The Oxford intelligencer. (Oxford, Miss.) 1860-18??, 1860-08-01
The Heroic Garibaidi. ~


GAmRALnr has fought under many flags
and in many clirnes, by land and by sea, but
not in the fashion Of Dugald Dagetty, never
for money, ever for fame. To the betrayal
of freedom no money would tempt him.
Garibaldi was second mate on board
vessel trading between Nice and Odessa, when
he was first innoculated by disciple Of MAJ
zini's with the idea that the. Italians were
made for some higher destiny thanto be the
cooks, ,hair-dressers and warhlers for the world.
Driven to South America soon after, when
he and his small band of Italians which join
ed his standard held the lines of Montevideo
against Rosa, he could have had his weight
in gold to,yield the pass. 80 fananar
AT that timo he-was said to be so pennir
less that his clothes were in tatters, and he
had often to wait till morning to write his
reports, being unable to buy candle! For
days his fare was beans and water. Such
was the force of his example, his countrymen
were as accomplishing as himself, despite all
their hardships and arrears of pay, which as
tonished the commissaries Of every country,
who fancy that punctual rations and cash pay
are tho sole substance of military stamina,
the sole incentive to soldierly ardor a
So unwilling was he to receive anything
which could subject him to the taint of be-
ing mercenary, that they had to borrow his
worn cloak and other attire, and then affect
to have lost them, SO that they could replace
them with new ones. And some years since,
when the epithet Of "soldier Of fortune"
was applied to him by Lord Brougham, these
facts.wcre detailed by the British Ambassa-
dor, vino wss in South America at the time,
and who bore testimony to his noble char
acter. =Haat i.a ..f -A
In command he was sharp and decisive
When there was a black sheep in the flock,
he had him shot Yet, when fighting against
Rosas, as when fighting for Italy, he was as
considcrate of the comfort of his band, as
mother Gf her children. lie was the first in
danger, and the last to retreat, no matter the
odds, and they were ofton thousand to one.
Eight bullets have been known to riddle his
ragged costume in a day, leaving his Carara
skin white as monumental marble, unchisel-
ed by single scratch.
Then his defense at Rome under the tri-
umyirato of Mazzini, Arnanclli, and Saffi,
was, of itself, sufficient to stamp the upris-
ing of the nationalities, in 1913, as an intel
lcctual phenomenon that viii command the
admiration of posterity. The military judg'
mcnt and fertility of resource exhibited by
Garbadi on that occasion Is admitted, by
the highest military authorities, to have new
or boon surpassed. A more thorough type
of the genuine old Roman never thundered
at the gates Of tvrants, or lighted in the field
! beneath the eagle-crowned banner of the Re-
public. In appearance, as may be remem-
bercd by those who have seen him, while
with the true Republican energy and inde-
pendcnce he earned his livelihood as a man.
ufacturor of candies, on Staten Island, he is
not unlike the portraits of the Genoese, Co
lumbus, from whose native city he started on
this last expedition Of freedom. Like such
an old stamp of hero, in whose mould he
was cast, he is an amphibious warrior, and
battles on shore and sea with like skill and
hardihood. Unlike Mazzini, who considers
crown on any brow, from the Alps to Syra-
cuse, sin, he is practical, and thinks Pied
montese freedom better than none. Thus,
now, after countless vicissitudes but ever
true to the one cause, he has unfurled the tri-
color in Sicily, amid the prayer of all lovers
of freedom for strength and victory to its
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