The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-11-18
GarIbalai at Home.
A SPEECH OF GARIBALDI-HIs INTENTIONS
AVOWED.

A SPEECH OF GARIBALDI-HIs INTENTIONS
AVoWED.
A letter from Bologna, September "a,
describes the reception Of GARIBALDI by
the Romagnoli, and contains the following
report of q speech which be delivered at a
banquet rendered him onthat occasion:
Eighteen guests were seated at the table.
Every now and then some brave Romagnoli
came in to drink the Generals health, and
to recall to his recollection some perilous
escape in which they had shared, and thus
in little while our room was filed, and
outside the door appeared mass Of heads.
At this moment the engineer officer tt,
in a short. but meaning speech, in which he
recounted the exploits Of our hero, proposed
his health, and Garibaldi, after returning
his warmest thanks, continued as follows ::
you have just recounted my history,
and it is my part to tell you how proud and
happy am again to find myself among this
brave people, of whose courage and attach
ment have experienced so many proofs. I
repeat to you that to the last moment Of
my existence, 1 shall be devoted, body and
soul, to my country. For fourteen years,
without pay or reward, / have served the
cause of liberty in foreign lands. What,
then, will not do for the land of my birth?
Events are progressing faVorably, but there
is still much to be done. The day is come
/ when Italy is to regain its complete indie.
pendence. This tine it must be accom-
plished, and from the Alps to Sicily she
must be free. Providence has given US the
man we needed to reknit us together. 1t is
round Victor Emanuel that we must rally
to repulse the stranger from our soil. We
will no longer bear the foreign yoke. Let
him but retire and leave US alone to en-
joy, our possessions in peace, and we will at
once welcome him as friend but 30 long
as be desires to subject us to his dominion,
he has nothing to expect from US but the
fire of our artillery. 1t is only by union
and force that we shall regain our freedom.
When we can attain strength, believe me no
one will dare to attack us. Before every
thing it is imperative that we should all be
soldiers. Our entire nation must form one
army, and if domestic duties detain few
round the family hearth, let them remain
there musket or sword in hand. Fifteen
days are enough to make brave Italian a
brave soldier. 1t is not an embroidered
inform that his merit will consist in. Look
at the Zouayes. In their simple, easy dress,
they are the first soldiersin the world. l
remember once finding myself, during my
American campaign, in the midst of the
vast plain, where neither from the interior
nor from the seaports, which the enemy had
blockaded, any of our wants could be sup
piled. The herds of be plain were our only
resource, their flesh was our only nourish-
ment, and their skins were our protection
from the heat of the MONDAY sun and our
covering at night; and yet / assure you our
soldiers, armed only with the musket, per
formed prodigies of valor. We were the
terror of the imperialists, and my few hum
dreds of brave men put to rout the enemy
by thousands. But we, my friends, want
arms; and that this want may exist no longer,
have proposed that Italy should form sub
scription to purchase million of muskets.
Think how many wrongs we have to be re-
dressed. Bear in mind what series of years
has witnessed a foreign oppression. Re-
member to what an ignominious death has
been condemned a Cicero Vacchio and bis
young sons, Ugo Bassi, an Antonio Ella.
You do not, perhaps, recolect this martyr
to the cause Of italian liberty--let me re-
late to you one trait of his heroic courage.
Antonio Ella, native of Aucona, was o
simple sailor. He had scarcely attained his
10th year when; the ship which be nayigated
was captured by one of those Turkish gal
leys which then harassed the coast of the
Adriatic. The Turks manned tteir prize
with ten seamen and an officer, combining all
the original crew in the ships hold, except
the young Antonio, whom they retained on
deck for their own service. A strong siroc-
co came on, and the extreme obscurity
which accompanied it awoke in AntoDios
breast the idea Of delivering himself and bl7
companions. He went to the PROV, where
he succeeded in gaining possessloDoI q
Ratchet. Armed with this efficient Hpa pun
he returned to the poop, where he lau 50
lately left the pirate commander, When
he arrived where be thought the officer
! was, be struck at him with nls natcnet' Dut
\ the blow fell upon the deck. For moment
| he hesitated to draw it out but the othcer
surprised at the noise. and susPectlng some
tbing wrong, drew his yatagan, and wound
| Il Antonio severely in the shoulder. The
/ latter. seeing his blood flowing, redoubled
his Efforts, and launching the axe upon bis
adversary, he laid him. dead at his feet.
Encouraged hy bis success, be turned to the
4 crew, and, as endowed with supernatural
4 force, he slew them iii but two or three,
who, with cries OF terror, leaped overheard
into the sea. This Antonio Ella, o very
lion of courage. fell before the Austrian
powers in 184g, because be would not clan
i destineIy abandon his wife and children.
i Thus interestingly, and much more than