Excerpt from Italy, Austria, and the Pope: A Letter to Sir James Graham, Bart
Sir,
I thank you much for having afforded me the long desired apportunity, to lay before a free nation, full of generous instincts, the sorrows of a brave, unhappy, misunderstood people: - to depose at its bar the complaints of twenty two millions of men, whose fathers headed the march of civilisation in Europe, and who demand for themselves and that same Europe, to be made partakers of the large, free, active and continually progressive life which God has ordained for his creatures.
By the spiritual and temporal, the domestic and foreign oppressions that lie heavy upon them, - they are to-day deprived of all liberty of thought, of speech, and of action.
You, Sir, so far as in you lay, have aggravated our unhappy position.
When you opened my correspondence at the desire of one or several of our governments, you scattered germs of mistrust in the heart of our youth - you proved to them that the Union of the Governments against us is complete, - you destroyed the prestige which in their eyes attached itself to the respected name of England.
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