Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-03-13
MAZZINI ANDLOUIS BLANC

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While Kossuth is seeking to inspire America
with an effective sympathy for Hungary, Jos.
MaZzln1 has taken the field, to do the same
thing in England, for Italy. He has been
speaking in London, Manchester and other
places, against the Austrian and Papal Govern
ments, and has read in London an exposition of
his views and hopes of Italian liberty. Mazzi-
mis- doctrines, like those of kossuta are in favor
OF non-lntervention, to be obtained by the moral
powerof England, who might warn Russia and
france, the one against interfering with Hun
gary the other against crushing freedom in Ita-
~. by such aid England would secure the re-
ligious and commercial liberty of its country.
| In the course of his remarks Mazzini snok.
very slightingy of France, in the following
| terms:
| The cold, negative, destroying work of skep-
tlclsm was completing under French influence,
f1ourishing with French influence, some "a wears
ago, when first felt that life was "a battle and
march. 1t has left behind, still weighing like
an incubus on the heart of the nation, a eigan-
TIC course, aping life. But every body in Italy
knows that 1t ISL corpse; and there it lies ia his
state robe on his state co fin, called throne
with death scroll his hand, signed Gaze
ta,' from which no glittering of French or Aus.
trian bayonets can dazze our quick Italian eve
away.
10 this and various reflections upon the So
cialism of France, Louis Blanc responds in a
long letter to the Leader in which he declares
that falth IN liberty is more vivid and constant
IN France than In any where else, which point
ne IL Illustrates Mt length from the history of the
last revolutions. The following passage will be
found interesting:
Since the name of Louis Philippe falls under
my pen, must needs recall the true cause. of
ms disastrous end. That Prince was gifted
hIncnp ctohla I...o I,
were OF nature to command respect: he was not
wanting in enlightened perceptions he was hui
name; liberty under his reign had not, after ALL
received mortal wounds, and the boiS ,gedise was
indebted to him for the repose it so deaily
priced. How was it, then, that in 64S not
man rose up to defend him? Whence
comes 1t that he was overthrown in few
minutes, with gesture and shout? 1t is
that he had consumed eight years in strug-
Cling against all that there was of chivarous
against all that, in the highest acception of
the word, may be called religious in the gen
ius of France. He was not believer in the
religion OF humanity; he was skeptic. That
was his crime in the eyes of France, and
that is why his power fell, so to speak, without
having been overthrown, almost like rotten fruit
dropping loose from branch without breath
OF wind to stir the leaves No 1t is not true
tlat the cold negational, destructive work of
sketiclsm has been completed under French in
iluence' under the influence ola country which,
within space of half a century, has engender-
ed that band of lofty minds, gained at once, or
soon won over the religio which NJ. Mazzi-
nj worships.
Louis Blanc concludes by promising another
letter especially devoted to answering the So
cialist objections of Mazzini, and declaring
that the vote of December proves nothing at
all.