New-York tribune., 1870-11-17

comics, on brcathess Summer nights His manner was
not A remember especially gonii9 polite. certainty
not fatterng or condesoending. toward women A"h.'
courteous and aIsbie in his grave way. he pad ,io '
compliment OF making no change whatever III a nS i
ner He evidently considered a woman o' pi''
brains exactly OIL par with a courageous an' rhorc
lectual map He mad learned respect for "om'n' ,
, a, . -, ,o,,, learned nj hons in ohildhoou anu
vontb frou noble mother OF her he ye' spo'Ao 49,
,ondor rovoronoe "Niy own dear mothei- ~
hor ,oomorv-xvith the earnest deepFgi'o" W.
looks forward 10 the future Pn PL
shaken in the midst Of every nis'or'u',' ,., =, mas
whr more than usually anxious ana aosoroc"' "o "o'
"" ',a.ousIv absent minded. Iremembcr an apec'
=, him apropos OF this peculiar absent mindodness'
and NJ his excessive and almost unconscious SMOKING
An English lady, one Of his dearest and most Ianihhr
,ends and as ardenty devoted To the cause OF laah
bberation once returned from Switzerland and ltaly
bringing him secret dispatches OF great Importance AS
Mazzn met her. he eagerly stretched out his hano ior
the papers the time in his joy at seeing her s'e
hack and gratitude for her brave services he bent down
10 saute herouite forgetting the eternal cigar IN MS
lips-and So imprinted on her check literally burhihg
kiss.
Iknew come Of Mazzini's friends ct Rome and found
them 10y NJ and hopeful after the disastrous aai
at Milan. One OF the most beautiful ana inteiseh'
Roman women met belonged to these faithiuie"' in0
were hearts devoedly rue to him. in homes where MS
name could not be spoken, lest the very walls miSht
hear am not surprised to learn that some OF ms cary
disciples and comrades, members of La Gfopine idHd
are true 10 him nCw when he is old and broken bo"ed
by failures prescribed hunted and prosecuted ana am
proud TO learn that among the most falthiul III msior
tune are pomen An account Of his late imprisonment
that upknglest act OF Victor Emanuel since the arrest
OF arbald-after stating that newspapers and books
were denied to prisoner what torture TO his active
eager mind that he had but once been allowed the use
of pen and ink and only then to write line to an anxious
sister; of his friends were allowed TO see MIN,
though his health In most precarous state. and re-
durng the most tender after this, the panfui
paragraph records that two ladies asked to be imprisoned
with him. to watch and for him. that they were
willing to submit to the strict incarceration and
cruel deprivatons he obliged to undergo, ana that
their request refused.
All! what life Of wild enterprise. vain struggle mag
nifcen hopes and maddening failures must his have been
TO look back upon the long, silent lonely hours OF that
most harsh and unnatural imprisonment He must have
lived all over again. from the time when child he first
learned from patriotic father and mother of the su-
CATION Of Italy-frst received from them the grahd
Democratic principles which alone could make her Iree
and from those early days Of aspiration and resolve IN
the old University at Genoa, when be and Jacopo Ruh
beloved young martyr-looked out on fair, unhappy
land and burning with noble shame, vowed to sacrifice
I'm her perlous service dreams OF literary fame the pleas
ures of youth, fortune. home love ITSELF Hemust nave
thought often OF his first conspiracy as CdrbondrO ana
OF his first imprisonment in the old fortress Of Sayona-
of the little grated window out OF which he could always
behold the sea and the sky-"two symbols OF the
nfnity "-peraps Of the pet bird, his little comforter
of the letters from his faithful mother constructed,
according TO a secret understanding that while innocent
missves enough TO his ailOr he could read In them
"strange matters" Then the liberation, robbed OF all
grace by Punishment from Genoa, and eternal police re-
htraint-then the exile bravely chosen-the refuge III
France-the formation of the great league of Young
1nof1 atara with
old kngy and papa yrannies then the conspraees on
cOnspraces the plots and counter plots the rash insur-
rectiOns the bloody def ats the grand schemes, the
dreary failures the splendid herOsns the base betrayas
Then the time of brief triumph in Rome seeming almost
like the frution OF his andest hOpes-then the fall the
fight anos! the despair. Then the fatal attempts OF
1868 and 1857 and that bitter disappointment OF 1882
when Louis Napoleon kept the word Of promise TO the
ear, to break it TO the hope Of Italy,
man Of strong religious feeling, and Of nature
loyal and magnanimOus, do not believe that Mazzin'
in the period Of his most desperate fortunes, when
dreaded and denounced, driven from city to city, and
country to country the Wandering Jew Of Revolution,
ever lost his loving faith in God and humanity. without
egotism petty vanity, and with the most profound
political convictions do not believe that even now,
when he has seem Genoa, Milan, Naples, Florence,
Venice Rome, freed apparently without him-has seen
Italy united under Kinghe weakly regrets his life as
wasted would recant such words as these
"Great revouons.are the work rather OF principles
than of bayonets achieved first in the moral,
| and afterward in the material sphere
4" do believe that the salvation OF llaly can b
achieved now or at any time, by P Pope or King
| Every nation is destined by the law of God ana
| humanity to form free and equal community OF
brothers. and the Republican is the only form OF govern
ment that insures this future"
doubt not Joseph Mazzin would have sent fortlfrOm
his last as from his first prison, words as strong and
brave as those OF Shelley, in the sublime prophecy Of
Lionel:
| Or the priests of the bloody faith;
stlD on the bri nk o q
| Whose they have tainted with death:
5 fed from the depths of a thousand dels,
| Around them II oams and RACES, aud sNtils.
| And their swords and their floating
| Like wrecks Ia the OF eternity
I feel assured that only shallow and skeptcal minds
are ready TO pronounce Mazzn's life failure. 1t s not
possible up his work: lie has wrought in so
many fand such secret ways, and long and steadily
for Italian liberation and untybut it is possible and
probable that that work is greatly underraed Not by
choice from fatal necessity has he continually con-
spired. Said OF the heroic brothers Bandiera ::
"Te study OF the condition Of country has proved to
me that sole path upon which il is possible to labor
the emancipation Of Italy is the darksome path Of
conspiracy fact OF what but secret means the
oppressed avail himself while preparing the struggle for
freedom 2" He has been ridcued for "impracticabe
one-ideasm" and mad pertnacity tread matcbless
consancy, mighty persistence-he has been denounced
for every unfortunate uprising of Young Italy for the
last forty years. though than one he strongly ad
vised against Yet why should he be blamed for even
| I'm doSp at mn han he