Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-05-24

in 1861. that he Re Galantuomo," Vic
tor Emmanuel and the great Italian
statesman, supported by the Piedmon-
nat onal independence all that could
serve that cause from the Alps to the
Adriatic and saved the headquarters
Of governmental adminiStra ton,
with parliament comprising many
of the best men from Lombardy and
Venice, from Tuscany, Parma, Mo
dena, and Romagna, and from the
1.-TWO Sicilies," the hopes of the strug.
Cling nation.
The view of Turin which we present
herewith, through whose streets Kos
Suth'S body was solemnly escorted yes
terday by thousands of Italians and
Hungarians. is the one looking north
ward from the terrace of the Capuchin
Monastery on the hill rising on the
opposite bank of the Pc. A beautiful
city is the "Etrurian Athens" as it
has been called, with many quarters
full of historical interest though the
modern part, lying west of the Via
di Pc and the Piazza Vittoria EN-
manuele. is laid out with strict regU-
larity, the streets crossing one an
other at right angles, as in an Ameri-
can city.
A very interesting house is near the
Piazza Carlo Alberto-the Palazzo
Carignac-a rather quaint brick build
ing. which was thirty-three years ago,
and during twelve years preceding,
the best school of patriotic politics
then existing on the continent OF Eu-
rope.
The select pupils of that school were
two or three hundred Italians, of all
ranks and professions. Some of them
had sacrificed their private fortunes,
had suffered the forfeiture of their
estates and long separation from their
homes and families, had lived in exile
and in poverty, or had endured i'm
priSonment in Austrian jails or Nea-
politan dungeons, like Baron Poerio
and Professors Spaventa and Settem-
brini, because they would not belle
their faith in the rights of the nation.
Others had found-in Paris, in Geneva
or in LOndOn-a temporary place of
SOjOurn, and the means of earning a
modest livelihood by literary or aca-
demical pursuits. They afterward
gathered in the Camera del Deputati,
along with the grave and sturdy arts
tocracy of Piedmont, and their match.
less schOOlmaster, Cavour, undertook
to teach them how Italian liberties
should be prepared by rearing a model
state between the Alps and the Apen-
nineS
Count Cavour died in Turin, struck
down by fever, June 6, 1861, mourned
by all Italy and the world. The work
done by him and his associates was
undoubtedly the best piece of political
work in their time, as good in it's
way, perhaps, as that of Washington a
hundred years before
KOSSuth took up his residence at
Turin in the year 1862, though on
the previous November he had publish
ed in the Perseverance, of Milan
long letter setting forth the situation
in Hungary, and urging the Italians
to commence war against Austria with
the view OF enabling the Hungarians
to develop their strength against the
Hapsburgs. From Turin, too, he is
sued his famous infiammatory address
to the Hungarians, June 6, 1866, just
before Austria came into collision with
Prussia, which ended with the de-
feat of the former at Sadowa. But on
Hungary the calmer councils of Franz
Deak prevailed, resulting in the dual
system of government, and the corona
ton of the emperor of Austria as
king of Hungary-the Austro- Hungary
of today.