Moreover, the hidden Mazzinists, who agitate throughout the city, don't collect the workmen in the quarter of the _Regola_ to preach submission to them.
I have said that the plebeians of the city of Rome despise the plebeians of the country.

Be assured, however, the latter are not deserving of scorn, even in the Mediterranean provinces.

In this unhappy half of the Pontifical States, the influence of the Vatican has not yet quite morally destroyed the population.

The country people are poor, ignorant, superstitious, rather wild, but kind, hospitable, and generally honest.

If you wish to study them more closely, go to one of the villages in the province of Frosinone, towards the Neapolitan frontier.