A LETTER FROM GARIBALDI.
A letter has been published, written by Garibaldi, and dated Caprera, August 12, in reply to a lady at Ravenna, who had announced to the General his election as a member of an association directed against war, militarism, the punishment, of death, and duelling. Garibaldi mentions that from his earliest youth he has been opposed to war, but by a strange fatality has been continually engaged in it. He asks if it would have been possible for Italy to have obtained her unity without fighting. He then points out that the keys of the Alps are still in the possession of an old enemy, Austria, and that French Chauvinism is anxious for a struggle with Italy. He therefore thinks she must keep prepared for war. The enemy which she has most to fear,'however, is, according to Garibaldi, priesthood. The Crimean war and the FrancoPrussian war, he says, were both caused by the priests, and their influence is still at work against Italy in the French Assembly. War to the priests ought, therefore, to be the cry of every Italian from youth to age.
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Grey River Argus, Volume XI, Issue 1024, 7 November 1871, Page 2
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187A LETTER FROM GARIBALDI. Grey River Argus, Volume XI, Issue 1024, 7 November 1871, Page 2
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