The General had first to think how to let his bomb-shells by hundreds fall, not upon the foreigners who defend Rome, but upon the heads of the harmless population whom he has come to protect.
Garibaldi sarcastically condemns a general's actions, highlighting the hypocrisy of claiming to protect a population while bombarding them.
Share
More from Giuseppe Garibaldi
Spurning every suggestion of fear, she came forward to the assistance of the tortured prisoner; and from that time I wanted nothing—thanks to my benefactress!
How everything is embellished by the feelings of youth, and how beautiful appeared, to my ardent eyes, the bark in which I was to navigate the Mediterranean, when I stepped on board as a sailor for the first time!
Be great, then, once more, O Italy! and then the powerful voice of the Almighty will be heard by all thy sons; and the hungry and cowardly vultures which destroy thee, will be stunned by its thundering sound.
She will feel the want of them in the day when she shall rise to drive the ravens from the corpses which they devour.
Other voices in this conversation
