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Still, in order to afford some sort of satisfaction to the conscience of Europe, Pius IX. promised to place the finances under the control of a sort of Chamber of Deputies. Here is the text of this promise, which figured, with many others, in the Motu Proprio of the 12th of September, 1849. "A Consulta di Stato for the Finances is established.
They work hard enough, and their only pleasure is seeing your fine shows and processions; and then they go home and say, 'See, our man beats all the Barons! what state he keeps!" "Ah! they blame not my splendour, then!" "Blame it; no! Without it they would be ashamed of you, and think the Buono Stato but a shabby concern." "You speak bluntly, Cecco, but perhaps wisely. The saints keep you!
So great was the popular fervour, and so much had it been refined and deepened in its tone by the addresses of Rienzi, that even the most indifferent had caught the contagion: and no man liked to be seen shrinking from the rest: so that the most neutral, knowing themselves the most marked, were the most entrapped into allegiance to the Buono Stato.
He sent to the Tyrol the following letter regarding Hofer's death: MANTOVA, li 21, Febrajo, 1810. "Ieri poco primo del mezzo giorno e stato fueillato il Signore Andreas Hofer, gia commandante del Tirolo.
Italy and France are making violent endeavours to escape their doom, by restricting the liberties of the official representatives of their legally established Church, because they instinctively feel that their dogmatics mean death to the peoples who live by them. Hence, the cry, le cléricalisme, voila l'enemi! in France, and the libera chiesa in libero stato! in Italy.
On the very first page of his preface Varchi dares to write these words respecting Florence 'divenne, dico, di stato piuttosto corrotto e licenzioso, tirannide, che di sana e moderata repubblica, principato'; in which he deals blame with impartial justice all round.
Rienzi, with a chosen band of conspirators, and accompanied by the papal vicar, who had every interest in weakening the baronage, proceeded to the Capitol, and, amid the applause of the mob, promulgated the laws of the buono stato. He himself took the title of tribune, in order to emphasize his championship of the lower classes. The most important of his laws were for the maintenance of order.
Accordingly, as soon as Raimond had uttered a short and pompous harangue, in which his eager acceptance of the honour proposed him was ludicrously contrasted by his embarrassed desire not to involve himself or the Pope in any untoward consequences that might ensue, Rienzi motioned to two heralds that stood behind upon the platform, and one of these advancing, proclaimed "That as it was desirable that all hitherto neuter should now profess themselves friends or foes, so they were invited to take at once the oath of obedience to the laws, and subscription to the Buono Stato."
The aggrieved artist, a man of large proportions, very truculent of aspect, with a loud voice and a savage frown, sprang upon his critic, and dealt him such a blow upon the nose, that the bone and cartilage yielded under his hand, according to his own account, as if they had been made of dough, "come se fosse stato un cialdone."
My Lord Gianni Colonna, whom we have made Captain over Campagna, you will not refuse a cup to the Buono Stato; nor think we mistrust your valour, when we say, that we rejoice Rome hath no enemies to attest your generalship." "Methinks," quoth the old Colonna, bluntly, "we shall have enemies enough from Bohemia and Bavaria, ere the next harvest be green."
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