o formulate the following terrible rebuke,
which was denounced as seditious, but which history has already confirmed
as a sentence:

"Pilate had it in his power to save Christ, and without Pilate He could
not be put to death. The death-warrant could only come from him; _nobis
non licet interficere_, said the Jews. Wash thy hands, O Pilate! declare
thyself guiltless of the death of Christ. Our only answer every day will
be, and the latest posterity will repeat the same: I believe in Jesus
Christ, the only Son of the Father, who was conceived of the Holy Ghost,
who was born of the Virgin Mary, who suffered death and passion under
Pontius Pilate; _Quipassus est sub Pontio Pilato_."

It was no secret when these words were spoken, as it was to Lamoriciere
and his brave army, that the government of the French Emperor encouraged
and patronized the iniquitous aggressions of Piedmont, whilst it
pretended, in the face of Europe, to support the Holy See.

(M77) "It was not Garibaldi and his volunteers," said the Revue des deux
Mondes, "that General Lamoriciere had to fight; the odds in that case
would not have been so unequal. But he had the regular army of Piedmont
before him--an army six times more numerous than his own. Nor was it the
attack merely of a revolutionary party which was now directed against the
temporal power of the Papacy. It was a government incomparably more
powerful than the Pope's, which decreed arbitrarily itself alone, and in
the face of the other nations of the world, the suppression of this power,
and which accomplished that suppression by the irresistible force of its
arms, and under the eyes of our garrison in Rome." Whilst Austria, not
from any want of sympathy with the Holy See, but from the dread her
cautious ministry, who had penetrated the designs of France, entertained
of a new French invasion, looked tamely on from the heights of her
quadrilateral, the French Emperor secretly expressed his approval of the
Piedmontese attack on the Papal States, and at the same time publicly
withdrew his ambassador at Turin, as a protest in the face of mankind
against this unprovoked and unjustifiable attack. England, which could not
be supposed to have much sympathy with the Holy See, notwithstanding the
declarations of her best statesmen in support of the temporal sovereignty,
openly pronounced in favor of the Piedmontese aggression on the Pope, who,
in trying times, had been her most faithful ally. But the days