Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-05-21
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MONDAY, MAY 81, Is55.

LOUIS NAPOLEON has been FREE at IN rams,
BY an italian named Pianozi, wio, IN 1870 was
a volunteer in Garibaldi's arm The Emper-
or" escaped and the "assassi4 was taken The
former has received numerous congratulatory adj
dresses on his "providentd preservation from
the deadly assault of a murderer" the murderer
has received the scern of all the " friends of Or
DER" and will probably be guillotiued,
We are no apologists of violence, but we can
not refrain from contrasting the motives and re-
suit of Pianozis attempt at assassination, on the
Doth of April, 1856, with the motives and resu's
of Bonapartes wholesale murders on the '-u Oh
December, 1852.
In 1873, Italy declared herself br'he aeIoef-
ate votes of her Representatives assembled at
Rome, to be a republic Shc did SO after the
monarch Of the Italian states had abdicated his
throne andretired to Gaeta. &c was waited up
on by deydtatiohs of his subjects, at Gaeta, who
;mnortvAed him to return TO his government
He refused, and che people, therefore, decreed
the republic. FOR five brief months the Roman
Republic renained, to glorify politics and Illus
trate tseoeauty of true democracy. The Roman
nobigy, who formed the great majority of the
N<tional Assembly, gracefully laid down their
Adventitious titles, to assume the nobler title of
Citizen. They voted, from the estates which
they and their ancestors had held for centuries,
a patrimony to the peasants, now their fellow cit
liens, who had titled that land for ages. They
abolished the Inquisihon, established the liberty
of conscience and worship, and removed the Pa
pal censorship from the printing press. Ten
thousand copies of the Holy Scriptures were
printed and attributed in Rome during that glo-
rious five months. There was not a single assas-
nation serious crime during that time. Crime
was almost unknown. The government adj
ministered with an economy that extorted com
mendations even from the Jesuitical herarchs,
who came back with the restored Pope The peo-
pie, under the inspiration of freedom attained an
elevation of public virtue and public dignity,
which won for their Republic the admiration of
nations. Rome too noble example of Eu-
ropean Republicanism to be permitted to live, by
the perjurer and murderer of France He was
plotting to crush the French Republic, and he,
therefore, could not afford to permit the Roman
Republic to remain With Falloux, the Jesuit,
and Toqueyille, his tool, NJ Bonaparte under the
pretence of religion, concerted the Roman expe-
dition. He marched the armies Of the French
Republic against the Roman Republic. He made
the former infamous by this act; and, after
bravely contested seige he compelled the Repub-
lie of Rome to adjourn. The restoration of the
Pope was to Rome the restoration of darkness
and despair. The printing press was broken, the
Bible of the poor man burnt, the Inqusition re-
stored, and liberty of conscience and worship de-
MED. The noblest Romans were driven into ex-
lie, sent to die in loathsome prisons, or compel-
ed to serve against their country in the armies of
Austria. Liberty was thus abolished in Italy by
Louis Bonaparte. Is it a wonder, then that Pr
anozi-an Italian patriot-hates the destroyer of
his country Much as we may deplore the spirit
of revenge, we are compelled to acknowledge that
Pianozi has cause for his hatred towards L. n.
Bonaparte.
But what reason had Bonaparte to commit his
murders of the second of December He shot
down thousands of men, women, and babes, in
cold blood For what For nothing but to graf
ify the thirst for blood of the miscreant who had
come back from disgraceful exile to betray them.
If Louis Napoleon had been justly dealt with
for his crime of the second of Decemb er, 1852,
Pianoz would not now be in prison for attempt
ing to take his life.