We have said it, and we repeat it, and we will repeat it always: The Republic arose in Rome by universal suffrage; rose on the ruins of the throne of the Popes, which the cry of all Europe, the maledictions of all civilized nations, and the spirit of the Gospel, had crumbled into dust.
Reflecting on the establishment of the Roman Republic, Garibaldi asserts its democratic legitimacy and the historical rejection of the Pope's temporal rule.
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