The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-10-16 00:00:00

THE REV. CANON STOWELL ON GARIBALDI
AND ITALIAN AFFAIRS.

The annual meeting of the Salford Operatives Protes-
tant Association was held on Wednesday evening at the
Holm-street schoolroom, which was very fully attended.
Tire secretary Mr. Ford) read the animal report, which
alirorred that the number of tracts distributed in racers
of the previous year had been 15,000, and that the
total number was 64,'.047. The report expressed in hope
tirat the wonderful events now occurring in Italy might
result in the uprooting of all error and superstition.
The Rev. Canon Stovall, who presided, directed atten-
tion to the state of Popery as he h id recently ieell it in
Franos The Kieran were a crestfallen class, who had
lost all their inlluence and felt that such we, the care.
There was not amoug Frenchmen that open brow and
clear calm eye that we saw among Englislonen.
trust and restlessness reigned among them. Under all
that was beautiful, aparkling, green, and fair, there was
a deep volcano of anarchy and revolution ; and while
that most crafty and mighty Well who natal the head
of affairs amused people with display, lie at the same
time knit ntore closely his net of steel around them,
sO that while the military were true to him, all the
mighty population were as completely in his bands as
the greyhound in the leash, or the sheep in the
slaughterhouse. He bhoued nut the Emper.ir for this,
so long as the Parisians proved themalces mint for
liberty ; hot he did blame him because be did trot try to
raise them or by giving them a free Bible and Protes-
tant Christianity. (Clieenid lie would now say •
word or two on • subject which was mint justly engross-
ing more attention than any other political or axial
question. He referred to tire wondrous revolution
going on in Italy. In that beautiful country the moil
lied often been soaked with blood in the *trunks for
liberty; arid at last a glorious and noble e:rampron and
patriot was found leading the people to freedom. Hs
Idle Rev, Canon Stowell) did nit hesitate to say, after
reading the autobiography of Garibaldi, that be had the
profoundest respect fur that great man. However
despots might denounce Garibaldi's love of liberty
—however much Rorie who would gloat over Italy's
debasement might hate his pstiotisui—however a venal
press might endeavour to blacken his I baiacter. or
Jesuits and their euihowaries might try in every possible
way to circumvent and mislead bon—low, err much he
*night at timers, perhaps, come little under tie influence
of extreme men, and be bonlerrug upon peril—yet.
"take him for all in all," a nobler hero hint not
risen in these later trines. (Loud cheering.) G .ribal ni
was • man of truthful and Imnest •i opl c,,)
of fearless bravery, yet cons ttttt mate gen, la •.•.
• man who could _ fight upon the a. .

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upon the laud; one who fea nut tne fae, f
hut, as his minuoire Armee, whip hoiii,iuio• •II iti.,t ai
God; a man who longed to nee hie country fie,
poor country, with freedom. was haupier and more truly
wealthy than the nimt fertile country trodden by the
foot of a tyrant, and bound with the chains of despotism.
(Cheers.) Therefore, his heart was with Garibaldi.
(Loud cheers.) He might and did deplore the horrors
of wax; but Garibaldi abated them as far as • man
could. (Cheers.) He might deplore all the ravages
and devastation that followed iu the track of heaven's

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worst scourge and ha% darkest visitation—Moody war;
but hi. heart was with a men who was not fighting for the
In • of conquest under the banner of the tyrant or the
aniirchist—who was not seeking the bubble of fame or
the equal bubble of power—who had no selfish aims to
gratify ambition, or to satiate cruelty, or to feed re-
venge ; but who was fighting that his country might
have fair play, might breathe the free air of Heaven,
that the people might worship God according to their
conscience, and might no longer be down-trodden and
over-ridden by priestly power—that withering en,"
wherever it prevailed. (Cheers.) Therefore he od,
"God speed Garbaldi, and may he prosper!" (Re-
peated applause.) Garibaldi was surrounded by mighty
Powers, and it remained with the God of nations
whether Italy should yet be free. There were poor,
degraded, and enslaved Austria, and also France, under
the power and in the greap of that subtle lean whose
dark counsels no one could penetrate, and it might be
doubted whet the issue yet might be. All he could say
was that, if Louis Napoleon robbed ltaly of liberty, and
took away with one hand the boon which he professed
to have given with M., uther, and if Austria came down
with all her in/red.:mi. and tried to crush the
spirit of rising fee, it would be might against
nght, the triumph uld be an inglorious one, their
trophies would be blood-stained, and the chains they
put on others they would deserve to wear themselves;
hut even though struggling with but a handful of men,
he had such faith in the God of justice and truth, and
in the honesty and heroism of Garibaldi. as to believe
that France with her myriads, and Austria with her
myrmidons, would find at no easy thing tot:tamp out the
flame of liberty in Italy, and that Garibaldi and his
freemen might perhaps even put to rout and to shame
France and Austria combined. (('heer...) Assuredly
.uch • cause would have the sympathy tif thin country.
He did not think this country shoull go to war ; but
there was • moral influence anti vanpathy which
Englund might eztend to struggling Italy. (Cheer..)
England was free herself, and should wish to see others
free. Her moral influence might yet protect struggling
(cheers.) They had
,wlit:iislreciyit,:sunysdhowlniedttimpritslitagotesli.lly.
se,. ,en that the ttlhhh:l3itletniw:as'ipArp.'uk.eb.stli:e.l:yi
ttsohnailbtdi:i a:l:tut:Yu*
streets of Naples. They might as well almost have sup.
he .1,1 in the very vestibule of the place of woe.
(Liught,„..) And then whet was to become
of the poor old Pope ? It was said that
the limperer of the French hail a berth ready
for
pretenaions to be the vicar, and become the lowly ser-
was
goi
e up
vant awl minister of Christ. He exhorted the" Proles-
fa:mei" would even
sunehea t cltidt:lindh:nno ladiP7ou ee.
itiiiiihdiAnisbeforepower
e °dl
destroysalso sitwlroyhteetihe.r lorWiratisilH:uhlt o:oreut len
gl
ipa• ae
might
ui'eut:•
Td'atPl'4lgjloseta,he Popery,
with
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the
. fore, to go on with their work. The false Prophet
ilahomet was mar his destruction, and he believed the
false priest would not he long after him. (Cheese./
Beveral other speeches having been delivered, the meet.
ing 'spurted.— MaseAreter Osiardine.