The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-09-24

The collapse of the concerted invasion OF
Savoy In January. 1885 by three parties OF
revolutionists would have been fatal to almost
any other leader except Mazzini. With a
musket on his shoulder he accompanied the
first party. platoon Of troops appearing. a
few shots were fired and Mazzini tainted. while
his comrades fled across the Swiss border.
When he recovered consciousness he realized
that the invasion had come to n ludicrous end.
His eLemies attributed his fainting to coward
ice: he himself explained 1t as the result Of
many nights Of sleeplessness OF great ia
tigue. fever. and cold. To all but the few
concerned in it this first venture OF Young
Italy seemed a farce the disproporton
between its aim and its achievement was
SO enormous and Mazzini's personal part
in il 1t was SO iGnomini9us: Nevertheless
his first encounter with reality. was not dis
couraGed. From defeat he drew the conviction
down only at his death, ,Thenceforth Italian
had the head for lack OF which it
ished beyond the chance Of being Destroyed
tarope sprsne Up aft the iazzna M pa iT
that their cause was international. and. in their
aai an they trateEnized., No one could
uTaW SO lalT unu plHuSlDIB Il prOErQmmB
could SO, fire them with sense Of
du5 T.h h9se w 6 tbs He be-
to autocrats truly an Internal machine-of
European conspiracy The redemption Of
erous principle reached out over OF her nations
for in the world that he prophesied. every peo-
Prescribed In Piedmont. expelled from Swift
eera IN dened tEaI he took
eIty and leurtaCle the whDlp Network,
OF plots His bread he earned by writing
critical and literary espays for tho English re-
language so MS to use it with remark bic vigor.
All his leisure, however; he devoted to the
spondence with numberless confedcrates lie |
watched the symptoms Of every part OF Italy; |
he shipped arms and munitions to various
points; indited proc amations, concerted sig |
aged, and couns sled. lie was the Consulting
physician Tor all the revolutionary practlton- |
srs OF iEnrope Those who were not his part:
ne was only man OF words: but the best |
proof of his power lies in the an xiety he caused
cautions they took to guard against him.
sSs u ike IL his they
reports reeking with terrible insinuationnss
their subeets shor AMI HIM "s y
incendiary who wished to upset thrones and
sn !tar. and Th2 in the ANARCHY that would
ers TO- rayish and plunder. MaZ2inl. on his
part denied the charge that he approved or
cohdoned political assassination although he
admitted that he had given money and II
Ia2ser TO Young fanatic GallengR. who had
vowed TO XIII the King. Charles Albert. In
lia. intercourse he was SO gentle, SO IN
selfish. so insistent in matters spiritual that
me Row persons who knew him well could not |
believe that he would descend 10 criminal
Methods In order to comrass his reforms.
when We're essentially moral
ne result OF the long duel between MGHZinl
and Metternich eliminated in what was. to all
IppcaIances. drawn battle. The widespread
revolutionary movement Of lSiS. tn" principal
luthor OF which WAS the great Italian con-
Snlr"'or ended ostensihly in fail ure though it
eNps ed Metternich from public life. Asa mat
Ter Of Tact. tho national uprising Of the Italians
Illusions and taught soma Indispensable le--
sons. The collapse Of that revolution by re-
V"aling an inherent iallncy of MaHXinianism
nat reform could originate In the ignorant
lnl st"iId masses pointed to constitutional
Inohar'hy as the proper agent made the
great external adversary to Italian nlopend-
nee. Internal advcrsari"s. farti0nal dis
'prus, PerHdlOuS princes, and IN" part isan-
u aDsolutlsm must ho overcome before Aus. |
RIA could he expelled. The notion hitherto
'ulrent TINT ltily could work OFT her own sal
low mat foreign assistance. not merely for
'.Sh sympathy must DE gained. To be lbeT- |
,leu IRON Visions to know exactly what she |
'eslTed and how alone she could obtain her
ueills was the knowledge. bitter hut SOLDERING !
ind salutary., which the failures of 1919 .
?9r leadership no longer TO Mn2Hini. hut 10
,lctor Emanuel. the honest King. and to |
aSour. the mhod iment Of reason N is the .
en-. enIertement Of these men which. as we infer