Rassegna storica del Risorgimento

Battaglie democratiche e Risorgimento in un carteggio inedito, ecc. 921
A national rising will, no doubt, take place in Italy at no distant period. Material help is needed to strengthen it during the first days-to help ali oux officerà, now scattered in distant lands and poor, to join and lead-to open in the interrai, the doors of their prisons to as many as possible. And moral help is needed, to encourage the sufferers-to prevent those who die from despairing in their last hour-to teach the wanderers the sacredness to the cause, through the sympathies of their foreign brethern-to show them that, if tyrants have entered into a com­pact of persecution, peoples too are united, and will, soon or late, rise in a brotherly spirit to cancel for ever every vestigc of oppression now defacing God's earth.
I trust you will persist in your activity for the Shilling Subscrip tion . I thank you for your efforts in the name of ali my countrymen, and am, dear Sir, yours faithfully.
Joseph Mazzini. To Mr. G. J. Holyoake (pubblicata nei n. 324 del Reasoner con l'intestazione: To the Editor of the Reasoner, Chelsea, Aug. 3, 1852).
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(London), September 17 (1852)
My dear Sir, you at least will not find strange and irrational what I am going to say. Mrs. Le Blond, Trevilyan and Birch did lend, I think mainly through you, a sum of fifty pounds or more each to Kossuth; and that on a piwer given by Kossuth to me, before his first arrivai in London. This sum has now at least given back to me, and I am about giving it to James Stansfeld who will in his tura offer it back to the suscribers. I do not know those gentleman personally: but from ali I have heard about them and from the readiness with which they complied then with the wishes of Kossuth, I am bound to believe that they are men who want to give to the cause they approve something more than words and barren sympathies. And it is ingrounded on such a belief that I wish you to teli them in my own name, that if ever the National Italian cause has had a claixn to a material help from those who believe in her sacredness, it has now; and that any offering they would find disposed to volunteer for its success, would be welcome and more useful now than ever. I said National Italian cause , I could have said European Freedom's cause . For, through our aims, principles, schemes, acts and necessities the cause of Italy is intimately and unavoidably connected with the cause of the general movement, I consider Italy as a legion in the great democratic army, whose action must be general and simultaneous. I mention Italy, only because I, an Italian, would have the management of any fund entering from such offerings.
I would have hesitaded to address such a request, had not the thought been very naturally suggcsted by this reimbursement of the money offered to Kossuth. It struck me, on one side, that the very fact of their having offered that sum to Kossuth was implying their good will towards the Italian cause so intimately linked with the Iiungarian cause and on the other, that the best time for realizing that good will was for them the moment in which they were receiving a sum, about which, I believe, they had been ali this while thinking very little.
Ever yours sincerely
Jos. Mazzini.
15 Radnor Street King's Road
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