In separating myself from you, whom I love as the representatives of a sublime idea—the idea of Italian deliverance—I am excited and sad; but consolation comes in the certainty that I shall very soon be among you again, to aid you in finishing the work so gloriously begun.
Announcing a temporary separation from his forces, he expressed his emotional attachment and certainty of returning to complete their mission.
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Let no one misunderstand my words—let no one confound Popery with Christianity—the Religion of Liberty with the avaricious and sanguinary Politics of Slavery.
I love and venerate the religion of Christ, because Christ came into the world to deliver humanity from slavery, for which God has not created it.
You who are here—you, the educated and cultivated portion of the citizenship—you have the duty to educate the people.
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