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Danger in the Dark - ZseZse

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66 DANGER IN 'f1IlJ: DAKK.<br />

sioner Extraord<strong>in</strong>ary <strong>in</strong>vested with sovereign power,<br />

I received numerous letters from <strong>the</strong> Romagna, and<br />

several public journals. In <strong>the</strong>se were to be found<br />

<strong>the</strong> feel<strong>in</strong>gs and op<strong>in</strong>ions of <strong>the</strong> various parties ei<strong>the</strong>r<br />

<strong>in</strong> favor or opposed to <strong>the</strong> papal government and <strong>the</strong><br />

decl<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g Roman Republic. Well, <strong>the</strong>se writers all<br />

agreed <strong>in</strong> this - that <strong>the</strong> appearance of Bed<strong>in</strong>i was<br />

marked with blood and with sorrow. It was dreaded<br />

by <strong>the</strong> people as <strong>the</strong> appearance of a comet was regarded<br />

by our simple ancestors-as <strong>the</strong> ill-omened<br />

token of some great calamity.<br />

" And it was so. The Four Legations of Bologna,<br />

Ferrara, Ravenna and Forli, are <strong>the</strong> most populous,<br />

productive and progressive portion of <strong>the</strong> Pontifical<br />

doma<strong>in</strong>. There <strong>the</strong> Roman Republic was proclaimed<br />

and welcomed with <strong>the</strong> greatest enthusiasm; <strong>the</strong>nce<br />

were furnished <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> greatest numbers <strong>the</strong> brave<br />

volunteers who fought at Vicenza and Treviso, and<br />

who defended so heroically Rome and Venice. There<br />

<strong>the</strong> hatred to <strong>the</strong> despotism of papacy is traditional<br />

and ancient. The papal government knew this well,<br />

and vowed at Gaeta to take an exemplary vengeance.<br />

To render it terrible and complete, it was necessary to<br />

f<strong>in</strong>d a man by nature <strong>in</strong>sensible to <strong>the</strong> voice of pity;<br />

a stranger to Christian love; decided and <strong>in</strong>exorable.<br />

Such terrible men are never want<strong>in</strong>g to Sovereigns.<br />

The Emperor of Austria found one <strong>in</strong> France; <strong>the</strong><br />

Pope, ano<strong>the</strong>r <strong>in</strong> Bed<strong>in</strong>i. But <strong>the</strong> first was at least a<br />

man of arms and war, which had rendered his heart

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