The people, although few, compared with the numbers which that large and fertile island might sustain under a better government, have made repeated and strenuous efforts to obtain their freedom, and submitted only to overwhelming and irresistible force.
Garibaldi praises the persistent and valiant struggles of the Sicilian people for freedom, noting their submission only to overwhelming power.
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