Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-06-01
THE NEWS FROM SICILY.

There are two things in the recent news
from Europe which very naturally cause some
excitement in this country. One is Garibaldi's
expedition to Sicily, and the other the report
ed conduct of a miserable scoundrel named
Henry NJ Barstow, who has held the position
of American consul at Palermo. This fellow,
Barstow, has been acting the meanial agent
and dirty dog of the tyrannical oppressors and
prosecutors of the Sicilians. He has betrayed
to the agents of tyranny a noble patriot, Fa-
Their Ottavio LAMA, who had taken refuge on
board an American vessel, with perfect conf
dence of security. The wretch officiating as
American consul hunted him down, and gave
the commSsary license to arrest him. For
this act of treason and scoundrelism he
should be set in pillory where every
decent American may stone him. The diplo-
matte corps at Palermo refuse to hold inter-
course with him, and the American minister
at Turin very properly demands his removal
from Office. Let him be kicked out and brand
ed as he deserves and, shove all, let him not
dare to show his face again in this country,
unless it be in some ont of the way, god.for-
saken place, where they employ slave hunters
and kidnappers.
The gallant and enthusiastic Garibaldi ex-
cites in US very different emotions He has
gone with the highest resolution and daring to
aid the instruction an Sicily. The govern
ment of Naples has long deserved extermina
ton. 1t is not easy to understand why such
monsters as the Bombas are allowed to af
tlict mankind, and it is impossible to
withhold sympathy from any movement
which aims to lessen or break down
their power. When ferocious wild beast, by
its rayages, fills a neighborhood with terror,
the people turn out and hunt him down. So
it should be with tyrannical, cruel and fero-
cious governments. They should not be al
lowed to cumber the EARTH Every mans
hand should be against them. We do earnest
ly wish success to the Sicilian nsurrectionists,
and utter destruction to the government OF
Naples. And we shall be disappointed if Gar
ibaldi does not succeed in his enterprise.
Many sensible persons will consider it injudi-
eious, hair-brained, mad but he goes where
there is already an instruction, where the
popular sympathy will all be on his side,
and where the existing and hated government
is as cowardly as it is cruel. And remember,
GaIibaldi is accustomed to do great things
with small means.
Nothing is settled that is not right" This
is felt perpetually everywhere in Europe, but
it is not everywhere comprehended. Nothing
there is at rest, and European affairs will not
reach condition Of wholesome and permanent
tranquility until right prevails over justice and
oppression. The great troubers OF Europe are
the royal dynasties with their machinery for
snppressing and crushing out the people. The
nations of Europe can never have rest until
these dynasties are exterminated or made ut
terly poweress. The present aspect of affairs
in that part of the world is cloudy and un-
promising. There seems now, what comes
easily there, a serious fermentation that prom
Uses war A few months will show what it
means.