The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-11
ITALY.
AIazzini's Defense.

country that the recent accusations made aoainst
me III your Journals prove you to be at once |
immoral, cowardly, and stupid immoral be- |
cause you utter them knowing them to be false;
cowardy because you, masters of the cOnsti- |
tuted authorities, of vast fnanciary means, OF
an army which you say is devoted to you and OF
press which is devoted to you, yet employ |
against us the disloyal weapons of spies aud
calumny, thus proving your impotence with
other means and stupid, because you ina
gine the country which you have daily de-
ceived throughout long years Will credulousy
accept your accusations and believe me and my
friends to be men capable of hiring assassns, or
promoting violation OF property and pillage.
"1he country-I do not mean the few hundred
intriguers who serve you for lucre's sake to-day
as they would serve us tomorrow could we ever
accept such, but the millions of worthy citizens
who, though they may at times be misled are
neither caumnators nor corrupt-the country
knows you, and is beginning to know US
These millions have seen you retire from power
swollen with riches, and have seen us leave it
poorer than before. They have heard of Manin
turned schoolmaster in eXile of the Roman
General Roselli, living the life of n poor Popa-
lano for years in silent dignity, of the modest
existence of Carlo CattancO, i'm Lugano; and of
GustavO Modena, resigned to sell flour and
cheese in Brussels. They have heard what num-
bers OF our party have died in poverty, in exile,
and they have understood that if we, like all
mankind, are liable to intellectual error, we
have neither vices nor base envy to satisfy at
the expense OF the property of others or of Our
country.
'They have heard the glorious tradition of our
Republican martyrs, all of whom, from the noble
Neapolians of 1899, down to Carlo Pisacane and
Rosolino Pilo, died, whether in battle or on the
scaifold with a smile of an uncOntamnated
conscience on their lips, and the serene ray of
hope that their blood might advance their coun-
trys future upon their brow. They have heard
of the grey-haired and miserable Giuseppe Pc
troni-whom you have abandoned in his Papal
prison because he is Republican and my friend
and of his twice-repeated glorious refusal to
escape-first to me, when | offered to cOntrive
his flight, because he would not forsake his fell
low prisoners; and again to the satellites of the
Pope, because, after fifteen years of suffering,
they offered him his liberty on degrading cOndi-
ton; and they fully understand that while the
least unworthy among you are men of an
opinion, or dynastic interest, and incapable
either of martyrdom or sacrifice, we are men of
faith, purified in soul by it, and incapable of
crimes inconsistent with it.
'Many Italians look beyond the Alps, and
view in Republican Switzerland a spectacle of
simplicity and virtue; of enduring civil concord,
of property iuviolate and widely diffused. Many
pass the sea to find the Republican United States
of America full of redundant increasing life, to
1 see labor respected and universal education
nearly universal, the dignity of free men in ALL
and, where needed such a capacity of sacrifice,
J! both in arms and money, as could never even be
I dreamed of in any of your monarchies; and they
y have become convinced that republican institu-
tions signify law omnipotent; public offices be-
slowed on merit and yirtue moral equality pro-
NOTED by equality of education; the
Government, the initiator of progress;
wealth, founded on labor free and vgant con-
currence of all the citizens in all matters
of import to the country, and consequent i'm
possibility of violent revolutions; while, If they
turn their eyes upon the monarchies, they see
a spectacle of arbitrary government; OF the
public offices bestowed on the privileged by
wealth or birth; corruption disseminated from
above; of labor impeded at every step, both in
production and circulation; ignorance fostered
because an instrument of servitude-amOng
the masses; arms and the franchise denied to
the majority, and consequently periodical revo-
luti
fatal to peace industry, and commerce. but in
evitable when both duties and right are sySte-
matically denied.
''When one of your Ministers-whom would
/ recommend to learn his country's language be-
fore he governs her-ungrammatically deplores
in Parliament that men that dare to vituperate
the name of liberty by boasting themselves her
champion, may give occasion for iniquitous at
tempts that had they been followed by the
/ premeditated effect would have led to truly
| assassin-lile consequences, and adds, speaking
J of the discovery of concealed weapons, that 1T
is needless to say that these arms were directed
i against worthy men,; finally, when he attributes
to the arrests made the power to demonstrate
that the consp icy was principally directed
against the army, the people do but laugh at his
i senseless affirmations and absurd hypothesis as
well as at the fragrant contradiction of declaring
i the conspiracy directed against an army which
you accuse us of endeayoring by every means in
our power to seduce.
'sBut when the Italians hear you traduce
Sicily in the eyes of Europe as capable of des-
patching two hundred assassins (dccOHeLLdtOrD
to q city in Northern Italy, they turn from you
with disgust to find you do not shrink from
calumniating your native land; and judge from
your use of such weapons that all others fail you;
that you are henceforward victims devoted to
the goddess Fear; that you are, and know you
are, lost We need not such arms as these to
prove YOU both immoral and incapable.
(Which of us is dsloyal? We who waited
patiently till every possible means of concord
had been exhausted and when every expert
ment had been tried and every hope betrayed,
~ openly separated ourselves from you you,
~ who trod in the blood of our martyrs, by which
n the ground was prepared, and ayailed your
selves of our silence and the Illusions of whole
people who trusted your promises, TO seat your
- selves in powerful and armed dominion upon
the neck of Italy, and to say to her, we belong,
"A not to you, but to the dynasty, and to us, You
are robbers and assassins?
~ ''You had the prestige OF name-Rome-
sacred among the people the historic records OF
whose two epochs of civilization were a pledge
"A of the worlds respect and love; and you have
: while protesting the contrary, annihilated that
"a prestige abandoned Rome to the Papal phan
81 tom and silently submitted to be told by
8 French Minister that she should never be yours
II would not wear not the last uncertain rem
nant of life left to me for a question merely po
litcal, to hasten by few years or months th
foundation of republican institutions Ih
3# Republic is inevitable in Italy within a brie
M period and | would Eeave it TO time and youl
errors TO do the work for us. Butthough ques
tion of liberty or finance may be safely left t
~ ethe slow development of progressive ideas,
\ question of honor may not. DishOnor is to
people gangrene, which, if not fought agains
In time, is fatal to their national life. peopl