New-York tribune., 1872-03-12

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arrived at manhood, which has not been oc-
cupicd with earnest and audaciouS WORK ior
the union and the liberty of Italy. AS a boy
he was a CarbonarO; but finding TINS
organization ineffective, he created the
powerful machinery of Young Italy,
and ruled it with that iron grasp
which belongs to great thinkers no less than
to great soldiers. He organized armies ana
hurled them against the petty desp0ts OF the
Peninsula always meeting with defeat anu
disaster but never batting one jot OF hls en-
thusiasm and his pertinacity. In his hunted
life of plots and treasons, in his dreary exllcs
of London and of Switzerland, III his stormy
Journeys of propaganda throughout the conti-
ncnt, he was always consistent, always loving
Italy like n lover, and wOrshiping liberty with
religion. and elevatng, like the antique pa
triots of Rome, the thought of patriotism above
that of morality, the duty of the citizen above
the claim Of individual conscience.
There was no limit of enemies or antag-
onisrns in his struggling life. Ii was not
alone the constituted authorities winch he
attacked he sustained, also, bitter polemical
contests with his friends and fellow rcvolu-
tonsts. He was passonatcly devoted to the
ideal of Il free and consolidated Italian
republic, with Rome rs capital, and he never
could endure the name of the federation III
his presence. He hated the foderals scarcely
less than the monarchists He was through
life Thest and Christian. Dio popofo,
God and the people, was his constant war
! CRY, ,and, thousands Of those with whom he acted
| in their revolt from the errors of the papacy,
| denied God and rejected all religion. Against
all such he defended his faith with energy and
spirit. Not only in the realm of theory but IN
that of action as well, he was fercely intol-
Grant of doubt or opposition. If he differed
from Ferrari in philosophy, he differed no less
radically and harshly from Garlbaldl III plans
of action. 1t is only a few days since Carl
! badi wrote to Il friend, who desired to recon
ellie them. that they were too old to change,
| and that no relations were possible with MAJ
zin except perfect submission, and that this
was out of the question.
| 1t was not that Mazzin 80 especially
| impracticable or violent himself. His energy
of conviction was such that it was not pos
| sblc for him to see the other side OF the
question. He served as a volunteer under
Garibaldi but soon left him. He tried to
assist Gucrrazzi in the government of Flor
encc and was contonptuOusly refused all con-
ncction with it. He was willing to be a ser
want of servants, if his masters would let him
serve in his own way, and help him about 1t.
The freedom and the unity OF Italy was to
him 4 solemn and august thing, to be pursued
by every possible stratagcm and cxpedlent,
the end hallowing the means, as the rising
sun eloriies every path that leads to the
! H., bn
"time even the immature conception inspired
me with mighty hope that flashed before
''my spirit like star. ! saw regcnerate Italy
becoming at one bound the missionary of II
"reigion of progress and fraternity far grander
and vaster than Chat she gave to humanity
- in the past
The central and informing soul of this wor-
| ship of Italy was his alteration of Rome From
utterly different points of view, by ways whlch
were never parallel, he and Garibaldi. through
a lifetime of plotting and fighting, drew con-
tinually nearer to the capital How much OF
| MazzinI's life was wasted in this eXhausting
quest. can never be estimated, for his labors
and his suffcrings alike were in secret. The
| whole world looked on at GaribaldI's wounds
at Aspromonte and mt the shameful slaughter
| of Mentana where Failly, with his new Chasse-
pots, brought down upon the Empire the curse
of innocent blood. But both have alike
failed of the full fruition of the free Rome
they dreamed of and wOrshipcd. During
that fcyerish fit of freedom which Rome en-
loved in fS49 Mazzini was her tribune. Bat
when Italy had perfected her unity, and the
Eternal City had become her capital, neither
the thinker or the warrior entered into her
opened gates. Mazzini had educated Italy
into a nation Garlbaldi had thrown three
kingdoms at the feet of the King OF Pied
mont Had they not lived, Victor Emanuc
might not have entered Rome but while he
lived they would not. Perhaps it is yet re-
served for the ELAINE lion of Caprera" to
climb the hill of the Capitol. But Maz-
| zini has died without the sight his eyes
had desired and his hands labored for, with
purity and with patience, through noble,
though wasted life. HIS best eulogy has been
written by Mr.. Carlyle, n man not given tn
much praise of Republicans or of beaten men
"a man of genius and virtue, man of ster-
cling veracity, humanity, and nobleneSs OF
"mind, one of those rare men, Vulnerable, un-
fortunately, but as units in this world. who
care worthy to be called martyr souls, who, in
"scnce, piously in their daily life, understand
land practice what is meant by that"
| ELECTION FRAUDS AND Laws.
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