GARIBALDI AND HIS MINISTRY.
The principal liberal journals of France and North Italy, as also the latest advices from Sicily, concur in manifesting some alarm lest the growing differences and dissensions of the national party (fomented by agents of the dethroned princes, by the great ecclesiastical dignitaries in particular, and by the reactionists of all grades should once more nip the hopes of national regeneration in their bud, by reproducing the evil consequences which,turned all the popular conquests of 1848 to dust and, mourning. The Opinione of Turin, for example—a reputod organ of Count Cavour—thus pictures the state of public opinion in Sicily, and the political situation of Garibaldi and his Government, in the face of the dissensions adverted to. We quote from its Palermo correspondence :— ' Garibaldi himself is greatly loved, and the gratitude of the Sicilian people towards him knows no bounds; but there is no public confidence in the^ ministry he has chosen, nor in their administration. They complain that he has chosen for Governor of Palermo a very young man that nobody knows anything of. They say Crispi and Raffaele would have been publicly hooted ere this had the people not curbed their feelings out of respect for Garibaldi, whom they fear to offend. As for Ugdalena and Baron Pisani, they regard them as very worthy persons, but at the same time destitute of capacity such as the crisis demands. Thus is Garibaldi's ministry isolated in the city, and encamped, as it were, in a foreign land. The general wish is for an immediate convocation of the Assembly to vote annexation to Piedmont, and decree uniyersal suffrage. Garibaldi, fatigued, harassed, und worn with anxiety, has suffered exceedingly in health and spirits. You see at once when you' speak with him that the cares of Government weigh him down. Never before was he seen in such a plight. The population,' yearning for an able and strongly constituted Government looks for annexation and that only.'
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Colonist, Volume III, Issue 298, 28 August 1860, Page 3
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326GARIBALDI AND HIS MINISTRY. Colonist, Volume III, Issue 298, 28 August 1860, Page 3
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