Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1867-10-02
THE BETRAYAL OF ITALY.


THE BETRAYAL OF ITALY.
The arrest of Garibaldi is French
order issued by the Italian Government.
1t is the policy of despot imposed upon
a patriotic nation. 1t is denial of Ital-
ian unity formally declared by Italy her.
self it is cruel blow dealt to the Ital-
ian people by the power they created and
maintain. Italy has no friend who will
not regtst this act; no enemy who will
not applaud 1t. 1t is not so much Carl
balai who is arrested as the nation. An
absolute and enduring principle has teen
put down by bayonets, and italy will feel
the arrest of Garibaldi as America would
HAVE felt ths HFfsst Of Sheridan, by ordet
ST tie tnitsa States, as he rode into bat:
tie for his SoHhtry.
TAis acti5h 10 the strongest denial Of
thS dssp$St sosftstiSk of the Italians
that Rome is part Of Italy. The condi-
ton of Rome was aot natiohal question
when Victor Efhmanasl Sas merely lie
King of Sardinia, but now, when, by vir-
tue of the very trihciple Garibalai repre-;
sents, he is King Of lsaiy. Tie possession
of Rome becomes more than question Of
policy; it becomes point of national
honor. We cannot fully understand the
passion the Italians feel for the Eternal
City, though we may measure It by the
ereuts Of the past few years When Ga
ribaldi, III 862. arpcalg3. to the people,
eoroiled h;s volunteers, and WITH Rome
91 Death" for his watcAwogi marched -,
OF ;he oigv, toe b9art Of Ae ua.;1a we.
with cir. p3.e waited 'os rs le,ai2g
as for that of deliverer. For years she
had demanded her liberation, and moth
ing but French troops suppressed revo-
luton which in single day would have
united her with the rest of Italy. 1t was
tsrahnical divorcG, aid Garibaldi, in
the effort to destroy it, did not obey any
personal ambition or any partial policy,
but was simply the instrument and ex-
preston of the nations will. So Strong
was the moveihetit that Ratazzi did not
dare to oppose force to his march till he
had pledged tho honBt of the Italian
Government to secure eventually the pos.
session Of Rome. Tits deceiving the
people with promise, which time has
proved there was little intention Of keep.
ing, the Government attacked Garibaldi's
little army at Aspromonte. The wound
he received in that battle every patriot
fel! as his own, and it is not exaggeration
to say that the whole Of Europe was anna
zed at the boldness of the Government,
By precisely such movement as that up
on Rome Garibaldi had won for Victor
Emmanuel the Sicilies; and the action,
that in one case was rewatded as the
highest patriotism, in the other was pun
ished as a crime. 1t was astonishing,
indeed. to find Government which had
been established by revolution crushing
the results of that revolution-to behold
the humiliating spectacle ofa Government
affirming 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 Carl
ba!di was but "the expression Of nation
al necessity" The Chamber of Deputies.
In its address to the Hing; said ave will
increase Oft arrsy to 100000 men, and
then. Sire. With yet at its head, we will
see who $ilt withhold k0tss .rotA It's. i"
All this is matter Of history. which
five years afterwards is repeated with even
greater disgrace to Italy. lfthe desire
for union of Romc with the rost of the
nation vac theh Purpose, it is now q
passion. Garibaldi, when he left the
Peace Congress at Geneva on tie l2th Of
This month, once again marched upon
Rome. He went alone--:a single man m.
vading au empire, BIZ al every etep he
took tha ground tremblai. TIE Roman
Govoranent ljA,aHei a.li drlsd to ias
aoa13 o: :a.a a'g4irgj our dispatches 10,
DAY tell aca i ga,de.:l u i!s troops
from the surrounding Provinces, aud wal
led in the city with an army it feared
attack from without, and revolt within,
and had reason for its fear. One man
could easily be met; twenty thousand
fien eodld be repulsed; but when the
man was Garibaldf, then it was no fonget
an army that mehaced Rome, but Italy
herself, A principle fs terrible thing.
Garibaldf could not depend On fvo thou
sand men to strife the first blow but he
could depend upon Italy, and no sooner
did he begin hiS solitary journey to Rome
than the Pope tnassed his armies, and
even France ordered Her soldiers to giard
the Papar frontiers. But the Italian