Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1861-03-22


''TLe selection Of Mr.. Marsh for Italy We deeply
dePloTe. lie is gentleman oui a scholar-bt
nsag bc 4 Republican, though re bad not suspected
1t prior 10 the election or Mr.. Lincoln. That
however, is Of minor consequence. but il doe
seem to Us important that oar country should nov
Re represented ct the Italian Court by an earnest
and open advocate Of Freedom and Progress
man Of the Nineteenth Century believer in the
Divine Right Of the People 10 govern themselves.
Such a George ?. Marsh il not; and we deep
ly regret tia; he is 70 be sent 10 the very Court
o! ell others where he ought not TO represent us
The remarks Of the T;acs and the World
are just and opposite, and need no comment.
As to the remarks Of the I17t5pe we have
few words to say. M Marsh debates
in Congress during the Tyler Aiministra-
tion) and Iublic di,coGrses elsewhere in
many paris Of our lard, on topics Of the
greatest public interest, are well known to
those who keep themselves at all acquaint-
ed with such matters. They have always
been distinguished DO; only Tor their learn
ing aud ability, bet for the profound sym
pathy which they have showed with the
progress Of political and religious freedom,
not only in our owa country, but thr ugLout
the world. Those who have been personally
familiar with him ior a large part Of his lie,
know, too, that bis p-iva conversation on
all such topics has !-e-n in perfect agreemeut
with his public declarations.
After diplomatic career abroad, in which
Mr.. Malsh won both Tor himself and for his
country a most desirable reputation where-
ever he went, ne returned home. and at once
joined himself to tie Republican party tits
leading principles were those which he had
always sustained) AMI duTins the campaign
OF 1856, he was an active worker for the
election Of FREMONT. advocating his election
in public and in private with great ability.
Intensely abhorring slavery in every form. and
having had abundant means for seeing how
the Slave Oligarchy was ruling and running
our country and undermining free institu-
tons everywhere, he was never more earnest
than when he was exposing the means and
denouncing the men by which its success had
been secured for SO long period
During the canvass Of last year Mr.. Marsh
did not occupy himself in public speaking
for the Republican cause, because some Ia
borious engagements Of a literary sort which |
he had previously made, disenabled him to |
do SO, but his interest in the cause was as in
tense as that Of any man in the country and
in city OF country, wherever his labors called
him, his influence was every where and nj all
times for its success. And, in regard to the
progress CT free principles and free institutions
In Italy, II there is any American citizen who
has been ready at all times to speak in public
OF In private with deeper sympathy for the
ITALIANS IN their great struggle. with : more
thorough appreciation of the conseousroos r.
its final result on the cause of freedom -
liberal civilization, as distinguished from :
iespotic one, to the whole of Europe. we
'hould like to hear him named
We. therefore, pronounce the paragraph
which we have quoted from the Tribune to be