New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-12-18

expend IN the murder oil atTendiy people, the Eold,
the blood, and the honor of France.
Gentlemen, seventeen months since you might
have been deceived To day Europe tells you that
France is alone deceived. France, whose initiative
in the good cause threatens to perish at Rome
france. whose soldiers assist arms 10 hand, r!
the satUrnalas OF power which feels that it is
dying, and who lend strong hand to the execu-
ton of sentences Of twenty years imprisonment
against young persons guilty of having illnmina
ted their windows with tri.coored lights
1t is your colors, Gentlemen, which they have
condemned there it is your Republican flag that
they have nailed to the gaIleys spirit hostile
to YOUR liberty broods over all this shameful cpl
sode. 1t has pushed your arms against Rome be
cause it wished to strike, away from home, the
first blow against the institutions secured in Feb
ruary. 1t has thought it good thing to exercise
the French soldier in firing upon the Gag of the
Republic 1t has prepared by the crusade against
the Italian Republic that expedition Of Rome INTO
the Interior which an orator audaciousiy
noupced to you, and which your majority, Gentle
men, could hear with Indifference.
Members of National Committee, whose nu-
cleus elected by sixty members of the Assembly
which you dispersed with 6ayonets, completes
itself by the election of great number OF Italian
Patriots, all inspired by the same thought inter
preters of the wishes of the Roman people to-day
forced to silence, we come, Gentlemen, to re-
new before you, to France the protestation Of
Rome against the violation of its terrtory against
the overthrow of its Republic against the pro-
tracted occupation Of your troops.
We protest in the name of the 9Th article OF
your Constitution in the of your official
declarations Of the 10th, oath and Goth a pr 1919
in the name of the solemn vow pronounced the
eth May by your Assembly in the name Of the
promise written the 18th June by NJ. CorcelIes in
the name of the engagement contracted at the
tribune by your President of the Council and by
your Ministers during the sessions Of the 18th,
18th and 10th October, l849
We protest in the name of the imperishabo
rights of nations-in the name of eternal Justice
in the name Of the God who has created nations
for liberty and not for oppression.
You cam Gentlemen, suppress our protestation
for time but you cannot refute it. We said to
YOU, seventeen months ago Give the Roman
people their right of voting, and let them express
their sincere opinion of the Government restored
by you" We repeat it to you to-day-call the
people to vote-they will justify us by their sut-
lrages. Recall your troops, they will justify our
words by Instruction
You know this Gentlemen, and for that reason
you will not do it.
You entered Rome because you did not dare to
interdict to Austria the entry of the legations
You remain there because you do not dare to con.
front the immense cry of yiye la RePublique'
which would burst out, two hours after your de-
parture to declare your course false and culPable
We'll. Gentlemen, remain. Perhaps the lesson
is not completely taught. Perhaps it is necessary
that the national Italian thought, OF which Rome
has been the cradle aud ought to be the temple,
sbould have a more pow erful adveut-that, for yet
little time the eyes OF men should contemplate
the spectacle of the Papacy supporting its reign
merely upon foreign bayonets.
But beware, Gentlemen, that Europe does not
one dav saw of France /" The nation that destroyed
liberty in another state does not deserve to enjoy
liberty itself" Beware lest History say OF you
CATER a course Of corruption they entered upon
career vet more deplorable-they had neither the
brutal frenkness proper to their crime nor the holy
courage of repentance
For the National Italian Committee
Josppu MAzzts1 JOSEPH SlRToRI,
AuREL1us SAFrI A. SALIcETI,
MATTHEW MoNTEccRI CEs. AcosTINE, Secretary.