The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1880-12-08
Garibaldf.

The mere narrative of Garibaldi's life
reads like medieval legend or tale OF
heroic times. He is at once the Ulysses
and the Achilles of the Italian national
epic. Long before his name had been
heard in EuroTe his exploits, both by
sea and land, had made il a word of
power in the new world. Having been
involved in revolutionary intrigues he
quilted Europe in 1885 for South Amer
lea, only 10 return after twelve years.
exile, the story of which, with its stirring
adventures both of battle and peaceful
enterprise, is as romantic as any subse-
quent portion Of his wonderful career.
In ls45 Garibal5 5;-saturned to Europe,
allured, ike so many other Italian pa
tri1ts, by Pic Nono's accession. But
though he soon found that his hopes in
that direction were to be disappointed,
Garibaldi did not return in vain. His
share in the defense of Rome against the
troops of the French republic under
General Oudinot and his victory over
the Neapolitans in the campaign OF Vel
letri served to show his countrymen
that they would not want leader ready
to go all lengths when the time came.
The time did not come for another ten
years, and the intervening period was
one of sorrow and humiliation for Carl
baldi.
After the disastl Gus Roman campaign,
ending with the occupation of Rome by
the French troops and the overthrow of
Mazzini's triumviIate, Garibaldi was
hunted from place to place; two of his
devoted friends were taken by the
Austrian troops and shot without any
form of trial; his heroic wife, Anita,
the companion of all his adventures and
perils, succumbed to the exposure and
privation of his flight, and the general
himself only escaped from his more i'm
Dlacable foes to be arrested by Sandman
troops and carried to Genoa, where La
Marmora, who held the command, al
lowed him to retire to Tunis.
When Victor Emmanuel made his
peace with Austria, and the hopes of
Italy seemed extinguished for the mo-
ment, Garibaldi once more crossed the
Atlantic and settled in New York as q
tallow chandler. He returned to Eu-
rope in 1855, and in 1859 the war be-
tween France and Austria brought him
again into the field. Here we approach
the better known, or, at least, the better
remembered, parts of Garibaldi's event.
full career. All the world recollects the
exploits of the Chasseurs des Alpes,
whom Garibaldi organized for noun
tain warfare, and led with consummate
to the yery snmmif of the f6e SfeIvio no,s
before the sudden peace of Viilafranca
put an end for the moment to the rising
hopes of Italian patriots and statesmen.
Still more familiar is the story of the
campaign of the following year, which
was begun in Sicily by Garibaldi aud q
few devoted followers, and ended
in q few months at Naples, when
the victorious patriot, who took no re-
ward for himself and asked for none,
handed over the crown of the Two
Sicilies to Victor Emmanuel and retired
10 his farm in Caprera.
This was the crowning point of Gaii
baldi's eventful career. Here end not
indeed, his efforts, but his irect achieve
ments, in the cause Of his country's free
dom The crowning OF the ediiice wa;
reserved for other lands than his, and
the ask was to be accomplished BY
other means than he knew how tc
employ London Letter.