The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-10-19
rhe struggle fOr Itallan UnIty.

Ro,rp q the natural capital Of Italy. The his
tor;c associations Of many centuries cluster
ohor, A. II was the capital of the Roman
Rmpire when that empire was the most pow
erfnl one upon earth. 1t is still great city,
and represents to the Italians more OF national
renown and glory than any other city in their
enpire, The same sentiment Of Italian unity,
therefore, which urged the people on to the
ACQUISITION of Venice, at the cost of repeated
and bitter struggles, still more powerfully
nrges them to the possession Of Rome. They
feel az the people of the United States might
feel if Philadelphia, and the State Of which 1t
forms part, were to pass into the hands Of a
foreign power. 1t is not feeling Of opposi-
tion 10 the Pope as POpe--for the people OF
Italy are almost all Romanists in religion-but
il Ia feeling Of Indignation at beholding por-
iOu Of Italian territory, and the city of Rome,
erected into sovereign power, and that power
sustained and perpetuated not by the choice of
Italians, but by the bayonets of French mer-
cenaries. Rome is really but dependency Of
France. Every sentiment of national unity
and independence is outraged by this condi-
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Italy is that this foreign domination must be
Withdrawn. This constitutes the strength of
GaribGldi's present movement. It but carries
out the desire and the determination Of the
italian people, Unfortunately, the Italian
Government is weak and inefficient. It is
hampered by unfortunate treaties, and it is
even doubtful whether it fully sympathizes
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popular confidence by It's trimming and truGu-
lent course,
The prompt movements Of France, ohroni.
Cled In the cable news to-day, may be followed,
as is intimated in the dispatches, by the
s'backing down" of King Victor Emanuel, but
the people Of Italy will never be satisfied until
q Rome ia theirs. If the Italian Government
shall feebly submit to behold French troops
again gsrrisoning the Eternal City, it must
lose the respect Of its ewn people, and the
Stability of Victor Emanuels throne may be
endangered thereby. II is morally certain
That, however successful the French may now
be, through the promptness and audacity Of
their movements, and the hesitancy Of the TIA
liam Government to meet the crisis, the mo-
ment that witnesses France engaged in great
struggle with some frst-class power will Nlsc
behold an Italian movement upon Rome
Prussia, in that great and mortal struggle will
France which looms up in the horizon Of the
not distant future, may thus be enabled tt
repeat the tactic which gave her such sigma
advantages in the war with Austria. Italy
may again hang upon the rear of Prussia's
opponent, and purchase the freedom of Rome
by the humiliation of France, as she did the
possession of Venetia by the downfall o.
Austria. 1t is morally certain that the great
statesman who shapes the course of Prussis
will not be an indifferent spectator Of this last
movement of the Emperor Napoleon. The
eyeof Bismark is on the struggle, and we shal
be disappointed if he do not soon show hi
hand in it.