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Garibaldi and the Herzegovinians.
Garibaldi has written the following
letter to the Herzegovina insurgents:—
“Caprera, 6th October.—To
my brothers of the Herzegovina and
to the oppressed of Eastern Europe.
The Turks must go away to Broussa.
He descended like a wolf, passing the
Bosphorous, devastating, murdering,
and violating those populations who
gave us the Pelasgi, who were, perhaps,
the first civilisers of Europe.
He must no longer tread upon that
part of the world kept by him in
misery. At Broussa, with his vices,
depredations, and cruelties, he will
find enough people of Asia Minor to
torment and plunge into desolations.
Rise then, heroic sons of Montenegro,
Herzegovina, Bosnia, Servia, Therapia,
Macedonia, Greece, Epirus, Albania,
Bulgaria and Roumania! All of you
have a most splendid history.
Among yon were born Leonidas,
Achilles, Alexander, Scanderbeg and
Spartacus. And to-day even, among
your robust populations, you may still
find a Spartacus and a Leonidas. Do
not trust to diplomacy. That old
woman without a heart certainly deceives
you. But with you are all the
men of heart throughout the world.
England herself, till to-day favorable
to the Turks, has manifested to you
by means of the obolus and sympathy
of one of her great men that she
ought to prefer the alliance and
gratitude of a confederation of free
peoples to the decrepit confederation
of the Crescent. Then to Broussa
with the Turk! Only thus can you
make yourself independent and free.
On this side of the Bosphorus the
fierrce Ottoman will always be under
the stimulant of eternal war, and you
will never obtain the sacred rights of
man,—G. GARIBALDI.”
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