The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-04-14
orsini and his Daughters.

| souled, heroic, but unfortunate man. The
following touching letter, surely speaks
something for his heart. II was addressed
to his two daughters, Ernestina and Ida,
in the year 1854, when Orsini was about
to depart on the desperate mission which
caused his arrest at Hermanstadt. He
thus speaks of himself at that time in his
Memoirs -
Before leaving for Italy vas again
overcome with melancholy. | was sick of
everything A sad prssentiment told me
that / should see my children, my uncle,
my brother no more. wrote to the two
latter that was going into Asia, 50 that
they should have no suspicion that l was
engaged in new conspiracy. 1 sent the
letters open to Mr.. Colombo Of Nice, to
forward them; they we're dated from Ge-
neva, so that the police, if they opened
the letters, should not know where I was"
"To ERNEsTINA AND IDA oRsrNI.
Switzerland, September 20, 1854.
"MY DEAR DAUGHTERS These few
lines, together with two little hearts,
which contain two locks of my hair, will
be consigned to you when 1 am alive no
longer; you will also receive portrait
greatly resembling me, and I have left
the necessary instructions with my broth.
er Leonidas, so that you may have it, and
keep it in memory Of your poor father.
al left you in your tender age; you
were very little. and the last time that ev-
er 1 saw you was in the prison, at Nice.
was driven from Piedmont because l
had conspired against the foreigners who
occupied my country. 'r'd g'.sg=n p p
"The vicissitudes of Italy do not per-
NIT me to watch over your education my
self and l have not had the sweet pleasure
to caress you in your most beautiful per-
iod Of youth. So .f. y as-i--i-, .a-
In the lines which have written to
my brother Leonidas and my uncle, I have
explained that leave everything to you.
have begged them to transfer to you
two everything which they might have in
tended to do to my advantage. I have
recommended you more than. myself, be.
cause l am anxious that they should love
you, and take the greatest care in your
education. T go to fsr-off lands, enbit-
tered BY everything. I carry with me
two thoughts-of you two dear children,
and that of dear country; and I trust
that my occupations, my sacrifices, may
be useful to both. If I die soon, twill
not be my fault that have not executed
these two objects; It will be that of death.
-r" Before concluding I must give you
some advice, which you will retain, my
dear children, as paternsl memorial and
which may be valuable guide to you
throughout your lives; at least, hope
and wish 50. First, believe in God! L
have E firm conviction of His existence.
Second, possess unalterabls principles of
honor! Mark ! do not mean malleable
and material principles; ne, but those
which are universally recognized as such
BY all people and nations, which do not
alter with the changes of time, Of country,
Of governments mean those principles
which are eternal truths, absolute, inmu.
table, not depending on any ones caprice.
Pay attention to this. Everybody con.
siders himself honorable; but this i not
always seen in his acts, but instead of it
we find deceit, hypocrisy. equiyocstion,
and cunning words to injure others. This
is what the greater part Of men do, who
regard the principles of honor as q piece
Of Indian rubber. When the true prin.
ciples of honor have taken root in you, as
have explained, and that they are con.
sidered by you as the basis Of public and
private morality, you must necessarily be
lovers of your country, honest, Affection
ate toward your parents, pure in your
youth, pure and faithful to your husbands
to whom you may be married in fine,
loving toward your children, and adorned
with the finest qualities which can be de-
sired in women destined by God and ma
ture to embellish the life of man and to
render bis existence less miserable .
Gain as much instruction as you can,
and inform yourselves we'll a. to what be-
longs to the familiar Or domestic life, and
recollect that the greater part Of the
crimes and srrors Of men proceed from
ignorance-that enemy to civilization,
progress, honor, and the liberty Of nations
Remember, that as soon as you can use
your intellectual faculties, the world will
seem paradise to you; everything will
smile IN vnu IL will s.aa,,, Eka,s hA.,,t;