Year: 1867

Revolution In ItaIy-The Dangers or Another
July.


Not only are all the governments Of Europe
agitated with warlike tendencies, but all the
revolutioniss are In motion also. Our letter
from Brussels, published yesterday, gave an
account of remarkable assembiage in that
city. 1t was nothing less than congress Of
the republican agitators of the Continent OF
every nationality-a body representing with
more or less fidelity the disaffected and op-
pressed populations who only await the hour
when the rulers shall be in trouble to assert
themselves in more significant way. Deputies
from France, from England, Ireland, Spain and
Italy were present How much of the Volcanic
fury Of the masses such statement suggests
England is on the verge of a revolution througk
the denial Of popular rights by dominant
minority; ireland Is ready TO take savage
revenge for ages Of syranny; strange
agglomeration Of parties in France equally
hate the empire; the whole mass Of me Spanish
people is eager to drive out the Bourbon ruler.
and all the aspirants for Italian freedom are
dissatisfied with the sovereignty of the family
of Savoy. Such is a summary Of the popu-
lations represented in the convocation at
General Prim's house 1t is q new popularity
that these revolutionists Of different nations
are thus coming to common understanding
that, biding their time and Watching the course
Of events, they can agree upon concerted
action, and, giving up selfish hopes, can consent
to concentrate all power at the point where an
attempt is most likely to be crowned with sue
cess. 1t is an evil omen for the principle of
divine right, when the people pause to de-
liberate before acting.


1t was decided at the Brussels c0nvocation
that the FIRST effort should be made at Rome.
This decision indicates the wisdom of the rev0-
lutionary councils. Italy is for many reasons
the most promising field for battle in behalf
of popular liberties Republican government
has been the aspiration of the Italian people
since the tocsin of the French revolution
awakened Europe, and ever eager to grasp tho
grand prize, seeing it sometimes seemingly
within reach, they have constantly been
turned aside from the goal of all their
hopes. When the revolutionary armies moved
across Italian territory, trampling out Of exist
ence the petty dukes and duchies, there was in
many quarters an instructive sympathy on the
part of the still half sleeping people I; bat when
the great struggles of the republic and tho
empire were fought out, Italy, seeing the real
position in which she was left, made an at
tempt Of her own. That attempt the Holy Al
lance put down. But the attempt had stirred
the free spirit, and they Who were children
then grew up revolutionary generation MAJ
zini and Garibaldi were Of the number. The
French revolution of 1880 had its sympathetic
effect in Italy, and the country was only kept
quiet by very decisive measures. But wor-
thy attempt that spread over the whole land
came with 1s4S and this was only prevented
of success by being diverted from its true OBJ
ject The country at large, eager for freedom,
was manGuvred into accepting merely national
unity and . constitutional monarch, while
the stubborn republicans Of Rome were put
down by the soldiers Of republican France.
Italy is dissatisfied and restless to-day under
the settlement thus brought about, and her
people. the Romans, above all, will rally tOs
republican standard under the guidance Of tho
tried and trusted leaders of former struggles.


Thus, while France will have her hands full
in struggle with united Germany, Italy will
rise and fight out the question OF national ex-
istence with her feeble and incompetent
monarch. France may attempt to save the
Pope in accordance with her guarantees, and
SO send out Of the country even more force
than will be necessary against the Germans.
Barricades in the streets of Paris will be tho
consequence. And while Spain concentrates
her force to oppose the blows that England
menaces, and while England hastens to punish
the arrogance Of the Spaniard, what shall keep
down the adherents Of Prim, ON the one hand,
and the Fenians on the otherf or what shall
control the excited masses of the English peo-
pie when John Bright shows them that they
have nothing TO hope for from constitutional
agitation in Parliament Who can point the
limit to the changes that summer win bring
forth?


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