New-York tribune., 1867-09-25
TIE RETR4Y4L or ITALY.

The arrest of Garibaldi is a French order
issued by the Italian Government. 1t is the
policy of despot imposed upon patriotic ma
ton. 1t is a denial of Italian unity formally
declared by Italy herself; it is cruel blow
dealt to the Italian people by the power they
created and maintain. Italy has no friend who
will not regret this act no enemy who, WI
-. not so much Gar1Daldi
who is arrested as the nation. An absolute
and enduring principle has been put down by
bayonets, and Italy will feel the arrest of
Garibaldi rs America would have felt the
arrest of Sheridan, by order Of the United
States, as he rode into battle for the country.
This action is the strongest denial of the
deepest conviction of the Ialians-that Rome
is part of Italy. The condition of Rome was
not n national question when Victor Emmanuel
was merely the King Of Sardinia, but now,
when by the virtue of the very principle Carl
baldi represents, he is King of Italy, the pos
session of Rome becomes more than question
of policy; it becomes n point of ma
tional honor. We cannot fully understand
the passion the Italians feel for. the
eternal city though we may measure it by the
events of the past few years. When Garibaldi,
in 1862, appealed to the people, enrolled his
volunteers, and with "Rome or Death for his
watchw0rd marched upon the city, the heart
of the nation went with him. Rome waited for
his coming as for that of a deiverer. For years
she had demanded her liberation, and nothing
but French troops suppressed revolution
which in single day would have united her
with the rest of Italy. 1t was tynnnical
divorce and Ganbaldi, in the effort to destroy
it, did not obey any personal ambition or any
partial policy, but was simply the instrument
and expression of the nations will. So strong
was the movement that Ratazz did not dare
to oppose force to his march till he had
pledged the honor of the Italian Government
to secure eventually the possession of Rome.
Thus deceiving the people with promise,
which time has proved there was little intention
OF Keeping, the Government attacked Carl
baldls little army Mt AsprOmOnte. The wound
he received in that battle every patriot felt as
his own, and it is not exaggeration to say
that the whole of Europe was amazed Mt the
Doiuhess OF the Government BY precisely
such movement as that upon Rome Carl
D;lldl had won for Victor Emmanuel the Sicilies
and the action, that in one case was rewarded
as the highest patriotism, in the other was
punished as q crime. 1t was astonishing. in
deed, to lind q Government which had been
established by revolution crushing the re-
suits of that revolution-to behold the
humiliating spectacle of Government affirm
ing itself to be based upon the unity of Italy
using its armies to divide Italy. Yielding to
the indignation of the people, the Minister of
Foreign Affairs officially proclaimed that the
watchword of Garibaldi was but "the express.
zion Of national necessity" The Chamber of
Deputies, in its address to the King, said 1--WE
will increase our army to 100000 men, and
" then, Sire, with you at its head, we will see
Z" who will withhold Rome from u.s." All this
is matter of history, which five years afterward
is repeated with even greater disgrace to Italy.
IL the desire for the union of Rome with the
rest Of the nation was then purpose, it is
now passion. Garbald when he left
the Peace Congress at Geneva on the 10th
OF this month, once again marched upon Rome.
But this time he was not at the head of an
army. lie went alone-a single man invading
an' empire. But at every step he took the
ground trembled. The Roman Government lis
tened with dread to the sound of his coming;
our dispatches to-day tell how it gathered
In Its troops from the surrounding provinces.
ana walled IN the city with a8 army IL