SIRE: Your majesty knows the high esteem and the devotion which I feel toward your majesty; but such is the present state of things in Italy, that, at the present moment, I cannot obey your majesty's injunctions, much as I should like it.
From his reply to King Victor Emanuel II, Garibaldi explains why he cannot immediately follow the king's orders regarding the unification of Italy.
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