Mazzini, with the more extreme members of the Party of Action (including Crispi), issued a protest against the Napoleonic war, with the advice to have nothing to do with it or its authors.  But Italy thought otherwise, and Garibaldi, the man who of all others most nearly represented the heart of Italy, rejoiced and was glad.  He did not believe a word about the proposed cession of Savoy and Nice; no one did, except Mazzini and his few disciples.  What he saw was, that a great step towards independence was about to be taken.  In 1856, he not only adhered to Manin’s call to all Italians to rally round the house of Savoy, but went further than Manin in accepting unconditionally what he called the ‘Savoy Dictatorship,’ to which he left full liberty of choice in the matter of ways and means.  He did justice then to Cavour’s patriotism:  it was only after the sacrifice of Nice that a feeling of bitter antagonism grew up in him for the man who he thought had deceived Italy and himself.  In December 1858, on a summons from Cavour, he left Caprera (the island which he had bought with a little inheritance falling to him on the death of his brother) and proceeded to Turin, where he was informed of a plan for a rising in Massa and Carrara, which was originally intended to be the signal of the war.  The plan was given up, but in March 1859, Garibaldi was told by Victor Emmanuel in person of the imminence of war, and was invited to take part in it as commander of an auxiliary corps of volunteers which took the name of ‘Cacciatori delle Alpi.’  In this way, all his own followers, not only those in arms, but the great mass of the people which was obedient to his lead, became enrolled in the service of the Sardinian monarchy; a fact of capital importance in the future development of affairs.  Without it, the Italian kingdom could not have been formed.  And this fact was due to Cavour, who had to fight the arrayed strength of the old, narrow, military caste at Turin, which had succeeded in getting Garibaldi’s sword refused in 1848, and wished for nothing in the world more than to get it refused in 1859.  Near the end of his life, Cavour said in the Chamber that the difficulties he encountered in inducing the Sardinian War Office to sanction the appointment were all but insurmountable.  Unfortunately, the jealousy of the heads of the regular army for the revolutionary captain never ceased.  As for Cavour, even when he opposed Garibaldi politically, he always strove to have the highest personal honour paid to the man of whom he once wrote ’that he had rendered Italy the greatest service it was possible to render her.’