The Oxford intelligencer. (Oxford, Miss.) 1860-18??, 1860-10-17


The Memphis -APpedl, after announcing
the fact thatMf Douglas viii take Memphis
in his way. neat week. in the course of his
stamping tour, calls upon men of all parties
to come ont and listen to sthe GARIBALDI of'
America" Why the name of the hero of
Italy should be copfrred by the appeal
upon the little Senator from Illinois, is not,
to our comprehension, exactly clear. Two
men moredissimlar in all theF most promi-
-hent characteristics than are iGafiballi ard
Dougias, ii wcnld be diiIieult to mention IN.
the same breath The former is man of
action, but Of few words: the latter is en-
phatically man of many words-"braye
words" indeed, in their utteance, though
not very remarkable either for truth, fair
ness, refinement or elegance-but he has
never done any thing, that we are aware Of
except to make coarsely abusive speeches,
and, for some months past, render himself
and his pretensions extremely ridiculous.
The life of Garibaldi has been consistent
and perpetual scene of solfimmolation upon
the altar of Italian Freedom: the life of the
other has been continual struggle for the
personal advancement Of Stephen A. Doug
las. The one has hundred times exposed
his life in his counhy's service the other is
to-day impcrilling his cOuntry's dearest in
teTests to crafty his selfish ambition, or,
failing in that purpose, to. wreak his paltry
vengeance upon the people that refused to
make him President The one has secured
the universal admiration and unbounded
confidence of his countrymen by those mani
fold proofs of his ability and patriotism
which are afforded by his acts throughout
the whole Of his past history: the other has
inspired his countrymen with such pro-
found conviction Of his lack Of craftsmanship,
and Of lis supreme devotion to himself, that
he is unable, even by the exercise of all the
articles Of an accomplished demagogue, to
command the support of respectable mi
nority among them. The one is soldier,
to whom fear is unknown, and who, calmly
looking danger in the face and despising 1t,
boldly confronts the obstacles that lie IN his
path, and overcomes them through the might
of arms directed by his own understandable
will: the other is petty tIickstcr, acptely
sensitive to the existence of every peril, who
skips about with all monkeys agility, to
turn the difficulties that he dares not meet.
The one seeks his country's enemies in their
strongholds, and calamity assails them in
manly and open fight: the other, hurrying
from stump to stump, attacks his country's
friends with the vulgar vituperation of an
angry drab. The one is of the most exalted
typelof Natures noblemen, to whom success,
attaiaed by other than the worthiest and
purcst means, would be felt to be synony-
nous with personal disgrace the other is
compounded Of that baser clay, which, SO
that it can but attain its ignoblc ends, recks
nothing of that personal dishonor which at
taches to the employment of defling agencies
for the achievement of success.
There is but one ground, we think, on
which the imputation of Garibaldi's name to
Douglas can be justified, and that is, that the
name of the great Italian Dictator is emil
nently suggestive of those qualities of heart
and head which Douglas does not possess
just as it would be proper, in speaking of a
man who is notorious for his want of veraci-
ty, to apply to him, in cutting irony, the name
of one who is distinguished for his rigid
truthfulness Y