Revolution in Italy

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 12, 1861

Revolution in Italy

The following is from a letter of a correspondent of the Newark Advertiser, written from Florence, Italy.

“Verily Revolution is abroad in the earth! The whole world almost seems now a boiling caldron of human passions. And poor Italy! so far from being out of the woods, seems at this date to be in the very thickest. The tangled schemes of Napoleon, Cavour, Garibaldi, and Mazzini, threaten to entrap the very spirit of Liberty, while the war-dogs, scenting the battle afar off, are struggling to get loose from the leash of diplomacy. The coming spring is looked forward to from the four corners of the earth as the birth-time of great events, with which the present is pregnant. But, while Southern Italy is a prey to conspiracies of every sort, Florence seems comparatively tranquil, and self-assured for the future. The Tuscans can even enter on the Carnival with appetite for its pleasures, and have already enjoyed two of a series of the grand democratic balls given by the governor of the province, in the historic hall of the palazzo vecchio; the last is to occur on the 28th inst. and will be a fancy ball. Few of the Americans have taken heart and spirit enough to join these fetes; or, to open their own houses for parties among themselves. The chief excitement with them is looking anxiously for, and receiving in mutual sympathy the American mails.”