The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-11-16

baldi, and countersigned by Crispi. One
of the first acts of the new Pro Dictator
was to address the following letter to
Mazzini:
L" To the Mustr,ous Giuseppe Mazzini -
Self-denial has always been the virtue oil
the generous. l believe that you are gen.
erous, and 1 now offer you an opportunity
Of showing yourself to your fellow-citizens.
Representative of the Republican principle,
and indefatigable defender OF that principle,
you arouse, by remaining among US, the
mistrust of the King and of his Minister.
This is why your presence in this country
creates embarrassment to the Government
and dangers to the nation, by compromising
that concord which is indispensable to the
advance and triumph of the Italian cause.
"Even without intending it, you divide
us. Perform, then, an act of patriotism by
leaving these provinces. Add to former
sacrifices now one, which the country de-
mands from you, and the country will be
| grateful to you.
II repeat it-even without intending it,
you divide Us, and it is necessary that all
the national forces should be united in one
bond. I know that your words preach con.
cord, and doubt not that your acts respond
to your words. But all do not believe you,
and there are many who misuse your name
with the parricidal intentions Of hosting
another banner in Italy. Honor commands
you to put an end to the suspicious Of some
and to the Vaccinations of others. Show
yourself great by leaving Naples, and you
will take with you the praises of all honest
men.
g" subscribe ~y si1K EsHss f sizGtsa
NAPLES, Oct. 3, 1860"
The following is the answer of Joseph
Mazziri to the command addressed to him
by the Pro. Dictator Pallavicini to quit
Naples -
think I possess generous mind, and it
is for that reason that I reply by refusal
to your letter of the Sd, which l only read
to-day in the Opinione Rationale. If I
only yielded to my first impulse and to IA
tigue Of mind, I should leave land which
cucumber, and withdraw to one where
liberty of opinion is left to every one, where
good faith is not doubted, and where he who
has labored and suffered for the country
does not think it his duty to say to the
brother who has done the same, BECOME"
You give no other reason for your propo-
sitioD, except it be the affirmation that,
without wishing it, I cause division. Twill
give you the reason of my refusal.
I do so because do not feel myself gull
ty, nor cause danger for the country, nor
conceive projects which may be disastrous
to it-and should appear to avow such to
be the case by yielding because, as an
Ita liam in an Italian land, which has recov-
cred liberty, I think ought to represent
and support in my person the right of every
Italian to live in bis own country when he
does not attack its laws; and the duty of not
yielding to unmerited ostracism because,
after having contributed to teach as much
as was in my power the people of Italy to
make great sacrifices, it appears to me that
it is time to raise them to consciousness of
human dignity too often violated, and to the
maxim forgotten by those who style them.
selves preachers of concerd and moderation;
because no one POUNDS his own liberty with
out respecting that of others; because it
would appear to me that by voluntarily
exciting myself, should be guilty of insult
to my country, which cannot, without dis
honoring itself in the eyesof Europe, reader
itself guilty of tyranny; to the King who
cannot fear an individual without admit
ting himself to be weak, and not Sc
cure of the affection of his subjects
and to the men of your party who
cannot Ee excited at the presence of man
declared by them to be aloneand abandoned.
without contradicting themselves; because
the desire comes, not as you think from the
country which labors and comhats under
the flag of Garibaldi, but from the Turin
Ministry, towards whom have no debt, and
whom l think fatal to the unity of the coun-
try; it comes from intriguers without con-
science, without honor, and without national
morality +; without creed, except for the ex-
listing power, whatever it may be, and whom
consequently despise it comes from the
vulgar mass of creduous men, who swear
without examination by the word of the
Almighty, and whom l consequently pity
Lastly, because, on arriving, received
declaration from the Dictator of this cOun.
try that l was free in the land of the free.
The greatest sacrifice ever made was when,
interrupting the apostolate OF my faith for
the sake of unity and concord, 1 declard that
l accepted monarchy, not out of respect for
Ministers or monarchs, but for the satisfac-
ton of blinded majority of the Italian peo-
pie; that was ready to cooperate with the
monarchy, provided it founded the unity of
the nation, and that if I ever were to take
up my old flag again, I would honestly avow
it, and publicly too, to my old friends and
enemies. I therefore cannot spontaneously
make another sacrifice. If honest men, as
you say, believe in my word, it is their duty
to convince my adversaries that the path
of intolerance which they pursue is the only
now existing foment of arnarchy. If they
do not believe man who has been struggling
for the liberty Of the nation for these thirty
years, who has taught his accusers to STAN
mer out the name Of unity, and who never
told falsehood to any living being, let it
be so. The ingratitude of men is not
reason why should voluntarily bow before
their injustice, and sanction it.
JOSEPH MAZZINI.
NAPLES, Oct. 6.
Mrs. LYDIA HuNTLEY SIaoURNEY, the