Rassegna storica del Risorgimento

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Howard R. Marraro
M. L. MCackenzie a Giuseppe Garibaldi
New York, February 2, 1861. x>
Honored Sir: I hope that you will pardon my impertinence in thus address-ing you, but I do so only after having trled every other means to procure your autograph. I am exceedingly anxious to have U to add to a coUection embrac-ing those of Washington, Lafayette, Kossuth and many other distinguisked patriots, and should be forever indebted to you if you would kindly grant my request.
Again begging pardon far this intrusion, and hoping far an answer, I remain, with great respect,
A. J. H. Duganue a Giuseppe Garibaldi
172 West 21st Su, New York, July 4,1861. *>
Sig. G. Garibaldi, I beg leave to present to you a copy of my poems, in which I have sung of Garibaldi and prayed for his cause, which is the cause of mankind.2)
When, with our poor friend Harro Harring, I grasped your hand, and said adieu on board the little Carmen at Netv York, I looked forward, with trustful eyes, to the future, for that which has now became the past ofhistory your liberation of Italy...
Charles J. Faulkner a Jeremiah Black
Paris, February 7, 1861. No. 96.8>
Sir: [Riferisce sulle dichiarazioni dell'Imperatore francese alVapertura della Sessione legislativa...]...
The Imperiai policy may be thus recapitulated so far as U bears upon present European interests.
1 The avowal of afixed purpose ofpeace, and of non-intervention in the domesHc affairs of other nations.
2 The distinct declaration that Franco will take no part in any war com-menced by the King ofltaly against Austria so long as the struggle is confinai to those two powers, and there is no movement by Austria to change the results of the peace of Villa Franca.
9 The as sur ance from Austria to Franco that she lahll not for the present pass Ohe limits of an expedient policy unless provoked to do so by an attack on her own territory.
We may conscquently conclude that there is no danger to the peace of Europe from that quarter unless Victor Emmanuel shall become the aggressor of which
1) Museo del Risorgimento, Milano. Busta u. 449.
2) Augustine Joseph Hickey Dugannc (1823-1884) era corrispondente della Naw York Tribune. Per il testo d'una sua poesia intitolata Ode to Republicun Rome si veda MAH RARO, Relazioni fra VItalia e gli Slati Uniti, Roma, 1954, pp. 245-247.
3) Archivio Ambasciata americana, Parigi.