The Express.
London, England, 1864-04-18 00:00:00

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"dozen policsmanb plain single ;Oiswinar-filt
" there are no gendarmes, no monchards this
"country, they cannot live in its free air." He
traces this surprising fact to its true causes—the
%Mk@ of ardent patriotism with enlightened
loyalty, of the strongest love of freedom with re-
spect for just and equal laws—holding up
our " imperishable love of liberty," with the
institutions by which it is guaranteed, to the
admiration and imitation of the world. The
speaker's simple statement of Ms own relation to
these great interests-the interests of national

freedom, order, and promos—es equally Inter

'sting and characteristic. -se. Countrymen," said
this untitled dethroner of an ancient despotism,
this liberator of an oppressed people—" I am not
" • moldier by profession ; I only took up the trade
"of • soldier when I found robbers in my hones,
" and I turned soldier to expel them. I bemuse
" a soldier to fight against the oppressors of my
" country."
This view of GARIBALDI as the Wend of order
and lover of peace will, however, be no novelty to
those who have carefully followed his weer. To
them it will simply express the truest and deepest
elements of his nature reflected with perfect coeds-
tency in every act of his life. He pommies in the
rarest strength and purity the virtues which are the
only sufficient as they are the sovereign guarantees
of all the interests connected with lasting peace and
settled order. In a word, he is above all things else
a thoroughly good and honest man, and all such
men desire, if it be parable, to live just, peace-
able, and orderly lives. The love of justice and
the freedom of his country and his kind, is the
master passion of his nature, the supreme
and controlling principle of his very being. If
he could effectually serve these essential interests
of humanity, if any opportunity offered for strik-
ing a blow in behalf of freedom, justice, and
human progress, he has always been ready to do
so at any hazard or sacrifice, never counting for a mo-
ment the personal cost. If no such opportunity
offered he has always been ready and willing to with-
draw from the public view, to Ave the most simple
and retired life, working with his own hands, satis-
fied with the common lot, cheerfully accepting
the daily round of cares, and duties, and employ-
ments, neither seeking nor desiring gain nor glory.
Nothing can well be conceived more unlace the
career of a revolutionist than the way in wbich
GARIBALDI has spent the greater part of his life.
For many years, both before and after 1848,
during his voluntary or enforced exile from his
native land, he followed the quiet career of •
trader, making long voyages in his own vessel as his
father bad done before him, and when allowed
by the government of Piedmont to return'
home in 1854, be lived in the deepest re-
tirement, first at Nice, then at CapreL.,l
devoting himself exclusively to the cultivation
of his farm and the society of his children,
until summoned once more to the field by the war
of independence. Such a call he was sure to obey
with all the ardour of his nature, but in obeying it
he conspicuously displayed his true loyalty of
heart, his native love of law and order. As on
arriving at Nice in 1848 he bad offered
his services to CHARLES Auts; so now
he fought beneath the banner of Vic-roe
&MANUEL. He would be true to any
King or any Government that was true to the
country. His subsequent expeditions are no ex-
ception to this law of his career. The first, which
revolutionised the kingdom of Naples, was 'imply
a volunteer attack against a fore;gn despot ; and
the second, which terminated on the fatal heights
of Aspronsonte, though called • rebellion, did not
in reality possess that character. GARIBALDI knew
perfectly well that Italy at that time was not its
own master the head of the Government being
virtually the lieutenant of a hostile power. And
even then, in presence of the royal troops, he
rttempted no resistance, his single and reiterated
order in presence of the royal troops be'ng an
order not to fire. Though he bas fought so
often and so sucoesefully, it Is equally true that
he has never been • soldier by predilection, and
that he has always pursued war exclusively in
the interests of peace. He knows that in-
justice and oppression are the prolific and
perennial causes of disorder, and having
within him the enthusiastic] fire of a patriot and
• hero, he has ever, as occasion has offered, done
his utmost to destroy those sources of crime and
bloodshed. He has drawn biz sword only against
the chronic causes of national confusion
and strife, and fought but to conquer the con-
ditions of true and lasting peace. His efforts
have been attended with glorious sumo& He
has fought for freedom in both hemispberes, and
rendered signal services first to the country of his
adoption, and in later years to his native land,
even adding to the crown of Vicron EMBIANDEL
new kingdom. And for these priveless services
the only reward he has asked or received from
any government is the protection of just and equal
laws, the right to speak and act as a free citizen.
Such • man is pre-eminently entitled to come
forward, in the presence of free Englishmen, as
the friend of order and the Apostle of Pesoe.