The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-08-01

LII WAS 0ltCreO 6OOu hlI6TWhTub, Nv the
revolutionary movements through which
the separate political existence of tho
duchies of Tuscany, Parma, and Modena, and
most of the States of the Clutch, was obliter-
ated, and their allegiance transferred to the
King of Italy. 1t was agein altered by Carl
baldi in 1860, when the kingdom of Naples
was blotted out; and when, finally, Italy,
which had previously been merely a ''geogra-
phical expression, became almost entirely
united under one government, the sove-
reign of which was the former King of Sar-
DINA. The map of Europe was again
changed in another quarter in 1865, when
the armies of Austria and Prussia made
war upon Denmark, and tore from that
ancient kingdom the duchies of Schleswig
and Holstein. which we're finally annexed to
the territory Of Prussia. 1t suffered still an
other change in 1866, when, at the close of
the Prusso-Austrian war, Prussia oblitsrsted
the kingdom of Hanover, seized the city of
Frankfort. and established the North-G German
Confederation in its present shape; while
Italy acquired Yenetia and the small portion
of Lombardy which remained to Austria after
the war of 1853.
By these extensive alterations in the map
of Europe, two important kingdoms Naples
and Hanover), beside numerous minor States,
have been blotted out. Italy has gained ter
ritory which Austria has lost, beside her other
gains on the Italian Peninsula itself. France
has gained territory which Italy has lost.
Prussia has gained territory which Denmark
has lost, beside her other gains in Germany
itself. A map Of Europe ten or twelve years
old is quite worthless now: and it is not i'm
possible that the map Of the present day
may be altered SO as to be ''out of
datea before the close of the year.
If, for example, France should over
throw Prussia-an event which seems ex-
tremely unlikely-the French Emperor will
undoubtedly seize the Prussian territory west
of the Rhine, and annex it to his own en-
pire. 1t appears also by the proposed
treaty. lately published, that he would then
also make an attempt to acquire the duchy
of Luxembourg and ''absorb" the kingdom of
Belgium. We also suppose that, in order to
cripple his PROSTATE Prussian adversary, he
would permit Denmark to get back Schleswig-
Holstein. and would re-establish the indepen-
dence Of Hanover.
But if, on the other HAND, Prussia were
trium plant over France. King William might
seize and annex to his dominions the French
provinces of Alsace and Lorraine, might take
the province of Jutland from Denmark, and
might consolidate the Considerations of North
and South Germany into one great confede-
rated empire. If Austria were to take part
in the hostilities, it is probable that before
their close we should see alterations in her
map of a very serious character. If France
suffer defeat. we shall certainly see another
alteration in the map of Italy that will render
further changes of it unnecessary. We shall
see the temporal sovereignty of the Pope
abolished, and Rome become an integral part
doubtless the capital) of the united king
dom of Italy. 1t is useless, however, to in
dulge in further coniectures or speculations
as to the probable alterations of the European
map, which has been altered so frequently
and extensively during the last few years. a..
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THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN THE
FALL CAMPAIGN.
From the N Y. Times. -
We recognize in q recent speech of Senator
Morton, in opening the Indiana campaign,
evidence of a failure to appreciate some of
the most important conditions Of Republican
success. The Indiana Senator is a man of
mark in his party. His conspicuous services
and his admitted abilities entitle him to its
respect and confidence; while the position he
has assumed upon certain questions, and the
general tendency of Western opinion, with
which he may be supposed to be identified,
have seemed to indicate him as a weighty
adviser in the counsels of his party.
To be an effective leader, however, he
of the past. He must comprehend
the opportunities of the present and the
probabilities of the future; he must be pre-
pared so to shape the course of the party
that it shall derive strength from its adapta-
ton to the wants of the day, instead of rely
ing upon the traditions of a policy already
practically closed. Mr.. Morton had a great
chance the other day, and flowed it to slip
past him unimproved. He might have
sketched the work before the Republican
party, and its purposes as interpreted by one
who would he a statesman, and he preferred
to talk of the war and its issues, of recon
s~truction and its difficulties, Of Republican
loyalty and Democratic hardness of heart.
The Senator is not alone in his mistake. But
it is a mistake that must be r~ectiied by his
party if it would vindicate its usefulness and
perpetuate its power.
To a certain class of politicians, the rebel.
lion will furnish a theme for stump speeches
as long as they live. They will never cease
to lavish encomiums upon the loyalty of
candidate, or to heap Goals Of fire upon the
Copperheadism Of his opponent. The old
story will be told over and over again at each
succeeding election. They will remind im-
patient audiences that the Republicans saved
the Union which the Democrats would have
destroyed. In what the Republican party
did during the war, and what the same party
has done since the war, their patriotic i'm
aginations will discover reasons for keeping
it in power at least to the end of the century,
Thus, and thus only, will these small politi
clans talk. They have their uses, we suppose
in the party organization, but they are no
its safest guides, nevertheless.
He knew quite as much of politics as o.
human nature who defined gratitude to bt
"a lively sense of favors to come" That is Tia,
kind of gratitude which is in most active OK
ercise at election time. There are occasions
doubtless, when the records of the past ma.
he adyantaoeouslV OOened. and when the con