The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1861-11-02
LineoIn'g Invitat.On 70 GarbaLdi.
From the London Times.

1t costs an effort to take in the extravaganza
oddity aud the humiliating character of this
proposal. Had tie Government AT Wash
lngton confessed their ignorance of war on
the grand scale, and sent for great tacti-
clan, even for one of the Piedmontese Geo-
erals that would bays been only what has
often tappened before.
1t might have beer said that any Amer
icau was more or less a Garibadi-that Is
n man Of personal prowess aud enterprise
but that the occasion required Ciadpi
But to seek for Garibaldi is to confess a
failure in the elemelt supposed to be espe-
cslly American. 1t is to confess that q
man is wanted who will strike at the enemy,
aad ADVANCE into - rerritory agoiast oy-'-
r9..s.ljg. Co yisw ~
Oarlbadl is AOt tDe san Dde nfseli,..s -
want. He has never yet attempted nor de-
sired to command large army, and as Tie
corr espondent at Turin observed ia our yes
terday's columns, he has over aud over
again, like the Biblical hero, Gideon, left
his army behind, and done his work with a
select body, whose love and confidence would
lead them anywhere after him. This was
the scale of his feats in the South American
wars of independence, where he flashed his
sword for the Italian struggle he foresaw.
His defence of Rome, in 1919, was on a
larger scale, but it was defect, and to de.
fend twenty miles of rampant from point
within, is a very different afflir from an ad-
vance into an enemy's country thousand
miles wide and as many deep, With as brave
men on one side as on the other.
War is not the mere personal conflict,
nor yet the simple skill that peGants and
ameteurs are apt to think. 1t requires a
vast and various capacity, When campaigns
have come to b. recorded with candor and
impartiality, it will be, better known that
war always is "a game that two can play
at, and also very complex science. Carl
baldi, like other men, may be trusted to do
what he has done before. He has not been
trusted, or even trusted HIMSELF for large
operations, whether in Northern or South
ern Italy. He has failed nowhere, but il
he is to be credited with no failures, it is
because he has known his own measures
and has been content to assist when twenty
legions were on the ground, or when u for
tress was to be reduced. But if the Italian
scale of Garibadl'S achievements far sur
passed the Montevidean, it was because
national sentiment came to the aid OF per-
sonal prowess and reputation. All ltsly
felt with Ganbaldi, who, by the place ne
had in every Italian bosom, did what may
be eceled tue lr tsrnaJurai part OF the wors.
10 IS snnfae tBah h6 NurkeG mirac.sss.
This mold anu this power he would leave be-,
hind were he to go to America. There, "a
stead of loving and conhdng Italy to heIp
him and carry him through, he would have
egotlstical Yankeelsm TO confront and beat
at every turn. lie might strike great
blow here and there, but, lnasmuch as the
issue does not depend on the possession OF
one or two points, and merely 20 mold WASH
invton is not to subdue the Southern States
Gaubaldi would find himself lighting tue
air aud lashlng the water. Whatever spirit
he showed would Inject alike friend ana ioe,
and if he raised up hundred GarlbaIdis
on one side, he would hnd not less on the
other.
Caprera certainly sounds like exile, bat
it is only that retirement which Is to be found
in the lives of the greatest men and the
most world-moyIng careers, GarIoa dl is
still at home, still holding his levees, and
alternately giving audleuce TO the messea-
GERS of KING, or "Prefect, If ne must
be SO caled; Republican Juuta; realm
and, as it now appears, u Transatlantic Em-
pire. He is, they say impatient, and re-
solved to be soon at his WORK.
If so, he will not fnd hlmself nearer his
great work by going across the Atlantic,
while he will certainly lose not oniy sphere,
but also caste. He is not mere adyenturer.
His early interterences IN strange quarrels
had the justification that it was to prepare
for his own. Ii will not be so easy to JUS
tify the abandonment of his own for con-
Alct about winch there are two opinions,
and which, by no means, is so simple an al
fair as the unity and independence of the
Italian race. What if he should throw him
self into the American maelstrOm, and find
himself Win uuuuIeu Vuo"e"hu meuJ ul
yided public opinion, and treachery in his
camp, just as the smouldering Indignation
of Italy was breaking out, and calling hi9'
to Venice or TO ROmel lie would lind now
easy it is to give up the substance Tor the
shadow, and to lose in an hour the oppor-
tunities of life. AS things are, be mas q
great mission on his own ground, win every
thing that can contribute to what with other
men, would be an impossible task.
RECOGNITION IN liEAvEN.-l must con-
fess, as the experience Of my own soul, that
the expectation of loving my friends in hea-
ven principally kindles my love to them
while on earth. If thought should never
know them, and consequently never love
them after this life is ended, | should num-
Der them with temporal things, and love
them as such; but now delightfully."- con-
verse with my pious friends in firm per-
suason that shall converse with them for
ever; and | take comfort in those that are
dead, or absent, believing that shall short
ly meet them in heaven, and love them with
a heavenly love.-B9Tter.
SECRET OF BEAUTY.-A lady's beauty
depends so much on expression, that if that
be spoiled, farewell to her charms; and moth
ing tends more to bring this about than
countenance soured with imaginary cares
instead of being lighted up with thankful
ra.s for innnmerahIe blessings, This is the