The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-03-24
EIoquence of Modern Italy.

The Westminster Review publishes the grafton
Of Mazzini, delivered at Milan, on July 25, 1S4s.
We give few passages.
In times OF revolution, men speak and act in a
style of grandeur and sublimity, unknown in the
calm periods of peace. That which in one condi-
ton OF people is exaggeration, at another period
is only the language of truth. The passages from
Mazzn are Of the most impassioned orato-y. Itis
easy to conceive how these sparks of the authen-
tic fire" must have nfamed the passions of an Ia-
lian auditory:
Love ! Love is the fight of the soul towards
God, towards the great, the sublime, and the beau.
tiu which are the shadow OF God upon earth.
Love your family, the partner of your life, those
around you ready to share your joys and sorrows,
the dead VINO were dear to you and to whom you
were dear. But let your love be the love taught
you by Dante and by us, the love OF souls that
aspire together; and do not grove on the earth in
search OF felicity which not the destiny of the
creature here to reach, do not yield to delusion
which would inevitably degrade you into egotism
To love, is to promise and TO receive promise for
the future. God has gwen love, that the weary
soul may give and receive support upon the way Of
life. 1t is flower which springs up upon the
path of duty, but which cannot change its course
Purify, strengthen, and improve yourselves by low
ing. Ever ac-even at the price of increasing her
earthly tras-so that the sister soul united to your
own may never need here elsewhere, to blush
through you, for you. The time will come,
when from the height of new life, embracing the
whole past, and eomprehendng its secret, you will
smile together at the sorrows you have endured
the trials you have overcome.
Love your country. Your country is the land
where your parents sleep, where is spoken that
language in which the chosen of your heart blush
ing whispered the first word of love it is the
house that God has given you, that by striving to
perfect yourselves therein, you may prepare to
and fnh . Il
sign among the peoples. Give to it your thought,
| your counsel, your blood. Raise it up, great and
beautiful, as ioretold by great men. And see
! that you leave it uncontamnated by any trace OF
| ialsehood or of servtude, unprofaned by dismem-
| berment. Let 1t be one, the thought of God
| You twenty-four millions of men, endowed
with active, splendid faculties with tradition Of
| glory, the envy of the nations of Europe; an
| immense future is before you-your eyes are raised
| to the loveiies heaven and around you smiles the
loveliest land in Europe; you are encrcled by the
| Alps and ths sea, boundaries marked out by the
| finger OF God for people of giants. And you
| must be such or nothing. Let not man of thai
| twenty-four millions remain excluded from the
| fraternal bond which shall Join you together-le,
| not look be raised to that heaven, which is mo-
that OF a free man. Let Rome be the ark of your
| redemption, the temple of your nation Has she
not twice been the temple of the destinies Of
| Europe. In Rome two extinct worlds, the Pagan
| and the Papal meet each other, like the doubl.
jewels OF diadem; and you must draw from
thence a third world greater than the other two
From Rome, the Holy City-the City of Love
(Amor) the purest and wisest among you. elected
by the vote, and strengthened by the inspiration o
whole people, shall give forth the fact that shal
| unite us IN one, and represent us in the futur
alliance of the peoples. Until then you have n,
country, or you have it contaminated.
" Love humanity. You only ascertain you
own mission from the aim placed by God befor
humanity at large. God has given you your coun
| try as cradle, humanity as mother, and you ca
only love your brethren Of the cradle in loving YOU
brethren of the cradle in loving your commo
mother. Beyond the Alps, beyond the sea ar
other peoples, now lighting or preparing to fgh
| the holy night OF independence, of nationality {
liberty: other peoples striving by different routes
reach the same goal-improvement, association
and the foundation OF an authority which shall pr
an end to moral anarchy, and link again earth
heaven, and which mankind may love and ODE
without remorse or shame. Unite with them
they will unite with you. Do not invoke their al
, where your single arm can suffice to conouer br
say to them, that the hour will shortly sound for
terrible struggle between righ and blind force an
that in that hour you will ever be found with tho.
who have raised the same banner as yourselves
And love, young men, love and reyerens
above every thing the Ideal The Ideal is n
word OF God, superior to every country, superi,
to humanity 1t is the country of the spirit the Gil
OF the sonl, in which all are brethren who beliey
In the inviolability of thought and in the dignit
of our immortal soul and the baptism of this fir
ternity is martyrdom, From that high sphel
spring the principles which alone can redeem tt
peoples Arise for them! and not from impatien
d OF suffering, or dread of evil. Anger, pride, ami
tlon, and the desire Of material prosperity are arm
y common 10 the peoples and their oppressors al
u even should you conquer with them to-day, v,
will fall again Tomorrow but principles belong
the peoples alone, and their oppressors can find
arms to oppose to them. Adore enthusiasm
Worship the dreams OF the virgin soul, and 4
< visions OF early youth, for they are the perfume
Paradise, which the soul preserves in issuing tro
the hands Of its Creator. Respect above all thin
. your conscience; have upon your lips the tru
al that God has placed in your hearts, and VIII
W working together in harmony in all that tends
the emancipation of our soil, even with those W
differ from you, yet ever bear erect your own ba
" ner, and boldly promulgate your faith.
"Such words, young men, would the martyrs
=, Cosenza have spoken. had they been living amo
~ u you And here, where, perhaps, invoked by ,
w. w. love, their holy spirits hover us, call up
a you to gather them up in your hearts, and to ma
h. OF them treasure amid the storms that yet hrea
os you, but which with the name Of our martyrs
,r. your lips, and their faith in your hearts, you
in | overcome"
ng "God be with You, and bless Italy"
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