The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-05 00:00:00

Justice is at last being done to GARIBALDI, even
by those who have been for a long while past
clamouring against him as nothing but a Madman !
Now that he lies, slowly recovering from his
wounds, a prisoner at Varignano, in the Gulf of
Spezzia, even those most indignant with him since
the commencement of his last most unfortunate en-
terprise are ready at length to acknowledge the
perfect consistency of his career. This, we our-
selves have at least the credit of having done
throughout. We have never for an instant faltered
in our recognition of the noble uniformity of this
great man's life as a Champion, sword in hand, of
the grand and unique cause of Italian Indepen-
dence. The unselfishness of his whole course in
advocating this majestic cause, in fighting for it at
every possible, and also, alas, that it should have
to be added, impossible oppertunity—can no more
be seriously called in question than the heroism of
the man himself—a heroism that has long since
been recognised as something matchless. That the
Fallen Adventurer can ever be arraigned at the bar
as a Traitor by the Ministers of King VICTOR EM-
MANUEL, appears to be, every day, more incredible.
Talk, as the Government of Turin may affect to
do, of subjecting GARIBALDI to the ordeal of a
Public Trial as a criminal offender against the
laws, we do not for one instant believe that any
such insane and disgraceful proceeding on their
part is really intended. Any course, we are satis-
fied, will be preferred to so great a scandal—in
itself, too, so heinous an act of ingratitude. If
GARIBALDI is now a captive at Spezzia—he is none
the less still the Hero of Calatafirni. If he is now
called the defeated of Aspromonte—he is none
the less truly, for all after times, the Liberator of
the Two Sicilies. If he landed the other day at
Melito only to march to disaster, and to have his
standards lowered before the 1,800 followers of a
simple colonel of Bersaglieri—he is yet remembered,
and will ever be remembered, to have landed but
two years previously at Marsala, to begin there that
miraculous campaign of 1860, which swept 25,000
of the royal troops of FRANCIS 11. from the Island
of Sicily at the approach of a mere handful of the
Hero's red-shirts, before the glint of the sword
borne by the right hand of GARIBALDI, before the
terrible utterance of his mere name! If he failed in
Calabria—he triumphed gloriously on the Volturno.
Among the most memorable achievements of this
half of the nineteenth century will always be
counted the exploits of this extraordinary Soldier
of the People. His Defence of Rome in 1849—his
achievements in 1859 between the borders of the
Italian lakes and the spurs of the Carpathian moun-
tains—his conquest the year afterwards of the Two
Sicilie&—his passage through the island, hie en•
trance into Naples—his voluntary resignation of
the Dictatorship of that liberated kingdom, when
he handed it over free and entiro to his
chosen sovereign VICTOR EMMANUEL—GARIBALDI
himself retiring empty-handed (the very
clothes he had on worn out, patched, and
threadbare) from the toils of his marvellous
campaigning—all these things will live in the
remembrance and the wondering admiration of
posterity. And it certainly is not a man like this
who can be lightly tried—as a Criminal, by those
Italians whom he, more than any other, has con-
trived to liberate—as a Traitor, by that Sovereign
whom he, more than any other individual, has
crowned King of Italy, King of the Italians !

Failing, as GARIBALDI has done in his last rash
and mistaken enterprise—Exile (at any rate for the
time being) is surely the only suitable Fate that
ought to be allowed to him. A Voluntary Exile is
the natural sequel to a Fall like that of the other
day upon the heights of Aspromonte. Would it not
best befit the dignity and the magnanimity of the
if he were
ITALY, to
King ofallow the Hero
of Italy take his departure for a time from
theeni
on board some vessel bound
glan d or for America? If this
p t:511:
either for
were but done to-day, it would save Italy from
a Disgrace, end GARIBALDI from a Pang. So
satisfied are we that sooner or later this eourse
must be adopted, that we look upon it as already
.1 • And regarding it than
virtually accomplished
a thing assured, we
by anticipation as '''
also, that Italy herself
from her difficulties
cannot but feel satisfied,
must before long be extricated
indirectly through this
apparently abortive en-
i
I terPilee of GARIBALDI—though through other
of by GARIBALDI.
agencies than those dreamt
Then, 'With Italy free from the Alps
to the Adriatic,
with Italy set apart for the Italians, who will be
the true Victor in the world's estimation ? The
Hero of Italy may be far away then in the
the scenes of his earlier exploits,•
in the far west,
in the other hemisphere—the King of ITALY Play
iloLoi
just
ehxiialeathfr
feels
hailed as such by the midst of
accordant voices of
25,000,000 Italians, he may leave a loyal and de-
voted
,P,yereltiagnlreeantetr ejolyns;;Arendma
Than CiEsAB. with a Senate at his heels l"

A day's later news from the seat of War can
hardly be expected to bring news of the battle
which seems to be at hand in Virginia, but it in.
forms us of the advance of the Confederates in
the Border States. This, indeed, seems to be
now the great object of the war. That the whole
South can be reconquered, so as to be subjected
to the North, is beginning to be thought doubtful
by the North itself. But, should the issue of the
war be separation, which side shall hold Missouri,
Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia, to say nothing

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THE SUN.
LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPT. 6, 1862.