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have public spirit, have pride in noble army and
its achievement though Mr.. Stanton has not
4.
THE NEAPoLTTAN ExILEs
Before many days, Carlo Poerio and eighy-six OF
his fellow prisoners, who have undergone the ex-
tremity Of human suffering in the dungeons of Mon
tesarchio during ten long years, will be cast as ex
lies on the shores Of the United States, by order of
the infamous tyrant who fills the throne Of the Two
Scilies. WFla8 gI@ a8E
We might well deny the right which this modern
Caligua seems to claim of transporting his prisons
ers to this country, if it were his penal colony
aud We assuredy would deny that rightif its con-
cession could be tortured into favor granted to
King Bomba. But, in our satisfaction to welcome TO
liberty the distinguished martyrs in the cause OF
freedom whom more than Pagan tyranny has con-
lcmned TO decade Of anguish we shall forget the
insolence of the process by which they have been
ent among
Carlo Poerio, Settembrn and their fellowsuffer-
ers are entitled to the warm sympathy of every
man who values the blessings Of liberty admircs po
litical honesty, and compassonates unmerited suf-
fering
They are guilty of no crime. In that year ofroyal
periuries and general convulsiop, ls4s, when Ferdi
nand, their sovereign, to preserve and defend
the constitution which he had just sanctioned, when
he sent his troops under The command OF The brave
Pope to aid the Lonbards in conquerng their indie
pendenoe, aud when he deluded his subjects into the
belief that he was devoted to constitutional liberty,
Poerio and his companions were members OF the
Neapotan Parliament, summoned by order of their
king They took part inno political plots, counseled
no insurreeton shed no blood betrayed no trust
They were firm in their devotion to liberty and be-
loved that Ferdinand shared their convictions They
only found that his liberal psotestations We're false
| when they saw the army which he sent in March
{, aid the Lombards, recalled in May to butcher his
own people in Calabeia, when they saw Messina
| bombarded, the Parliament violently broken up and
themselves plunged in chains and darkness in dun
geons far below the level OF the sea, shut out from
home and kindred, and subjected to cruelties and
prvations which rival in atrocity the most brutal ex-
cesses of Pagan oppression. They trusted in the
solemn oath of their sovereign, and he has repaid
their confidence by wreaking upon thema vengeance
worthy of demon
The English papers need not to bespcak for these
noble victims Of kpgly treachery the generous sym
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pathies of the American people. Our sympatliies
have been theirs ever since they first fell into the
clutches of their sceptrei torturor, and We have
| often wondered how civilized Europe could suffer
tho commission of such atrocities they suffered,
| and not put forth her strength to avcnge humanity
outraged in their persons. They may count with
certainty on sincere welcome in this country, and
that every kindness win be extended to them which
can sooth the suffcrngs Of exile and separation
] from family and friends. The "sympathy which ex-
lists in the States for the patriots Of the western
world" needs we trust, manifestation TO en-
able Europe to Judge OF its extent sincerity Our
doors are always open TO the afflicted Of every
ton and it, as the London Times remarks, some
out Of the many who have sought and found protec-
/ ton aud hearty welcome from us, have been nm.
deserving of the honor, we would rather err on the
side of generosity than the risk Of refusing our
sympathies to one who was really meritorous,
The programme of the Neapolian government, ac-
cording to which the clemency' of the pious Bonn
ba is to be carried OUT is to convey the eighty six
martyrs on board government steamers, fitted up as
prison ships from San Stefano to Cadiz whore each
/ man will receive twelve ooonaate, aud be placed on
board Spanish merchant vessels which will set sail
at once for New York On arriving at that port they
will each receive fifty ducats SllO. Ono Of these
wretchcd men, named Daco, recently lost his wife
and before cmbarking in the prison ship witch was
10 convey him from Montesarchio to cadis was per-