THE NIHILISTS’ LATEST MANIFESTO.

Kumara Times, Issue 1077, 13 March 1880, Page 4

THE NIHILISTS’ LATEST MANIFESTO.

The Voltaire says the following letter was found on the Czar’s bedroom table on the 20th inst. . —*‘To Alexander 11., Emperor of all the Russias. Sire, —For the fifth time fate has preserved you from thestroke of justice. They were five decrees dictated by the law of humanity—a law which you no longer recognise. You know our power and determination. Beware of the sixth decree. Do you wish to be a great monarch? Do you wish all the Russian people to acclaim you and recognise you as their father? Do you wish that those who strike to-day shall become apostles instead of executioners ? It you do, then cease to be a tyrant and become a man, and render to your subjects what belongs to them by the law of nature—namely, liberty. It is not your person that we attack, but your principles. So long as you remain as you are our judgment will be always the same. Saved to-day, you will perish to-morrow. Neither death nor prosecution will stay our arms. You possess brute force ;we possess moral force. We have sworn to vanquish, and we must carry off the victory in the end. The first apostles of Christianity perished at the stake ; their martyrdom was the cause of the ruin of Rome. Beware and reflect.—(Signed) The Governing Committee.” To control the correspondence of all persons living at the Winter Palace any letters arriving for them have to be delivered at a special office, whence they will be transmitted to their destination, or not, as the case may be. The Russian Ambassadors abroad have received the following circular, purporting to proceed from the Revolutionary yommittee :—“ The Russian cultivated classes have long been giving the Czar to understand that the people ha?e no wish to continue under the yoke of a savage despotism. Manifold proofs have been given the Czar to understand that the nation has come of age and is determined to have a share in the conduct of public , busines. The demand for the introduction of representative government is' • universally raised; but the Czar is deaf to the public voice. Instead of satisfying legitimate aspirations he has only increased the horrors of the police terrorism under which we are living. Such a state of things cannot long continue. A stop will and must be put to this without loss of time. We desire you to represent to the Czar that the country expects the immediate introduction of the Constitutional rSffime, and that, in case of continual refusal, the Revolutionary Committee have resolved to remove the Czar rom the throne.”