. Little journeys to the homes of great reformers ... 102 GREAT REFORMERS—Garibaldi. «^^ ^^M HARLES ALBERT had beena staunch supporter of thevery conditions against whichthe striplings, Joseph Mazziniand Joseph Garibaldi, hadmade war upon twenty yearsprevious ^ But nations, likemen, sometimes have experi-ences that make them grow bythroes and throbs, by leapsand bounds. The writings ofMazzini had been constantlydistributed and circulated, and the fact that they weretabooed by the government added to the joys of theillicit. A well defined wave of republicanism sweptthe land. Those sensitive to
. Little journeys to the homes of great reformers ... 102 GREAT REFORMERS—Garibaldi. «^^ ^^M HARLES ALBERT had beena staunch supporter of thevery conditions against whichthe striplings, Joseph Mazziniand Joseph Garibaldi, hadmade war upon twenty yearsprevious ^ But nations, likemen, sometimes have experi-ences that make them grow bythroes and throbs, by leapsand bounds. The writings ofMazzini had been constantlydistributed and circulated, and the fact that they weretabooed by the government added to the joys of theillicit. A well defined wave of republicanism sweptthe land. Those sensitive to ideas awoke, like lilacssensitive to the breath of May. King Charles Albert, of all the Italian kinglets, aloneguessed the temper of his people, and issued to thema constitution with the right of franchise. This meantwar upon the Austrian protectorate and the pope S^Volunteers from the other provinces flocked to thestandard of Piedmont jH And about this time it wasthat Garibaldi and Anita offered their services to theinsurgent army. Charles Albert feared his old time foe—Garib
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