I'd have Rome the capital, myself president, Garibaldi commander-in-chief, Mazzini secretary of state--a man, Sir, that can lick even Bill Seward himself in a regular, old-fashioned, tonguey, subtile, diplomatic note.

And in that case, with a few live men at the head of affairs, where would Victor Emanuel be?
Emphatically, nowhere! "Why, Sir," continued the Baron, "I'd engage to take this city as it is, and the office of Pope, and run the whole Roman Catholic Church, till it knocked out all opposition by the simple and natural process of absorbing all opponents.

We want a republic here in Rome.

We want freedom, Sir.

Where is the Church making its greatest triumphs to-day?
In the States, Sir.