The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851Various
History
The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851
Various
Art, Modern -- 19th century -- Periodicals; Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- Periodicals; Science -- History -- Periodicals
It is immoral to say to men who have preached clemency
throughout the whole of their political career, who have
initiated their rule by the abolition of capital punishment,
who, when in power, never signed a single sentence of exile
against those who had persecuted them, nor even against the
known enemies of their principle.--"You are the sanguinary
organizers of _terror_, men of vengeance and of cruelty." It is
immoral to ascribe to them views which they never had, and to
choose to forget that they have, through the medium of the
press here and elsewhere, attracted and refuted those
communistic systems and exclusive solutions which tend to
suppress rather than to transform the elements of society; and
to say to them, "_You are communists, you desire to abolish
property_." It is immoral to accuse of irreligion and impiety
men who have devoted their whole lives to the endeavor to
reconcile the religious idea, betrayed and disinherited by the
very men who pretend to be its official defenders, with the
National movement. It is immoral to insinuate accusations of
personal interest and of pillage, against men who have serenely
endured the sufferings of poverty, and whose life, accessible
to all, has never betrayed either cupidity or the desire of
luxury. It is immoral continually to proclaim, as the act of a
whole party, the death of a statesman killed by an unknown
hand, under the influence of the irritation produced by his own
acts and by the attacks of another political party, many months
before the Republican party recommenced its activity.
Mr. Mazzini charges no direct treachery against Carlo Alberto. He
declares him to have been himself the victim of the weakness which
caused others as well as himself so much loss and misery. For the
impossible political project of a Kingdom of the North he was content to
surrender the grand reality of a United People which fate had placed
within his hands.
CHARLES ALBERT.
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