The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-01-29
ABLE ADDRESS
BY DR.. SYKES
Delivered to Baptist Female
University Students.
TiIr Iic0Orc nc lTAJN
THE HEROES OF ITALY
He Tells of Garabaldi, Mazzini and
Cavour.
AND THE FAMOUS WARS OF ITALY
Dr. Sykes is an Able Young Scholar, Who Holds
the Chair Of English in His Alma Mater.
The Audience Delighted With
His address,

IIOI. w. Il. SykeS, Oh wake FOFeSC
College, delivered /. Very interesting
lecture before the young ladies of the
Baptist Female University last night
to an audience that filed the lecture
room. The le' ture was interesting, well
prepared, fore efully delivered and held
the attention of the audience to the
close. The speaker was heartily cheer
ed at Intervals.
DR.. Sykes. who has the chair of his
tory at Wake Foresc College, is a very
gifted scholac; and very able man.
He has been a close student, and his
scholarship IS thorough and comprehen-
sive.
The subject of the lecture was Uni
fication of Italy or the Heroes of Ital-
ian Liberty. The characters he men
toned as hay ing nost greatly influ
enced Italian history were Mazzini. Ca
your and Garabald;. He sketched
graphically the history of the Italian
States at fest almost entirely disasso-
ciated, but forced to band together for
protection from Austrian oppression,
with the fe,N or of an enthusiast. He
told of Young Italy and her strug-
giles, of Sempach AMI the glorious bat
ties for freedom. At times he was clio
quent, and he impressed deeply upon
the audience the meaning of the phazes
of Italian history he touched upon.
He closed With the following eloquent
words:
THE play IS ended the curtain has
fallen; the heroes Vanished. II those
institutions live longest that are bathed
in blood of martyrs. then for liberated
Italy there is hope. DETERMINATIONS
were waterei With the blood OF, sacld-l
fee. There is cheer for Italy, the land of
buried greatness, oitce the home of
martial prowess, The seat of law, the
temple of Justice. even now embalmed'
| in the memory of her classic art and
glorious genius
Prof. Sykes was introduced by Rev.
| r.. I. Vann The ADDRESS was in part
| as follows:
Italy is he land of poesy and song.
| Around few countries has there gather
ed such an abundance of great events.
| That land ass seen the rise of the
worlds greatest empires in both poll
| tics and religion. The Americans are
apt to lose sight of tie great polltlcal
movements that have taken place in
| Europe The past century has been one
of nation building. Germany. Greece
and Italy have each become nations
| when the emperor Napoleon fell, the
| boundary lines of Euiop had all been
| changed Till 1S4S the Austrian minis
| ter Metternich controlled the policy OF
| Europe That policy was one OF reac-
| tom. He said Democracy should never
| have come iEto the world. Wherever IT
| is it must he suppressed.
| I'm 1858 italy was number OF small
| States divided amonG themselves very
much as the United States were in 1883
| Austria determined that Italy must re-
! main this way The government was
bad. Brigandage th-ived. Along the
! Roman highway, where once the leSlonS
marched, the dark assassin crouched
with sharpened stiletso. The dungeons
were covered with prisoners arrested
/ on suspicion. 1916 saw the streets Oh
! every capital in Europe bathed in blood
The spirit o. revolution was marching.
italy felt the thrill of this movement,
her young mn began to see visions OF
a United Ital,' as ii was in the days OF
the Roman felublic. Mazzini organized
young Italy to urge the creation OF
a republic Victor Emmanuel, King OF
Sardinia declared thQs his ambition was
to be the fi1ii soldier of Italian indie
pendence bur of all the men who help
ed unity Italy, CavCur was the greatest
Cavour's poll " was 10 get foreign aid.
| so great diplomat was he that he
finally induced Loui; Napoleon, En-
! peror of France, to come to the rescue
/ of Italy. R'Ic Cavou. had to pay for 1t
by giving up Nice and Savoy and the
hand of a princess.
"Garibaldi was the knight Grant of
! Italian libers tion. H. was the StoneWall
jackson. Finding life unsafe in Italy,
he sailed to South america, and for
years was an exile in that land In
| SO he returned to Italy and took part
in the war. His chief work was the
freeing of Sicily and Italy. With
thousand volunteers he freed Sicily.
| No sooner had he kindled his camp fires
| along the heights of -@lermo than the
people invested him with balo of the
supernatural, a dem'god sent down
to earth to deliver j people sore OPP
pressed He freed al these countries
and then laid them at the feet OF his
king and returned to his island home
but his heart yearned to have Rome
and Venice united to the family. Hls
prayer was Rome or Death. In 1877
the dream of Young italy was fulfilled
but it was a kingdom md not republic
Victor Emmanuel had become the tirS'
soldier of Italian independence. Whl'e
others saw ony darkness, MazZinl saw
light he. with failing pen, wrote onIy OF
light Now when others saw the
darkness. t;arabaldi was always hon
ored and revered as the scarlet-shirteC
liberator of Italy"