The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-02-24
DE LA HODDES ACCOUNT OF "'YOUNG
IT'LL W AND MAXZINI

''Since France has the misfortune to serve as
precedent for ever? revolt, it may follow that the
defeated insurgents Of other countries come among
US ana demand, as 1t Were, our hospitality. To
succor the unfortunate, especially when they be-
come so by our own fault is a duty of honor which
IN our country can never be disregarded; but then
1t so happens that these refugees in order To revo
lutlonlze Europe again. set ardentv at work to get
up revolution among US, so that those men who
have granted shelter and security reward their
benefactors with perils and disasters Far he il
from us to wound, by single unfriendly word
those true representatives Of fallen nationalities
among us, who base their hopes of acknowledgements
upon other grounds than the ruin of the very asy-
lum which shelters them for such men deserve our
sympathy and respect But as to those who prowl
about from one country to another colporteurs of
engines against government, stage managers of re-
volutions, dealers in civil and brokers of public
catastrophes for such the generosity which
IS shown them Is, in our opinion, the height of in
| fatuation."
GAS to the Italians who had alighted upon Franco
after the failure of their revolutionary efforts the
city OF Paris contained but very few Of them They
/ generally remained in the South where they dis
| tinguished themselves by acts of a character still
more detestable. An association existed among
| them, which was called % Young Haly," which had
for Its chief man whose demagOgue antecedents,
together with the recent events in Rome have given
hlm an unenyable reputaton--l allude to NJ. Joseph
| Mazzini. Every member of the association was
bound to provide himself with arms; to weld abso-
lutte obedience to his superors; to labor increasingly
fer the determination of kings" and was sworn to
assasslnate without question whoever should be
pointed out to him for that purpose by the commit
tee And this sanguinary oath was not one of those
common place and formal ceremonies which are so
freely administered in all secret societies. for per
sons were admitted only after a rigid examination
which guaranteed fanatic devotion and ferocious de-
| termination \ single fact will exhibit these men
| at their work.
Four refugees Emani, Scuratta Lazzoreschi
and Andriani, who, though ready to fight the to-
rants of Italy, We're not willing to become members
of the MaZZnian society, had declared themselves
openly to this effect. and this constituted the crime
thigh treason which was brought to the cognzance
of a secret assizes. N. Mazzini came from Geneva
expressly for the purpose OF presiding at the trial
which held at Marseilles agreeably to the forms
prescribed by the statutes The several chiefs of
the society who were the free and accepted Judges
of the gloomy tribunal, assembled by night at the
house of one of their number, and proceeded to
anime indictments without the presence of either the
accused or their defenders. The proof which was
documentary and &C P0rte, produced and dis
cussed and in the absence of rebuttng testimony it
easy to come to an agreement as to the enormi-
ty Of the crimes charged. Emani and Scuratta
were condemned to death. The other two the char
ges against whom were less serious, sentenced
to be scOurged. copy of the sentence is still in
existence, signed, "Mazzni, President, and Sa CT
ella. Secretary The condemned persons being
domciliated at Rhodez, the sentence bore the fol
, lowing addendum: "The president of Rhodez will
make choice OF four eXecutiOners of this sentence
who will be held to strict account of its execution
to execute it, he will incur the penalty of death
tpsO Jact0."
= Here, then, we have all that summary mode o
proceeding, the terociOus penalties and the ptiles
character that marked the secret tribunals of bar
barous ages. This phantasmagoria has been otter
l. enacted for the purpose of ntimdating credulou
consprators; but in this case the drama was onlr
too real. Mazzni perfect type Of the crafty
- treacherous and sanguinary Italian, aspired iron
that time TO the domination which he finally sue
l. ceeded in acquiring over his countrymen and i
g his revolutionary Jesuitism has made use of tn
81 same means for which he condemns his enemies,-
n dark and gloomy punishments, and terrors of tn
- imagination
"a \ few days after the sentence had been rendered
while Emiliani passing through the streets
khodez, he was attacked by party of Italians, VIII
}. plunged their dirks into him and fed. The ntende
ID victim escaped with his life. and the assassns weT
n arrested, tried and condemned to the cells.
" Emiliani. though suffering from his wounds Wa
10 present at the trial and after leaving the Court Ell
tered a c6fee-housc with his wife and his trien
Lazzoreschi. Scarcely they seated, when
man named Carroll, made his appearance went u
to NJ. Emilian and without uttering a wore
plunged dirk into his breast At second blow
IA he struck down NJ. Lazzorecshi, and Is Madam
:, Emilan fastening to the assistance of her hui
band, he twice stabbed her. He then fed, but wa
D captured after a desperate resistance.
&c The fright occasOned by the terrible tribunal wa
such that day Afterwards the funeral of the
le victims, not single Italian dared to make his az
of pearance.
e The assassin being tried and condemned suffere
the penalty Of hig As u NJ. MaZzin return
as ing to Switzerland, the tiger returns his de
le satiated with carnage, he cody resumed his wor
t of destruction.