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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

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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.

Name: 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.
Author: Garibaldi, Giuseppe

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

Garibaldi, Giuseppe, 1807-1882

"Italianism, Activity, Catholicity—these are the duties demanded of
every good Neapolitan Christian, whether priest or layman; these he is
called upon to practise both in thought and action for the benefit of
the country. Such, in fact, is the speculative and practical principle
which in Naples animates the Union Ecclesiastical Committee in order to
arrive at the most holy object of independence, in the noble undertaking
of Italian redemption. For these reasons the committee are intent on the
union of ideas with facts; they profess it to be their indispensable
duty to labor unweariedly, so as not to go in opposition to the orthodox
faith, which rests in Christ and his vicar on earth—in Christ as
God-man, in his vicar as the first religious and the first civil power
of the world. Hence, taking its stand on these axioms, the committee
declares its intention of realizing the evangelical maxim that
spiritually the state is in the church, as temporarily the church is in
the state; and so it labors to establish the unity of Italy in the order
of religion and civilization; in the order of religion, of which the
pontiff of Rome is the œcumenical moderator; in the order of
civilization, of which Victor Emanuel is the only regulator in the
Italian kingdom."

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                              CHAPTER XV.


              "Expect not, O Pope! a second retreat
              To find in Gaeta, or a stool for your feet:
              A worse fate than even your own may await
              The felon to you who once open'd the gate."
                                        G. ROSETTI. T. D.


        THE CONDITION OF NAPLES SINCE THE REIGN OF TERROR IN
        APRIL—AGITATION ON GARIBALDI'S APPROACH.


THERE was a reign of terror in Naples in April, 1860, in consequence of
numerous arrests and imprisonments of persons of all classes, many of
them on the merest suspicion. The British minister in that city, who had
repeatedly distinguished himself by his humane exposure and protest
against the cruelties of the old savage, Bomba, now made new
representations to his government, that these measures were taken by the
Intendants in compliance with a circular from the Minister of Police. On
the 1st of March they arrested numbers who were not suspected at all,
and among them several dukes, marquises, counts, and princes. Other
evidences were given by the government of their great fear of an
insurrection.

The following is from the letter addressed to the King of Naples by the
Count of Syracuse:

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

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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

History

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

"Italianism, Activity, Catholicity—these are the duties demanded of
every good Neapolitan Christian, whether priest or layman; these he is
called upon to practise both in thought and action for the benefit of
the country. Such, in fact, is the speculative and practical principle
which in Naples animates the Union Ecclesiastical Committee in order to
arrive at the most holy object of independence, in the noble undertaking
of Italian redemption. For these reasons the committee are intent on the
union of ideas with facts; they profess it to be their indispensable
duty to labor unweariedly, so as not to go in opposition to the orthodox
faith, which rests in Christ and his vicar on earth—in Christ as
God-man, in his vicar as the first religious and the first civil power
of the world. Hence, taking its stand on these axioms, the committee
declares its intention of realizing the evangelical maxim that
spiritually the state is in the church, as temporarily the church is in
the state; and so it labors to establish the unity of Italy in the order
of religion and civilization; in the order of religion, of which the
pontiff of Rome is the œcumenical moderator; in the order of
civilization, of which Victor Emanuel is the only regulator in the
Italian kingdom."

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                              CHAPTER XV.


              "Expect not, O Pope! a second retreat
              To find in Gaeta, or a stool for your feet:
              A worse fate than even your own may await
              The felon to you who once open'd the gate."
                                        G. ROSETTI. T. D.


        THE CONDITION OF NAPLES SINCE THE REIGN OF TERROR IN
        APRIL—AGITATION ON GARIBALDI'S APPROACH.


THERE was a reign of terror in Naples in April, 1860, in consequence of
numerous arrests and imprisonments of persons of all classes, many of
them on the merest suspicion. The British minister in that city, who had
repeatedly distinguished himself by his humane exposure and protest
against the cruelties of the old savage, Bomba, now made new
representations to his government, that these measures were taken by the
Intendants in compliance with a circular from the Minister of Police. On
the 1st of March they arrested numbers who were not suspected at all,
and among them several dukes, marquises, counts, and princes. Other
evidences were given by the government of their great fear of an
insurrection.

The following is from the letter addressed to the King of Naples by the
Count of Syracuse:

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

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.

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.

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