The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-10-15

SO easily c5NFaSDte Win nc aEF4eIA'
bility Of the SapFeme Pondf and bis
spiritual authority, and with theinde-
pendence of the Holy See.
IF your Holiness Gas / 90 not
doubt and as your sacred character
aud benignapt spirit lead me to hope)
desires as earnestly as I do TO avoid
conflict and danger of violence, you
will take counsel with Count Ponsa
dl San Martino, the bearer of this let
ter and authorized to act for my Gov
eTnment as to the best means of at
tanning the desired ends.
May hope that this moment, so
happy for Italy. the Church and the
Papacy. may tonch your lively spirit
of beDeVolence towards this land,
which is your fatherland, and that
this moment may harmonic with
those coneilIatoFy sentiments that L
have striven to putin action, with I'M
firing perseverance, so that satisfying
the national desire, the head of Ca
tholicism surrounded by the devotion
of the Italian population, shall main
tain upon the banks of the Tlber a
Holy See, glorious and independent
of human sovereignty.
Your Holiness, in freeing Rome
from foreign troops and saving 1t
from the continual danger of becom-
ing The battlefield OF suberversive
parties, will restore peace to the
church, aud Wi show Europe, now
trempIing at the horrors of war, how
grand battles may be won and immor
ta1 victories gained by an act OF
| justice, and by single word of love.
| beg your Holiness to give me your
| Apostolic benediction, and | express
my sentiments Of most profound re-
spect for your Holiness.
| 1.-THE most humble, obedient aud
| devoted son of your Holiness,
VITToRIE EMMANUEL.
FLORENCE, September 9Th, 1870.
Thisiletter has been yariously criti-
eised, but In general it has made a
most favorable impression. 1t seems
to be a true exponentIof the King Z
sentiments. He certainly does want
Rome. apart from any spirit of ag-
grandizement. Geographically speak
ing, it is the keystone of the arch on
which italy rests. II was certainly
the source of support to the Neapoli.
tan brigandage that has disgraced the
Italian government so long. It was q
refuge TO the ever plotting ex King oil
Naples, and fruitful with mapy cabals
and dangers. ,- r.4
The affair last Autumn with the
priest at the supposed death bed oi
the King showed him to be faithful
son of the church. Notwithstanding bis
lessar cxeommunication The excuse
ofraprotfetion has some foundation
but must be considered as rather
weak. Absolute Justice, however
sGernss the necessity Of a pretex, and
gives the Roman. Provinces to Victor
Emmanuel as his own birthright, al.
ready too long withheld from him.
The Romans are to vote for their
own form of government early In DC.
tober, but there is little doubt of the
choice of monarchy and union with
Italy, under Victor Enamel.
Phe entry of the troops was affect
ed. After the capitulation, without
further disturbance than slight
demonstration of hatred toward the
apalZ0uaves, on the part of the Ro.
mans. The Pope remains in the Va.
tican. The demonstrations of Joy al
the entrance of the troops have still
been universal, especiallyat Florence
Yesterday, the 21st, was observed as
a fete day. and the happy Italians did
not pretend to do anything, instead oil
their usual manner of making a pre-
tension, but doing nothing. In the
evening the Piazza Iii San Morco
was brilliantly Illuminated, so
| that thefar famed Venetian
doves quilted their stony couches
and futtered ftfully and uucerta;nIv
from place to place. The ''gamins, .
as usual, rushed everywhere that the
crowd was thickest; the flower girls
and vendors of bon bOns were OUT In
full strength; 10000 people filed the
piazza and listened to the music from
two bands that played alternately.
About nine O'Clock the loffv
bell tower was suddenly illu-
minated with the Italian tri color.
red, white and green, aud then Ito
quote Horaee) The palms of the
spectators ran together for JOY, and a
mighty shout of jubilant acclamatiop
| filed the air. The appearance of that
NEST graceful church in Europe. San
Marco, was peculiarly beautiful. The
soft candle light threw a kind of halo
over the delicately carved stone WORK.
transforming it to the fantastic and
airy caprices Of Jack Frost, while the
mosaic pictures Of the facade seemed
lighted from within BY food of gol-
den glory, and the old bronze horses
that have been to Rome, CONSTANT
nople and Paris, looked serenely
down from their lofty pedestals. The
scene was most fascinating aud almost
ideal, had il not been FOR the coca
sional suggestion on the part of some
small boy. in a minimum of clothing,
remarking that he was awfully hungry,
and would accept the donation of half
a cent, whereupen he would drum Cd
where his waisicoat ought to be, aDd
make sound in bis thIoatss from
hollow place. E. A.C.