好热血的演说词啊
But look at the Catholic States of Europe, and what do we find, but an exhausted exchequer, the joint despotism of the Sovereign and the priest, combined with the social degradation of the people! Take the case of Italy. What have the Representatives of St. Peter done for that sunny clime and fertile country, once the home of arts and of arms of purer doctrines and of nobler principles? What is the state of Italy now? She is laid at the foot of the stranger; her government is administered by intrusive despotisms, at whose touch every thing withers. The people, it is true, have not forgotten their ancient history-they have not ceased to pant for liberty and independence. But the withering influence of Catholicism in the Italian States is not more manifest in the degradation to which they are reduced, than in the foul and abhorrent means which her patriots would avail themselves of, for her regeneration. In the Italian code of morals, the end justifies the means. They propose the dagger of the assassin as the instrument for the deliverance of the land from the iron grasp of Austria, the hypocritical dominion of the Pope, and the bloody and brutal sway of the King of Naples. They would carry on the work of Italian regeneration in the spirit of the Inquisition-plundering all that do not concur in the means, and murdering all that oppose the end. Mazzini and Felici de Orsini wish to prepare the way of the goddess of Liberty by private assassination and open massacre. Catholicism in the 11th century of the Popedom has, in its head quarters, at length prepared the people for the inauguration of the Reign of Terror. They would instil what they call Liberty, by means that an African savage would despise, and sing her "Te-Deum," not on the tombs of her martyrs, but amid the carnage of her victims. What a glorious band! These regenerators of the country of Scipio, Cicero, and Livy, must have learnt their war code from the Jesuits, and caught their plan from those princes of casuistry, the executioners of the Papal Inquisition! They cannot possibly have been learned in any less sacred school.
但让我们看看欧洲的天主教国家,我们发现了什么呢?是一个国库空虚、君主与神父共同专制,以及人民社会地位低下的局面!以意大利为例。圣彼得的代表们为这片阳光明媚、土地肥沃的国度——曾经是艺术、军事、更纯粹的教义和更高尚原则的摇篮——做了些什么呢?现在的意大利又是怎样的呢?她已沦为他国之臣;她的政府由专横的外来势力统治,所到之处,万物凋零。的确,意大利人民并未忘记他们的古老历史——他们也从未停止对自由和独立的渴望。然而,天主教在意大利各邦国中造成的衰败影响,不仅体现在这些邦国被贬低的地位上,更体现在那些爱国者为了国家的复兴而采取的卑鄙和令人憎恶的手段上。在意大利的道德准则中,目的可以证明手段的正当性。他们提出以刺客的匕首为工具,将意大利从奥地利的铁腕统治、教皇的虚伪统治以及那不勒斯国王的血腥暴政中解放出来。他们将以宗教裁判所的精神进行意大利的复兴——掠夺所有不认同他们手段的人,杀害所有反对他们目的的人。马志尼和费利切·德·奥尔西尼希望通过暗杀和公开屠杀为自由女神铺平道路。在教皇统治的第11个世纪,天主教在其大本营最终为恐怖统治的降临做好了人民的准备。他们打算以一种连非洲野蛮人都会鄙视的手段来灌输他们所谓的自由,他们不会在烈士的坟墓上高唱“感恩赞美诗”,而是会在受害者的屠杀中吟唱。多么光荣的一群人啊!这些西庇阿、西塞罗和李维祖国的复兴者,一定是从耶稣会士那里学到了他们的战争准则,从教皇宗教裁判所那些诡辩高手那里学到了他们的计划!他们不可能是在任何不那么神圣的学校里学到这些的。