The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1862-10-11

II was not so on our right. The picciot
attacked by the regular troops, replied by
FIRE upon the whole line, and although tn
trumpet sounded to case firing, there wa
at that spot smart fusilade, which laste
not more than quarter Of an hour.
Ny wounds led TO some confusion in ou
line. Our soldiers, not seeing me, began t
retreat into the wood, so that, little by littl
the crowd round me broke up, and the mos
faithful alone remained. At this moment
learned that my staff and Col. Pallavicine
commanded the regular troops, were ne
gotiating upon the following considerations
FIRST, that should be free with my staff t
withdraw where pleased. (I replied o.
board an English vessel.") Sec nd, tina
having arrived at the seashore, the rest o
my companions should be set at liberty
Col. Pallavicino conducted himself as a val
orous and intelligent chief in all his militar,
movements, and he has not been wanting il
respec ct or courtesy toward me and my peo
pie. He shows his grief in having to shet
Italian blood but he had received percmp
tory orders, and had to obey them. NJ
arrangements had been purely defensive
and ! had hoped to avoid conflict, seeins
arrangements had been purely defensive
and had hoped to avoid conflict, seeing
the very strong position that occupied
and entertaining the hope that the regular
troops had received orders, less sanguinary
lf ] had not been wounded at the outset, and
II my people had not received the order un.
der all circumstances to avoid any collision
whatsoever with the regular troops, the con,
test between men Of the same race would
have been terrible. However. far better
as it is. Whatever may be the result oi
my wounds, whatever fate the government
prepares for me, have the Consciousness
Of having done my. duty and the sacrifice
Of my life is very little thing If it has con-
tributed to save that OF a great number OF
my fellow co1ntrynen.
In the hazardous enterprise In which I
and my companions have thrown ourselves,
with heads bent, hoped nothing good
from the government Of Batazzi. But why
should | no: hoped for less rigor on the part
Of the King, having altered In nothing the
old programme, and having decided not to
alter itat any price? What afflicts me
most is this fatal distrust, which contributes
not little to the incompletion of national
unity. However it may be, ] once again
present to Italya serene front, assured of
having done my duty. Once more, my un.
important life and the more precious ones of
SO many generous young men, have been
offered as a holocaust to the holiest causes
pure from all vile personal interests.
G. GARIBALDL.
The English newspapers, which are Just
now filed with Italian affairs, are almost un-
animous in their praise of Garibaldi's con-
duct. His letter is Enthusiastically frank
and noble. Who can read it without feel
ing the grandeur of that one sentence -
: However it may be, once again present
myself to Italy, with head erect, assured of
'having done my duty ?"
THE CAMBRIDGE INrELLIaENcER-One of
the largest and best local papers in Mary.
and-issued in the slayeholding County Of
Dorchester, speaks of slavery in late is
sue, as follows:
We have never doubted that the war
which the rebels have inaugurated, would
prove to be the obstruction Of slavery. We
so warned the people at the time that it be-
gan, and events have alreadv proved the
truth Of our perdiction. 1t is truly on the
part of the rebels, awar of free dom to the
black man Of the South. But this is not
III. There is another sense in which this is
! war Of freedom. There are other men in
the South to be freed as well as black men.
The white men Of the South need the strong
lrm OF the Government to lift the yoke from
their necks., These have endured slavery
ar transcending that of the blacks. The
social system Of the South has never been
lnything short ofa despotism-a tyranny
'qual to any of the Age The mind has
orever been bound here. Freedom Of opinion
has never been tolerated below Mason and
Dixon's Line. Men lave not been permit
Ted to hold, much less express, their opin-
ons. A man might conscientiously have
believed Slavery to have been burden up.
On the State, but he dare not let the public
known that such were his convictions. He
would at once be prescribed in his business,
and happy indeed might he be. il he escap-
ID without coat OF tar and feathers. Free
iom of speech and the press was thing un.
known in the South.
Moreover, all the legislation has been in
Favor Of one class ofthe community. The
shareholders, though constituting but one
lwenty-seventh part of our population,
have ruled absolutely the Commonwealth,
And even shareholders. themselves ruling,
have not permitted themselves to do a. they
pleased with their own property. About
Two years since, the Legislature passed a
law forbidding any one from freeing their
own slaves either by manumission during
lifetime, or by will after their death. Here
is blindness as well as tyranny. Such acts
are lasting disgrace to our manhood. They
enslave the master as much as his ne
gro."