Year: 1862

The DeSese - uardbaldt ANA rs Inf1u-
= ence ON American Affairs. tF Ss
We publish elsewhere several interesting
documents connected with the recent unsuccess-
full movement Of Garbsldi,' including his own
proclamation to the people Of Hungary and the
counter proclamation of General Klapka.


In spite Of our feelings, we have had some
misgivings that this movement was premature,
though its Importance to our own interests
enlisted our warmest wishes for its success. It
appears to have been ill-timed, 60 far as its own
tune as diversion to the projects that were
said to be entertained by Louis Napoleon in
our regard In undertaking it against the judg
ment OF the liberal press of Europe, the advice
of The leading patriots Of ltaly and the counter
vailing influences of such men as Kiapka, Carl
baldi it seems now, Judging him by the ordinary
standard Of prudence, committed great error.
He should have distrusted the promptings Of his
own mind when he found that the red republicans
and the Bourbonists both eyinced such lively
satisfaction at the precipitation Of his plans.
Put. after all, enthusiasts like this illustrious
patriot are not to be judged OF by the rules
that govern ordinary men. He had succeeded
before when success had appeared visionary,
and il to his rashness the Italian people were
indebted for their liberation from the yoke Of
their oppressors, why to the same heroic teme-
rity might they not owe that ''unification" for
which the national heart was painting? W


But it is too soon yet to pronounce the move
mcnt failure. We have got to pause while
before we can say that it will not effect oil that
it was intended to accomplish. Victor Emanuel
and his Cabinet may think that in the capture of
their quondam associate they have averted, a
difficulty with France. Vain illusion! The
skin Of the dead lion has still a potency in It.
Garibaldi, in prison, will exercise over the heart
of Italy an influence q hundredtold greater than
when he was at the head Of his partisans in the
Calabrian wilds. Those who condemned his
rashness will forget their moderation in their
sympathy, whilst the great mass of the people
will actively resent the indignities put upon him.
To satisfy France, the great patriot must be
kept where he can no longer alarm her suscep-
tibilties; to satisfy Italy, no tetters must be
allowed to press the limbs, no prison walls to
chafe the spirit, of the man to whom she owes
all chat she holds most DEAR Which of the two
will Victor Emanuel be most likely to yield to?
His patriotic. antecedents do not admit of
doubt as to the answer.


The Roman question, then, SO far from being
Indefinitely postponed By the capture of Garibal-
di, is by that very event more pressingly forced
upon the attention of Europe. Already it has led
to important consequences by compelling France
to expose her policy in regard to the Pope, and
by provoking England to give official express
sion to the discomfort felt by her at the manner
in which her French ally is attempting to domi-
neer over Italy, to the total exclusion of her
own influence. we know that this feeling has
long been ranking in the breasts Of English
statesmen, and it has now assumed positive
form in certain angry dispatches which have
recently been inteYchanged between the two
governments in relation to the fresh troops
about to be sent to Italy, and the maintenance
of French squadron ,ff the Italian coasts. If,
as is intimatcd in the article which we copy
from the Monite,r, it is thereby contemplated
to protect the Pope against the consequences OF
his temporal misrule, and to secure to him in
perpetuity the capital of Italy, without which
its unity can never be accomplished. it is plain
that nothing can avert . rupture between the
two Powers. ats


As to the effect ola quarrel between them on
our own interests, it matters very little now
whether they cnaiinue on ami0ahle terms or
not The time has passed by VIXEN they could
have interfsred with any effect here. With an
army and navy such as we will possess in the
course Of another month or two we can bid de-
fance not only to tie two Powers, but to all
Europe combined Let them look to it that in
oar turn we do not make our influence fet in
the complications into which they are drifting.


The NATIONAL WAR CoMArTEE.-The "Nation-
al War Committee held secret meeting yes.er-
day afternoon at the rooms Of the Chamber Of