Danger in the Dark - ZseZse

DANGER IN THE DARK. 271
did not Bedini send for the proofs of the innocence
which his defenders allege? It would have been an
easy thing to do so, because the deed was no secret,
and in fifteen days a letter can reach here from Bologna.
I received the news of the condemnation and
death of Bassi at San Marino, which is about seventy
miles distant. All cursed Bedini for this execution.
A few days after, I succeeded in taking refuge in
Piedmont. Here the papers were full of the event j
the liberal ones accused Bedini, the Reactionary,
which are il Catolici of Genoa l'Armonia and 10
Smascheratore of Turin, defended him;' they did not
deny the fact, but lauded him for having slain Bassi,
whom they loaded with calumny. I wrote at that
time, some articles upon the subject for a Genoese
paper, called Italia, but I was notified by the police,
that being an emigre, I had no right to the liberty of
the press, and I abandoned the controversy. I then
went to Turin, and remained there until last February,
The persons who came from Bologna and the Piedmontese
papers, even the most moderate, always spoke
against the wicked actions of Bedini. He had revived
torture for political prisoners j he denied passports to
wives who wished to rejoin their exiled husbands; and
forbade the return of sons who went to visit their
banished parents. It would take too long to recount
all his misdeeds. I have proved two of the gravest,
and am sufficiently repaid in being able to give the lie
to the praises lavished upon him by the deluded.
But the American people have shown themselves