"Let your windows remain closed as they pass.
"Never attend their feasts, their parades.
"Regard the harmony of their musical bands as tones of slavery, and, when you hear them, fly.
"Let the liberticide soldier be condemned to isolation; let him atone in solitude and contempt for having served priests and kings.
"And you, Roman women, masterpiece of God's work! deign no look, no smile, to those satellites of an abhorred Pope! Cursed be she who, before the odious satellites of Austria, forgets that she is Italian! Her name shall be published for the execration of all her people! And even the courtesans! let them show love for their country, and thus regain the dignity of citizens!
"And our word of order, our cry of reunion and emancipation, be now and ever, VIVA LA REPUBLICA!
"This incessant cry, which not even French slaves can dispute, shall prepare us to administer the bequest of our martyrs, shall be consoling dew to the immaculate and holy bones that repose, sublime holocaust of faith and of love, near our walls, and make doubly divine the Eternal City. In this cry we shall find ourselves always brothers, and we shall conquer. Viva Rome, the capital of Italy! Viva the Italy of the people! Viva the Roman Republic!
"A ROMAN.
"Rome, July 4, 1849."
Yes; July 4th, the day so joyously celebrated in our land, is that of the entrance of the French into Rome!