Danger in the Dark - ZseZse

268 DANGER IN THE DARK.
in the towns or villages of the Four Legations, there
were published numerous sentences of death, of imprisonment,
or of exile. They may find in these
journals the dames of the victims, and the day of
their sacrifice.
" They will see that the police of Bedini, like hungry
wild beasts, hunted after and ferreted out the
Republicans. On every side, families had some of
their members under interdiction from leaving the
house under severe penalties; others suffering domiciliary
perquisitions for suspected papers; at the Postoffice
the sacredness of sealed letters was violated;
persons were summarily banished, without form of
trial, for the slightest doubtful expression or even
word-for the slightest suspicion were awarded prison
and persecution. The Government of Bedini was in
short a real reign of terror.
"Bedini, say his apologists, had not the right or
the power to check or modify the evils arising from
the existence of martial law in the provinces. But I
ask, who could and who did proclaim this martial
law 1 The Sovereign alone, the POPE. Who represented
the Pope in the Four Legations ~ Bedini.
What was the position of the Austrian General in
Bologna 1 Simply that of a General, called and paid,
together with his troops, to reconquer for the Pope,
the Romagna from the power of the republicans. The
spirit and the will was Bedini-the corporeal part
of the compound was the Austrian General. Who
collected and put into judicial form, the evidence and