Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-10-20
Garfbaldi's Address,

Garibaldi, defeated in his last enterprise for
the liberation of Italy, and now in seclusion
at Varignano recovering from his wounds, has
issued an address to the English nation,
which is in purpose an appeal to all nations
''to emancipate themselves from the perils
and burdens of warlike institutions" Bruised
but not broken, under the double PRESSURE"
he says, ''of bodily and mental PAIN" he has
spoken in a spirit which now more than ever
will endear the name of the italian patriot to
the friends of genuine progress all over the
world. Circumstances have given him some
personal reasons for gratitude to England
which he expresses with enthusiasm to which
he will find slight disposition among her rul.
ing classes to respond. That perfdious Eng
land which has discouraged nearly every lib
eral movement initiated by other nations dur
ing the last hundred years, is not now likely
to give the encouragement of its appreciation
and sympathy to the representative republican
Of continental Europe in any plans that
would benefit alike all the nations of the
| world. The following is an extract from this
address -
Proceed on your way, 0 calm, unconquered
nation, and be less tardy in calling your sis
ter peoples into the same path of human pro-
greSs. Call the French nation to cooperate
with you. You two are worthy to march hand
IN hand in the vanguard of social progress.
Ies call her! In all your meetings let con-
cord between the two great sisters be your
cry. Yes. call her. Call to her always and
in every manner-with your voice, and with
the voice OF her great eXiles-of Victor
Hugo, the high-priest of human brother
hood. Tell her that conquest is, in this age,
an anomaly-the emanation of an unsound
mind. Why should we covet the land of 9TH
ers, when all men should be as brethren? Yes,
call here. And she, forgetting that she is
temporarily under the dominion of the genius
OF evil-if not to-day, tomorrow; if not to-
morrow, later-will reply as she ought to your
generous and regenerating appeal. Call, and
at once, the bold sons of Helvctia, and elias p
them firmly to your breast The warike
children of the Alps-the vestals of the sacred
fire of liberty on the continent of Europe
they will be with you. What host! Call
the great American republic, for she is in
truth your daughter, and as struggling now
| for the abolition of that SlaUe,'y achich Vou
hare already so molly proclaimed. Help
her 10 escape from the terrible strife Waged
| against her by the traders IN human fesh
Help her, and then place her by your side at
the great assembly of nations-that final work
OF human intellect. Call to your side all
those peoples who would be free, and lose not
an hour. The initiative which belongs to you
to-day may tomorrow concern another. MAY
God forbid such a calamity. Who ever more
CALAMITY than France in SO assumed that re-
sponSibility? At that solemn moment she
held up treason" to the world, crushed tyran-
ry, and conSecrated free brotherhood Now,
after nearly century, she is reduced to COM
bat the liberty OF nations, to protect tyranny,
| and over the altar OF reason to erect the SYM
| Dol OF that wicked and immoral monstrosity,
| winch Is called the papacy. Arise, then, Bri-
tannia, and at once. Arise with your I'M
daunted brow, and point out to the
peoples the path they must tread =
| With congress of the world to decide be-
tween nations, war would be an impossibty.
No longer would there exist those standing
| armies which make liberty impossible What
weapons! What detences What engines
OF attack and defence. And then the mil
lions squandered in implements of destruction
would he employed in fostering the industry
and diminishing the misery of the human race
Begin, then, o people of England: and, for
the love OF God, initiate the vast human COM
pact, and bestow this great gilt on the present
generation Beside Switzerland and Belgium
| you would see other nations, urged on by the
| good sense Of the people, accept your invita-
| ton, and hasten to enrol themselves under
your banner.