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Garibaldi As An Executive Reform

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Parent Issue
Day
27
Month
July
Year
1860
Copyright
Public Domain
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er. - Garibaldi has ïssuod tho following decrees : ' Cunsidering that a free people fihould abolLsh every custom whioh calis tö niind the old state of slavory : Art. 1. The titlo of excelleney is aboïished, without respect of person. Art. 2. Doin homage by kissing hands is prohibited." Tliis ducrec, if actod tipon, is, in itpelf, a social ravolution. In Sicily, the lower order calis almost every well dresacd man Lis excullency, and kissing the hand is a uornmon oomplimont paid by a tenant to a lnndlord.