The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-07-11
The Heroic Garibaldi.


The bold and patriotic Garibaldi is still pur-
suing his mission Of destroying tyranny in
Sicily. So say the latest accounts. He had
approached near Palermo, the heights around
which were occupied by the insurgents, and
the insurrection E=s making great progress on
all sides. The reports are conflicting, but
largely inclined to the scale of Garibaldi AS
heis now the Hero of Italy, the subjoine6
sketch of the remarkable man and leader from
the Tribune will be read with interests
Garibaldi has fought under many flags, and
in many climes, by land and by sea, but not
in the fashion of Dugald Dalgety, never for
dom no money would tempt him.
Garibaldi was a second mate on board a
vessel trading between Nice and Odessa when
he was first innoculated by a disciple of MAJ
zini with the idea that Italians were made
for some higher destiny than to be the cooks,
hair-dressers and warblers for the world
Driven to South America soon after, when he
and his small band of Italians which Joined
his standard held the lines of Montevideo
against Resas, he might have had his weight
in gold to yield the pass. AT that time he is
pictured as having been so completely penni-
less that his clothes were in tatters, and he
had often to wait until morning light to write
a report by being unable to buy candle. For
crs, was few beans stepped in water. Such
was the force of his example, and their own
sense of honor, that his countrymen were as
faithful as himself, and as uncomplaining,
despite all hardships, and privations, and ar
rears of pay, to the astonishment of the crew
of commissaries in every country, who fancy
that punctual pork rations and cash pay are
the sole sustenance of military stamina, the
sole incentive to soldierly ardor. 1t is notori-
GUS, they were obliged, SO unwilling was he to
receive anything which could subject him to
the taint of being mercenary, to borrow his
worn cloak and other attire, and then affect to
have lost them, in order to replace them with
a new outfit. And some years since, when a
similar epithet of ''soldier. of fortune" was ap-
piled to him by Lord Brougham, in ignorance
of its true character, these facts were detailed
by the British ambassador, Lord Uowden,
who, as Colonel Carodoc, was in South Ameri-
ca at the time, and who bore the highest tes-
timony to his noble character, both as sol
dier and a man. In his course of command,
he was sharp, short and decisive, as the Iron
Duke himself. Whenever there was black
sheep in the flock, who preyed upon the peo-
pie, he coolly had him shot; yet was he, when
fighting against Rosas, when fighting for
Italy, as considerate of the comfort of his band
as mother of her children; nursed them in
advance where danger was greatest-the last
to retreat, whatever the odds, and they were
often a thousand to one. Eight bullets at
Montevideo have been known to riddle his
ragged costume in day; leaving his carrara
skin, white as monumental marble, unchiseled
by single scratch.
Then his defense of Rome under the trium-
virate of Mazzini, Armanelli, and safi, was, in
itself, sufficient to stamp the uprising of the
nationalities, in 194S, as an intellectual phe-
nomenon that will command the admiration of
posterity. The military Judgment and fertili-
ty of resource exhibited by Garibaldi on that
occasion is admitted, by the highest military
authorities, to have never been surpassed. A
more thorough type of the genuine old Roman
never thundered at the gates of tyrants, or
lightened in the field beneath the eagle crown
ed banner of the Republic. In appearance, as
may be remembered by those who have seen
him, while, with true republican energy and
independence, he earned his livelihood as a
manufacturer of candles on Staten Island, he
is not unlike the portraits of the great Geno-
ese, Columbus, from whose native city he has
started on this last expedition of freedom
Like such old stamps of hero, in whose mould
he has been cast, he is an amphibious warrior,
and battles on shore and sea with like skill
and hardihood. Unlike Mazzini, who consid-
ers a crown on any brow, from the Alps to
Piedmontese freedom better than none. Thus,
now, after countless vicissitudes, but ever true
to the one cause, he has unfurled the tricolor
in Sicily, amid the prayers of all lovers of
freedom for strength and victory to its folds.