The Life of General Garibaldi: Translated from his private papers; with the history of his splendid exploits in Rome, Lombardy, Sicily and Naples, to the present time.Garibaldi, Giuseppe
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The Life of General Garibaldi: Translated from his private papers; with the history of his splendid exploits in Rome, Lombardy, Sicily and Naples, to the present time.
Garibaldi, Giuseppe
Garibaldi, Giuseppe, 1807-1882
The "Official Journal" of Naples of Sept. 9th, published a series of
decrees, of which the following are the most important: All the acts of
public authority and of administration are to be issued in the name of
His Majesty Victor Emanuel, King of Italy, and all the seals of state,
of public administration, and of the public offices, are to bear the
arms of the Royal House of Savoy, with the legend, "Victor Emanuel, King
of Italy." The public debt of the Neapolitan state was recognized; the
public banks were to continue their payments, as also the Discount Bank,
according to existing laws and regulations. Passports for the United
Italian States were abolished; those for foreign states and Italian
states not united were to be signed by the Director of Police. The
following address to the army was published:
"If you do not disdain Garibaldi for your companion in arms, he only
desires to fight by your side the enemies of the country. Truce, then,
to discord—the chronic misfortune of our land. Italy, trampling on the
fragments of her chains, points to the north—the path of honor, toward
the last lurking-place of tyrants. I promise you nothing more than to
make you fight.
"G. GARIBALDI.
"NAPLES, _Sept. 10_."
A series of dispatches was published from Nola, Benevento, Aquila, and a
host of other places, expressive of the public joy at the arrival of the
Dictator in the capital. In Arriano and Avellino there had been a
reactionary movement among the liberals. Some disturbances also took
place in Canosa, and in the island of Ischia.
In Naples, the castles had all capitulated, and were in the hands of the
National Guard. The population gradually settled down into its usual
sober state, which had recently been disturbed by the madness of
exultation, and before that by apprehension.
Naples continued tranquil on the 11th of July, to the surprise of
everybody; and the means by which the public peace was preserved at that
time and afterward, may well be a subject of curious inquiry. The public
anticipations of mobs, violence, robbery and bloodshed were as much and
as agreeably disappointed, as when the "_levée en masse_" in Turkey was
disbanded after the Russian war, and the soldiers went home joyfully and
peaceably. The truth is, that men who desire power, wealth, and
undeserved honors, have too long accused their less ambitious or vicious
fellow-beings of needing their government. Naples with her 70,000
lazzaroni, who are destitute even of shelter at night, remained quiet
during and subsequently to one of the most peaceful revolutions on
record.
The following accounts were reported on the 11th of September:
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