New-York tribune., 1872-03-29

CHARACTER OF MAZZINI.
INCIDENTS OF HIS CAREER.

LONDON, March 16.-A great force has gone
out of Europe Mazzin s dead Those who have worked
him feel that world IL lonely now he
has left II. He an anmatng spirit. He supplied
motives; he appointed objects TO be aimed at and in
spred duty and sacrifice 10 attain them II was he who
welded Duties Rights Il was In the Fortress OF sa
vona the shore Of the Mediterranean. Genoa,
where Mazzini long imprisoned, where the idea
OF duty first took hold OF his mind. His cell was
ia the highest tower of the castle The windows
looked toward the The earth was invisible. He
reminded OF it only by voices Of fishermen on
the beach, for when the wind high those sounds
TO his CELL With the mighty Alps and an unknown and
perilous future before him, he meditated upon the
great question how vtase rights by assocatng them
forevermore with duties TO bel DONE In that day Att
wood was laundering Nevhan Hill and placing
Birmingham IN array In the fields demanding Reform
bill for England Then as in the French revolutions
preceding the doctrine Of political rights stood bare and
alone.
The Great Triumvr, as his political associates called
him, died Pisa Sunday. He had been living at his
favorite quarters L1gano from which could see
the classic band OF heroes and artists. His house. look
ing down the noble lake. will be place OF pilgrimage
to countless politicians On Saturday letter arrived In
London from him which bore marks of ha wing writ
ten in the flness of his strength. 1t incredible
message which came Sunday from Mrs. Nathan, the
constant and intrepid friend whose devotion never
failed hun, saying first that serious illness
had seized him, and then that he dead.
His last letter, which have just read is full Of his
toned tenderness and for otherssoctng attention
TO the wants OF q poorIcountryman-never thinking
aught OF himself just saying incidentally, he not
very fOurishng in health and that he wrote IN "a
hurry" but yet abating nothing Of his socitude for
Others, which never waned with him. His writing had
all firmness his remarkable Greek hand Accord
ing TO the Italian law person dying should be buried
in Winter in fortyeight hours, Summer in twenty
four This would not admit Of his removal to Genoa.
Z txUaa p ared hiatt tha
permit public burial OF funeral s great thing
In Italy. From the expression OF opinion In the Italian
Parliament there was doubt OF the high place OF
honor he held in the national heart. The Government
has given ~ for the removal OF his remains TO
Genoa. He is TO be buried tomorrow 1t is an nexpres
sibe grief 10 near and friends England that
the detention Of all dispatches i'll Paris twelve hours
precuded their getting there IN tune TO the last
tribute Of regard at his grave.
Mazzni's Last public letter npon Garbadi. II had
all his dignity ana suggestiveness He was always ten
der the failngs of the most ilustrious of all the
great whom his genius inspired. When Garibadi
his great visit TO England was commissioned to
fetch Mazzin TO him at the Isle Of Wight,
10 Brooke House, where he then residing.
l well bear IN mind that memorable journey.
Menoti at village inn where tarried. The
devotion, honor, and with which the con OF
the General great friend OF his father will
be edoed from my remembrance. Garibaldi himself,
when he embraced his friend aud counselor began talk
ing in the Nizzard dalect-used when they met
In the days Of their youth lie bore unTudging test
mony London to the obligations he owed to Mazzln,
whose inspiration made him what he was. MaKZni was
not only great he a cause OF greatness in other
men, Even death he is incentive TO writing, the
Ike OF which other who has died for many
generations has evoked To quote OF those words
and illustrate them by facts of his life will give the
reader Of adequate idea Of his character and
influence.
The Times has given o singing notice Of Mazzin
| which is ascribed to ancient enemy OF the dead
patriot Sgnor Gallenga, whose vanity Mazzini had
wounded and whose political treachery he had exposed.
Mazzini a steadfast friend and most forbearing
enemy, and struck at adversary until public
truth and right demanded IL. But when he did strike,
he made mistake-his unerrng and inyinci
bic. When lie hal struck once there needed TO be no
second blow The writer in The Times represents Maz
zui as one who "knew little Of the world about him"
/ have known personally many eminent and
some historic foreigners, but knew one
who well acquainted with the world,
and the men In it, Mazzini. He not
only knew Encishmen and Frenchmen he knew all the
European races and understood Americans he did
| the English. II had TO arbtrate should be
very doubtful OF the result Englishmen Scotchmen
we're concerned in the decision Mazzin was the only
foreigner knew to whom any English question
could be trusted for a perfectly wise determination
He knew modes Of thought he understood our pre-
iudlces our humor perfectly inteligiDle to him
could interpret Byron TO the nation no other critic
ever did and understood the genius Of Carlyle or
described with power and insight at all equal to his
The Times says MazZni incapable OF looking out
Of himself whereas there was exile known to
us who saw 80 far, and so well. Another charge
OF this perverse authority is that Mazzln had over
weenipe conceit" Those who knew him found In him
the humility Of child with Titanic strength OF pur-
pose where his convictions concerned. The same
critic has however the grace admit that his depth
thought his earnest, impassoned manner his warm
expansive sympathy with all that was great and good
took the hearts Of his young contemporaries by storm,
and made OF the leading lights Of the before
his name was his readers. HIS pale, ascec,
but transcepdanty bright cOunenance. his inspired Ian
guage his loving address, made his enthusiasm rressti
| bly, contagious His manners were consummately
| aaable and courteous" How could oyerweening
cet and exist with these splendid qualities
Yet this is the who are told made few friends
No private man has lived in modern times, at whose
word and under whose inspiration so many men and
women have died. and have out upon those ororn
hopes the end OF which torture, the grave and
obscurity Orsni himself incurred that Austrian i'm
prisonment in Mazznis service, and from his Mantuan
Jail he escaped as herocaly and mraculousy as Baron
Trenck and he undertook at last that fatal affair In
Paris without the knowledge Mazzin whose respect
he wrongly thought that he had forfeited He ionRed 10
show that the Establishments OF liberty had neither
weakened his capacity his devotion nor his bravery
| The Daily Teps in article which misses many
essential points in MazZinis character and misunder-
stands some Others indicates the splendor and peril OF
his services in sentence that for than 40 years
the name of Mazzni has been name which European
tyranny has quahed TO hear" His appearance IN MS
later days s well described by the same writer His
pale face and sunken cheeks showed broad traces of
physical and mental suffering His gray hairs and short
heard were like tbose recovering from illness