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THE TWO SICILIES

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 24, 1860

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 16, No. 10.

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THE TWO SICILIES.

THE new political event in Europe which is now giving increasing interest to the news-budget of every foreign steamer, is no longer called by the press "The Sicilian Insurrection," but "The Sicilian Revolution." Garibaldi, to whom the world has long been in the habit of looking for brilliant exploits, has never performed a more brilliant exploit than his victorious invasion of Sicily. A man of incorruptible integrity, of a peculiar power of exciting popular sympathy, and of a versatile military genius which fits him equally for guerilla warfare or the graver tactics of the open field—he is just the man of all others to be the liberator of Italy, through the only means by which its liberation can be accomplished; which is, successful revolution. Sicily, having declared for liberty through the victories of the Italian leader and the general uprising of the people, has already become comparatively quiet, while, at the last advices, a greater struggle was going on, not on the island, but on the mainland, menacing Naples with similar insurrection, to be followed doubtless by similar revolution. With the kingdom of the two Sicilies entirely revolutionized, how much longer will the pope, with the feeble hand of an old man, be able to hold the scepter of the States of the Church? For Garibaldi is striving not only for civil but for religious liberty. He has said:
"In the midst of Italy, at its very heart, there is a cancer called popery, an imposture called popery. As, young men, we have still a formidable enemy, the more formidable, because it exists among the ignorant classes, where it rules by falsehood! because it is sacrilegiously covered with the cloak of religion! Its smile is the smile of Satan. This enemy, young men, is the priest!—the priest, with few exceptions."
Francis II, king of the two Sicilies, is a young man of a weak mind and heart, with no qualities which fit him for a governor of his kingdom. Garibaldi has so feeble an enemy on the throne of Naples that we cannot doubt his complete success. We await further news with great interest.—Independent.