Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1869-02-04
Gen. Garabaldi-EIection to the
Italian Parliament - Address
of Thanks.

General Garabaldi, having been
elected member of the Italian Par.
lament, for Osieri, in the island of
Sardinia, has returned thanks in an
address which will cause some con-
sternation at Florence. The Cen,
finds himself, he says, placed by this
election between the atfectionate
svmpathies which he has for the
people, and the repugnance he en-
tertains to approach a government
which might be called the "negation
IF God" as an eminent EngEshman
called the government of Naples in
1860. Old Republicans in principle
and in practice, his friends and him
self accepted the monarchy in good
faith But what, he asks, have we
obtained from that government-a
government which only knows how
to commit exactions. to waste the
substance of the people, and become
the agent of a foreign power. The
General continues "If truth is to
be respected, must 1T not be said that
the conduct of this government in
connection with the events of the
last Roman campaign was q course
Of treachery? Among thousand
examples listen to this: Proffting
bv nv banishmeht to Caprera (after
Asinalunga), where SO much was
done to maintain me as prisoner,
the governing authorities wished to
appear as liberators, and they made
known that few shots alone were
required in Rome to open the path
to the capital hence the error into
which the unfortunate Romans fell
aud the immortal seventy, led by the
heroic Henry Cairola. /, who know
the deceit of these gentlemen, mis-
trusted their generous idea, and
trembling for the fate of those brave
men, gave orders to Carroll to fall
back upon US to the frontier
but it was too late My
first disposition upon the
Roman territory was not exc
cuted, my message not having reach
ed Carroll, and I reached the spo
after the catastrophe. | can pro
duce the documents. After my de
parture for Caprera, which l coule
not have accomplished without thu
assistance Of my friends Maddalen'
aud Gallura. found the movement
| begun, and my friends and sons en-
gagged in it l rushed to the from
tier in order to have the honor o
taking part in the finest, the mos
fsplendid and the most generous o
Roman enterprises, the overthrov
Of the government of Satan. On
the 22d of October I passed the
frontier; on the 23d I had joined
Menotti's corps; on the 25th W.
attacked Monte Rotondo; on thu
Goth we had compelled the Papa
army TO fall back within the boun
daries of Rome. That army blew
up, in fear, the bridges behind it ant
were under the walls of the ole
capital of the world-a den that i:
most hideous in the human race
the greatest Of Italian glories, ant
in word, our capital, with out whicl
Italy is not Italy, but merely a vail
world to call up pitying smile
On the Sd Of november this handful
of young men-robbed and betray
ed-belonged to those who had en-
riched the arsenals of the State will
more marial than they had ever pos
sessed. And if you are told that ir
1860 these young men, were no
dissuaded, but, on the contrary
aided. say to those who tell you tina
they lie, and will prove it wheneve
they like. .''-PaU Mall Gazette, Jan
|6.