It may be so, but the fact is they are not; and that they are both prosperous and happy under the rule of Victor Emmanuel ever since the great Lombard campaign, when the French armies at Solferino destroyed the Austrian power, the key-stone of the whole priest-despot rule in Italy.

I have been living, with but short intervals, in different parts of this Italian land.

Wherever the free national government has spread, I can see the growth of prosperity and happiness.
There have been, there are, and there will be partial reactions, petty disturbances; but they are but eddies in the great, deep, resistless current.

Go to Bologna, or Ferrara, or Ancona, and you will find them, as I have, passed from dead desolation into active life.

Commerce is flourishing, order prevails, and the people are free and full of life.
These are facts on which both Protestant and Catholic can judge; and Catholics, as well as Protestants, will tell you the same thing.