Violating a petty township ordinance on a hunting expedition
on Long Island, his friends were indignant when Garibaldi was
hauled before a local magistrate, as described in a recent
number of the _Century_. To the protests and condolences,
the patriot replied: “No, friends, these officers of the law
have done nothing more than their duty and I deserve the
correction. The Americans make and enforce the laws proper to
the regulating of their own communities, just as we hope some
day to do with ours in Italy.”
(1765)