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sight,,in which 'the general council 
of the department lighted the torch 
of civil war, and reared the stand 
ard of rebellion in the si: disaw? as- 
sembly of Worsica. If youhad then 
been commanded by energetic pa- 
triots, they would, by enlightening 
the people, have neurralized the 
influence of the traitor, who, while 
preaching liberty, sought only the 
means of ens aving you ; and, if the 
administrators had then done their 
duty, they would have prevented 
those evils which have been the 
necessary result of this first aét of 
‘rebellion,: and you would not now 
have had occasion to blush at those 
disastrous events which have been 
the consequence of the errors into 
which by degrees you were mis- 
led. 
The constitution insured to you 
not only the free exercise of your 
Civil and political rights, but,also 
that of reiigion, which has been so 
strangely abused for the purpose of 
deceiving you. The Engiish had 
become the friends, the protectors 
of the pope; thus men without 
probity, and without virtue, de- 
plored the decay of religion, and 
the ery of impiety was raised by 
those whose days were numbered. 
only by the crimes they had com- 
mitted, and by the immoral ac- 
tions which disgraced them. 
Ye ministers of religion! the 
constitution secures to you the free- 
dom of worship; the goyernment 
respects those who profess the doc- 
trines of the gospel; and the con- 
sciences of citizens are a sacred 
asylum into which the eye of its 
agents does not penetrate ; but 
those who would preach discord in 
the name of the God of peace ; those 
who would abuse the sacred mini- 
stry which they are called to fill, 
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and who would corrupt public opi- 
nion by the poison of fanaticism ; 
such are men to whom the rigour of 
republican laws extends its severest 
punishments-—a rigour enjoined 
both by policy and by respect for 
religion, 
Ye numerous patriots, who dur- 
ing three years have groaned un- 
der the rod of those proud masters 
to whom you were sold, while you 
sighed for the moment in which 
you might take up arms to vindi- 
cate your rights; and above all, 
ye who, to secure the happiness of 
your country, have preferred exile 
to the shame of obeying a king; 
whose generons devotion to the ser- 
vice of your country has overcome 
all obstacles, has endured all wants, 
and has braved all dangers—it is 
your's to give the first example of 
civic virtue. 
“At the approach of the arms of 
the republic, those traitors; who 
had been most guilty, disappeared ; 
no longer would they tread the 
ground they had sought to. disho- 
nour. without finding death at 
hand; and should any be found to 
remain in the country, the law will 
speedily overtake them; but in 
others it behoves you to see mis- 
taken brethren, who, returning to 
their right reason, will merit by 
republican conduét your virtue and 
your esteem. Be united ; forget 
your divisions, and unanimously 
swear on the altar of your country, 
and by the manes of your compa- 
nions in danger and in glory, who 
died in battle in defence of the re- 
public, eternal hatred to riyalty. 
Givenat Bastia, the 24th of Nov. 
sth year of the republic, one 
and indivisible. 
SALICETTI. 
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