Reünion

"We are concerned with the fact — not with its genesis. Whether the war between France and Austria was unjust or unavoidable ; which party prepared, and which began, the conflict ; whether Louis Napoleon originally designed, and whether he now relishes, that creation of a Kingdom of United Italy, of which he was the undoubted instrument ; whether the citizens of the new state ought to be grateful to him for their emancipation and reünion, or to Providence for having overruled his purposes ; whether the cession of Savoy and Nice was a moderate and necessary, or a questionable and a needless, price ; how far the duplicity and misstatements which undeniably discredited the transaction, exceeded the recognized limits of diplomatic mystification […]"