GARIBALDI TO KOSS17T1f.
most European countries, at present; there is a party which ealls itself "the Patriotparty," and which hag some claim to the i
title, since its principle s to assert the -interests of an entire na- tion, as opposed to those of a mete governing 'dynasty, or probably to the claims of some alien power which holds the country of the patriots in durance. It is natural that at any commotion in En- rope tending to unsettle the powers against which these parties contend, there should be aroused hopes of using accident as an ally ; seizing the occasion when unequal poivers ate. to a certain extent equalized by enfeebling the stronger, to- raise the national flag. The great lesson derivable from the time, however, appears to have impressed those whom it might teach in different modes;
When so many great states are -moved in -a course of colleen- tion which neitherune of them can control- individually, parties that are on some occasions almost reduced to dozens, howeVer earnest and devoted they may be, cannot hope to stem the torrent of events and' turn it to their own bent. Yet Louis Koisuth seems not to have mastered that truth. He delivers from time to time a speech to the English people, in different expressions with different illustrations, but always to the same end.---that 'Austria, being a despotical country, shonid have free England for it natural enemy; and that England ought to side with the enemies of Austria. The choiee was not England's.. The enemy of Austria is Russia, 'because Russia is the enemy of all Europe, and has broken the arrangements of all Europe—of -Austria as wellun of France and England. The English Government could not pui4t Austria &cal its side without stultifyine'the prinoiplednf the presentilyitt Which 'is, to nieintain the'laW, brOkenimthelniee of Turkey'. E;fen if it were notittirlessliir- gland toutl494yrit; would be foal& since, we Blair isialfiviwhettdUthseeeninsander itdio sivetuld castaway. great allisel land: voliratarily inttiti ply the.' men; and rehoirces .on'the side efiliiareistaity- Howiver ;we May! etede.due I one partieular port, however thiacietairre* onarhardtanndeiceamipassi &mashie eyetire must tales afiventagal of 'wind awl tide, wad mot; go in/the very teeth of dhepoweris hsewhiehihe arlievesee England'mustnse the fide of eveati for he lower morpoiesi motwaste all het ;powers; and: PerhaPa.dostrdyihersesifisin,tlid.vaisedifert. cif! stemming tide which bet botoe ate:Owl-for ken • • - Bat what-bits-wed England is foitio4teue -of eine single man.' M. Nossutha; possessing ; already ion 'sitter-abbe icinthienbein his own country, it he weiens tenstictiburaa hii is elequent; 'Would learn how edapt otvni coursed& the actuali course; ef events,-and ,weem #44t to realizie somethiegibrithe'freedobr of- his country oat of an áliinoè wisichl /earinotivreeentZ The 'policy of Al.:Istria. being kkeitilied witlethat of EngiaektheIlimgarian who excels so many Eiiglishmen ininaitering. th_e langnage 'and thought: of. Shakspere, naight!ass tieediy overt 'anted/riflery inilisen de into liiaown COOD try atal,nielt Pr hi ;professed' objecits; Let him try to break the ollie twee; 'Mid bedew; ut .hieak hi waelf. Itneedstiovionderfultrefinercient of intellect to eomprehend. this -Plain: experienoe; and that siniphoity: of mind 'whichia in- 8dectiVely true, 'weuld tell the patriot ae'mutshi We lurve an exe ample in Garibaldi; that ardeut mid bold Italian who has !known how; les Contend- agaihet floes intim:renal:dr, supe;ior who.: has ; at- Mated 'his devotion hialcountry bp leaving' his blood; upon its fielda, 'and permitting his wife 'to 'share his:dangers, 'fatally to her- self: He has learned the lesson which the living history of the voridieteaching; He has known how:to -convert seretreat into an abbievenient aS great as oarietory he.. now • knows how to make acquieseence eistiese cif.nneontrellabl& wienta! the .'contin- naikeof :duty to :hie 'country; • 'The letter which; Garibaldi has pub- lished, repudiating the share in idle Midauntimely movements at Parma and other,p1sces,', with which his-nome has been falsely as- sociated, proves' that his' independent and simple mind knows how &prefer a real ticrifice -for his 'country to his own restless am- bition. At preamit,tlie conrse of events—the gradual development of constitutidrail freedom in Sardinia, and the identification of Eng- land with the great movenient Mi the Continent—are more favour- able to the grewth of 'Italian liberty and intlependeitee: thee little riots in towns like Parma and Banana: M. Koesnth can rend the English language; such thoughti: as he can matter he can express with amazing. eloquencein that tongne• ; but" he hmild ask Gari- baldi to teach him how to read the history of his own time.
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