The Mountain Sentinel

Letter from Gen. Cass to Gen. Garibaldi.
Washington, Aug. 14.
My Dear Sir: I welcome you to this
land of freedom. May it always be the
land of hospitality to the unfortunate ex-
ile, driven by the persecution of arbitrary
power to seek refuge in the new world
from the tyranny of the old.
General, you possess the regard and
the sympathy of the American people,
and you well merit this distinction.
You
raised the standard of liberty upon the
Capitoline Hill, and history will do justice to your noble efforts to maintain it
there; to revive the spirit and freedom of
ancient Rome, amid the monuments of
her power and glory. It is not success
that hallows a cause; it is the principle
in it. You yielded to an overwhelming
force; to another descent of the Gauls
upon Italy. But you preserved your own
high character, and you preserved also
the respect of every believer in the rights
of man throughout the world. But such
efforts as those of the Roman people
though unsuccessful are not useless. The
battle of freedom may be lost once and
again, but it will yet be won, and man
restored to the rights which God has giv-
en him.
I thank you, General, for your kind
letter, and for the enclosure from Mr. Hy.
att, though you need no introduction to
an American. Your glorious exertions
followed by misfortunes, borne with equa-
nimity, are a passport to the hearts and
homes of my countrymen.
I should be happy to see you in Wash-



ington, and to express to you in person.
those sentiments of respect and regard
which I must now put coldly on paper
and with which I am ever truly and
affectionately
Your friend and servant,
LEWIS CASS.
Gen. Garibaldi.