Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-19

dom was freedom 10 vote for annexation to
Sardinia, and for nothing else. An election
by universal suffrage, and supervised By an
invading army, is pretty easily managed in
any country consequently a part Of the
Roman States and Naples were annexed By
universal suffrage TO Sardinia, while the
King Of Naples was holding on TO Gaeta.
Naples and most of the Roman States have
got a change of masters, and Government
imposed on them by foreign invasion, in
stead of one of their own, by this glorious
revolution. Garibaldi retired to his cottage
at Caprera, where he munches Italian chest
nuts for breakfast, revolving abstractedly
the fate Of empires in his mind and he digs
his potatoes and srtichokes with that grand
air that drew sentimental English females
into his train last summer and be writes
God-and liberty letters about his mission"
which he will resume in the spring, and
about the oaths that he has sworn to free and
unite the rest Of his dear Italy. ..
In the mean time the Sandman army is
distributed through the Roman and Neapoli-
tan States putting down "reactionary move
ments )" and il is becoming SO fully employed
in this work of Italian liberty, that it
threatens to interfere with the progress of
the siege: that is, the people having been
temporarily overcome by a revolution of
foreigners, are now trying to revolutionize
and obtain their own liberty. This shows a
pleasing picture of the work of this italian
Washington; this father of his country. II
he has any desire to free his country, GER
tainly here is a glorious opportunity for him
to help the people undo his work, and throw
off the foreign Government which he was
used as a tool to impose on them; and then
was cast off, like drab, and his officers re-
jected from service, both civil and military,
in the Government which their revolution
introduced.
This is the work which carried away our
cheap American enthusiasm last Summer; !;
for which money and arms were contributed; I;
for which clergymen prayed in their
churches, and elevated GaIibaldi into ademi-
god, and blasphemously made God confed-
crate with him as easy tools of Louis Napo-
leon and Victor Emmanuel. But if we 90
| little further back, we shall find that the first
invasion which excited the enthusiasm of the
American people, was that of Louis Napo-
leon, under the cry of the unifcation of
| Italy," A French invasion and a general
war was supposed to be cheap price for the
italian States to pay for union, even against
their will. Thus we see how differently our
principles operate in regard to coercion to
create union of italian States, and coercion
to preserve a union of American States.
One is so desirable that foreign invasion to
create it, contrary to the will of the people,
is hailed with American enthusiasm. The
other, an existing Union, has no right to de-
fend its own established Government, by
force.
We are confident that we need offer no
excuse for devoting so much space to re-
view of this glorious work of Italian liberty.
II is profitable to review occasionally the
causes that have carried away our enthu-
siasm. What American will now say that
the people of Naples and of the Roman
States, now in a state of chronic revolution,
and subject to the military force of a foreign
Government, are not vastly worse and
greatly wrOnged, by the work of Garibaldi?
What can we now find to sustain our en-
thusiasm, in the cast off tool of military
despots? The time is at hand when in
America Garibaldi-ism will be classed with
kOssuthism and the Hungarian loan.