The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-06-30
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numerousv oyages in the Mediterranean
and Levant, until having Joined the
Secret Society ofItalian Patriots. he was
condemned to death, and escaped from
Genoa to Marseilles in disguise. In
one of his early voyages he had visited
Rome.
Having subsequently spent few
months at Rio yaneiro, and learned the
condition of the Republic of Rio
Grande, which had rebelled against
the tyranny of the Brazilian Empire.
he embarked with Gen. Rosetti in
vessel to 60 to their assistance, and
captured a few coasting vessels on his
way. under the authority of the flag of
the new State. He was soon after at
tackled, in the Parana. by Brazilian
vessel OF much the superior force, and
laid senseless on his deck by shot in
the neck, which rendered him uncon-
scious till after the repulse of the ene-
my. Here commenced his military life,
which continued fourteen years in
South America and through the revo-
lutions of ls4s-9 in Italy, and afforded
a variety of scenes, of alternate trial,
success and disaster, seldom paralleled.
A. chief object st which he constantly
aimed, in his romantic South Ameri-
can military career, was to train to
arms Italians who were in exile in
those regions, and to prepare them to
fight for their own country. Such was
his success, that, although he common
ced under may adverse circumstances.
"The italian Legion" soon began TO
reap laurels, and at length took the
front rank in the armies for discipline,
daring, constancy and success. In his
services in Italy during the last revo-
luton, he had. many of his soldiers in
his files; and doubtless some of the
survivors must be with him now, to
struggle against the Austrians. sas-
Some of the most interesting passa-
ges in Charlottesville relates to his wife.
He married lady of extraordinary
qualities, 4 native of one of the States
of South America. She was trained
to horsemanship and the most athletic
habits which prevail among the fe-
male Of those countries. Though like
him, noblehearted, affectionate and
dlslnterested, she also possessed SINH
lar degree of personal courage and for
tituded which have seldom been dis
played, and still more rarely depicted,
by any authentic pen. After her mar
riage, she accompanied him in mis- bat
ties, by sea and land and, although
usually unarmed, and keeping at his
side only as his companion, she some
times aided in his most desperate con
flicts, by dealing out powder, loading
guns and even firing them at the enemy
The sufferings which she endured
among the mountains, in times of ad
versity and seasons of tempests, were
severe and almost incredible. The
short account of her escape from 2
Brazilian guard, after capture in an en-
gagement, and her journey of severa
days and nights, on horseback anC
alone, through wild forests, swimming
swollen torrents, on her way, by hold
ing to the name or the tail of her horse
is exceeded only by the sad narrative
OF her death, in lS4S, on the banks o
the Pc, when after resolutely accom-
panying Garbaldi on his retreat from
Rome, she landed with him, in ore o
the boats, in which he was seeking t.
reach Venice thenthe only place in Ital,
which held out against the enemy.
Garibaldi declined the proffered hon
ors of public reception, on his arri
Z val at New York in 1919; urgentl,
recommending to his exiled country
e<men here, to apply themselves to sucl
honest employments as they could oh
tain, for their Independent support
"not hesitating at accepting the mos
humb!e-even sweeping the streets.
AS soon MS his feeble health was restol
ed, in strict consistency with his pre-
cepts, he set the example of engaging
in daily labor, in the candle manufactc
ry of his friend and countrymen, Signo
Mencci, on Staten Island. Will
thus employed by day, he continue
At evening, for some time to add I
his manuscripts, at the request of tn
American friend to whom he had CON
mitted them, until he found it necess:
~ to intermit his literary labors, in col
sequence of his physical fatigue. 5
He afterwards spent several years j
Commanding commercial vessels b.
tweee Peru and China, and then r.
turned to Piedmont, his native countr.
where he was allowed to reside, by tn
government, and where he supreinten'
ed the education of two young son
and endeavored to colonize the lit
island of Caprea, on the coast of Sa
DINA, which he had purchased, wit
money bequeathed to him by his brotl
err. When the present war was threa
ened, he was placed in command of
division Of the army of Piedmont, an
assigned tn an important advanced pc
on the left wing, where his standaf
has been Joined by thousands of II
most enthusiastic Italian soldiers, vi
the voasnteers who have fiocked,
arms. from every part and corner
this Peninsula. sis
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