New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-10-04
GARIRALDI And AMERICA.


GARIBALDI AND AMERICA.
from Ihe London Timer Sept IL
There aIdsfew people here who have not felt their
opinions Of the Americans s0mewh at modified by the
events of N q war. In zone respects we must feel
thar we a little underIated their powers. Perhaps
we should not have been prepared to eXpect, this
time last wear, when the little cloud wss just show
ing itself thar in q twelvemonth wesbouId zee two
great armies fully armed and equipped, immenss
works OF Defense numerous well prepared cxpedi-
lions fleets of privaeers and other fleets sent 10 rout
them ont Of their choke up the outlets-in
word ouch a state of things as &c had in Europe,
say 80 years ago. Perhaps we did not expect 70 lind
the people nc New.iork and Pbiladelphis making
up their minds TO an expenditure OF Goo 100000
wear, and thinking that rather an encouraging
view Of the Bat, aas for the personal quail
Ties which Were to have been brought out, as the
sparks between ut and steel, when first the msri-
cans had The opportunity Of showing then slyts in the
field Where are the cool courSge and mutual con-
fdeDce necessary TO advance IN line OF battle, TO
crossing bayonets, to steady retreat, TO ofalnary
maneuyering. TO I'll tuccees on agrand scale Where
are the fUrethOught the tscice The capacity 81 mind
required for great Genoral the truth mnst be
spoken. The fundamentally the Northern
States-have yet to learn the ara Of war. IL renaine
to be seen whether the Young Napoleoa," who
has lust reviewed the whole army and
cleared Washington of dlsrs will 10 much more
than bis comrades when it comes to the trial.
But hitherto neither the man nor The officer Is up TO
the mark and we are compelled TO think there must
be something in the stories 81 American degeueracy.
One gasConsde after snoher has evapor.tei. Bull
Run let MS all down very heavily; tben the disaster
ut Springfield settled US all where we were; and
since that, now for another month, We have been
waning ioI the tide TO turn, OF at any rate for an
achievement Of ore sort another. ENcep. a sue
ccssfGl attack by an overpowering force on some
maritime forts of North Carolina, there hes been
nothing to show for the col sal preparations.
But here comes another let-down," really worse
than any before. As If departing oil native yenius
n fha q NushnOtou n
ally SEM 10 ask Gariodi TO accept the post OF COM
raander-in-C Chief, throwing into the bargsin the
emancipation of the saves. IL costs an eO. % take
in the oxtrayagaDt oicty and the humihaiiRg char
acter Of tins proposal Had the Government at
Washington confessed their ignorance of on tbs
grand scale, and sent for great tacLicianeven for
one OF the Piedmontesc Genera5--that would have
only been what has often happened before ~ might
have been said that any American WAS more or less
g Garibald-tbat IL, man OF personal proves and
enterpIsebut that the occasion required Caldlni.
But TO send for GaIbaldi is 10 confess fail lre in
the olemen; supposed to he specially AUerican: II
is 10 coufess that man is wanted who VIII go
at the enemy, aud advance into his territory.
against oyerpoweriug odds. On any view
o! the case, GariOalM is not the man the
Americans want. He has never yet attempted
or desired 10 command large army, and az ouf cor
respondent at Turin observed In our YESTERDAY col
uulns he has over aud over again, like tho Biblical
hero Gideon, left his army behind, and dOno ha
work with select body, whose love and cont lence
would lead them any where after him. This was the
scale Of his feas ia the South American wars Of in
depeudence, where he feshed his sword for the
Itilian struggle he fOresaw. His defense o; Rome
10 lsi9 on a larger scale, but 1t was defense;
nod 20 defend twenty miles Of rampant FROM point
within is different affair from an advance into Az
enemy's country Thousand miles wide and many
decp, with as brave men one side the other.
War Is not the mere peTsonali conflict, nor yet the
simple skill, that pedants and amateurs are apt to
think IL reqnires vast and various capacity.
tnh a al
dor and impartiality, it viii be better known that
war Is always "a game that two can RAY at"
and also q very complex science. Garibaldi like
other men, may be trusted to do what he has done
before. lie has not been trusted, or even trusted
himself, for large operations whether in Northern
cor Southern Italy. lie has failed nowhere, but
he IL to be credited with failures IL is because
he has known his own measure, and has been con.
tent To assist when twenty legions were on the
ground or when great fortress was TO be Tecuced.
Rpt if the Italian scale OF Garibaldis achievements
far SURPASSED the Montevldean, it was because ms
tonal sentiment came in 10 tho aid OF pgr3onai
proves and reputation. vi Italy fel' with Carl
bald who, by the place he bad IN every italian
bosom, did What may be csllei the pretegnaturai
part of the work. To a simple faith lie worked
miracles. This hold and this power he would leave
behind were Inc 70 so TO America. There, instead OF
10, ing and eoniding Italy 10 help ha and carry him
through, he would have egotistieal Yankeeism TO
confront and beat at every turn. He might strike
great blow here and there, but, inasnuch as the
issue does not depend on the possession o. one or
two points, and merely to hold Washington is NOT
70 subdse the Southern States, Garibadi wo Nd lid
himself fighting the air and lashing the water:
Whatever spirit he showed would infect aliI1 friend
and foe, audit he raised mp hundred Carloads on
one side he would find not less on the other.
Caprcr certainly souuds like exile, bu, 1t II only
that retirement which is to be found IN the "a es Oh
the greatest meu and the most woodworking careers.
Garbaldi is stlll at home still holding his levee
and alternately giving audiences to the messenger
2 King, or Prefect," if he must be 90 esbeai
Republican realm and h as sa NOW mGsa Sisn
Transatlantic Empire. lie Is, they Wy, 'uPaH;l
and resolved TO be soon at his work. IL so, lie WI
not not find himself nearer hi, great work by g0ins
across the Atlantic while lie will certainly "sS
only sphere, but also CASTE He is not mere saveI
turer. His early interference in strange laAr's; III.
had the iusiifcaion that il was to prepare los
own. Ii win not be easy to justify the a"anoo
lnent of his own for conflict about when t"eoi 800
TWO opinions and which is by no means % s'it .hs
an afair as the unity and Independence ., u
| Italian race. What ii he should throw hms sla
into the American maelstro'n, and ind hi'nss sn.
with hundred thousand men, q nvided ps"'' 'p'''