The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-01-16
VICTOR EMANUEL.
HOW ROYALTY Is MANUFACTURED
Il AND RExPETuATsD ron EUROPE.
The House 0f sav0y-A small Italian
Duke whose Descendants Have
Become Kings Of Italy.
IChieNRo Titnes.

IChicBgo Timesl
The "house Of Savoy Is an apt illustration
III how the thing called royalty IS manu-
featured; and the death Of the inlbecile proti-
gate who gives away, Ms he would an cid coat,
the crown 81 o. kingdom is IN impressive ex-
ample Of what Church and State alike have
called "the divine right Of kings. .....
Back In the blacklist Of the dark ceiitnrles
~ sefnf-civilized cbieftain OF small Dnb fttpa-
cious band roved at will on the western slope
OF the Alps, and hunted man and beast at the
bise Of Mont Blanc.
sOft from whose feet tho avalanche unbeard,
Shoots downward giittering through inc pure
serene"
and cursed and robbed where Coleridgc sang
bis most majestic song. What his ancestors
obtained by rapine and pillage. Berthold,
j German and q "noble" self-made, kept,
i enlarged and transmitted to heirs who
became counts Of the Holy Roman empire
In the twelfth century, and their family
estate was Savoy. The counts Of Savoy called
themselves "duke" in the fifteenth century,
and added Piedmont to their property;
and when they. grabbed sicily, In the early
part Of the eighteenth. century they assumed
the style and name Of "lSing" Thus is roy
atty createdl Sicily, in 1870, was snapped
for Sardinia, and the heir OF Berthoid, the rob
Der of Mont Blanc and Lake Leman, became
PRED with Charles Francis and the crown Of
Sardinia and Piedmont fell to u younger
branch Of the family, whose representative
was Charles Albert, who had been the viceioy
Of Sardinia, and assembled the throne in 1881.
He married the Archduchess Theresa, Of Aus
tria, and Victor Emanuel. the late King Of
Italy, was their son.
Charles Albert tried to be king and reyou-
ZIONIST and found, after u protracted effort,
that the one role involved the sacrifice Of the
other, and, finally, that he must abandon
both The spirit of Paris was breathed over
Italy by exies and madmen, and Sardinia de-
manded, like the rest of the petty principaIi-
ties, O constitution and reforms" He gave
the first and promised the last, but undertook
to direct the pupular attention from domestic
abuses by assuming quasi leadership OF the
movement for Italian solidarity. His defeat
by the Austrians at Novara IN 184s, and the
general conviction Of the Sardnans that his
devotion to the rights Of the people was
sinister, compelled him to abdicate In order to
save for his son the crown which would in
evitably have been taken from his own head
by revolution IL he tried TO retain it. He abdi-
Gated and died In 1s49.
Victor Emanuel / was brother of Charles
Felix and resigned rather than give the pco-
pie any share in the government. Victor
Emanuel III endeavored to escape the destiny Of
his predecessors by avoiding their policy, and
couIted the favor OF the. more intelligent
masses by calling to his aid men greatly su
perior to himself in brain and tact. The king
dom, consisting of Sardinia, Piedmont and
Savoy, was financially in an almost hopeless
state. Unable to meet it's most sacred obliga-
tons, II WINS without credit abroad, and was
equally wanting in strength and tran
qtillity at home. In 1852, Camille
Cayour,. Q Turin bridesmaids son, who had
himself handled grain and hypothecated prob
+ ably rehypothecated commercial securities
{ ION the street" became Prime Minister. He
had edited revolutionary newspaper; had
led the sUnited Italy party in the Chamber
OF Deputies under Charles Albert, and be-
merce In 1850, and Minister OF Finance in
q It'd Council and Prime Minister in II 1852
He became became, N I fact, King Of SARDINIA, and
until Cayour's sudden death in 1861, is the
history Of an adrot and audacious states
was gavopr WHO enlarged the boundaries Of
the Kingdom OF Sardinia until the hunting
ground OF Berthold OF Mont Blanc had ex-
ganded over the en- Ire, peninsula, from lake
Como TO the Straits OF Messina, and the heir
Of 9 German robber ruled over the ancient
Italy OF the pagan Romans and the modern
K0meOf the Christian pontiff5-for although
the Sardinian household was not removed to
the Tiber during Cavours lifetime, the seizure
OF the Quirinal was only % delayed part of the
programme which would have been carried
outlnuch earlier had Cavour lived, and which
was postponed by the timidity Of the King
himself.
Cavour was the founder. Of the kingdom of
Italy. 1t descends to the scion of Savoy, who
will waste no time I'm conmemorating the
abilities of the man who delivered it to his |
father; but II kingdoms may be given away, |
1t should certainly be- bequeathed to the heir |
OF Cavour. He was the only Italian states-
man worthy of the name since the ReforI1a-
ton. He might have succeeded as n military
commander, Tor he displayed marked predi-
lection Tor the science Of war ut the military
academy and while stationed as lieutenant of
engineers at Genoa. He might have dstin-
gulshed himself in law, in literature, or in
science, had he made any Of these his profess
sion; and that he became a conservator of q
new monarchy instead Of the rival Of Garibaldi
M Ia
peninsula, seems to have been destiny or acct
dent, for his Impulses, associations preudices. |
and ambition, were all In the beginning, radi-
0al ana democratic. Having obtained control
OF the politics OF Sardinia, and transformed ,
Victor Emanuel from nominal sovereign iD' >,
actual subject, he began the series of profo ~ W
intrgues by which first the power of Ar ot ri"
Inen i. that OF the Pope, was to be over brown
His intentions toward the papao- were o soon
Perfectly understood and his r. ,rn alton 9 ~ mn
alliance with France, Bingham and T,,rl,eW NV NV
which Sardinia obtained u n the first time
s III ~ sne council nosao of Europe revealed
array France against, Austrian influences west
of the Adriatic . 'i'''nNo "N'o
4 was while tie now almost obsolete treaty
.. raris was De ing arranged, that Cavour won
Pope n ahd - III to the abandonment Of the
tha p pes lderstood perfectly what was to be
R Rue ~ If removing the French troops from
n sie, - made clear enough by events that
iEzatin,;y followed. Cavour's vigorous organ
tn a,l OF the Sandman army In 1889 conveyed
., ~ az tria the menace which Francis Joseph
aol1 iot unwilling to accept. AS soon as his |
nm" iers entered Piedmont, France in accord |
AZ 70 with the mutual plan Of Cavour and
J apoleon III, declared war against Austria,
( nd the battles Of Magenta and Solferno by
which Cayour hoped to expel the Hapsbnrgs
wholly from Italy, afforded the French En-
peror a chance to remind Cavour that a prime
minister was not always of the first impor-
lance, for the peace of Vilafranca was
concluded by Louis Napoleon and Fran
els Joseph, without Cavour's assistance,
and Austria was left in possession Of Vene-
tia while France took Nice and Savoy. Ca
yours chagrin impelled him To resign. Victor
Emanuel failed to persuade him to return to
the direction of affairs until Ratazzi's admin
istration threatened to undo all that Cavour
had done; and in 1860, the latter re-assumed
the premiership. Then was formed the most
curious of all Italian intrigues and the most
singular of political bargains Cavour-
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