Garibaldi has issued one of his lyrical appeals to his
followers,. whom he calls "the cosmopolitan nucleus that the French Re- public is rallying in her midst," and of whom he asks "coolness and discipline,—indispensable in war." He declares that the French motto "All for one and one for all" will soon be the motto of all mankind, and that autocracy is combating in the French Republic "the germ of human right which it abhors." He lectures free States, however, severely. Helvetia, "believing herself weak, holds down her head, and covers her money-chests with the flag of William Tell." Grant permits an American population, the Cubans, to be destroyed. England, "refuge of the exile, which first proclaimed the emancipation of races," "wilt thou leave alone in.
this gigantic struggle a sister nation ?" France, whose "Army of brave men the most stupid of tyrants conducted to defeat," risen like one man, "will cause the old autocrat to repent of his decision to -continue the butchery of men." "I would not change my title of Militiaman of the Republic for a Crown." In the beginning of the week Garibaldi was said to be defending successfully the road -to Lyons ; at the end a rumour is circulated that he has surrendered. EN telegraphed last from Autun.
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