Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-10-16

great fortress was to be reduced. But if the
Italian scale of Garbaldi's achievements far suFpass
the Aontevidian, Is was because national sentiment
came into the aid Of personal proves and reputa
non All Italy felt with Gaaribaldi, who, by the
place be had in every Italian bosom, did what NAV
be called the pretsrnatural part Of the work To
sampls Iatfa ne worked miracles This hold and this
power he would IeaEe behind vgereke to % TO Amer
lea There, instead Of loving and cOnfding Italy to
held him through, he would have euor;sfi1aI Van
keelsm TO confront aRd beat at every turn He
might strike great blot here and there but mas
much as the issue GOES not depend apOn The masses
sion of one or two points, and merely to atld Wtsh
ingtou Il not TO subdue the Southern States Carl
baldi would End himsef fighting the air and lashinz
the water. Whatever spirit he showed would aft ct
alike friend and foe, and if he raised up hundred
Garibaldia on one side he would not lad less ON he
other.
Caprera certainly sounds like exile, but it senly
that retirement which is to be found in the lives Of
the greatest men and the most weird moving
career. Gsribaldi is stiH at home, still holding his
levees alternately giving audience to the messengers
| OF King. or ''prefect" if he must be 80 called,
republican iunta; realm, and as it new appears,
TRANSATLANTIC empire he is, they say, impatient,
and resolved to be soon at his work II So he would
Tot md himself nearer his great work by gong
scross the Atlantic while no will certainly lose nor
only sphere. but also CASTE He is nOs mere ad
yenturer. His early Interference in strange quar-
res had the justification that it was to prepare for
his It wiz not be easy to justify the ah4n-
tlOzment Of his own for conflict about which thsFe
IRE two opinions, and which Is by no mems so
iimple affair az the unity and independence of
The Italian race. What if he -houd throw himself
41to the American maelstrom, and ind himself with
hundred thousand men. divided public opinion
and treschery in his camp, just as the smOlderiDg
indignation of Italy was breaking ont, and calling
/ to him to YeniGe or Romel lie would fai how
easy it is to give up the substance for the shadow
and to lose IN an hour the opportunities Of a lfs
| AS things are, he has great mission on his own
ground, with every thing that can contribute to
what; with other men, would be an impossible
( task. He may condescend to take lesson from s
very different SORT of man, though hero in his
way. Towards the close Of the Peninsula war, the
Duke of Wellington was pressed By the allies par
iieularly the Russians, to take the cOmmsnl the
/ Rhine. Il was great step, fJF It Wss - COM
mand the continent, instead Of an oEtlyIag peain~
sula. ANY one who is General at all y was his
answer, " will be as good General as | there, bus
l am bette than any General here0 So the event
/ proved, AID in the end the Duke found his peninsu
Ia tactics tell on the larger scale as on the smaller
But what vocation has Garibaldi for America, and
why should his mouth water for the command
OF the Federahst Army, except for the simple love
| of adventure, which he shares with many a lower
nature? The ament Of the Ialian cause is upon
him, and he is not free for any other The risk we
viii put out of the question, bat when we see how
quickly death and disgrace are doing their work in
ths American quarrel it certainly does strike
Us how much we should all dsplOre TO hear that
fever had carried eff Garibsldi at Washington, or
an unaccountable panic had destroyed his prestige
at the seat of war.
Rror the L0nsoE Herald, Derby Organ Sept Is.
The whole of the North Is, in fact, dishonored by
the advances that have been made TO Garibaldi Gnd
the terrible humiliation which Mr.. Seward shud
dered at when the idea Of Engand's mediation in
the American quarrel was preached sinks iato il
significance compared with the death-bloW dealt by
thiS grandiloquent politician as the pride and self
consciousness of eysry American patriot. What
must be the effect Of such manifest want Of faith
and courage in the Cabinet at Washington upon
Generals and soldiers. Gari5Aldis refusal, for his
own sake, would have pleased US better had it been
more direct No doubt the plea of il-health Is per
fectv valid. BUTT looks like evasion. It L. in
fact much like the fashionable "not ST hone" to an
UNIV elcome visitor. as it is. President Lincoln may
hug himself in the belief that but for 8 twing OF
rheumatism, Gsrihaldi might have immortAlizsd
him, and handed him down to grateful pos;erity
second Washington.