The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-09-20

never" was the reflection which obviously suggested
positive harm a. nad OF ss
bly where he had never made his appear
ance since o. his great encounter with Ca
sentation imposes duties at the same time
that Il confers rights and privileges and Garibaldi
the former less than with occasional abuse Of the
latter. In TINS country which has now grown od IN
any greater scandal than that of a public man, no
matter how otherwise deserving who, session after
session and Parliament after Parliament, should so
| licit or even simply accept an Of1ice winch
he was fully determined never to discharge.
But they proceed in these matters some
what differently in Italy where even the
most enlightened constituencies seem to look
with Indifference upon their birthright as nte-
quently dispose OF their Parliamentary vote as an
idle demonstration of honor to some distinguished
person, or return candidate merely because
they look upon him as the abstraction OF principle,
In spite OF their conviction that their representative
will never act In his Parliamentary capacity in the
Whatever. II is thus that Messrs Mazzni, Cattaieo
and other prOfeSsed republicans have inVarlaDV
turned up at the head OF the pol IN sEe e OF use
1t suited the maiortes OF those electoral bodies 10
enter their protest against the monarchical form OF
government and to place themselves and their DIS
tct3 at the time out OF the law and OF the law
giving assembly II was not III compliance WIN us
loyal views OF this nature that Garibaldi was
50 often offered and often accepted
seat in the elective Chamber OF the Sandman
and Italian kingdoms. Without ever affect
Garibadi was sufficiently upright aud orderly clti-
zen to be willing to take his oath of allegiance to
mOnarchical constitutions and his absence from the
Chamber which had become so much the rule as no
longer 10 excite any surprise, was accounted Tor
either by the state OF his health or by the peculiar
ties OF a highly irritable nature, which unhted MN
for Calm and rational debate. IN sober truth neither
the General himself nor any of his mos devoted adj
mirers ever thought that the hero OF Marsaa looked
to advantage either in the tribune or on the stump
His stancheSt friends trembled al the prospect OF his
opening his lips espe, tally whenever there was
n
TO yhe lette, ana laying them before the pubic With
out any thing ike editorial manipulation ana var
nisb.
Il The hair-brained agitators who in Septem-
Der, 1867, were capable OF maturing that Inflated
expedition may wei, without any great stretch Of
imagination, be deemed capable OF neditating re-
venge Uf its failure. whether or not they actually
have any connection with the association which
bears that ''Revenge' on its nag. Those who have
the utmost regard for Garibadis heart must be most
unwilling to make themselves answerabe FOR his
brain. There Is hardly any stroke OF madness INTO
which that nero of romance may not be persuaded
whom his worst advisers are in the ascendant. In
the lull which the summer recess OF the Florentine
Parliament necessarily causes in the political excite
ment Of Italy Efforts are made 10 rouse the passions
OF the multitude by revolutionary appeals. Carl
baldi has accustomed his c0untrymen To look out Tor
squalls aHa rtntJescata or on the approach of the
cooling season. meeting OF the extreme eft OF the
House OF Deputies has been called together III Naples
by Garibaldi's most dangerous friend, Crlspl. Al
ready Garibaldi's son Menoti Is said TO be in the
Held and Genoese carabineers and other volunteers
make ready to muster Already the Court OF Rome
has taken or affected to take the ALARM and to re-
assure them measures have been adopted by the
Cabinet OF the Tuileries pointing TO an indefinitely
prolonged occupation Of the Eternal City by French
garrison. For all this perturbation IN mems minds
Garbaldi's resolution to throw up his seat ID alone
answerable: for unless such step on his part really
harbOrs some sinister design unless he Is ut the bot
tom of the intended mischief, it is but little that
either Crisp MazZini or any secret association
may hope to accomplish. Indeed we rather think
that even GarIbadi's day is passed, and that he is
himself well aware OF 1t That his retirement from
the Chamber may, as we have said from the begin
ming, only have been prompted 10y the sense OF what,
good citizen, he owes TO his country no less than
to himself.