The Life of General Garibaldi: Translated from his private papers; with the history of his splendid exploits in Rome, Lombardy, Sicily and Naples, to the present time.Garibaldi, Giuseppe
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The Life of General Garibaldi: Translated from his private papers; with the history of his splendid exploits in Rome, Lombardy, Sicily and Naples, to the present time.
Garibaldi, Giuseppe
Garibaldi, Giuseppe, 1807-1882
Romans! Brothers! you have written a page which will remain in history,
a proof of the power and energy which slept in you, and of your future
deeds, of which no force can deprive you.... Assembled under the
Republican banner, you have redeemed the honor of the common country,
elsewhere contaminated by deeds of evil men, and overthrown by
monarchical impotency. Your Triumvirs, becoming simple citizens among
you, carry with them the highest comfort in their consciousness of pure
intentions, and the honor of having their names associated with your
bravest deeds.
A cloud is rising to-day over your prospects and you. It is the cloud of
an hour. Remain firm in the consciousness of your rectitude, and with
the faith in which many armed apostles among you have died. God, who has
treasured up their blood, is surely for you. God wills that Rome shall
be great; and she will be. Yours is not a defeat; it is a victory of the
martyrs, to whom the tomb is the passage to heaven.... Viva la Republica
Romana!
The Triumvirs,
GIUSEPPE MAZZINI,
CARLO ARMELLINI,
AURELIO SAFFI.
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THE CONSTITUTION OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC
ADOPTED—THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY DISSOLVED.
The Constituent Roman Assembly, in their session of yesterday,
definitively voted, with unanimity, and _viva voce_, the Constitution of
the Republic.
Having fulfilled, by this act, the essential part of its high mission,
the Assembly decreed, on motion of the Deputy Agostini, that the law be
engraved on two marble tables and placed on the capital, as an eternal
monument of the unanimous will of the people, legitimately represented
by their Deputies. Woe to him who shall touch those tables of the new
civil and political compact which the Roman People form with themselves
before God, in the view of all civilized nations! This compact has been
sealed with the blood of martyrs, with the blood of all those who,
following the voice of their hearts, hastened to Rome, as to the ancient
Mother, to defend the honor and the liberty of Italy, and to lay the
first stone of her future and inevitable independence.
Whatever may be the present results of measures which foreign supremacy
is preparing, the Assembly, the People, the National Guard and the Roman
Army have the consciousness of having fulfilled their duty.
(From the same paper.)
Before dissolving the solemn session, the Assembly decreed a funeral in
the Basilica of St. Peter, to all the heroes who have offered their
lives for the country and for the Republic, under the walls of Rome. As
to the wounded, as no less worthy of honor, and in need of care, the
Assembly voted a Hospital, and appropriated for the purpose one of the
national palaces.
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