New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-06-07
HOyORS TO G1RIBALDI.


to Camera: at is more than death; 1t Is
catastrophe" The Pope, raising his eyes 10
heaven. exclaims There has gone another
figure of the Revolution !" OF the two ejacula-
tions the poets evinces less discernment. The
death of national hero, whose work was
brourbt TO n close decade ago, and whose re-
lations were with the past rather than the pres
ent. cannot be looked upon as catastrophe.
II is the disappearance from the European stage
of a historic figure that had outliyed the gen
Grafton which was so powerfully swayed by his
beroism and genius. Garibaldi had little IN
common with the Italy or with the Europe OF
to-day. Cavour, Ricasoli, Rattazzi, Mazzlnl,
Victor Emanuel and Plus IN. had passed
away. and their places had Teen filled with
second-rate men. New forces have been brought
to bear upon the united State which the hero.of
CABRERA helped to create out OF Jealous PROV
inces-forces which he was incapable OF Weld
ing or even understanding. Outside Italy
everything was new. In France, Louis Philippe,
Guizot. Theirs and Louis Napoleon and his
Ministers had gone, and a system OF progressive
reDublican government had been organized by
q Younger generation and administered so sue
cessfullv that he must have regretted at times
his own adherence to constitutional monarchy.
In Austria Hungary, there was new constitu-
tional system whereby the nation against which
he had fought had been reinvigolated. In
Germany, the problem of uniting great and
netty States had been solved by a statesman
from whose methods he nstnctively recoiled-
solved. moreover, on principles and with re-
suits which differed widely from Cavour 5 ideas
and achievements. In Russia, the sovereign
Il
socialists and revoutionists breaking away
even from the liberal allowance for license
which Mazzin made, had become terrOrists and
dynamte-w orkers. In England Gladstone and
Bright, who had sympathzed with the earliest
dreams of Italian unity, still fingered on the
scene, yet were strangely employed III gov
erning Ireland by force bills as to be scarcely
recognizable. Garibaldi seemed a solitary
figure on a stage where he was i'll at ease. He
had ceased to be an active force i'll European
life. His career had become IN Illuminating
"Reminiscences of an order of things that had
passed away.
1t is this fact that explains the extraordinary
manifestations of hero worship which have fol-
lowed Garibaldi's DEATH A practical, almost
humdrum, Italy cannot view without emotion
the departure of almost the last representative
of its heroic age. In his death it momentarily
renews its youth. Minds distracted with the
drudgery of economic finance and national
politics of a commonplace order are momen-
tarily refreshed by the splendid promise of an
earlier AEGEAN age that was not called upon to
fulfil its own predictions Sovereign, Parlia-
ment and people vie with one another in hon
oring his memory. King Humbcrt sends per-
- TO u
of his remains; political leaders give tokens of
bygone elOquence; the Roman .syndic asks for
his sword to be preserved in the Capitol for
ever; municipalities vote generous grants for
national monuments; the Pope exclaims: 0
Cod be merciful to him!' and the Vatican
organ admits that he was one of the frankest
adversaries of Catholicism, and, at least, no
hypocrite; in Austrian Trieste there is "A
revival of agitation, and throughout Italy the |
people are strangely moved. Yet nowhere is |
the death of Garibaldi accounted a catastrophe |
Popular thought is not swayed by gloomy ap- |
prehensiOn in regard to the future, nor by |
vague feeling of unrest in the present. A DOW
erful link with the heroic past has been broken.
Here was man of action, who dared to do |
anything in an electric period when the people |
lost patience in waiting for the slow develop |
ment OF Cavour's enlightened diplomacy or |
Rattazzis double-faced intrigues. Here was a |
man impatient of political restraint, IMMERSED |
in parliamentary tactics, ignorant of economic |
science. who did what statesmen, parliament |
tarians and economists could not do. Here was |
a man inspired by what the world has DELHI |
erately recognized AS a positive genius for |
action. Towering in patriotic dignity above n |
Den of 10
majestic memorial of the creative period of |
nations golden youth. Italians would not |
have anything warmer than ice-water in their |
veins, much less Southern blood, if they did |