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Title: Italy in the nineteenth century and the making of Austria-Hungary and Germany
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Latimer, Elizabeth Wormeley, 1822-1904 A.C. McClurg & Co
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Publisher: Chicago, A.C. McClurg and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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on. He said to them : — True to the creed of my fathers, and, like them, constant inmy homage to the Supreme Head of the Church, whenever ithappens that the ecclesiastical authority employs spiritual armsm support of temporal interests, I shall find in my steadfastconscience and in the very traditions of my ancestors the powerto maintain civil liberty in its integrity and my own authority ;for which I hold myself accountable to God alone, and to mypeople. . . . Our country becomes henceforth the Italy of theItalians. In April, i860, Victor Emmanuel and Cavour set out ona journey through the Kings new dominions. Such joy aswas everywhere displayed was unprecedented. What areyou clapping so frantically for? asked a foreigner of ayoung lad in Florence, who seemed out of his senses at thesight of the King. We are eleven millions of Italians ! was the answer. All the men of letters in Italy contributedto Victor Emmanuels triumph, — and yet I am nothingbut a soldier, he repeatedly said.
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GIUSEPPE GARIBALDI. CHAPTER XI. GARIBALDI. T^O effect the union of eleven millions of Italians into oneKingdom of Northern Italy had cost terrible sacri-fices. The Emperor Napoleon, who had begun his schemesfor interference in the affairs of Italy with a project forestablishing French influence in the peninsula, in place ofthat of Austria, had at first planned to place a Murat on thethrone of the two Sicilies, and Prince Jerome Napoleon onthat of Tuscany (the Napoleonic kingdom of Etruria),while he himself maintained an army of occupation inRome. Events had not moved exactly as he wished, andhe perceived that if he hoped to establish French influencein Southern Italy he would have to give up the duchies(Tuscany, Parma, Lucca, and Modena) and the northernlegations. It would, he found, be impossible to stem thecurrent of popular feeling in these provinces, which hadbeen wisely governed ad interim by friends or agents ofVictor Emmanuel. These States had all sent deputations tothe King of

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