The Kanzas news., 1859-07-02
From the Chicago Press and Tribune
GarIbaldi and His Triumphs.

| z ana 111S IS1umpnS.
The most interesting personal combina-
nation brought about by the war in Italy
Is the truce between the brayest of Italian
patriots and the Emperor of the French. Il
| is known that the nomination of Garibaldi
to the command of volunteer corps was
forced upon Count Csvour by the demo-
cratic element of Piedmont, to the visible
disgust of the French court. But what
ever may be the hidden policy of Napoleon,
to be inaugurated after expelling the Aus
trians from Lombardy and Venice, the fact
is patent that the whole soul of Garibaldi
is in the fight and that he is reyenging the
giant wrong put upon himself and his brave
companions in 1863 by the French En-
peror, by carrying off the bulk of the glory
in the present strife. Napoleon III. has
gone to Piedmont to revive the memories
of the Italian campaigns of Napoleon l.;
Garibaldi with his 5000 ill-armed volun-
teers is alone restoring the rapid move
ments, sudden combinations and brilliant
deeds of that memorable era. Fighting on
his own plan, with his own men, respon-
sible only 10 the sovereign of Sandman
and the cause of Italian independence, he
has been the first to set foot on the enemy's
territory and to trample the Austrian ban
ners in the dust of their own fortifcations
The meagre outline of his movements
which has reached US is nearly as follows.
On the 22d ult., he crossed the Ticino at
the. foot of Lake Maggiore; on the esd he
marched towards Varese. q town of some
6 900 inhabitants, g miles west of Como;
on the cath and s5th he had occupied Va
rese, destitute of cannon, and had been at
cd h1,t Ea
the course of the three following days he
had fought TWO battles-one of them last
ing three Lours--driven the Austrians pell
NELL towards Milan. occupied the City OF
Como, possessed himself of all the enemy's
steamers on the lake and entered the town
of Lecco, Is miles farther east. At Como
he was received by its 10000 inhabitants
with bonfres and tumultuous rejoicing.
The whole of northwestern Lombardy was
in his hands, and the revolt of its persecu-
ted and pillaged people was all that the
most ardent republican could desire. Thus.
in six. days, has Garibaldi with his handful
of patriots dislodged the Austrians from one
of their most i'm portant positions, and Civ
en- the ball of revolution its first great i'm
pulse through the Lom bardo- Venetian king
dom. Unless our conceptions of the diff
culties to be overcome in such an enterprise
are greatly nagnifed by the distance, this
succession of victories is one of the most
brilliant chapters in Italian history-a his
tory which records the greatest military
events the world has ever seen. Unques-
tionably the most important advantages OBJ
tained by the allies thus far are those which
Garribaldi has achieved
The history of Giuseppe Garibaldi prior
to this war has been>one of romantic brave
ry, and unsuilied patriotism and truth
Born at Nice, in the Kingdom of Sardinia,
July 4, 1907, he grew up to the profession
of his father and grandfather-that of the
sea. In 1884, being suspected of compile
ity in the Savoy insurrection, he was SEN
fenced to death by the King, Charles Al
bert. With great difficulty he escaped
from his pursuers, by swimming the Var.
stream which separates Italy from France.
Shortly after this adventure he went to
South America and engaged in the war of
independence in Montevido, against Rosas,
the tyrant of Buenos Ayres. Here he or
ganized an Italian legion, and at the same
time commanded the Monteydean feet,
with which he fought several desperate bat
ties against greatly superior forces. Lord
Howden whom the British Government sent
out to mediate between the contending for
ces, spoke of him in these terms:
''The garrison was almost entirely COM
posed of Italians and Frenchmen, with a
few manumitted slaves, and it was COM
mandet by a person to whom am GLAD to
pay this tribute, for he stood there a disin-
terested individual, seeking nothing for his
own advantage. l refer to person of great
courage and military skill. who has a just
claim on our sympathies, considering the
uniustifable Intervention of the French,
and the recent extraordinary and unn, tural
events that have taken place in Italy. l
refer to Gen. Garibaldi.' -
In 1913 Garibaldi returned to his native
city, with his Italian legion, and found his
sovereign and countrymen at war with Aus
tria. He Immediately offered his services
to Charles Albert. the same who had con
demned him TO the scaffold eighteen years
before. In making this tender of himself
to the King he proclaimed the principles
which doubtless actuate him in the pres
ent conflict. '.Toa make Italy oas," he
wrote subsequently, "Io free her from the
foreign curse4-this was my goal and be-
lieye j; to have been the goal of most of my
eountrymen. Italy could not be migrate
ful to her iberators, whoever they might
be.' The king received him eoolly. but
accepted his services, and then placed him
In position where he could not FIRE SIM
gle shot al the AustIians Charles Albert
was routed and lost his crown. Garibaldi
then began to operate on his own account
With 1000 patriots be entered northwes
tern LomhaIdy-the same territory which
he has now second time overrun-and de-
feated the Austrians in two bloody engage
ments- He then went to Rome and assum-
ed the defence of the new Repablic against
the combined forces Of France, Austria and
Naples The herculean energy and daunt-
less courage of Garibaidi inspired his SOL
diers E;th the highest heroism. Regiment