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LIFE IN TURIN. 191
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and one or two others of the same family , alone enjoy free circulation . Beside all these claims to consideration , peculiar interest just
then attached itself to the marquis and his protege . Returned as deputies at the beginning" of the winter , their elections had recently
been declared invalid on the grounds of religious intimidation exercised upon the voters by the parish priest ; and the result of a
new canvass proving unfavorable , nothing remained for them but to assume the palm of political martyrdom .
" Talk of liberty , comtesse ! " cried a very infirm old general , wnom I remembered having heard of as one of the incapables in
the first campaign of Lombardy , as , quite excited from a conversation with the victimshe broke the formal circle , and drew a chair
, in front of her : ' * talk of liberty , why M . de Cavour in this late affair has shown himself a perfect despot—a despot without reason
or conscience ! Who are to advise the common people to use their rihtssince they are forsooth to have them , except their natural
counsellors g , , their priests and spiritual directors ? " Not caring to argue whether the means employed on the occasion
referred _tosiich as refusal of absolution and the sacraments , did not exceed , the limits usually supposed to constitute advice , I asked
whether M . de Cavour had , on his sole authority , instituted this inquiry .
" Oh , of course there was the farce of a commission appointed bthe chamberor rather by that majority which is his tool , a
majorit y y of lawyers , / That despicable class which of late years has invaded every department of the state , and by their plausibility and
intrigues are bidding fair to sweep away all that our forefathers held honorable or sacred . And then , as if lawyers of our own
were not curse enough , we have shoals of them among the immigrants , admitted to the parliament , yes , even to the ministry !"
" Ah , true , " sig _* hed the comtesse , " we are in a sad position ; still we must not lose hope . Whenever I am unusually depressed ,
constancy I go and see and the courage Duchesse . Do de you remember , she is , one general in a , thousand her spirited for
conduct eight years ago , at the time the government had confined Monseigneur Franzoni , the archbishop , in the citadel ? "
For the information of those who may have forgotten an occurrence which at the moment attracted all Europe's attention , it is
necessary briefly to mention that the archbishop's offence consisted in torilrefusing the last consolations of religion to the
Cavaliere peremp di San y to Rosa on his death-bed , unless he solemnly retracted the share he had borne , as one of the ministry , in the
promulgation of some ecclesiastical reforms . Not choosing to do violence to his conscience , the dying man , though devoutly attached
to the observances of his church , expired , amidst the tears of his wife and friendswithout receiving the viaticum or extreme unction .
It was as a satisfaction , to the popular indignation , at this act of clerical intoleranceas well its to vindicate the authority of the
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Life In Turin. 191
LIFE IN TURIN . 191
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1859, page 191, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111859/page/47/
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