‘In the toast proposed by me I unite all that we love, all for which we
are struggling—
To the freedom of the Peoples;
To the union of the Peoples;
To the man who in our day stands as the living incarnation of
these great ideas,
To Giuseppe Garibaldi;
To unhappy, holy, heroic Poland, whose sons for more than a
year have been fighting in silence and dying for freedom;
To young Russia, which under the standard of Zemlya i Volya
(Land and Freedom) will soon hold out the hand of brotherhood
to Poland, will recognise her equality, her independence, and
efface the memory of imperial Russia;
To those Russians who following our friend Herzen are working
their utmost for the development of that Russia;
To the religion of duty which gives us the strength to struggle
and die for these ideas!’