rinces humbled in the field of Novara? The downfall of the Sardinian
monarch, which at the same time was the defeat of Italy, was to them a
victory. One more impediment to their designs was removed. "_The war of
Kings_," said Mazzini, "_is at an end; that of the people commences_." And
he declared himself a soldier. But Garibaldi did not long command him. His
warlike enthusiasm was soon exhausted. _The war of the people_ also ended
disastrously; and the revolutionary chief, tired of the sword, resumed his
pen and renewed his attacks on the moderate Reformers, who alone had
fought, like brave men, in the Austrian war. The strife of words was more
congenial to the revolutionist; and he set about editing a new
publication. In this journal he raged against the Reformers. They were a
set of traitors, ante-chamber Machiavels, who had muzzled the popular lion
for the benefit of kings and aristocracies.

These _Machiavels_ were such men as Count Balbo, who had given his five
sons to the war of independence; Signor D'Azeglio, who had been in the
campaign with Durando, and who had a leg broken by a ball at Vicenza,
whilst defending Monte Benico with two thousand men against twelve
thousand Austrians. D'Azeglio, still smarting from his wounds, as well as
from the insults of these reckless politicians, replied in a pamphlet,
which appeared under the title of "Fears and Hopes." He took no pains to
spare those club soldiers, those tavern heroes and intriguers, who could
wage war so cleverly against the men who had stood under the enemy's guns.
"For my part," he wrote, "I do not fear your republic, but despotism. Your
agitation will end with the Croats." And so it fell out. The prediction
was but too speedily and too completely realized. A French author, M.
Mignet, comments on this subject at some length, and with remarkable
eloquence:

"A party as extreme in its desires as in its doctrines, and which
believes that it is possessed of nothing so long as it does not
possess everything, and which, when it has everything, knows not
how to make anything of it, imagined the establishing of a
republic in a country which is scarcely capable of attaining to
representative monarchy, and where the only thing to be thought
of, as yet, was territorial independence. This party divided the
thoughts, weakened the efforts of the country, and caused mutual
mistrust to arise between those governments and peoples whi