Excerpt from The Dawn of Italian Independence, Vol. 1 of 2: Italy From the Congress of Vienna, 1814, to the Fall of Venice, L849 This being true, how could Europe have real health, so long as one of her members Italy was sick? Servi tude debases not only the slave, but the slave-owner and those who abet him. What wealth that Austria wrung from the Italians could compensate her for the moral slough the cruelty and selfishness into which she sank in order to maintain her tyranny And what of France and England, what of Prussia and Russia, who consented to the degradation? The Italian, too, must have a voice in the Parliament of Nations he, too, must contribute to the common treasure of humanity that which he, and no other, was peculiarly adapted to produce. But first, he must be free, Italy must be an independent nation; for no man can speak the truth that is in him when the hand of an oppressor is upon his throat. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.