New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-09
THE ITALIANS.
Enthusiastic Demonstrations in New York

THE IIAIIlANtSs
P,tbusiastic Demonstrate in New York.
The celebration of the Independence and
unity of Italy, in New York few days ago,
was characterized by wonderful enthusiasm.
General Sigel and many distinguished gen
tlemen made speeches at the festival. y.
A. Slgniago presided, and thus eIoquenuy
gave utterance TO his emotions:
Signor Nestore Corradi, the president OF
the General committee, made few predatory
remarks in Italian, after which he intro
duoed the orator of the day, Signor q. A.
Signiapo. editor of the Grenada mississippi
Se1ti,,et. The signor, the New York San
saws, is handsome young man, VITA very
ELOQUENT delivery. He spoke In Italian, and
carried his audience by storm. Inc follow
ing ia a literal translation of the signor's re-
MARKS "a
Beloved compatriots, sons Of ltaly-After
several decades of years spent IN exile;
after long yearning, hoping, praying Tor my
dear countrys greatest hope, its noblest
object, and to-day its proudest boast-Italy
united and Rome its capital md myself
amid my patriotic countrymen to bless and
plorify at last that great event. Loud APP
plause.l Hopes which You often feared
had been frustrated, have been amply rea-
lized. The blood of your fathers, brothers
and friends, that saturated many hard
fought field, has ripened those hopes into
this full fruition. The struggling of our
patriotic leaders, under incalculable diff
culties, in organizing bands OF our country
men in every part of Italy-in persisteutly
treating with stubborn rulers-in plotting
every means to urge on our cause to its
ISSUE has not been vain, for all that they
Rad sought has been found. Italy is now
all that they hoped her to be.
Our native tricOlor now floats alike over
the "headlong Anio" and the yellow Tloer,
u l. vi orr oil
the arches of Constantine and Titus, the
Coliseum and the palaces of the Caesars;
over the beautiful bay of Naples, the
Queen of the Mediterranean" over Genoa
the superb, the resting place of Columbus;
over historic Milan and classic Pisa, Padua
and Modena; over Mantua, the home OF
Virgil: over the Sabine hills. the Sabine
farm of our immortal Horace; over Ha-
drians villa and the ancient Forum; over
all that our noble ancestry bequeathed to
us: over our lust and natural boundaries;
over our own hearths, the tOmbs OF our by
gone heroes, the legacies of our pioneers in
the arts, sciencee and literature, and over
the battle-fields of our warriors. would
imagine our wild Alpine peaks and noun
tains grow more gigantic amid the atmos-
phere of freedom, and looking more proudly
over our regenerated land. Who would to-
day dare tamper with the eagle that wings
it's flighht therefrom Loud applause
Nv dear compatriots it would be an I'M
warrantable exaction on your part to expect
me in this hour. on this occasion, while eel
ebrating such an event, to deliver an Grafton
in form and expression worthy OF the event.
When ones heart is bIimful of darling joys
his utterance is impeded, and his soul rather
seeks relief in being incoherent than IN over
burdening himself with set forms of speech.
My mission to-day is an honorable one, and
attributable to you, for which give youmy
sincerest thanks. Being president Of this
convention. and of our local society, am
reminded of the days of gloom and strug-
Cling, when / was assigned little offices
wherein l had 10 participate and teach
Others to do the same; the valiant efforts
made by De Angels and Giuseppe Mazzini,
when they proposed TO overcome every OBJ
stacle that lay between the patriotic and
grand designs of Rienzi and Cavour and
their accomplishment. Then 1 had little to
hope for, little to boast of.
My country, from north TO south, was
trammeled by petty dissensions among
imbecile~ rulers, called dukes, grand dukes,
princes and kings. The completion of a
perfect unity seemed then a hopeless task.
House quarreled with house; cities of one
principality were bitterly antagOnistic I'M
til the whole peninsula, in its demoraliza-
ton, necessarily grew clamorous for a
pationality-for q union. In such an emer-
ing her the victim Of monarchs' caprices
through the weakness OF her feeble and con-
ficting elements, her duchies and petty
Kingdoms, thousands of her sons, true Of
heart, and loving their fair home in its
entirety, strong in purpose and brave as their
fathers, banded beneath the flag of union and
resolved, in spite of all opposition, at any
risk, at any price, to see Italy one, and Rome
it's capital. Before that great end was ac-
1,oIa ala -
compelled to seek refuge from tyrants and
despotism by fleeing to France, England
and Australia; and here in this .,,oriors
land proudest of them al now many an
o1Ra'ii"'eo .,uel leader spent his long
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noble lives in the gloomy dungeons OF castle
st. Angelo, and in those OF Naples ana
Sardinia. Many Jealous patriot, In those
years of struggling, of sacrifice and OF sOr-
row never recrossed alive the dark portals
of his prison. Some have written their
country's wrongs and hopes upon the fetid
dews of their dungeons; some refused the
pittance of cOnvicts-a tyrants bread-and
died slowly, without the consolation OF
their friends or kindly word. Then,
though they may have been of noble name
and estate, their bodies were refused but
the graves of thieves and assassins; their
wealth confiscated and their names OBJ
liberated. But to-day, in this free and dis
tant land, we will raise a shrine within our
hearts for those forgotten and prosecuted
heroes. With the exultation of the cause
they died for, their names and memories
will revive, and they will live on in the
brightest records of our new destiny. Here
the speaker was overcome with emotion.1
Italians forever, forever, honor the noble |
ones who have lived and died for Italy |
who have struck the blow which made ty- |
rants crouch and surrender to the demands |
and wishes of an injured people Praise |
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