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 first necessity of Italy was harmony, in order to unite the great
Italian family; to-day Providence has created harmony through the
sublime unanimity of all our provinces for the reconstitution of the
nation, and for unity, the same Providence has given to our country
Victor Emanuel, whom we from this moment may call the true father of our
Italian land.
"Victor Emanuel, the model of all sovereigns, will impress upon his
descendants the duty that they owe to the prosperity of a people which
has elected him for their chief with enthusiastic devotion. The Italian
priests, who are conscious of their true mission, have, as a guaranty of
the respect with which they will be treated, the ardor, the patriotism,
and the truly Christian conduct of their numerous fellow ecclesiastics,
who, from the highly to be praised monks of Lagracia to the
noble-hearted priests of the Neapolitan continent, one and all, in the
sight and at the head of our soldiers, defied the gravest dangers of
battle. I repeat it, concord is the first want of Italy, so we will
welcome as brothers those who once disagreed with us, but now sincerely
wish to bring their stone to raise up the monument of our country.
Finally, respecting other people's houses: we are resolved to be masters
in our own house, whether the powerful of the earth like it or not.
"GIUSEPPE GARIBALDI."
The following were some of the occurrences in Naples immediately after
the entrance of Garibaldi.
The four battalions of chasseurs whom the king had left behind in his
flight, quartered here and there about the town, disbanded. Many of the
soldiers went home; those who wished to remain at Naples, secure from
harm, did obeisance to the new powers, by wearing a small badge with the
Savoy cross on their breasts. The fortress of St. Elmo followed the
example of the fleet. It fired a thundering salvo in honor of Garibaldi,
hoisted the Sardinian colors, and admitted the national guards within
its walls. The other forts were garrisoned by this same burgher militia.
Naples, in short, was now wholly in the hands of the patriots, and
Garibaldi had already pushed forward one or two brigades, which gained
possession of the royal palace of Caserta. The king had shut the gates
of Capua. There and at Gaeta he was to abide till his enemies should
come on. Meanwhile Garibaldi, master of the seas, sent his steamers to
Paola, to Sapri, to all the small ports near which his overtasked
legions lingered behind. Every morning were shouts of a joyous landing
and a triumphant march of those several brigades. The whole force was
soon brought together, and the respite allowed to the king at Gaeta was
of no long duration.
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