This little drama is performed more than four times a day in the Papal States, as is proved by the Government statistics of 1853.

It is a great misfortune for the country, and a serious danger for Europe.

The school of the knife, founded at Rome, establishes branches in foreign lands.

We have seen the holiest interests of civilization placed under the knife, and all the honest people in the world, the Pope himself included, shuddered at the sight.
It would cost his Holiness very little trouble to snatch the knife from the hands of his subjects.

We don't ask him to begin over again the education of his people, which would take time, or even to increase the attractions of civil justice, so as to substitute litigants for assassins.