Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-08-01

GARIBALDI MEETING IN NEwPoRT-The
citizens and summer residents of Newport
held an interesting meeting on Saturday
evening, to aid in starting a subscription for
Garibaldi and the Sicilian revolution. The
officers and speakers of the meeting wore
rosettes composed of natural flowers of red,
white, and green, the national colors of Sicily.
Speeches were made by H. L. Tuckerman of
New York, Professor Elliott of Trinity Col
lege, Hartford, and Mr. Charles Z. Norton Of
Cambridge. The graceful and excellent nd
dress of Mr.. Norton we present below:
The old fairy tale of the enchanted palace
with its sleeping beauty and the bold lover
who awakened her to life, had found its real-
cation in Sicily and Garibaldi. No one could
travel through that land without being forcbly
struck with the analogy between its physical
character and its moral condition. Its soil
trembled with frequent earthquakes. Etna
rises trowning above it, and pours down from
time to time its devastating streams of fire
Silent villages without commerce, without
knowledge, without hope, CLEAN in grey ruin
memorial walls surround the dust of cities
long forsaken. Yet the fields now are as full
Of flowers as when Proserpine was gathering
them. And those fields have been fortified
century after century, with blood. The winds
that come from the mountain or the sea- blow
ing across the harvest plains, or waving the
light grass on the steps of deserted temples,
those winds were freighted with the signs to
which suffering people scarcely dared to give
vent, lest they should give occasion for new
prosecution. To the SicilianS had been liter
ally left nothing but their eyes to weep
with" But though all their rights and pos.
sessions, their consoling and inspiring memo
res of the past, their Joy in the present and
hope in the future was taken away it were
still as easy to quench the inextinguishable
fires of Etna as their longing for liberty
and their sense of intolerable wrong.
In l848, for a short time, that liberty was
secured after forty years of frutless insurrec.
ton, in which men, who were without hope of
using their talents for the happiness of those
they loved, rushed against the ercenary bay
Oncts that enclosed them, and died to leave an
example of undaunted courage in behalf of
their country. But that liberty was soon lost
through the treachery of the Bourbon, a name
synonymous with perjury. Called upon to
endure new miseries in consequence of this
re-establishment Of despotism, no wonder that
the news of the glorious successes Of the
northern Italians awoke the Sicilians to keep
up, though without arms, an insurrection from
month TO month, until Gaflphiul coulu come 10
them with the aid of that invincible name, be-
fore which the troops of King Bomba had
more than once turned in fight Whether
Garbald will now cross to the main land, and
do for Naples what he has done for Palermo
whether the last of the Bourbens, who now
sits crouching and trembling at the light Of the
red Vesuvius, that CLEANS like the vengeance
promised from on high-whether this Bomba
the Second will flee, as did his Austrian broth
er whether the great revolution will spread
northward to where Rome sits sullen, almost
desperate on her hills, it is difficult to prophe-
cy. But need not urge the necessity Of send
ing help. The two millions Of people there
striving for the most precious Of possessions
are poor, impoverished by long exactons.
They need arms, all the provisions of war not
lor offence, but defence. They ask us not or
empty sympathy, but for material aid. Let
hIt mat good old cause Of liberty and justice,
"iilch we believe to be the cause Of God, let it