THE REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1385, 24 July 1878, Page 3

THE REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA.

A revolutionary proclamation has, according to a letter from Warsaw in the “ Deutsche Zeitung ” of Vienna, been circulated by a hitherto undiscovered agency in all the principal towns and villages of the Russian Empire. It bears the title of “ Revolutionary Statement” (Rewolucionnaya rasprawa), is dated the 7th of April, 1878, and is sealed with a red seal, on which are inscribed the words, “ Obczestwo Narodnatio Oswobadzenya ” (Union of National Emancipation). The saying of Robespierre, “ Crush by means of terrorism the enemies of the people, and the honor of establishing the Republic will be yours,” and a line from Nekrassoff’s poems, “ Our cause stands firmly, for it is based on blood,” are cited as the mo 1 toes of the society. The following are the most remarkable passages of the proclamation : “ True-hearted people, awake, take up arms against the tyrants and revenge yourself on your garrotters! Now is your opportunity, for the state of affairs in Russia has become intolerable and unsustainable. From one end of the country to the other there is no place where a man can feel safe against the accomplices of the Czar On all, without exception, from the children in the national schools to the old men of the reserve who have been called to arms, on the whole life of man from the cradle to the grave, on all o 'the physical and intellectual capacity of our brothers and sisters, weighs the heavy hand of the Czar, crushing down everything, degrading everything to be the tools of his arbitrary will The deficit in the Treasury can no longer be covered. Men’s lifes are destroyed, and famine and epidemics are the consequence. Scarcely has one war been ended, and now another and a much more dangerous one is in preparation. It is impossible to see the end of the misery to which a nation of 90,000,000 is doomed. . . . . Will you bear this yoke any longer ? Will you endure still to be the laughing-stocks of Europe ? Up, brothers and sisters, to arms ! Arise, in the name of progress, of freedom, and of our rights;! Europe, who has hitherto despised us because of our servility, will henceforward respect us, for we are determined to make ourselves a free people.”