Litchfield enquirer., 1858-04-01
EXtrants.
From the Speech of Me Counsel of Orsini, in de- tendmg htm on his Irial -for an Attempt
 agatast the Lie of Louis Napoleon.

! From the Speech of the Counsel of Orsini, tn de- : tending hnn on his Ir!al tor an Attempt
 agat.st the L!fe of Louis Napoleon.
 Orsini, gentlemen, notwithstanding what has been and may be said, yielded not to ideas of selfshness or of ambition or of hatred. His entire life protests against such imputatious !:
 he has all his life struggled against the oppres- sion of his country by foreigners. He receiv- Ted love of his country with with the blood of ] his father, he sucked in with his mothers milk
 the principles for which he has sacrificed him seH Ills father served in our glorious army
 as captain, and mixed his blood with the
 blood Of the soldiers of France. When he l saw the last soldier ill the Italian cause fall he
 sheathed his sword and you need feel no sur prise that, as his son, Ill later years he was mixed up in all conspiracies which had for their object the unity aud independence of It. alys !. ard he took part in the insurrection of I foa5+4 asainst tho Pontsfcal Government In
 that rising one of the principal couspirators fell beneath the balls of the sbirri. Felice Orsini was then l2 years old he saw that,
 and can you wonder that his heart became
 filled with bitter, profound, inHexible hatred
 of the oppressors of his country? He has
 been represented as vulgar consprator, de- srlng the overthrow of Governments, in order
 to Seize power and lead youptuous life But
 that is not. true As an Italian, could be | help seeing the evils from which his country suffers Could help feeling the weight of the chains which bear her down? The idea to
 which he devoted himself-the union of Italy was that of Napoleon 1. That sovereign did not much toward cffectng it, and he knew
 that the first thing to be done was the destruc-
 ton Of the temporal power of the Pope
 That, gentlemen, is the idea to which Orsin
 ias sacrificed every thing, aud it is it which
 has led hlm into the plot for which he was con demned, as you have been told, in lS45. He was aiunestied, and it has been said that he almost immediately after violated tue oath he took. But no! no! He did not bctray his oath. He conspired again, it is true, but it was in Tuscany, against Austria, against her oppression in ltal ly. In the events of 1S48, when the manifesto of M. de Lamartine was greeted With unanimous acclamations, the Aus
 tran flag disappeared in disnlay from Italy, It cannot be said that Orsn conspired then that he overthrow the Papal Governmet. He was elected by universal suffrage 10 the Roman Constituent Assembly, and how did he leave 1t? God forbid that should let fall a single word of animosity, of bitterness or of aggres- slon, but l have that right to say that it was Europe Which oycrthrcw that Assembly-that
 It was the cannon of France which dispersed It. Was there not in the fact political COL tradiction against which reason and patriot- Ism were justified in revolting? And now do you not see that what he deslred WAS to break asundcr the chains in which his country was at that time replaced--to put all end to the op- presson under which she now groans We subsequently find him ill Austria. where he Welt to enlist soldiers to fight for his generous cause against the oppressor. He goes to Vienna under the name of Horweg, and the hXed ldea still possesses him. He was arrest ed, confined in the citadel of Mantua which is tomb, and he remained there ten months un
 der the lncessant menace of an ignominous death But bis resolution did not break down and his judges themselves were forced to ad- init that he had only acted from the purest patriotism. At length he was condemned, and while the scaffold was being erected, a woman, knowing # was fpr Italy he was about to die, r,solyed that he should not die. With that tact and deyotedness of which women alone are capable, she contriyed to convey to him the instruments of deliyerance. He, with la bor of patience which leave you to imagine, saved through eight iron bars, and then, by meaiis of cords made of sheets, be let himself down from height of about 40 feet. He e fell injured into the losses of the citadel, and remained AS hours in partly frozen water.-