New-York tribune., 1870-11-17

feel assured that only shallow and skeptca minds
are ready pronounce Mazzns life failure. 1t is not
possible to up his work: lie has wrought in so
many iand such ways and long and steadily
for Italian liberation and unty-but it is possible and
probable that that work greatly underrated Not by
choice from fatal necessity has he continually con-
spired. Said OF the heroic brothers Bandiera:
The study OF the condition Of country has proved TO
the sole path upon which il is possible TO labor
the emancipation Of Italy i the darksome path Of
conspiracy. fact OF what but secret means the
oppressed avail himself while preparing the struggle for
freedom 7" He has been ridcued for "impracticable
oneidea-sm" and "mad pertnacity"- tread matcbless
constancy mighty persistence-he has been denounced
every unfortunate uprising of Young Italy for the
last forty years. though than he strongly ad-
vsed against Yet why should he be blamed for even
the desperate attempt at Milan more than the com
mander of besieged town should he ceDsured for an
unsuccessful sorte Liberty in Italy was IN perpetual
state OF siege Nor those attempts at the worst
all disaster and dreary discontinue They disturbed the
reposc Of tyranny on fowery Vesuvian sOpes,--they
proved that there fiery suberranean forces con-
tnuay at work defyng extinction and all provisions Of
presy craft and Bourbon treachery Nor did OF his
brave adherents perish in vain Every such death gave
life to Italy. Every drop of martyr blood shed on her
soil found its way to her fanting heart.
Mazzni has been called remorseless and cruel; yet
they said in Rome that his rule 1Tumvir in 40
rule OF law and ORDER and mercy No acts Of violence
were committed, no palaces were sacked no works or
destroyed In all those evenfu five months. one
chroncler OF that heroic time states that tender
hearted this incendiaTy" and assassin" that he
could not bring himself TO sign death-warrant. In
London, where they knew him best, he was certainly
no bete nOir, no Guy Fawkes though 1t admitted
that far off Milan and Naples he might be very
troublesome and dangerous parsonage, sort of walking
Internal machine. London papers have demonstrated
earnestly though. think too deprecatngy against his
late rigorous imprisonment. One journalist TO
have dim perception OF the truth that Victor Emanues
prisoner well as the old lion chatting in his ge
Caprera has had something to do with Italian dnity
for he says:
We have nothing against bis which,
present is natural and perhaps neceay measure Of pesgon
fhew Tie personal rfs attending his such Naples
sd Palermo where bis What would the
eAr the perhaps inevitable step We have already expressed belief
una, tse Italian Government will not make the dorabe and obvious
treating u. prisoner with ngor He advanced life
feeble health and quite unable sustain the hrhnes Of ordinary
sn JANA might he most serious for the Government the
en- ne Il should befsn oousori good
~ s nAne b linked with the history Of Italia Unst be
hk The s when Italy brighter hopes than ever civilization n
, require al be hands Of his ors justice and consideration
the land" ~ ''''' "-' 'P'N' ME- '' ''' 'N' UNIV VI
"ei' ne IA out now, and abroad We hear Of him at
Tours ana there may revolution or two in the old
Republican yet.
on III! return from Italy, again saw Mazzini I was
aDie 10 prins MN tdlngs Of few Roman friends and
Verpai meeSabe from one In particulars gentleman
whom our houSehoid mad known well and who being the
son OF Papa officer and having been very vo,nc ~
the time OF the Republic, little watched or usnec,od
by the government. had also a rather singuiar tn
cident 10 relate TO him. While going from Eloron q,
Venice I had been taken for OF his fair ogen,s Or
spies certain Roman lady said to be travelling under