Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1853-10-26


AND MAZZINI.
Since have came into town have seen--I
cannot say but for the last time-Kossuth and
Mazzini. / saw the former at his house in ST.
Johns wood, a cottage buried in deep foliage, a
quiet, lonely, shadowy retreat, most POLITICALLY
fitted for the tarryng place of the exile, in wait
ing and working for better day. He looks in
firmer health than when with us, and bears up
gallantly under disappointment, detraction, the
calumny of foes, the desertion of summer
friends, and the Inconsistencies of hope deferred
Again | felt my whole nature bend before the
simple, unconscious, yet almost superhuman
power Of his presence AS saw in his deep
blue eyes the unwasted fire of his long bafiled
purpose as heard again his wonderful voice.,
with all its profound and melancholy sweetness,
and its strange prophet-like tones, which SEEM
ed to be calling down to US from a better and a
nobler age to come, when saw in all his pres
ence the TRANSPORTING splendor of his heroic
enthusiasm felt the early hero-worship beat
ing full and fast at my heart, flushing and pa
ling my cheek, shaking my voice and dimming
my eyes. can truly say that never when
have seen him in my own country, surrounded
by eager crowds, followed and feted, stormed
upon by adulation, and besieged by fatterers,
borne in triumphal car through shouting thou
sands, or swaying the multitude by the magnet
ic power Of his eloquence, have felt for him Il
heartier sympathy, more wondering admira
ton, more profound reverence, than when, on
this last visit, saw him thus in his humble cot
tage home.
The children of Kossuth are of remarkable
beauty and intelligence, but rather delicate in ap-
pearance.
mi nntc Il h,,f t,n
happy termination of the emeute at Milan, tho
he is, of course, deeply grieved, at the fate of
the unsuccessful revolutionists. However in
different or hopeless you may be on the ques-
tion Of Italian freedom, would defy you to re-
sist long the kindling and convincing influence
of Mazzini's eloquent talk. You would, ere you
were aware, find yourself reused, strengthened,
borne on, by the devotion, the energy, the pas
sionate earnestness, the grandly uttered aspira-
ton of his great courageous heart.
Mazzini is man who would seem TO stand
apart and alone. though surged about by a vast
crowd. his is face to strike upon you out Of
Il sea OF heads. There is wonderful outlook
ing of power from his dark eyes, You do not
see in them the dispairing Incidence, the SUM-
berous passion of most Italian eyes-neither
fierce, nor wild, nor dreamy they reveal, as words
could never speak, the terrible and glorious theme
on which the life is staked, to which the sou is
stretched, which has to do with the fate of races
and kingdoms, and is heaving at the foundations
Of the oldest despotism of Europe 1t is
strange and grand thought that from two sim
pie homes in the suburbs of London, is going
forth subtle, resistless element, which sends
the thrills of hope through the else despairing
hearts of freedoms sons, and shivering of dread
and suspicion through the hearts of all kingly
and priestly oppressors the world over. Thank
God for the token! When two men, without
birth, or fortune, or armies, can make their
names an omnpresent fear and horror to ty-
rants, then tyranny's day of doom is not far dis
tant.