Danger in the Dark - ZseZse

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DANGER IN THE DARK.
which the Freemen and Freewomen, had the temerity
to offer the Nuncio."
"Think you, the Society of Freemen intended no
violence Y"
"If they contemplated anything rash, they would'
certainly have left their women and children at homei
and they say, they had not the most remote thought
of injuring anyone, either in person or property.
Indeed, there is no reason whatever, to suppose they
intended anything more than to exhibit publicly their
contempt for Bedini, the atrocious assassin of Ugo
Bassi. And that, they had the unquestionable right
to do if they chose."
The Romish clergy of this country, finding that
Bedini was getting in worse repute among the Amerlcan
people, the longer he stayed, and that such developments
were being made with regard to his scan-
'dalous life, as to bring reproach upon themselves,
advised him to hasten away. The charges preferred
against him by Father Gavazzi and the Italian exiles
in New York, being fully substantiated, however,
before he was able to get out of the country, the
guilty wretch became dreadfully terror-stricken, and
concealed himself several days in N ew York, guarded
by Irishmen and the Police. He finally sailed for
Europe, on board the steamer Atlantic. Upon his
exit, the Louisville Pioneer, a German paper, comments
in the following style: "It thus appears that
the mission to Braail was either ~n impudent fabrica-