New-York tribune., 1872-03-29


represents How was it that for 90 years, he
went to and fro through Europe, whenever
he listed when price was set upon MS heao
in two nations-a mysterious and ubiquitous enemy
battling spies and police in every CITY,
The Daily Ners says truly, Mazzlni was man whom
It was impossible to betray." wherever he went the
people conspred hide him from his pursuers and this
at the peril their lives, when horrible tortures
accompanied imprisonment "Itay," AYERS Inc Ddty
Sers " was honeycombed by personal admiration ana
sympathy and love for him." In England many volumes
Of his life and works have been published They have
been translated by Madame venou,a sisterin-law OF
Mr. stansfed the daughter Of Mr.. Ashurst, very emf
solicitor in the City Of LONDON. or Mr. Ashurst
of genius douglas Jerrold being one had proud
stories Of gratitude to tell, and many struggling pub
lcist said OF him. as Ebenezer Elliott did OF Cobbett
Our friend, when other friend we d none,
Our champion when we had but one.
Madame ventiori the most accomplished and one OF
the most devoted Of Mazzni's many friends In England
might write history OF Marzin, recording more mar
and harbreadth escapes than ever fell to the lot
OF any other human being. Excepting Garibad there
public known to history who has been oftener
In peril of his fe in discharge OF his selfimposed
duty, than Mazzini. Upon him The PdH Mall Gazette
has a few partly discerning sentences:
ITO him. 1t says who has borne the burden and heat
OF this long and unregarded day. there is something In
eIpressby bitter in being put aside by the sleek and
busness-like politician OF the eleventh hour dneTe
dense when practical craftsmanship would have given
up battle when despair seemed only another name
5SSes ro5 Il was hns @I that Maz1n powef made itself
felt Men shamed into patience by the spectacle
Of that unconquerabe faith in eventual triumph"
From the English ordinary journalistic point Of view
this is rather good part Of 1t has application TO
Mazzn Offices OF honor were always at his disposal In
In his later years. but he did not condeseend TO take
them this hour OF one mas not the heart 10
recount the splendid and pathetic features of his ma
testc career. The Daily Telegraph wonders how tho
fha aroh ripsf a
held so long and grimly by life. His keen, restless
mind had worn out the body: "the vital forces
seemed only kept together by the mastery OF "a
dauntless will" The Echo had sparkling and
happy notices Of the great msster OF conspiracy 1he
Standard vehemeny Tory as ii is, and sustaining as 1t
did the assault upon Mr.. stansfeii, when he lost MS
place as Junior Lord OF the Admiralty now gracefully
admits that Mr. stansfeld calamity avowed hs friend
SHIN for Mazzn The Standard however, has had for
wears one writer who. whether he abstans from COM
menne or writes reference 20 Mazzni acts from mo-
tiyes equally loyal and high-mnded- To MIN
must be ascribed the most eloquent tribute PAID by tue
London press to the memory OF the famous Italian
"Fnelishmen" il said on Wednesday, do not relish
the name conpator forgetting that there have been
periods their history when they too were driven 10 u
derground devices and to plot in darkness ana IN cor
ner for that liberty they would vainy have proclaimed
from the market place. and magnifed In the hight OF
words those They are the words not OF Maz.inI
but of Cavour. The time when no other occupation
Ia II
acy. and its bterest and most urgent hour
struck when Mazzini touched. the threshold OF
home 10 the hearts OF Italians the mortfying
conviction that they had nothing TO hope ior rom
the sympathy Of foreign nations nor the interference or
public opinion. There was not one OF Mazznis eoteIn
not conspiring when he too began TO conspire; Italy
ruled by trinity OF priests bayonets ana sC'
toleraton and the rule OF law. The Only dlH'rehee n
tween Mazzni and his peers was that he conspred VITA
rdo NOR
that in his zeal for political regeneration lie never st
sight Of intellectual and social emancipation
Its wonderful 10 read in The standdrd-i Is an act
which must long command respect-so noble vindlca-
ton OF the great conspiratOr who, The Standard
rously tells US. despared In the darkest hour;
was calm resoute in the most critical; he sacrificed
others unsparngy TO his cause but to that cause no
gave as unsparingy his whole SELF every pulse OF his
heart and every moment OF his life" There Is much
more not less eloquent and discriminating in the article
II Is singular that the memory OF Mazzin should owe
more to the conservative Standard than to any liberal
ionrnal I'm London. IL used TO be q favorite ac
cusation OF The Times and other JOURNALS as
The Standard, against him, that ne sent
out Others die. but careful OF his own he Moth
In. was more gnorantly falsely said. When his hfe
was sought by assassins In London, some oil whOh he
confronted his house to which he fearlessy or
dered their admission he took OF his own life be-
vond what his bravery and address might secure for him.
7 remember being asked to accompany him by MS
friends who were concerned for his safety when the
streets tenaness the night dark, and the road
long On such occasions Mazzini carried only cane
sword and he went along with his old quiet intrepdty
His Italian eye was penetrating enough but his tread
was light and careless.
When Mazzini first came TO England he lived IN
Devonsblre-st., Queen'ssquare, Bloomsbury lonely,
dull crowded smoke-dried neghborho0d-a wondrous
contrast TO the bright and sunny land from which he had
escaped It was in 1884, more than 40 years ago,
aYa IN
dence I'm England which he occupied for many years
was on the rst floor Of pleasant little house at No
Onlsowterrace Brompton, nearly opposite tne spot
where Ledru Rolin lived during his exile mere OF Whom
Mazzini used say, "he the only Frenehman VINO
| ever sacrificed himself behalf OF country not
his own" He received his visitors in small sitting
| room "The room filed says The Dduy Ne1s'
with books and papers, though IL had none OF the
aspect Of the stuy OF recluse. He smoked his cigar as
he talked and his conversation was about MS work. ana
never about himself His friends treated MIN Win
Difference which would spoil most men, bu. which mad no
INJURIOUS effect on him." The birds Mazzin always had
about him flew over his room and papers as he would
talk He loved these signs OF freedom. The Toness
account Of MazEnis personal appearance when VIII be
read by so many Is imaginary. He was not TALL nor
| "eaunfn nor had "long face" nor " narrow fore
head" This is somebody else The writer had never
| seen the middle-aged, 1.-THE, handsome. ovalfaeed
exile whose breadth OF bead struck all
as remarkable. He not born in 1905 or isos or 1902
| rs The Times puts 1t, but in 1905.
Compare with the Commune Of Paris the glorious days
when Mazzin was Trumvir Of Rome. What order, what
prudence what justice what diplomacv what heroism
Not for generations Europe seen such magnificent
diplomatic notes those which passed between Mazzn
and the French Minister Not In the days OF the most
| brilliant rulers of have such diplomatic
| spleudor been seen. The testimony which Thomas
Carlyle 90 generously bore to hazzns character in 1884,
renamed true to mis- last hour have had the honor