The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-01-17
The Death of King Victor.

Tie first king of Italy is dead. Victor
Emmanuel, expired on the afternoon of
the 9th, in the quirinal palace at Rome,
the former residence Of the popes. His
illness was sudden, and his death was
not expected almost to the last moment,
but a malarial, there known as the
Roman fever, had got possession of his
vigorous frame and he had to succomb
His last moments were characterized by
kind words to all around him and good
advice to his heir Prince Humbert. He
received the last consultations of the
Catholic religion from the hands of
chaplains sent to him from the vatican,
and the pope himself, submerging in this
dread hour all past differences, remarked
that he himself would have gone to the
quirinal, to administer extreme junction,
had his infirmities permitted.
Victor Emmanuel has led a most
eventful life, perhaps more so than any
sovereign OF our times. Inberiting
kingdom of only four millions of people,
by taking advantage of great oppertuni-
| ties, he increased it to one of 81 900, 900,
and the little district of Piedmont ana
Savoy was gradually enlarged to that of
all Italy and the island of Sicily. He
was much beloved by the people, for no
sovereign was more democratic in his
habits, and no high official could be
more easily approachable. While riding
in the streets of Florence he would lift
his hat to the poorest beggar if that
beggar lifted his hat to him.
He has had perplexing difficulties to
encounter, and very serious differences
with the head of the church to which he
belonged, and yet he has persisted in his
determination to make united Italy,
and in that he has so succeeded that he
will be regarded among the truly great
men of the age. He often remarked among
his complicated difficulties that he had
but one principle to follow and that was
the oath he gave to his father, Carlo Al.
berto, that the unity of Italy should be
the main object of his lie. To this he
subordinated all other considerations
When the Italian finances became dis
ordered he would remark to his minister;
measures the leading consideration.
In the early part of his reign he wa:
aided by the extraordinary mind o.
Count Cavour, a journalist, an orator
and a statesman of the highest grade
whom some admirers pronounced the
Washington, but whom we would cal
the Jefferson, of Italy. He died soo1
after Victor Emmanuel became king o
Italy, and his loss was all but irrepara
BILE, for the king has really had no grea
minister since. Cavour was not only
rare diplomatist but he was also a grea
fnancier. Victor has since accepted an,
ministry the parliament might impos
upon him, as he made it rule never t.
keep a minister an hour in power il
whom the Italian parliament expressed
want of confidence. In that respec
he was q model constitutional sovereign
His eldest son, Prince Humbert, ha
already succeeded to the throne. He
supposed to be of different material f-on
his father; that is, he is inclined to b.
more arbitrary and chafe at c3nstitu
tional restraints. But parliamentar,
government has become SO much por
ton of Italy that he will be CONSTRAINED
to follow in the footsteps of his illustriou
father. Itwas understood at Turin tina
Amadeus-the good Amadeus" as b
was called-was his tavorite son.
The death of Victor will make a ser
sstion throughout Europe, PARTICULAR
in Germany, because it was there SUI
posed he would act in unison with il
emperor in the event of the election of
new pope; but Victor Emanuel is dea
at fifty-eight, and Pho Mono at eighty-si
, is comparatively hale and hearty.