Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-08-05
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sATuRDAY. AUGUST 5. 1854.
The Roman ExEIcs.

I'd inst They We're ruthlessly banished from
their native country by the Pope, under the
following circumstances During the year
1858, several papal officers who were of noto-
riously bad character, who had made them
selves obnoxious to the people by their inso-
lence and cruelty, and who had been con-
demned to the galleys by Gregory the six
tenth, for various felonies, were killed in an
emeuti by the exasperated populace at Faenza.
When his holiness, Pho Nono,' heard of
their assassination, and when he further learnt
that the actual perpetrators of the deed could
not be discovered, he ordered all the young
men Of FGenzG to be seised. Over one hundred
of the most respectable youths of Faenza
were Immediately arrested, hand cuffed,
chained, dragged from the bosoms of their
families, and cast into the city prisons, where
they were compelled to herd with and work
in the chan-gangs, with robbers and murder
ers. Thirty of them were sent to Rome and
cast into the dungeons of the Inquisition,
where they were subjected to the greatest in
dignities and cruelties, and where they were
denied the slightest communication with their
relations or friends. After remaining in pri-
son for nearly two years, they were offered
the alternative of ten years in the chain-gang
or transportation to the United States. They
chose the latter. Such is true picture of the
government which France and Austria forced
upon Italy in lS4s, at the point of the bayon-
ct. Such is faithful illustration of the papal
despotism that superaeded the glorious repub-
llcan liberty which Joseph Mazzini and his
noble compatriots established in Italy, after
the cowardly abdication and flight of the Pope
to Gaeta. Here were more than 100 young
men, accused of no crime, seized and cast
into prison. They were never brought to
trial but, upon the sole authority of cleri-
cal, cowardly despot, were summarily flung
into dungeons, where they were compelled to
associate with Indicators, fit only to be the
companions of such sanguinary wretches as
the murderer of Ugo Baisi, (Bedini,) or the
liar and assassin of Naples, king Bombo D
After being deprived of home and all its plea
sures, of liberty, and of the friendship that so
often solaces the dark hours of freedom, for
nearly two years, these young men were at
last compelled to chose between ten years of
galley slavery and eternal exile.
This sublimated tyranny would have seem
ed bad enough in the Car of Russia; but
how cruel, attrocious, unrelenting, and sick
ening it appears, in a man who claims to be
the minister of heavenly mercy. the merciful
foil &c x-sao rof
the vicegerent of God.
But such has ever been the spirit and prac.
tice of the Roman papal government Joseph
Mazzini was seized by the papal authorities of
| GeHoa, in 1920, simply because he did not
waste his time in the frivolous amusements of
his fellow students, but wandered in solitary
| places, seemingly absorbed in thought. He
was tried at night before a secret tribunal, and
| was condemned to perpetual Punishment from
the Roman States, upon suspicion of being
member of the Car5onari, or republican secret
society. He was hurried to ship at mid
night, and driven away from his native land
without being permitted to see his father or
mother. He was scarcely 20 years of age
1
of tie Roman Republic, he established liberty
| of the press, freedom of education, public
economy, and strict responsibility of the gov
eminent to the people. During the five
months he held sway in Rome, nearly 10000
copies of the sacred scriptures were printed by
the British Foreign Bible Society, and eagerly
| purchased by the Roman people. There was
not the occurrence Of one assassination, or
other hienous crime, in that period
The Roman people joyously accepted and
religiously respected republican liberty. His
tory cannot point to a nation in which the
| generosity of the rich, the virtue of the poor,
and the faith and courage of the whole COM
munity, established on republican liberty, pre-
scented so glorious a spectacle as they did at
Rome, during ahe days of Mazzinis author
1 ity.
But no sooner did the bayonets of France
| and Austria destroy the Roman Republic and
restore the papal despotism, than the printing
presses were broken up, the Bibles torn from
the homes of the poor, the prisons filled with
the best and bravest of Romes citizens, and
the Inquisition re- established as an institution
of the "Holy See.'
The twenty-five friendless, homeless exiles
who landed at New York, on the I'd inst, are
liOing examples of the ''paternal'' character
of the papacy; Ugo Bassi, the brothers Ban
dieri, Ancille, Moro, and thousand other
demigods who died for the Roman Republic,
are amongst the martyrs it has sacrificed at
the shrine of its unrelentiug tyranny.
FIRE.-The large stone Wooden Mill, be-
longing to Messrs. Shermans, of Burrilyille,
r. l., and occupied by Jacob Seagrave & Co.
of Providence, was discovered to be on fire,
about IL o'clock, on Thursday night last, and
its contents, were totally destroyed. The
building was nearly new; and contained ten
sets of Wooden Machinery.
Insurance $S9, 500 as follows:
| Atlantic Office, Providence, ..........$ $1,000
i Roger Williams, .......,....1 10000
| Merchants ............1l50O
| American 4" ........... .I4500
| Washington ............l0000
| Commercial Mutual Z" ........... 10000
| Home, New York, ....................1 10000
| Springfield Ufhce,. .....................A,000
| Atna, Hartford, .-....................5OO 1000
| HARTFORD. ......................5OO0
The building was built of stone, 200 feet
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