Two Letters to the Earl of Aberdeen, on the State Prosecutions of the Neopolitan Government (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Gladstone, William Ewart

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0259283622 ISBN 13: 9780259283621

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

Excerpt from Two Letters to the Earl of Aberdeen, on the State Prosecutions of the Neopolitan Government

Without entering at length into the reasons which have led me thus to trouble you, I shall state these three only; first, that the present practices of the Government of Naples, in reference to real or supposed political offenders, are an outrage upon religion, upon civilization, upon humanity, and upon decency. Secondly, that these practices are certainly, and even rapidly, doing the work of republicanism in that country a political creed, which has little natural or habitual root in the character of the people. Thirdly, that as a member of the Conservative party in one of the great family of European nations, I am compelled to remember, that that party stands in virtual and real, though perhaps unconscious, alliance with all the established Governments of Europe as such; and that, according to the measure of its influence, they suffer more or less of moral detriment from its reverses, and derive strength and encouragement from its successes. This principle, which applies with very limited force to the powerful States, whose Governments are strong, not only in military organization, but in the habits and affections of the people, isa principle of great practical importance in reference to the Government of Naples, which, from whatever cause, appears to view its own social, like its physical, position, as one under the shadow of a volcano, and which is doing everything in its power from day to day to give reality to its own dangers, and fresh intensity, together with fresh cause, to its fears.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0259283622
• ISBN 13: 9780259283621
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 150
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