The Express.
London, England, 1859-10-14 00:00:00

M. MAZZINI'S LETTER TO KING VICTOR

IMMANUEL.

The above letter, dated Florence, Sept. 16, appears
entire in We manlinee Doily Rows. Andre/sing the Kiag,
M. llaszini mays :
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Bey to Louis Napoleon, " I mistrusted Italy, therefore I
accepted your peace, not mine. Bat Italy did not mistrust
me, and I feel ths obligationa which that trust imposes.
I withdrew my acceptance. I will do, freed how every bond
that which God and my country inspires to atampt. I ask
of you only one thing to abstain h= all interference to
our affairs, and to leave Italy, as you promised, tree to fulfil,
by her own exertions, the work which you initiated with me.
On this condition you will find me ever grateful, and Italy
always the friend of France."
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84 to the European governments, "You have destroyed
the of treatise of 1816 to Poland, In Belgium, in Francs, in
the Bera—ev --have. The experience of the last 40 years
bee shown'

__.., aslant to you, mad you liiiecmessied it many
that there le no peace possible to Bumps without accepting
the principle that every people shall itself settle its own in-
kens' affairs. We are preparing to do so. In the name of
Italian right I ask you to leave us alone and tree. Against
Austria we mak aid only front our own swords; only let no
oars aid her; be the keepers of the field, and render • tardy
justice to the people from whom sprang in • great measure
that civiliastiou which sdorus your own dominions:'

Say to the Itaßre, " You have hailed me as the first
sealer of your ledepemdence, and I will net betray the =rico
yea bar entreated to me. There is no independence for
Mess, nor possible strengtn for those divided swore them-
selves. Be then • free and waited people. Let victory close
the beg series of your martyrs; sines 1848 you have proved
that the timers rips for the. Ries now, one and all. Over-
'throw the arelloial barriers which separate you, Si I tear
every old compact adverse to your unity. Free yourselves
from all your oppressors, and whenever you shall see under
the =odour banner the shining blade of the sword I now =-
sheath, there rally amend ton With God's help and yours,
I will never replace it in its sheath until in Rome your re-
presentatives shall dictate the compact of love
for the twenty-six millions who people our
Italy. But meek ! I require from you, besides
those I now count around me, 200,000 armed men. I re-
quire the means necessary to maintain them in action. I re-
quire unlimited trust ; I require that you in order to conquer
are ready, as I am, to die. Slaves or freeman ; fur us there
is no middle way." Sire, the Italians will be free and great.
The day on which you utter such words as these, parties
will be extinct racer us Only too things will have life and
sues in Italy—the people sad you.
Sirs, what do you fear ? Austria ? with the whole of
Italy—because the language which I propose to you gives
R s Naples and Sixty—ranged under your banner, with
Re=ready Weise sad *stern= P Do you fear England?
is with you provided you are not with Louie
kon. Do you fear your ally P Your ally descended into
Italy fraternising with you, to endeavour by patronising a
noble cause to win back a waning popularity. He cannot
now return and fight against it ; he cannot say to France,
"Yesterday I required your gold and the blood of your sons
spinet Austria for Italy ; I require them for Austria
against Italy.
Your ally. hastenedm:stm, bemuse hs knew that his
dominions were threatened the Germ= invasion; that
Invasion yet hangs • more over his head. Yes-
terday be could, to further his own ends, play the put of the
emancipator—that of the tyrant is, roept in France, throe-
forward forbidden him by Priests, by Germany, by Begird,
and by the teedencies which are once again beginning to
manifest thernaelveeln Prunes itself.
No, the first war of Louis Napoleon will not be against
you, Sire ; it will be between him, England, sad Germany.
But, Sire, why speak to you of things which are, or which
ought to be, bettor known to you than to me? I sell
you in the name of Italy to • great undertaking,
to one of those undertakings in which the strong
man numbers his friends, not his enemies. I
call you to all yourself with 26 millions of Italians,
meters, provided' that they are waited and led, of their own
deslinies. I sell you to put yourself at the head of a national
remittal= which will fled, if others ever attempt to repress
it, alike= amongst all those people, who went • free
country. I call you to an initiative that =yeoman en Bo-
ropes initiative. The half of Europe, Sire, will joyfully hall
the uprising of Italy as it bathed the uprising of the United
States, of Greece, of the every war of every people that de-
sires to make of itself a Ratko, of every peat providential
fact ; the other half will draw back suspicion., end fearful
diplomacy, like the midnight spectre, looks threaten's; and
=him who fears it; it dissolves itself into than air
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who boldly approval= it. Dare, Sire, dismirs all
who bar or suggest fear. Surround yourself with those
whose life eras firm= of principle, pure love for Italy,
sad strangle of will. Give to the people a pledge
of liberty ; give freedom to the press, to public
associations, to public, speech ; the press, =bile associations,
and meetings, will create mowed you an enthusiasm, a fee.
meat, from whit* you may drew all the strength you want;
liberty her me Amgen save from those who intend to betray
her. Forges for • little while that you are the king, to be
the first cies= the first armed 'Towle of the nation. Be
great se the =jest which God has put before you, sublime
r duty, daring as faith. Will and declare it, you will have
all, sad us amongst the first, with you. Go, without looking
to the right or the left, in the name of eternal justice, eternal
right, to the Holy Crusade of Italy, sod you will conquer
with her; and thee, Sire, when in the midst of the tinker
of Europe, and the delirious joy of the Italian people,
and joyful in the joy of millions, and blessed In
the consciousness of having fulfilled • godlike
work, you will ask the nation what post she assigns to him
who has hazarded his life and throne in order that she should
be free and one, be it that you may wish to peas to eternal
fame with pcetseity as the Life. President of the Italian Re-
public, or be it that the royal dynastic idea may possess your
mind, God sad the nation will blies and swept you, and I, •
republican, and ready to return and die in exile, to preserve
pure and int= to the grave the faith of my youth, shall ex-
claim, with my brother Italians, " President or king, may
God blew you, and the nation for whom on have dared and
eoequered." JOSEPH MAZZINI.
Florence, Sept. 16.