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, ori which are inscribed the words “Union of National Emancipation.” The saying of Robespierre, “ Crush by means of terrorism the ene-| mies of the people, and the honour of establishing the Republic will be yours,” and a line from Nekrassoff’s poems, “ Our cause stands firmly, for it is based on blood,” ai’e cited as the mottoes of the society. The following are the most remarkable passages of the proclamation :•“ True-hearted people, awake, take up arms agaihst the tyrants, and revenge yourselves on your garotters ! 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 nationalschools to the old men of the reserve who have been called to arms, on the while life of man from the cradle to the, grave, on all the physical and inteleec-: -daial capacity of our brothers and sisters, weighs the heavy hand of the Czar, crushing down everything, degrading everything to; be the tools of his arbitary will. . . . The deficit in the trrasttry can no: longer be- .covered. Mens are destroyed, aud famine and epidemics are the cshsequence. Scarcely has one war been ended, and now another and a much more dangerous one is in preparation, ilt is impossible to see the end of the misery to which a nation of 90,000,000 is doomed.
. . v ; Will yon bear this > yoke any longer ? , Will you , endure still to lie the laughing stocks of Europe 1 ? Up brothers and sisters, to arms ! Arise, in the name pf progress, of freedom, and of our rights ! Europe, who has hitherto despised our servillity, will henceforward respect us, for we are determimed to make ourselves a free people. 7 ’ ’ _
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Kumara Times, Issue 558, 11 July 1878, Page 2
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