Year: 1859

Oi4A't'ii% II.


Last evening Mime Mario delivered her second
lecture before a Baltimore audience at Carroll
Hall, on 'Italy and her Struggles for Freedom. :"
She said, in opening, that if any thing was commen
dabie it was people, after repeated failures still
grasping after that priceless boon-I.iberty. That
the Italians were such people, no one would pre.
tend to deny. For more than sixty wears her chill
dren, from Sicily to the Alps have been engaged in
one continuous struggle. Ofttimes when the cup,
whose sweet contents they had but begun to taste,
has been dashed from their lips, they never des
PARED but struggled on. At this very moment
they are ripe TOR another demonstration
The French, with their bayOnets, are un-
able to keep them still. The voice Of an on.
pressed people, groanng under the iron rule of des-
potlsm, must and will give place to action Thev
only await the fitting time to strike There is only
one idea and it is a truly grand idea) which pos
sesses the hearts of the people of Italy, The day
Will not be far distant when that idea will bf rea
zed Perseverance in anything will be rewarded
with success.


1t was great idea that induced Columbus to ad
here to his belief in the existence of new world
1t was a great idea which induced the PiIqrin,
Fathers to cross the ocean and seek in the wilder
ness place for the enjoyment of their reIipious
sentiments in tranquility. Americans possess no


tical civil and social liberty, because thev are the
descendants of those Pilgrim Fathers who shed
their blood for the grand idea ofireedom The lee
turer dwelt at some length upon the Papa govern
ment, asserting that the temporal power of Papacy
IhC Suel CduSe vi Ine slavery OF the Italians,
She stated that though the four combined powers
had re-established the Pope his throne after the
last revolution in 1919, they could not enshrine
Catholicism in the hearts of the people, Catholi-
cism in Italy, in her opinion, is dead Its vitality
is gone. The last blow was given to it when the
Pontitf allowed himself to be established on the
throne by foreign princes. The lecturer then
dwelt at some length upon the attitude in which
England stood, and what might be expected from
her. She believed if England would say to
France, you shall not interfere, Italv
would be free, and the French penple
rising in mass would force their Emperor to fy
Tor his lie. AT this moment Louis Napoleon stands
between the sullen ire of an oppressed people and
halt million of men clamorous for war He has
by no means, secure tenure of his throne and
when the struggle comes he must fall. The armv
will compel him to fight, and he will pitch upon
England, not in her own sea-girt isle, but on her
possessions in the East. Joining with the Emperor
OF Russia, they will endeavor to divide Europe be-
tween them. This plan, the lecturer thought,
would never operate successfully. The moment war
broke out Italy would be in arms, and the oppressed
peoples of all Europe would join with England and
Italian patriots in the struggle for freedom
Through the whole extent of the peninsula, the
Italians were banded together. They relied upon
themselve alone in the coming struggle and looked
for no help from other nations. They struggle for
the same freedom the Americans did in their Revo-
luton, and all they wants that their principles
may be justly appreciated, and the exact object of
their many struggles be made known to world.