Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1863-09-10
Garibaldi to Abraham Lincoln.
CABRERA, Aug. 8, 1S6,

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SHARES tn the american Repubhc:
If in the midst of your Titanic bat
ties, our voice can yet reach you, lei
us, U Lincoln, free sons of Columbus
send you a word of good wishes and
of admiration for the great work that
you have begun.
Heir Of the aspirations of Christ
and of John Brown, you will pass to
posterity with the name of the Eman.
cipator more enviable than any crown
or any human treasure.
An entire race of men, bowed by
selfish egotism under the yoke ol
Slavery, is at the price of the noblest
blood of America, restored by. you to
the dignity Of man, to civilization, and
to love.
America, mistress of liberty to our
fathers, opens again the solemn epoch
OF human progress, and while she as.
tonishes the world by her gigantic
daring, she makes US sorrowfully
think how this old Europe, which also
fights so great a battle for liberty
finds neither mind nor heart to equal
hers. While the revelers in despot.
ism raise their bacchanalian rejoic.
ings over the fall of free people, let
flee men religiously keep sacred the
day of the fall of Slavery. There are
mysterious parallels in history-the
robbery of Mexico, and the Lincoln
Proclamation. Prosperity to you, Alb
raham Lincoln, pilot of Liberty hail
to all you who for two years have
fought and died around her regenera-
ting banner Veal, to you redeemed
sons of Ham--the free men of Italy
kiss the glorious marks of your
chains" GIUSEPPE GARIBALDI.
The foregoing address to the Presi-
dent was written by Garibaldi, and,
after his own signature, were append.
ed the names of large number of the
Italian Liberals.
The General has recovered from his
wound, and takes every day ride on
horseback, on lady's saddle, not to
hurt his foot which is yet very tender.
He can walk without crutches with
the aid Of simple stick, and delight
ing in boating, he plies the oar with
all the vigor of youth. One or two
months rest will make him able to
take once more the field The party
of action seems very much agitated at
the impending Franco-Austrian ALI.
ance, which both at the Tuilleries and at
Schoenbrunn is earnestly designed,
and would prove the most serious dan.
ger to Italy and Hungary.
What the democracy of Europe
thinks of the character of our strug-
gle, has never been set forth more
clearly and more tersely than in the
above admirable letter of Garibaldi to
Abraham Lincoln, "Emancipator OF
slaves in the American Republic"
If any man in Europe can speak in
the name of the whole liberal and pro.
gressive party, it is Garibaldi. No
other man possesses to an equal degree
the love, and the admiration Of the
the true Democrats of every country
of Europe. Our own land has fully
shared in the appreciation of the emf
nent services, which Garibaldi has
rapJaraJ m tho oanea sc n.,,,x.o,.a =; :,
Progress, and even most of the organ.
of our so-called Democratic party have
been in former days among his warn
admirers, though they might have
known, that man cannot worship a
the same time Freedom in Europe anG
the Slave power, in America.
There is nothing more disgusting il
the language used by the organs of thu
! Slave Power than the attempt to rep
resent themselves as the champions
of civil liberty, and the Republicans al
the champions Of a despotic policy
If their minds were yet open t,
truth, the simple fact that every frient
Of liberal progress outside of the Uni
ted States sympathizes with the pres
ent Administration, and especially witt
the Emancipation policy, and that tn
aristocrats and reactionists every
where in Europe are enthusiastic in ia
vor Of the Southern Rebels and tn
Northern Coppeaheads, should opel
their eyes.