The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-03-12
MADAME MARIO,S LECTURE IN

MADAME MARIO'S LECTURE ON ITALY.
On Thursday evening last Zine Mario addressed
select and intelligent audience in Carroll Hall on
Italy and her struggles for freedom She said that
she felt much encouraged by the interest mani
tested by the Americans in her subject What she
asked of them, not to fight Italian battles but
to give some individual aid towards the initiation
OF their next struggle, and, chiefly, fair and un-
prejudiced hearing of their question; and in case
all or any part of Italy should succeed in throwing
off the foreign yoke and in establishing an indie
pendent government, Rome did in lS4S-tbat
America should give it - hearty recognition be-
fore the despots should hive time to unite AGAINST
it. The lecturer then combated the general belief
that all the past struggles in Italy have been fail
ures, and showed what progress had been made:
how in 1921, the revolutions were made by the nm
per classes; in 1881 by the middle classes, and in
ls4s, 49' by the people, and how it only
less parley with their domestic tvrants-to
dispose of them how and when they couid-and bv
united effort fling themselves on the foreigners and
drive them from the peninsula, and there would be
no fear of their return since Austria's other sinh
jects would make short work of her; the Germans
and the Hungarians helping to destroy her hetero-
geneous empire. Madame Mario dweit particularly
on the curse that the temporal power of the Papacy
has ever been to Italy; how the Popes have ever
fomented discords among the Italians and sum
moned foreigners to crush their attempts at indie
pendence. She said that she abhorred religious
persecution of any kind, but that any system that
forced any form of religion on a people at the
point OF the bayonet ought to be annihilated and
that the Italians meant to uproot the Papacy root
and branch. They had dethroned the Pope in 1882.
and the Austrians had restored him. They had
proclaimed their Republic and men of the ID De-
cember, had murdered it, but that bayonets and
foreign soldiery could never enthrone the Papal
corpse in their hearts, and that they would seize
the first opportunity to give it decent re-intermen
Madame Mario detailed the that led to
fbai Of
ions, now on their way to the United States, pic
tured their suffering and their heroic constancy.
and proved from the barbarous treatment of such
men as P@rio, how futile was any attempt to re-
form or humanize Italian tyrants. Speaking of
the frequent attempts made by the Italians during
the last ten years, she detailed the efforts of Pisa
and his heroic band to free the prisoners from
the dungeons of King Bomba to prove that the chan
of success We're greatly in favor of the patriots
and thatf they waited until success certain there
no hope for Italy at all. Vicatera's devotion
and courage, his scorn of death, his manly dignity
in the face of his judges nothing uncommon for
an Italian, and it this strong re-
solve to live as freemen or to die, that per-
vaded all ranks and classes of the people that
gave her such profound confidence in their
ultimate success. of course the Italians would not
heed Louis Napoleon's suggestions. When they
made their next revolution it would be for liberty
not to change one tyrant for worse, and for
that they were organized throughout Italy. They
knew that this time they would have the Italian
armies with them directly any attempt at revolu-
ton should be successful and that they would be in
condition to fling themselves on the foreigner and
hurl him headlong from the Italian Alps. Mime
Mario spoke of the often-repeated complaint that
Italy was divided into so many parties. She said
that all Italians wished for liberty and indepen-
dence-for an Italian Government; in short, that
the question of whether Italy should be republic
or monarchy, they would decide afterwards; that
all were resolved to fight foreigners and to de-
throne the Pope, and that Italian exes without,
were full as eager their brother pat lots at home
She said that here and there an Italian might
be found who, having left home for material
good has become selfish and Indifferent to his coun-
trys fate; that, of course, in order to defend him
self before free people, he would say that those
W no fought and died for Italy were enthusiastic
dreamers, but, said t he lecturer, the Americans
would know how to estimate such man and his
assertions. Luckily they were units in the
community, for no people retained in Punishment
a more passionate attachment to their fallen land
than did the Italians. They were toiling to con-
tribute funds for the future struggle, and the lee
turer made an earnest appeal to the Americans in
their behalf The lecture lasted about one hour
and half, the audience listened in rapt atten-
ton throughout the WHOLE and at its close testified
their interest and admiration in loud and heartfelt
applause.
We understand that Madame MARIO has been |
solicited by many of our citizens to deliver another
ecture here, and that it is probable she will con-
tent to do SO in few days.