The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-15
FRANCE SPAIN. AND ITALY.

IT Is a significant circumstance that the i'm
mediate and tangible results of the war in
Europe have been favorable to the cause of
liberty. Some of the American soldiers have
cherished the hope that the battles of the
Old World will lead through sore trials and
tribulations to results analogous to those at
tanned here, and that John Browns soul will
go marching on on the other side of the At
lantic since its mission in the United States
has been accomplished; and there is now
fair prospect that this hope will be realized.
Republicsnism in Spain has been greatly
strengthened by the course of events The
leading question in that country is no longer
what prince shall be placed upon her throne,
but what is the best method of changing her
constitution SO that all dynasties may be de-
barred from the succession. The republican
system, which was formally and apparently
finally condemned by the Cortes, is in fair
way to receive a rehearing, with good pros
pect of adoption as the permanent form of
government in Spain.
From Italy comes the intelligence that
national troops have at last occupied the
Papal territory, and that the nation is re-
joicing over ''the deliverance of the Roman
provinces from the tyranny and impoverish-
ing rule of the Papal Government" After
years of agitation, remonstrance, and revolu-
tion had failed to accomplish
this object, it is achieved now
without any opposition more serious than
slight skirmishes and Intellectual diplomatic
protests. Napoleon was long the firm prop
of the temporal power of the Pope, and in
withdrawing his troops from Rome to fa-
cilitate his preparations for the war with
Prussia, he opened the way for the compile
tion of Italian unity. AS the temporal gov
ernment of the Papal States was about the
worst that the world has ever seen in any age
or country, its downfall is good cause of re-
joicing among all the lovers of liberal insti-
tutions; and this event would of itself go far
to compensate for many of the miseries of the
war which gave to Victor Emanuel the oppor-
tunity he had been eagerly awaiting.
France, too instead of being compelled to
postpone until the death of the Emperor
another republican experiment, regains her
domestic freedom under the most unexpected
circumstances. She has not only got rid of
her Bonapartes, but they have SO deeply dis
graced themselves in the eyes of the whole
nation that their hold on popular confidence
has been totally destroyed; and if Prussia
attempts to put them back, they will be as
.contemptuously rejected as were the Bour-
,bons.
Thus from the carnage Of bloody battle
fields results wonderfully favorable to free
dom have been wrought out in France, Spain,
and Italy. Practically Napoleon was the
common tyrant of all these countries, and
his sudden downfall has led to their common
deliverance. Germany, instead of lamenting
OF striving to undo this work, should be
proud of it. Whatever view her kings and
princes may take of these extraordinary COM
plications, her people should rejoice that
their valor has promoted not only their own
safety and unity but the substantial welfare
of other members of the great European
family. In spite of the Vaccinations of am-
bilious monarchs, the war is turning out to
be real war of freedom; and if those who
have now the power to settle the final terms
of adjustment do not willingly recognize this
fact, a prolongation of the struggle may
make it painfully clear to their understanding.
OUR PRIDE IN OUR PARRB
PHILADELPHIA may proudly boast of her park.
1t is genuine republican luxury, public
thing ready for everybody and within reach
of everybody. The park is a triumph 1t
brings the country into the city; it brings the
verdure and the quiet of the fields, the still
ness and shadows of the forest, close to the
noisy streets, thronged with dusty, worn, and
jaded multitudes. Here is no deception