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dvancement of Italy with those of her governing classes. "The amnesty has opened up a path for the legal dissemination of your ideas," they tell me. "By taking the place

ease the difficulties of the government, and prolong the fatal want of moral and political unity,

who wish my country well, and is the

idea of Italian unity. Perceiving that the nation was determined to give monarchy the benefit of a trial, they have-in that reverence for the national will which is the first duty of Republicans-patiently awaited its results, and endured every form of misgovernment rather than afford a pretext to those in power for the non-ful

ed thousand mobilized National Guards, thirty thousand volunteers under Garibaldi, and the whole of Italy ready to act as reserve, and make any sacrifices in blood or money, abruptly broke off the war after the un

twenty-four millions who tamely

iors; and I assert that, if our people have no consciousness of their great destiny, nor sense of their true power and mission,-if, while twenty-four millions of Italians are at the present day grouped around, I will not say the conception

ght in the ruling idea or conception

aim, and the fraternal association and concentration of all the

past tradition, and confirmed by th

basis of the sovereign power, and the criterion of

ional aim is good; every act tending

link between the nation and humanity; the source of its

d together by past habits or interests, which are destined, sooner or later, to clash. All intellectual or economic development among them,-unregulated by a great conception supreme over every selfish interest,-instead of being equally

f a high mission, and its first manifestations sanctified by the baptism of a great principle, other nations will surround the new collective being with affection and hope, and be ready to follow it upon the path assigned to it by God

in the past, have twice arisen in resurrection and given new life to Europe. The innate tendency of the Italian mind always to harmonize thought and action conf

is a r

Europe has been assigned a higher office in the fulfilment of the educational design, to the evolution of which Providence guides humanity from epoch to epoch. Our unity will b

g to the humiliation of receiving it from the hands of a foreign despot, we should have dissolved two empires, and called int

he benefit of all humanity, that inviolability of conscience which Protestanti

ndition of the existence of our Italy as a nation should have sufficed to make us great. That

ord as to t

ho know me would expect me to give the lie to the whole of my past life, and sully the few years left to me by accepting an offer of oblivio

efence; and the sequel will show that, even were the sacrifice

ral and political regeneration of my country have

our rulers have been, are, and

minates every other. Political questions

ty-in a religion of duty, of which politics should be the application-cannot, through any amount of perso

goal which it is the duty of mankind to reach through labor and sacrifice. They are materialists, and the logical consequence of their want of all faith in God and his law

aft, and forgetting that it was through such paths we first descended into slavery. It is for this that our government has reduced Italy to the condition of a French prefecture, and that our parliamen

ernment; the system itself being based upon a false principle, the fatal idea will govern them. They cannot righteous

embering that the basis of all education is truth, to endeavor to prove to them that the actual political impotence and corruption