e you my co-operation."

The generous ardor of the Genevese _Economiste_ was not more pleasing to
behold than the filial deference of the young republican; for Sismondi
spared neither remonstrance nor advice, where he thought the interests of
his young colleague, or of the sacred cause in which he was embarked,
likely to be endangered by his precipitancy. But neither arguments nor
advice had any power over the fixed idea in Mazzini's mind that Italian
liberty was to spring forth from the Italian people, and that Italy,
formerly free in her numerous republics, would, after five hundred years
of slavery, become free again in one, alone and indivisible. Meanwhile his
journal extended its circulation and its influence: supplied through the
channel of an active correspondence with abundant information of all that
was going on in the peninsula, he astonished and excited the public more
and more every day, by the facts he laid before them; he unvailed the
cruelties of the tribunals in Romagna, of the government in Modena, of the
police in Naples; he brought forth the unhappy prisoners from their cells,
and portrayed them in every varied attitude of their sufferings, with a
vividness that thrilled the compassionate with horror, and worked the
ardent up to rage. It would be difficult for us in our own present state
of _press_ and _post_, to imagine the possibility of our counties
remaining days and weeks in ignorance of what was passing among each
other. Yet so it was in the Italian provinces: under the lynx-eyed
vigilance of government officials and spies, the public journals contained
little more than details of church ceremonies, or the local affairs of
petty municipalities: pamphlets were unknown, and news of a political kind
traveled slowly and uncertainly from mouth to mouth, always in dread of
some listening ear being ready to catch the words as they floated in the
air. Hence the transactions in Romagna and Naples were long unknown to
upper Italy; the excitement therefore that the appearance of Mazzini's
journal must have occasioned, revealing as it did facts upon facts
calculated to inspire even the most indifferent with a thirst for
vengeance, may easily be imagined, but the modes by which it found
circulation under every obstacle are more difficult to comprehend. It is
scarcely necessary to say how strictly it was prohibited throughout Italy;
the possession of it was denounced as a crime, to be punished with three
years