Italy in the nineteenth century and the making of Austria-Hungary and Germany . f the society; heabhorred its secrecies, its mysteries, and its ordeals of ini-tiation. During his imprisonment at Savona he thought outa plan for a far simpler, and, as he hoped, a far more effect-ive, organization, — that afterwards known as Young had obtained his liberty before the death of CharlesFelix, and was at Marseilles at the time of the accession ofCharles Albert, to whom he addressed a letter, appealingto him to come forward and to put himself at the head ofa national movement for the unity of
Italy in the nineteenth century and the making of Austria-Hungary and Germany . f the society; heabhorred its secrecies, its mysteries, and its ordeals of ini-tiation. During his imprisonment at Savona he thought outa plan for a far simpler, and, as he hoped, a far more effect-ive, organization, — that afterwards known as Young had obtained his liberty before the death of CharlesFelix, and was at Marseilles at the time of the accession ofCharles Albert, to whom he addressed a letter, appealingto him to come forward and to put himself at the head ofa national movement for the unity of Italy. Italian unityabove and before all things was the object of Young Italy, —the form of government in a united Italy might afterwardssettle itself. The oath taken by those who entered thesociety was, as we have seen, of the simplest kind. Theywere bound, by promise to God and by their honor, to doall in their power to promote the welfare and the unity ofItaly, even should it be by the sacrifice of their lives. Living at Marseilles, and there publishing a paper called. EMPRESS MARIA LOUISA. ITALY EARLY IN THE CENTURY. 29 Young Italy, Mazzini made use of the facilities afforded himby the commercial relations of the place to aid his propa-ganda. One of his agents, serving on board an Italian mer-chantman, trading to Taganrog, on the sea of Azof, there meta young Italian whom he easily interested in the new was Giuseppe Garibaldi. Cavour at the same date wasin disgrace, having been removed from his work as an en-gineer officer in Genoa, on account of his political opinions. Mazzinis personal convictions were in favor of a republicanform of government. He believed that the will of the na-tion should rule, expressed through its elected delegates,— a noble thing not easily carried out when parties are gov-erned by self-interest, and when disgust at the course ofpoliticians puts the best men of the nation out of sympathywith affairs of state. The theory must be set
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