The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-10-30


More Trouble With AastIia.-Feiix Foresu
The Pisdmonsse people are the most progressive The
most liberal. the most enlightened in Italy They have
long been even though under The house Of Carlo Alberto
republican That monarch was hypocrcs and SELFISH
though, now that he is dead will say brave game
ser lie sisksd his head and throne Tor Tue sovereignty
Of I.ly against Austria la his youth. to carry out this
design. he became conspiraio and one OF me ,afooa
ari. His friends were such Slivlo Peco. MA
ronce f. Felix Foses,. tour present consul TO Genoa
in the domniens OF his house Gonfslioneri. buonaro
and others equally dislingushsdali Aas'r'an Ike all
born of monarcbc blood. he cold bis friends They go.
the dungeon. he the crown OF Sardinia. he lived on,
vii CLEANS OF sorrow aud patriotism from hypocrisy to
hypocrisy, from baseness TO baseness In ls4s this
wrechs life OF evil in the name OF liberty was drawn
by desnys hand 10 close, and Tate shut down her scis
sors He advanced. whether fooshy or treacheroasly
10 not known across the frontier OF the Po 10 meet Al
Novarrs, with half grand army" the thousand Aus
,ran legions OF Radetsky He was defeated. He abd
Gated for his successor, now king in Piedmont He fed
and died miserably somew hare in Spain
He was dishonest man. brave Of his person. with in.
enons as to ultimate objects. SELFISH but Italian and ma
tonal His crime WAS that be at the mercy OF Eng
land aud OF Lord Palmerston.
They who trusted in bis youth. in ito aspirations for
freedom, in its supposed sincerity gained chains, not
thrones They were condemned TO death. What the
New York Tribune calls the /" cemency" of an Aus.
rian monarch did kill them They were condemned
il seems by the authority. first to the Pozx Tor
we. OF Venice which had since the days Of the French
revolutions been closed being considered too horrible for
use" We thought il was in the Pombi. or leads. dun
geons the roof covered with lead and hot under the
sun Of Italy, ovens These dungeons. from wells TO
ovens kept for the purpose Of first freezing and
then broing republicans by way Of change. Napoleon
closed them up after his great campaigns ia northern
Italy. as beneath manhood. for Napol, on was man
Austria restored them in full frost and full blast Here
the copartnes Of the late King OF Sardinia done TO
turn for years The OF the story is told 10
we'll BY even the whig New York Tribune that we give
it:
The clemency of the Emperor subsequently commu,ca
the sentence to chains in the fortress Of SpeberR aud
upon the death of this Emperor Francis in 1886 the new
sovereign allowed The prisoners # leave for Amer
where ;Aey brought ON hoard OF The famous
corvette Hnssar On The OF tho 10 OF he
Emperor, general amnesty issued Tor political
lenders and Foresti was allowed by nstria
Italy He did not. however. take advantage pern,s-
sion Ia tho enrly part OF the pontca. OF Plus TX. h.
was recalled by decree sent TO The mayor Of his native
place 20 thar both Austria. which had condemned him,
and Rome Of which State be native, officially
wthdrawn sIl opposition to his return . Ialy How. then
the govorna,en, OF Piedmont, sgaist State Fo
committed offence, and within the borders II
which be has newer eotered fairly refuse acknowledge
him the Uniied States consul T. E1Ne
While in these dungeons, for from twelve to fourteen
ears, some OF these men produced things memorable
Peico wrote his splendid senlimen,a.m. now classic
throughout the world known as My Prisons Maron-
celi carried TO Paris his release and the iron
chain, rushing through his bones had 10 be Gu, out by
French surgeons, IN the presence Of maddened and exc
Grating world. Some three four passed into Sardins
kingdom Of their brother conspiraior Charles Albert
high in his government. and Al this present omen,
hold exalted and responsible posuions in the army and
the ministry of the KING OF Sardinia. Z. Felix Fores,i
alone selected America for his future home He was
Fesets in the Pspai States Judge. by invitation Of
Ausa in PolsI, the age leo says the New York Tri-
buue) Of "a. He was eminent lawyer He 10 now,
=, the lapse OF seventeen years. great noble, and
learned old He 10 Italian, exquisite in taste
and criticism. profound 10 history pses. and all mum
dane learning. gloyng in the beautiful ideal whish s
spontaneous TO the coil Of hsly-haes be called old.
and 10 modern classic in his way. One OF The moh
colleges this coa,iasnt,hat Of Coum.
ba in New Yorkhas long since elected him professor
oil one OF its highest departments. He 10 q gentleman
whom all love; who his age, 10 gallant and ehval-
rous who, in social lonelnesssspara,ed FROM all his
blood the friends Of bis youth his country, and thai
country lalyhas the respect and the love OF all with
whom be has been associated; who has never attained
here the position he lost Tor our common republicanism
and who. with ourtesn years OF imprisonment and many
OF age upon his bead. il sl the democrat OF his
younger days--bod. learned. hauGhiy and chivarous
He has been seventeen years our country has long
ago been na,urazed. and for many years. an Amer.
can citizen He look country his home and has
acted up for seventeen ysa to ha, pledge Daros the
revolutionary in Europe from lsl7 to Is4o be con-
,inued in New York At his duties ~ professor and
teacher He acted politically. during all that tims. only
as America democrat. He has never interfered in
Italian affairs, though feeling strong sympa,hies. ~ il
would be derogatory TO his manhood no, to do, with
Italian republication. He bas studied oar institutions
North and South, and ID precisely the man We want ia
l,alv-one OF the men We want in Europe-to maintain
American dignity. and explain 70 the people. whose
isrkly golden blood rolls in his veins State rrhls and
American democracy
He was picked by the President to 70 to Genoa Il
compliment 10 the house OF savoy 10 send, ewes
the monarchy which hss long fought and may have
very soon again 10 hgh,, agans, Ass,ria We sent TO
Sardinia the friend OF Charles Albert, an American