Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1849-04-26
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The italian Patriots.

Revolution, (says an anonymous Wrlter,)
has brought about a strange metamorphis.
But few years ago some noble and dariyxa
spirits thought to free Itay-they wer
young democracy--and Mazzin:
Harring, Garribaldi the Bandiea
crs, Gathered then forces for
o,sshe power welded by prifles
that arch-oppressor of the deyelopeiNES@sz4
the nationality and independence of the
once proud peninsula. Counting with too
much emil usiasn upon success, they fell
into a snare which the Austrians laid for
them, and the plot failed. Mazzni fled TO
England, GarrbaIdi aud Harrng to South
America, and the Bandieras, sons of no.
BILE Austrian Admiral, hut haters of Austri-
an tyranny, paid the forfeit Of their daring
with their lives. Every manifestation of
the spirit of change was forcibI} exlinguish.
ed; and the scaffold or the dungeon was the
sure fate Of the political relormers, who, by
speech or writing, in public or private, gave
expression to the most moderate views of
civilend religious liberty. Many were the
martyrs that the free uuerance of opinion
numbered; aud the blood which purchased
quiet was counted cheap by the Cabinet
of Vienna. But still the smoking fax was
not quenched and the embcrs of liberty
| gowei in the heats of a people coerced to
silence, but not made patient of subsection.
Garribaldi was for years buccaneer in the
employ or service Of the Moutevideans-
lIarring came to the United States and
wrote books-- and Maz2ini taught langua-
ges in London, where Sir james Graham
had his correspondence opened at the Brit
ish Post office
But there has been a change in Italy,
which, by the way, Prince Metternich once
remarked was but geographical express
sion" The word ITALY conveyed to his
mind no notion of political unity or nation
al power, no associations of language
adorned with an imperishabIe literature, or
OF people glorious with refinement Of a
thousand years Yet his Tyrolian sharp
shooters and his Hungarian hussars, his
fierce Creates and his sanguinaly Sclavo-
mans, could not keep that same Italy pro-
strate. The deep eXecrdtions everywhere
breathed against Austrian tyranny and OPP
preston were at last swelled into Que loud
shout OF Freedom. The cry OF Ehiancip.
alton was repeated from the banks of the
Pc to the base of Mount Ntna-and from
the blue Mediterranean across the penin-
sUa to the stormy Adratic the people cried.
"OW wHh the EoreigherS" "FuOri gil
strQnirj"
And Mazzini, the exile, is now dictator
of Rome, and rules that proud sevcn.hilIed
city, from whence the Pontif was so re-
Gently elected He advocates, according
to Mr.. Tuckerman,) UNITX--not union
Of princes and states, but the unity of the
whole Italian nation. Full of generous in
tfnlions aud lofty aspirations his beautiful
dreams ntoxicate the youth of Italy, and
they crowd around the man, who after long
years of bitter exile, has come once more
among them to triumph or to die with them.
1t was Mazzini, at the head Of a legion Of
Italian Residents in Paris, to whom Lamar.
, tine, at the Hotel de Vile, addressed some
Of those eloquent words that will live in
history; il was MazZlui, who in bis procla-
nation to the Lombards, told them that
every Italian must kill at least one Aus
lrian, ly night or by day, openly or secret
ly, in town or country, by a stone from the
window, the stietto in his sleeve the rifle in
the bush, the knife, the scythc, or the air
gun; that they must destroy all bridges, fell
trees in the high roads, take up the rails OF
railways; that every Italian must be war,
rlor, every woman a sister of charity for
the wounded, and every child made to
know how to roll cartridge, and how to
use it against the accursed German"
We sincerity hope that the Italian people
will maintain the sovereignty in their own
hands and in order o,they have only to curb
their enthusiasm, and to borrow some of the
cold deep and passionless calculation which
distinguished the political career of their
countrymau, MachiayelIi. Austria mag again
seek to enforce her hateful rule by the Ill
TINA ratio rcgum, but should she, the blood
and the tears OF the Italians wTi@eI<
eloquent words of the Marquis DAzeglio,
be demanded at the hands OF the tyrants, il
not here, "by that tribunal before which
there come neither crowns, nor scepters
nor tiaras, but where only is presented the
: naked human soul with no safeguard a.
gainst the sword Of eternal justice but the
shield Of its own innocence" --B0stm BE