Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-05-31
Literary Gossip.---No. 6.
JOSEPH MAZZIN1.

Joseph Mazzin, the great Italian Triumvir, is also
Senator of the English republic of letters. For thr-
teen years prior to the revolution Of 1885, he resided in
Chelsea, one of the faubOurgs of London, where he
maintained himself and earned surplus for his char
lilies, with his pen. Some of the most splendid arti-
cles in the Westminster aud Electric Reviews have
been attributed to the "Exe of Genoa" whose writ
ings impaired to the London " Peoples Journals por
ton OF that emnence which certainly pertaiued it
when William Hewitt of its editors.
Mazzni is the son of Genoese physician. In his
youth he was sudious and secluded in his habits as
students are He did not frequent the theatres the
Cafes, nor join serenadng parties, keep young la
dies awake during the night washe.found amongst
the masquers the Carnival, nor at the feet of the
priest in the conessioua and so the fathers Of the
church and of the State, became alarmed for the sabil
itY of Genoese institutions and they seized the student
boy and cast him into prison. They tried him in a sum.
mary MANNER and they convicted him of being sus-
pected Democrat At the dead Of night the SJri Sc
crety dragged him from prison, foa his father his
mother and from his native land and put him on board
of ship, which bore him to perpetual exile He
reached France, and young and alone he was vowed
before God devote himself to the redemption of Ia
ian liberty. He published an italian paper in France
which he widely disseminated in his native land, de
spite of the vigilance of the papa spies and of thei
French allies.
Louis Philippe, the chief of refugees last refuse
the soil of France to Mazzini as an asylum, when
retired Switzerland the land of mountains of Melch
thai, and of TELL but from it too Austrian influence ex
PEELED him, and he finally reached London. In Londo
he actively engaged in the formation of schools for tn
education of the Iaian-boy image venders white mice
and monkey exhibitions besides the organ players VIII
in hundreds perambuated the streets of the great me
tropois.
1t was Mazzin's letters that Sir James Graham vi.
oated in the English Post-ofice; and it was throug
information drawn from them, and furnished by tina /
deesabe agent of Meernich, that the noble sons {
Colonel Bandieri, shot by the Ausrians Previo
to 1S4S Mazzinni nigh be seen almost daily glidin
along the sidewalks Of the Strand and Cheapsde III .
distnguishable amongst the uudistngushed throng-
His coat was generally butoned across his spare, small
Ish, but handsome form. HIS pale, thoughtful face,
written over with the lines of care, but TRANSPORTED
with the light of genius slightly cast downward
his black beard neatly trmmed; his dark ey
beamed forth hope, benevolence and resolution; an
his broad, capacious brow, seemed overloaded with in
teilect This man, whom nobody noticed, and whoI
almost nobody knew, literary people and; Italia
poor boys was, however, the incarnation of revolution
the terror of tyrants, the adored of young Italy. Tb
revolution of 1S4S found him once more on his natiy
shore, where he was hailed as the genius of the ne,
era. The Boognese elected him as their member i ,
the Constituent Assembly of Rome; the representatv,
Of he Rep
finally dictator. The pay of Mazzni while he govern
ed as pure republic ever sprang from popuI;
Virtues and provoked the fury Of tyIants was nothing
lie lodged in an obscure street, up FIVE pairs of stairs
In the house of poor painter, who also had been tie
years in exie and whose ardent genius and disnter
esed love of freedom, had long before embosome
him in Mazzinis love. While the bullets of the Frenc
(republcans > destroying the liberties of Italy
Mazzini walked amongst his compariots, sad but cal
and resolue. 'sLet perish brethren but never sue
cumb, were his words; and they were answered bac
by the Roman youth with enthusiasm The gates of
Rome were opened, however, by Mazzni's orders
and he and his compariots adounng the session of tn
Roman assembly to future day, retired The intmat
friends of Mazzni, in London scarcely ever saw hil
smile They speak of aim with veneration, but hi
Italian brethren almost adore him. He resides in Lor
don once more, WELDING his pen for bread; and watch
ing, with his eagle eye, the issues of continental poll
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