The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-09-16

GARIBALDI-1ne Northern journals again
insist that GARiBALDi is coming to assist them
in their work of reducing the Sonth to
slavery. They are of opinion that FREMoSr's
emancipation proclamation will elicit his spe
cisd sympa,hies upon the Northern side. We
believe that GARfRALDI will find work more
congenial 10 him nearer home; but it il n mat
ter of little consequence. As leader of
Italian volunteers IN the cause Of Italian
liberty he worked wonders, because he renr.
sented the popular sentiment and passion of
oppressed Italy, and was the champion of
canse which, IN many respects, resembled that
of the South-the deliverance of Southern
CLINE and gallant people from Northern
oppressors and invaders. The Italian volun
teers who composed his legion resembled in
many respects our Southern volunteers-they
Were composed of the very elite of Italy: the
nobility, the gentry, the professors, the edu.
Gated men. Indeed, it ia said that almost
every man in the rank and file of GARIRAL-
III volunteers was an educated gentleman
The immense enthusiasm of those volunteers
prevailed agains, the heaviest odds, and seat
tered Austrian regulars to the winds 1t was
the cause, the materials of which his legion
was composed and their magnificent patriot
ism, rather than any remarkable military
genius OF GARIBALDl, that gave them such
extraordinary success.
But what would G,RIBALDI have been op
posed to such volunteers, if led bv patriotic
Italian of equal military skill Precisely
what he would be if he were to enlist in the
cause Of Northern despotism against our glo-
rious Southern volunteers, led by such military
genius as now directs our Southern armies
Opposed 10 Italy, or as the soldier of despOt
ism anywhere, he would be a very ordinary
person What gave GARIBALDI his peculiar
value and eminence in the Italian contest was
simply that he was the right man in the right
place. But when he appears in such role as
that to which he is invited by the New York
journals, he degenerates from patriot to an
adventurer, and from the dignifed position of
Lberator of Italy becomes at the best a DaS
QuIxoTE, who viii find, in undertaking to r.
dress the imagined grievances of all mankind
that he has began Il crusade which can only
end III loss of reputation and grievous personal
discontinue
If the truth Were known, this boast about
inviting GARIBALDI is to no one more moIti-
fying than the regular officers of the old army,
who cannot fail to see in such stuff an imputa-
ton upon their own intelligence and efficiency
which must sting them to the quick. Besides,
how shameful, how unspeakably contemplate,
in Journals which are eternally boasting that
they outnumber the South three to one ran
sacking the whole earth and calling upon
somebody and everybody to help them whip
that one 1t is like three lubberlv school-boy
bulies, assauting gallant little schoolnate,
and crying out necessarily at the top of their
voices to the hystanders to come and take their
part against the manly little fellow, who, soli-
tary and alone, is simply defending hinlsef!-
If the world can show a more Disgusting want
OF chiyalry and courage, We know not where
il can be found.