Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-05-21
Garibaldi.

sudden departure. 1t is a curious affair
GARBALDI himself did not seem aware that
anything was affecting his health. But an
eminent British surgeon made certificate
that he was "unft to undertake to fill his
engagements in that country, and that he
would "incur great and serious risk" If he
attempted to visit the principal cities as he
had intended. On the other hand, GARIBALDrs
Italian physician published statement that.
his health was " perfectly satisfactory" and
that he could undergo the journey with safe
ty. GARIBALDI himself published a card bid
ding the English people farewell, and saying
that he could not fulfill all his engagements,
but made no allusion to his health
The general opinion is that his presence
was deemed dangerous on account of the .un-
easiness which the popular demonstrations in
his behalf by the English masses gave TO the
French Emperor. The British ministry prob
ably gave him a hint that his further stay
upon the inviolate island of the sage and
free was not desirable. The tone of the
French Government journals, it is said, has
shown that the enthusiastic reception of the
italian leader by the English people was any
thing but acceptable to the Emperor, who
hates and fears the man who can at any time
evoke the formidable agency of revolution,
and set Europe in blaze.
The reception of GARIBALDI in England is
one of the most remarkable events of the
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witnessed there for years. The aristocracy,
seeing doubtless that it was dangerous to
leave the great revolutionary chief entirely
in the hands of the common people, We'd with
them in doing him honor. He was borne,says
an exchange in speaking of these demonstra-
tions, through the heaving multitude of Lon
don to a dueal residence, and from that
time was not only the popular idol, but was
courted like a very monarch by the Govern
ment, by the aristocracy, by the world of
fashion The Premier, Lord PALMERsToS, gave
him great State dinner. The Foreign Seere-
tary, Earl RUSSELL, gave him lunch at Penn
broke Lodge. The Chancellor of the Exehe-
quer, Mr.. GLADSTONE, gave a magnificent en-
tertainment, in his honor, on Carleton House,
terrace His Royal Highness, the Prince of
Wales, visits him at Stafford House, and re-
mains with him for an hour. Being solicited
to visit Parliament, he is accommodated with
a seat in the Peers gallery of the House of
| Commons In the House of Lords he is in
| troduced by Sir AUGUSTUS CLIFFORD, bearing
| the wand Of office, and conducted to a place
at the right of the Throne. The Bishop of
Oxford leaves the Episcopal Bench to shake
him warmly by the hand. The Earl RUSSELL
follows, and then many other Lords, until he
| leaves, again preceded by the Chamberlain
He is taken to the opera at Her Majesty's
theatre, and there receives from the assem-
bled fashion an ovation that, as we read the
account of it, seems to have been almost a
frenzy of delight.
1t was a strange spectacle-the red-shirted
revolutionist, the talow-chandler of Staten
Island, the farmer of Caprera, thus feted by
mobiles and Ministers-not only surrounded
by all the splendors, but receiving all the
homage of the very highest society in Eng
land. 1t was thus that the governing classes
sought to take possession of GARIBALDI
Yet they had no possession of him. He
moves about at his will To day at BARCLAY
g. PERKINS brewery drinking amid deafening
hurrahs the health of English workmen; to-
morrow receiving deputation from the Uni
versal League for the welfare of the indus
trious classes, and responding in earnest
words for closer brotherhood between the
different peoples; the day after, in gather
ing of continental republicans and saluting
MAzzNr-the object of adherence to the ar
istocracy and of special distrust to the Gov
ernment--as ''the guide and counsellor of his
young years, his friend and teacher"
The conviction can hardly be resisted, that
the fact that GARIBALDI could not be kept to
the narrow walk that suited the interests of
the Government, was the real cause of his
leaving England so suddenly.
BRIGADIER- GENERAL JAMES S. WADswoRTH
who was killed in the recent battle near
| Charlottesville, was born at Genesee, New
York, Oct. 30th, 1907. He was educated at
Harvard and Yale, studied law, completing
his course in the office of DANIEL WEBSTER
In 1861, he rendered his services to the gov
eminent, served on McDowELL's staff at Bull
Run, and was made Brigadier General of
Volunteers in August of that year. He par
ticipated in the disastrous battle of Freder-
icksburg, and won the respect and confidence
of his troops by his patriotic spirit and his
daring personal courage. 1t was understood
that he would ask no man to go where he
feared to lead the way.
Gen. WADswoRTH was ore of the wealthiest
men in the country. He inherited large
fortune, and had greatly added to it. 1t is
stated that he could travel from Geneseo to
Rochester, distance of thirty mics, with
out going off his own land. A Democrat in
| politics, since the breaking out of the war he
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