Danger in the Dark - ZseZse

DANGER IN THE DARK. 269
witnesses to condemn the patriots? The local police.
Who arrested the persons suspected ~ Who assigned
their prisons i Who directed their administration 1
Who named the Italian Ooncillire of the Court
Martial? Who caused the accused to be brought
before the Court Martial ~ The local police. Who
was it that directed this police ~ BEDINI.
"For these reasons, the populations of the Romagna
do not curse so much the Court Martial, but
Berlini.
"Had such a service been undertaken by a military
officer, he would, like Haynau, have lost every particle
of reputation for humanity. But what shall we
say of a priest, a minister of God, a preacher of the
gospel, a messenger of peace, who can undertake such
an officeI"
Mr. G. Gajani followed, in a highly interesting
speech, from which I take the following:
"When Bassi and our other compatriots were
assassinated and during the eommissionership of
Bedini, I was not in America, I was in Italy, and but
a few miles distant from the theater of such terrible
iniquity and barbarity, and in Bologna, where many
of you know I have relations and friends. I can,
therefore, relate events to you as they actually took
place. After having placed in safety my brothers who
were seriously wounded, I escaped with difficulty into
the territory of the little republic of San Marino,
where I was detained a few days in consequence of a
slight wound and an attack of gastric fever. On this