THE NIHILISTS AND PRESIDENT GARFIELD.

Temuka Leader, Issue 913, 4 February 1882, Page 3

THE NIHILISTS AND PRESIDENT GARFIELD.

A hew number just issued at St, Peters- : burg of Narodnaja Volva, the organ of the terrorist, section of the Revolutionary ' Party, contains remarks upon the murder oiJPresident Garfield within a black bonier, Cn the front page ; s the announcement ■“Died ot bis wounds on the 20th September, .Hie President of the North American Slates .i antes Abraham Garfield.” Below this announcement is the following paragraph : —“ From the Executive Committee.—ln expressing to the American nation our sincere sympathy at the death of their President, we deem it our duty to record, in the name of the Bucsian revolutionary party, our unquali'fied protest aganst the deed perpetrated by Guiteau. In a country were personal liberty permits the full and free •expro sion of opinion—where the free w’M of the people not only enacts the law, but deteimines the persona of the mien.— political murder is only to be ranked with the same despotism to the extermination of which in Russia we have devoted our lives. The despotism of an individual, Or the despotism of a party, are both equaMy intolerable, and recourse to violence is onh justifiable when violence hoi to be j._ resisted.—Py Order of the Executive 5? Commitfc e.”— The remaining contents of the periodical, which consists of sixl -cn page - are in the usual stain. At the close of a list of subscriptions received for the revolutionary cause since the death of Alexander 11,. is given. Tb' e amount to.upwards of 20,C J 0 ronbl-