Italy in the nineteenth century and the making of Austria-Hungary and Germany . y the doom of oppression were takenfrom her. She has rich mines of gold, silver, copper, quick-silver, antimony, iron, salt, sulphur, nickel, and opal. Shehas the richest salt mines in the world, where it costs buttwenty-five cents to extract one hundredweight of thepurest rock salt, which is sold by the government for fromtwo to more than three dollars. The government? No ! —there is no government in Hungary ! It is usurpation, nowsucking out the life-blood of the people, crushing the spiritof freedom by soldiers,
Italy in the nineteenth century and the making of Austria-Hungary and Germany . y the doom of oppression were takenfrom her. She has rich mines of gold, silver, copper, quick-silver, antimony, iron, salt, sulphur, nickel, and opal. Shehas the richest salt mines in the world, where it costs buttwenty-five cents to extract one hundredweight of thepurest rock salt, which is sold by the government for fromtwo to more than three dollars. The government? No ! —there is no government in Hungary ! It is usurpation, nowsucking out the life-blood of the people, crushing the spiritof freedom by soldiers, hangmen, and policemen, — andharassing the people in its domestic life and the sanctuaryof family life, with oppression v/orse than any American canconceive. It was thus in 1852. In this year, 1896, the Hungariansare celebrating their millennial jubilee with overflowinghearts of thankfulness and wild enthusiasm. But it is onlyindirectly to Kossuth that this end is due. After his return from America he retired to Turin; andwe shall again meet with him in Italian KING VICTOR EMMANUEL CHAPTER IX. VICTOR EMMANUEL. AT the close of the year 1849 there seemed a pause in?^^ the history of ItaUan affairs. It was like the cele-brated official announcement: Order reigns in Warsaw,when that city lay bound and bleeding, life and spiritcrushed out of her, at the feet of her oppressor. Romehad fallen before the army of the French, and the Pope waspreparing to return from Gaeta, where he had been holdingCourt with King Bomba, turned out of Naples, and theArchduke Leopold, self-exiled from Tuscany. Bomba wentback to his dominions to practise untold cruelties upon hissubjects for another ten years; Leopold, more mild, wentback to Tuscany and governed thenceforth like a well-behaved Archduke, virtually a vassal of Austria. Venice andLombardy had been given back to the hated stranger. The government of Austria had always been milder thanthat of the large majority of Italian princes,
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