The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-08

Lbs granu l0oA began 11rHt 70 impress tt6eu
upon the italian people with the annexation
to the national nucleus of Sardinia of the
Austrian appendages of Lombardy, Parma,
| Modena, Tuscany eto., in 1859, rs tho fruits
with the aid of Napoleon III, of the war of
Sardinia with Austria. The idea was strength
| ened into popular italian ultimatum year
or two later with the revolution effected in
sthe kingdom of Naples by Gsribaldi, whereby
the southern territories of the peninsula and
the beautiful island of Sicily we're incorpo-
rated in the new Italian kingdom. But in
1859 the Italians were disappointed in Napo-
Icons treaty of Villafranca, which left Venice
and all those petty Italian districts east
of the Mincie still in the possession of
Austria. In this matter, however, what
Napoleon failed to do in 1853 Prussia
did for Italy at Sadowa in 1866, and with
the incorporation of Venice and the sur
rounding country in their new kingdom the
leading spirits of young Italy became im-
patient for Rome and restive under the often
sive checks and cloudy policy of Napoleon
They had lost faith in him because, in com
pensation for what he had done for them, he
had appropriated to France their Alpine pro-
vinces of Nice and Savoy. Now the coast is
clear. Napoleon, his empire and his dynasty
and his offensive despotism over the Govern
ment of Victor Emanuel are removed Rome
and the Roman States are open to Italy, and
she is going in to occupy them. Rome is to
be the capital of the Italian kingdom that is
and of the Italian republic that is to be; and
in exchange for the States of the Church and
his temporal power the Holy Father is to
have liberal annual allowance from the
Italian treasury and the recognition of his
dogma of infallibility as the head of his
Church, but with perfect freedom to every
citizen to entertain his own opinions on the
subject.
The Holy Father will, perhaps, ohafe little
at first at the loss of his temp lralit ies but in
the reflection that his kingdom is not of the
kingdoms of this world he will find great COM
fort. Likewise in his infallibility will he not
rest upon the rock of st. Peter? With the
transfer of the Italian capital to Rome, we
shall doubtless see ''the Eternal City" rising
like phoenix from its ashes, Frightened up
into new life, with new palaces, public edi-
fees, hotels, new streets and boulevards and
fountains, and museums of art, and RAILWAYS
and canals, and theatres, and free press,
and a free church, and all the en-
bellishments of modern capital of q
great and flourishing State. We expect
that few years hence the traveller over the
Roma Campagna will find its miasma drained
off and the plain sparkling with its villas, cot
tages, and fruitful gardens, aud that he will
find the ragged beggars of the streets of
Rome vastly diminished in numbers and the
banditti of the neighboring mountains trans
ferred to Greece. Hence we consent to the
removal of the capital of Italy from Florence
to Rome, but with the distinct understanding
that the Holy Father shall be we'll provided
for and shall not be rudely disturbed in his
dogma of infallibility. If any one shall SO
transgress let him be anathema.
OUR GERMAN-AMEkICANS AND THE
WAR.
From the N. Y. World.
We do not expect our German fellow-citi-
zens to enter into, nor even to quite under
stand, the warm interest felt by native Ame-
| ricans in the new republic which has so
suddenly arisen out of the ruins of the
French empire. They have not been edu-
Gated in our schools; there is no reason
why they should share our patriotic
veneration for the illustrious actors in our
Revolution; their early training has not
favored that association of ideas by which
we connect the name of Lafayette with that
of Washington; their sentiments and ours
towards France are not only different, but
repugnant. The France which has left the
deepest impression upon their minds is the
France of the first Napoleon-a France
graspiDg, aggressive, despotic; France
which invaded oppressed, and humiliated
their Fatherland, and which with just cause
was detested by all her children. The France,
on the other hand, which has left the liveliest
| IMPRESSION Oh the InluuS OF natlV6-OOrn
Americans, is the France by whose generous
aid we achieved our independence; the France
which cherished with us common hatred of
England; the France which lionized our
Franklin and feted our Jefferson; which in
the throes of her mighty revolution was
smitten with admiration of our republican
institutions. 1t would be absurd for us to
expect our estimable German fellow-citizens
to share the traditionary feelings which
native Americans have always cherished
towards the country of Rochambeau and La
fayette.
We do not ask our German citizens to ac.
company us in the quickened movement OF
the American pulse at the news of the de-
claration of the republic in France We
should not respect them if they affected an
enthusiasm which their lineage, training, and
patriotic associations do not permit them tc
feel. We shall not question the sincerity OF
their attachment to the institutions of theii
adopted country if they do not go into i'm
pu|sive ecstasies over the revolution which
J has just taken place in France? 1t would
betray ickleness and levity which we believe
is no part of the German character for then
to transfer their sympathies to France because
} the war is no longer war against the
French empire, but against the French re
public. They took sides at the outset with
their native land, and we do not expect then
to go over to France in consequence of any
incidents or results of the war. So long al
their attachment to the land of their birti
, does not conflict with their loyalty to theil
adopted country we more than tolerate, W.
/ admire, their pride in the achievements ant
interest in the success of the German armies
: AS Americans we are glad, for our own sake
3 | that this kind of patriOtiSm runs in the Ger