Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-08-11

Political Persecution ia Fiorcnce--nesist-
aace al Rome To the supP. sssten VI Mon-
ssssSies IN spain, DO.
We find the following items In the Florence cor
respondence of the Newark Advertiser:
A recent notice Of the removal Of the political
prisoners Of Naples from the loatbsome dungeons
where they have been hnguishing since 1880, TO
others some eight miles distant, hiss reawakened
the sensibil,ies Of Europe in their behsh They
were heavily chained and carted in covered wagons
through file Of SOME 1000 troops stationed along
The route as protection sgainst popular sympa,.
thy. One oil the carts was overturned and several
of the fettered limbs were broken The history Of
political tyranny does not present an instance OF
more inexcusable cruelty than the case Of those
noble martyrs, whose virtues were reckoned rs
conspiracies against power men without reproach,
gentlemen BY birth and habits, friends and repre-
sentatiSes Of the people, patriots to whom their
soyereigne appealed in the hour Of need for aid III
forming popular government Poerious and Set
neutrality-suspicious. enter pares-to wnom dishonof
would be thousand times more dreadful than
martyrdom--thev were arrested from their peaceful
homes in the despotic fury OF reaction, doomed to
fellowship with the flthiest Of felons in prisons
swarming with vermin, denied what even decel cy
demands for uncean brutes for no other crime VI an
q constant refusal to follow a renegade king III
trampling upon the fundamental law Of the land
the very constitution which he had himself pro-
claimed and sworn to maintain for Notwithstanding
all the efforts Of mercsnary police, with bribt d
witnesses and servie court, no other charge was
sustained than this simple refusal to sanction that
great perjury.
The world eannot have forgotten the facts as ex-
posed through the manly indignation OF Mr.. Glad.
stone at the tme--an exposure which Gent q thrill
through the heart of Christendom. Persecution co
atrocieus converts every feeling man into an aveI-
ger of outraged humanity. There is a bond of flesh
between man and man, community of nature and
lot Of thought and feeling, which conpels us. with
power paramount to all ordinary rulee, 70 stigma
tie such inhumanity, wherever perpetrated, on
every possible occasion. 1t is touching supple
ment to this outrage that 1t has shed cold blight
over the finest circles Of private life-driven the
high-bred mother Of Poerio to a madhouse, crush
ed the cherished wife Of Settimbrini into pre-
mature grave, and cursed his children with a hor-
rbIe orphanage. Every manly heart must leap
into cutlery at every mention of the author of such
tragedy
Circular instructions have been received from
Rome by the Bishops in Sardinia to resist the exc
cutiontof the law supervising the Monasteres;
and the Bishops have repeated them il, instruc-
tons to the monks and clergy These insurrection-
airy appeals recommend that the doors and gates be
kept barred against the officers OF government,
and instruct the inmates to yield the keys only to
superior force The pains Of accommodation are
denounced against all who yield without rsistance
but when overpowered, they are told that they
may accept the compensatory pensions provided
BY the law Some of the monks have, however,
more wisely resolved to reject the life annuites,
too debilitnted by long secusion to bear the cheer
full light and duties OF life, and to seek the assums
Of their order in other lands. By the decision Of
the Holy See all who voted for the law, and all Of
ficers concerned in its execution, held to be ex
communicated from the church, under a decree of
the Council Of Trent, and must live and die with
out its sacraments and consultations.