany
subservient to its aims. II has thrown It's IN
Auence into the scale against Russia, on the
Eastern question, with the same single object
set before it. 1t has made use OF the anti
Dapal sympathes of Western Europe TO WIN
the moral support of Protestant Chrlstendom'
II steadily appealed to the patriotic longlngs
of the Italian people for release from Austrian
domination in the LOmbardo-V Venetian, ana
for the unifcation of Italy. 1t has been con-
tent even to sink, for the time, its republican
and democratic predictions, in order to sus-
tain the royal House of Savoy, as the most
available representative Of constitutional
monarchy. 1t has done its part, by its
agencies, its secret international combina-
tions and military enthusiasm, in giving a
respectable place to Italy among the leading
nations Of Europe.
Can Garibaldi and his followers go farther
than they have done with safety Can they
go farther with the reasonable hope of sue
cess These are the questions which the
Sunday telegram seems to suggest. They are
questions upon which little light seems to be
thrown by the history of events in the Italian
Peninsula for the past ten years. Italy has
made as much and as rapid progress as her
most ardent friends could have expected or de-
sired her to make. She gained ne very great
share of credit i'll the Crimea-for the quarrel
was in no sense hers-however much the
bravery of her military endeavOr may have
been for the time applauded. If she had been
in less haste to secure the prize of Lombardy,
she might probably have been less burdened
than she has since been with the overwhelm-
ing patronage OF her Imperial ally, and with
debt which weighs her industry to the
ground. The alliance with Prussia was more
carefully considered, and more deliberately
formed; and yet, the biggest part of the work
which resulted in the cession of Venetia was
neither achieved in the Adriatic by Admiral
Persano's unfortunate fleet, nor was it done
in the Austrian Tyrol under the inspiring eye
of Garibaldi. 1t was done principally and
finally at SadOwa and by Prussien troops. 1t
was done against the influence and the pro-
tests OF ltaly's chief patron and Imperial pro-
tector. ALI the world remembers this-not to
the discredit of those Italian leaders who may
claim the distinction of statesmen-for to the
statesmen of Italy-from Cavours time to the
present-nearly all that Italy has gained terri
torially and otherwise, will doubtless be ac-
credited when the sober judgment of history
is pronounced The military prowess of the
Italian "party of action'' will doubtless have
its share of credit too. But its efforts have
won far less of military renown for Italy, than
has been otherwise achieved by the thoughtful
craftsmanship of the Kings advisers.
These considerations will certainly be held
in part, to justify the strong denuncation
uttered by the Government of Italy against
the Garibaldi adventure. The Kings procla-
nation pronOunces the revolutionary move
ment at this crisis ga crime against the laws
OF Italy and of nations.' And the Kings
Ministers must be allowed to be the best
judges of the political situation. AS a reli-
gious crusade, the invasion of the States of the
Church at the present time cannot but prove a
failure. The intelligence of Christendom is
against the overturning of religious beliefs
by other agencies than those of reason and
moral influence. The experience of centuries
of persecution shows the futility of phy-
sical agencies of conversion. The common
phrase that 'the blood of the martyrs is the
seed of the Church. clearly expresses a phi
losophic maxim by which enlightened states
men in Italy and everywhere else hold them.
selves governed in these days. Papal inlu-
ence ana papal supremacy are not involved in
any disposition that may be made of the soye-
felgnty OF Rome. 1t is question of civil gov
ernment or nothing The sober thinkers of
1taly-the men who have done the real solid
work OF bringing about Italian unity and con-
sondaton-agree as to this with the wise and
renectlng men of all countries, and discard every
IDEA OF mixing up questions of religious CON
Germ with those of civil polity. The "party of
action" labors to confound the two; and the
pronunclamento OF Garibaldi, by some one
processing to act as his private secretary, is
surely not OF an assuring kind as to the future
OF Italy, even if he and his brave followers
should be reported, by this days cable
despatch, in possession of Rome and the out
lying provinces. The programme of the Llbe-
rator runs thus:-
First. All nations are sisters. Second War
between these sister nations Is Impossible.
Third. All disputes which may arise peJWeen
these nations must be settled by Inc congress.
Fourth. The members OF the Congress are
named by the democratic societies CHOSEN
among the people, Fifth. Each nation can
have but one vote at the Congress, whatever be
the number of representatives. Sixth. The
Papacy, being the most baneful of all sects, Is
declared fallen effaced fIom human iustitu-
tions. Seventh. The religion Of God is adopted
by the Congress, and each of its members
undertakes TO PROPAGATE it over the surface OF
crates to the Service of the All-PoweTful
the great ones of the earth in science
and Intelligence, and condemns the priests
OF ignorance TO annihilaton. Ninth. The
religion OF God is 10 be propogated by educa-
tion and instruction. Tenth Democracy 10
spread the Morales DIES ho'lnetes gems. Eleventh