Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-02-19
0ARIBALpis IDEALS
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~ was as popular soldier that Carl
paidf won his fame, and as such be hos
mao no equal. The forces he captained
We're insignificant In numbers com
pared with the great armaments az
modern times. His tactics were tbo.,.
d the Rio Grande guerrillas: never
tneiess his success was astonishing. he
cause ne was peculiarly adapted to lead
q revolutionary uprising like the Ital-
IAN FROM the minuteness with which
ne describes the plans Of his cam
paigns and the disposition OF his troops
LII each battle, and from the copious-
ness OF the military precepts which
ne sprinkles over his memoirs. IT
Is evident that he deemed himself
master OF the art of war. h,.
the captains OF the futurn will not turn
70 MIN for instruction in tactics Or
strategy. His strength lay in his per-
Sohai Vaior, and in the unbounded
confidence and devotion which he In
Spired In his comrades; and these are
qualities without which excellence OF
discipiine, or numbers, or technical
skill can win victories. His favorite
dream, that the Italians could emanci-
PATE themselves without foreign assist
ance, by rising en- masse and arninp
themselves with a million muskets, was
impracticable for two reasons. which
be ought TO have understood: first. the
peasantry Gas he states many times)
were not to be easily aroused; and
second, multitude OF raw volunteers
could not have overtsIrown the trained
armies OF Austria The god of battles
decides for justice and patriotism, pro-
Vlded they marshal the best regiments.
When we have stripped from Carl
paldl his eccentricities aud flaws, tran
sient in their nature, when we look in
10 the heart of the man and contem-
plate his achievements, we behold a
hero OF the Homeric brood. We are
again in the presence of man of a
lew simple but elemental qualities.
frave, disinterested and outspoken,
whose habit it was to exhibit his pas
sions without that reserve which be-
longs to our later. sophisticated age.
Like Achilles. he did not disguise his
feelings; he wept when he was moved,
sulked when he was angry. He was
inspired by two ideals, and those
two the noblest-love OF lib
erty and love of his fellow-men; ideals
which he might not cherish in secret,
but which he must proclaim before
hostile world; ideals for which he en-
dured poverty, exile. fatigues, and the
perils of battle. He believed that in
every man there dwells a consciousness
OF right which needs only to be quick
ened in order to produce RICH .ous acts
His career, which typifes in the large
that OF thousands OF his contemporaries,
confounds those materialists who assert
that the age OF emotions of high-souled
unselfishness, of romance, OF true trag-
edy. has been leftbehind, aud that we
have entered the Sahara Of egotism and
! commonplace. In the history of mod
ern Europe, which is the history OF
the reconstruction of society upon the
principles of nationality, political
equality, and commercial equity, feud-
alism having crumbled into ruins, there
is no nobler chapter than that in
which the unifcation of Italy is told.
Garibaldi was the popular hero of that
episode The race whose heart beat
tr-le. in Garibaldi, and whose head
thought wisely in Cavour, If its char
acter weakens not, will contribute
generously to the civilization OF the
future. W. r. Taayer in Atlantic.