The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-06-15

81 tSAMlUAkO4O U0SSS0o OOUo0o " NV USSA
conplese, - mr. - hoard fron, and, we apprs-
bend, there b little doubt that ~ has already
rendered Aimssif mastsf Of all Sicily. sxceps
Messtna Even that tows. although .oe
strosehold Of sAs Ktag, hiss probably falaen
before this time. His success has been %
rapid. that IL the Preach Emperor ever really
A~t.n~d TO but one Of the MuRATa on the
,hrone. he will ~ disappointed. The island
lin declare unanimously In favor OF annex
.,toa 70 sardinia, and the example will no
deub, be followed BY the continental domin'
ioaa Of King FRANCIS.
when their attention shall have been oucs
called 70 the matter. We are surs oar readers
will, with uA recognise . striking resemblance
between the caresr OF TIAoLBox aud that Of
ators Of Sicily. They were, both, OF the same
born in the country. Both landed with in.
stgniicant forces 70 oppose overwhelming
numbers. Sicily VA the scene Of the exploits
Of both. Both took advantage OF the general
dissAusfacuOn against IN inhQmAn tyrant.-
Both were received ~ deliverers by the peo-
ple. Both Sslt the almost confidence in the
good viii Of ths people, TiMoLEoN mtngtins
with them exactly like any other citizen, ana
GAxanALDI declaring that had he known the
staas ot feeling in Sicily. he would moi have
urOugas 4 man with him. Both confined
themselves " frssing their countrymer,
neither asking any thing for himself. TIMo-
LEON overthrow all The tyrant, aud establish
ed dsmocracies in their place. GAKIBALDI
virtually does the came thing. for he enables
ne Siciliaas u chOose their OWL form Of gov
rnme by universal suffrage.
II u bard to say which was the moro daring
~nssrpriise; that Of TIMoLE0x or that Of 9ARr-
sALDI, OF which was conducted with the more
wisdom. It is quite evident that both knew
beforehand what they could accomplish, and
that neither Of them was q rash and indis.
Greet adventurer. TIMoLEoN, however, wss
six years freeing Sicily, whereas GARIBALDI
has done the same thing in six weeks. As if
to make the parallel still more striking, both
these heroes were the victims Of great domes-
tic eslamities, before they undertook the en-
serprises which severally disting aished them
T~lMoLs0N, q prey to the most poignant re-
morse for the death Of his brother, avoided the
sight OF men, and attempted to take his own
life By abstaining from food. A domestic mis-
fortune weighed 20 heavily on 0ARIBALDI
tina. he was supposed by rash-judging persons
70 have engaged in this expedition with the
sAVkO Au6 6AOAAOuSAy A8ueAu8 y AAS SOuu-
try.
Except WARRINGTON, TMoLEoN Is the most
perfect character in all history. But two faults
are imputed 10 him-the murder er his brother
and his suffering the wife and children of the
tyrant IcsTEs to be put TO death. Even fra
tricide, under the circumstances, seems re-
spectacle. His brother had trampled on the
liberties OF COr.nth, his native land, and he
smote him a. BRUTUs smote CESAR. For his
permitting the tyraat's children to be slaghter-
ed. history has found NO apology. At the
Sam time, We are very imperfectly acquainted
with the history of the transaction, and there
may have been mitigating circumstances Of
which We know nothing. WAsHIHGroH
himself, it must be recollected, was, by the
blunder of an interpreter, very near being
handed down to posterity as nm assassin, and
it may have been that TIxoLEON was treated
with equal injustice. It is much easier to be-
lieve this than to believe that SO v~irtuous a
man knowingly permitted such IN atrocious
crime. GARIBALDI has no stain of the kind
attached to his name. Should he succeed, pos
terity will class him with TINOLEoN. and they
Will live In all history as the two great pre-
servers of Sicily. Thu hard hearted, cold
blooded old Roman, LUcIUs EMILus PAuLUs,
with whom TINoLEoN is compared by PLu.
TA1CH, was not like him at all. But the
parallel between him and GARlBALpr is al.
most perfect.