In Calabria the hero met with the feeblest resistance from the Bourbon troops and the wildest of welcomes from the populace.

At Salerno he took tickets for Naples and entered the enemy's capital by railway train (September 7).

Then he purposed, after routing the Bourbon force north of the city, to go on and attack the French at Rome and proclaim a united Italy.
Cavour took care that he should do no such thing.

The Piedmontese statesman knew when to march onwards and when to halt.

As his compatriot, Manzoni, said of him, "Cavour has all the prudence and all the imprudence of the true statesman." He had dared and won in 1855-59, and again in secretly encouraging Garibaldi's venture.