GARIBALDI ON GERMAN BRAVERY.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2706, 19 October 1871, Page 3

GARIBALDI ON GERMAN BRAVERY.

Professor Lazzarina, editor of the Core ire. di Sanlejna, who lately visited Garibaldi in Caprera, has just published an account of bis conversations, in which be says : After we bad chatted about the political and national position of Italy, Garibaldi returned to the affair at Dijon (January 21st), and gave me some particulars about the combat, doing justice at the same time to the heroic courage and firmness of the Prussians. “ We had,” said the General,

“ thirty-six pieces at cannon, and yet in spite of a terrible fire the Prussians advanced slowly. It must be confessed that the Prussians are the best soldiers in the world Never have I seen in such a narrow space so many dead bodies as at Dijon. You may form an idea of it when I tell you that in about the area of this chamber I counted fifty-three corpses.” Reverting to the present situation of France, Garibaldi added : “ believe me, it will be long before the French pardon the Italians for coming to the aid of the Republic. For my part, I separate the cause of the French people from that of the Chauvinists. The selfish rabble and the Chauvinists both required a lesson, and the harder it was the more salutary for the country. As to the manner in which I have been treated personally in the French National Assembly, I will say nothing. At Bordeaux I was not allowed to speak, but I do not complain. I am old and infirm, but I should be glad to see that fanatical thirst for supremacy annihilated which always was, and is yet, the main source of the misfortunes of France. With regard to the Italians, they must not lose confidence in themselves whatever happens, for if they again fail in the task set before them, they may take a sponge and wipe out the name of Italy from the map of Europe.”