THE EEYOLTTTION IN ETJSSIA.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 165, 10 July 1878, Page 4

THE EEYOLTTTION IN ETJSSIA.

'. A revolutionary proclamation, according to a letter from Warsaw in the Deutsche Zeifcung of Vienna, had been circulated by a hitherto undiscovered . agency in all the pricipal towns and , villages ofthe Russian empire. It bears the title of "Revolutionary Statement" \ (Rewolucionnaya rasprawa), is dated • 7ht April, 1878, and is sealed with a j red seal, on which are inscribed, the words "Obezestwo JSarodnatio O^w'ob'abzenya" (Union of National Eraanci- ; pation). The: saying of Robespierre, ! "Crush by taeans of- terrorism the eoe- ; mies of the people, and the. honor of . establishing the Republic will be yours/ and a line from NekrassofTs pdOtfts, ; "Our cause stands firmly, for it is bss'ed . on blood," are cited as the mottoes of ; the society. The following are the most i remarkable passages of the proclamation: — "True-hearted people, awake, take up arms against the tyrants ahd revenge yourselves on your garotte^s! Now is your opportunity, for. the state of affairs in Russia has become intolerable and unsustainable. From one end of tfhencountry 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 tha national schools to the old men of tho reserve who have been calledto arms, on the whole life of man frotn, the cradle to the grave, on all the physical and intellectual capacity of our brothers and sisters, weighs the heavy hand of the Czar, crushing down everything,' degrading everything to do the tools of his arbitrary will. . . . The deficit in the treasury can no longer be, covered. Men's lives 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 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, ior we are determined to make ourselves a free people."