Capitolo 20
inhabitants are half Swiss, French mean. Their language is not
Italian, not even their habits, the test of what you/he/she is found in the
fact, that they has the true military and monarchic spirit, unknown
to the rest of Italy. According to this, it would be easier far to
you try that the Alsacians and the Bretonses are not French; the first one,
because they is the best soldiers of the empire, and because they says
_Meinherr_ when we should say _Monsieur_; the second, because them
has the true monarchic spirit, and because they calls _butun_ that that
we call _tabac_. But all the soldiers of Italy are not in Piedmont.
The King of Naples has a good army. The Great Duke of Tuscany has a
enough for his/her defense; the small Dukedoms in Modena and Parma
has an intelligent regiment or two. Lombardy, Venice, Modena and one-half
of States Papal, you/he/she has given heroes to France. Napoleon remembered
it to St. Helena; you/he/she has been written this way.
As for the spirit of the association, I don't know, where you/he/she will be found,
if not in Italy. From thing the Catholic world is governed? From a
Association. What is it but an Association of which you/they waste the income
the poor Romans? Who monopolizes their corn, their hemp, their oil?
Who places waste the forests of the State? An Association. Who take
possession of the public road, firm diligences and secular travellers under
contribution? Five or six Associations. Who holds on the nervousness to
Genoa, to Leghorn and, above all, to House? That secret Association
known as the Mazzinists.
I grant that the Romans have but a moderate respect for the law. But
truth is, there is no law in the country. They has a respect for
the Code Napoleon, since they urgently ask them him. Their thing they don't do
respect is, the official whim of their masters. Certainly I am no
defends of trouble; but when I think that a mere desire of Cardinal
Antonelli, scribbled on a sheet of paper it has the strength of law for the
present and the future, I can understand an insolent contempt of the