My dear Signore Rossetti,
I have managed with Vantini through a different method; anyhow, I thank you for the intention, and for what you did for my client.
If you will send an order to Rolandi to deliver, to some one on my behalf, a certain number of copies of your booklet, I will send them, four days hence, by an opportunity to Spain. At present I have no opportunity as to Switzerland, but I have correspondents there; and, were the chance to present itself to you sooner than to me, address to Signor Fanciola, Postmaster at Locarno (Ticino) for “Signor Pietro Ol——”; and the copies will be distributed in accordance with your intentions.
I have promised to send to a friend in New York the copy of the Papal Excommunication of Carbonarism—launched, I think, in 1820. Do you happen to know where I could find it?
I am aware of your circumstances;[93] but what is requested of you would be no more than the influence of your name among the Italians who know you. The object is to have you as our brother in our Association, so that to any inquirer one could say—“All those who truly love the cause of their country have comprehended that unity of country cannot be founded without unity of association.” There would be a slight monthly contribution fixed by yourself; there would be (and this is the most serious condition, but, as you will see, inevitable) the certainty that, in writing about our country, you would leave off recommending monarchic constitutionalism, and repeat with us: “May God and the People be the salvation of Italy!” And these, for us who are abroad, are about the only conditions of the Association. For the rest, I believe that a copy of our General Instruction, given to you by Pistrucci, has remained in your hands. The whole of our thought is there expressed; and, if one day you feel able to say “I accept it and make it mine,” you will be received by us with joy and sincere brotherliness.
Meanwhile good-bye, and believe me
Yours,
Giuseppe Mazzini.
If you like, you should place at my disposal a certain number of copies for Marseilles, and for Italy in that direction; I will provide for their reaching.