The New York herald., 1862-08-21

Tnere Is power among lAc great IoWel9 "
Europe which they find IL somewhat difficult to
restrain as the representative of liberty and the
people. 1t is Garibaldi, the "Red Shirt" the
embodiment and the apostle OF young Italy.
Becoming impatient % the foggy diplomacy OF
Louis Napoleon, and with the unsatisfactory
acquiescence OF me Cabinet Of Turin, the Red
shirt = up again, and has commenced In the
Island of Sicily the work Of mastering the
nucleus of an Italian army for the settlement
of the Roman and Venetian questions, in de-
dance Of tho French Emperor's equivocal and
temporizing arrangements, and in spite Of the
protestations Of King Victor Emanuel.
Represented as having only around him .
contemplate posse of ''two hundred, or few
hundred infatuated followers" Garibaldi, in
his speech to them concerning Rome and Italy
has created . decided sensation in every Cabi-
net of Europe. Kings, Queens and Emperors
have not forgotten that it was only some two
years ago that this strange and unpurchaseable
man, Garibaldi, with handful Of followers,
invaded and revolutionizsd the Island of Sicily,
and, quickly following up this achievement, re-
turned to the mainland, upset the kingdom Of
Naples, and annexed it to the young kingdom
of Italy. Accordingly, while the crowned
heads of Europe and their agents and emissa-
ries speak contemptuously Of the present
movement of Garibaldi as a miserable affair,
they cannot conceal their apprehensions that it
may possibly light up the combustbles Of q
Continental confederation.
In the hearts of the people of Italy Garibaldi
is "the power behind the throne greater than
the throne ITSELF" He understands this, and
doubtless is well assured that if driven to the
extremity Of armed hostility to the King, the
hero Of the "Red Shirt" may start with his hand
full of men from his island, Is Napoleon the
First set out from the Island of Eba, and rally
the nation around him as he advances to its
capital or upon the Pope and his protectors at
Rome. Granted that there is very nice under
standing existing between Louis Napoleon, the
Pope, King Victor Emanuel and Austria for the
maintenance Of the Holy Father in his tempo
raj puppet show ct Rome yet little longer, it
is by no means certain that this unnatural
armistics can be sustained against the uplitted
hand Of Garibaldi Against Louis Napoleon
and his temporizing coalition Garibaldi may
fail, even if supported en- masse by the people
Of Italy, unless they shall be strengthened by
general Continental popular revolutionary up
rising from France to Hungary.
This is the very danger which now menaces
not only the existing Italian compromises of
Louis Napoleon, but, through them, the over
throw of his dynasty. The generation has
nearly passed away which was involved in the
last general European convulsion; but the new
generation, inheriting it, ideas and its legaeies
Of popular rights and wrongs, is ripe for another
trial against the exploded "divine rights Of
kings" We think 1t altogether probable, there
fore, that, unless there shall be some solution of
the Roman question very soon satisfactory to
the general sentiment of Italy, Garibaldi has the
means and the power, and will employ them,
to light the fires Of another general European
revolutionary convulsion, as the only way re-
naming for the extrication of Italy from her
present intolerable French, Papal and Austrian
entanglements
This rebellion Of fours, In cutting Of the great
commercial staples of our Southern States, has
pressed heavily upon France. 1t has immensely
curtailed the employments Of her people and
the receipts Of her treasury. Thus, between the
pressure of their taxations, the lack Of employ
ment and the want bread, the revolutionary
elements of France are becoming restless, i'm
Fortunate and menacing in their movements
To keep them quiet Louis Napoleon has been
amusing them with his internal improvements,
his decorations Of Paris and his expeditions to
Mexico and Cochin China. He has perhaps,
too, been restrained from Intervention in our
affairs as much because of his distrust of French
republicans and Orleanists as from the diff
Guilty of satisfactory coalition with England.
We thus conclude that Garibaldi has with
in his reach the elements Of another French
revolution, and with it general uprising Of
the European people, from the Rhine to the
Danube, to say nothing Of the present turbu-
lent masses Of the Russian empire.
AT all events, for some time to come there is
quite enough of employmen and danger sug-
gestsd to Louis Napoleon in the present
threatening movements Of Garibaldi, and no
danger, therefore, of European Intervention in
behalf of JEFF. Davis. We have a powerful
friend and ally in the intelligent and sagacious
Emperor Alexander; but, under the existing
complications Of the Roman question, we have,
perhaps, at this moment, even more powerful
ally in that plain and honest soldier, that idol
Of the Italian people, that uncrowned monarch
Of the Red Shirt" Garibaldi. With that little
group Of volunteers around him in the Island
of Sicily we recognize the nucleus Of an army
-hich may be strong enough to shake the
thrones Of Europe to their foundations; and,
under this belief, we conclude that honest
Garibaldi has already done enough to render
assurance doubly sure" against European in
tervention In behalf Of JEFF. Davis and his
dissolving Southern confederacy. Long live
Garibaldi