This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 edition. Excerpt: ...what aspect the movement in Italy bears in the popular view of it; let us now look at the facts which actually constitute its form and features. There certainly has been a great embroilment arising and extending from the centre of the Italian peninsula for a year and a half last past. Of this there is no doubt ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 edition. Excerpt: ...what aspect the movement in Italy bears in the popular view of it; let us now look at the facts which actually constitute its form and features. There certainly has been a great embroilment arising and extending from the centre of the Italian peninsula for a year and a half last past. Of this there is no doubt. Nor is it doubtful that Pius IX. was the exciting cause. Italy has been in a dangerous ferment, and the amnesty proclaimed by the Pope of Rome was the evident reason for it. It is not a little remarkable, however, that such a general embroilment should have followed upon an act of temporal jurisdiction in the States of the Church. It shows us how contorted, involved, and hazardous are the relations between neighbouring states on the old continent. The nearer they are together, the more dangerous to one is any movement in another. This might lead wise men to ask how it has come about that such an unnatural and complicated state of things prevails. On our own continent, a complete political revolution may take place in one of our States, while our neighbours'shall read of it only as a matter of news. The movement in the States of New York and Connecticut to allow free suffrage to negroes might be supposed to be as likely to prove offensive, or to create excitement, at the South as any local measure originating with the Pope to offend or endanger Austria. Yet no such delirious excitement ensues here, upon the fundamental revolutions in our separate States, as has led almost to a general melee in Italy. It is enough, for us to indicate this involved and tortuous state of public relations abroad, without tracing its origin or defining its character. Still, that amnesty proclaimed by Pius IX. to proscribed exiles and condemned traitors, which has...
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