A STRANGE PROCLAMATION.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3300, 19 July 1879, Page 4

A STRANGE PROCLAMATION.

The attempt to assassinate the Emperor; of Russia forms the subject of; do^untless: editorials and telegrams in the European i papers of the 15th ■ultimo.: The-'Vienna Tagblatt publishes a remarkable 'document, which would seem to show that the, •Nihilist planned are ; arranged tbe at-.{ tempt. Atthe corners of. the_ streets: pf St Petersburg on three successive days—- j the 31st of March, arid'the Ist snd.2nd of | April—there was found posted up a p^p;; clamation containing for the first time! words of menace'to the Czar personally;. '< The proclamation is headed, "To.-H^rr; Alexander Nicolaievitc "—" an , evident; imitation," says the correspondent of the ; London Standard, "of r the^ Erench . Jacobins who deprived their;Eing of-his ; title before depriving-him of his throde and life." The following' is .the, text of the proclamation:-—"To Alexander Nicplaievitch: The warning and threatening letters, as well'as the sentences which we, the invisible delegates of the murderouslyvoppressed , [Russian people, have sent to the .various dignitaries of the present .despotic Government in Russia belong, as a rule, to the preparative :work, • and for-that reason neither yourself nor any of your family appears in the slightest degree menaced by our executive organs. In the first instance, we wish to clean ou£;, in its lowest and filthiest'; feprners,':.the Augean stables of " despotism:.; ;to free the people .from administrative persecutioa [which, throws them guiltless into prison, and there without compassion chastises themj ; and allows them to suffer with hunger and thirst,and then leads them as- insurgents to.* the gallows^ ,or sends them to the Polar regions to work in the mines. ; We sit in judgment, and shall be compassidnlessin the: exercise of our office, and; shall feppil from theuse of no means which may lead lis to our object,'which is the ;era\iicatibn of the hellish brutality of despotism through fire and sword. The victims cry Out to "their executioner^,/ ' Moriluri}te salutant,' and if you (Alexander JSTicolaievich) refuse-to hear our Tvarning voice to put an end. to this tyranny, we hereby declare to you that tyranny: will be beaten in the end. Your system in Eussia is rotten to the core. Our almost boundless resources are ruined. Your army of functionaries is a gang of. crueL and insatiable thieves. Your judges: are a shame to justice. Your governors, policemasters, and generals are so many satraps wprthy of. Xerxes or Darius. Wherever we turn our eyes we see naught but stupidity mingled. with cruely—wanton waste combined , with the,most merciless spoliation of the people. Eor the army alone you reserve your fatherly care. You are getting into dangerously deep water, Alexander ITicblaievitch, • therefore warn you, but spare your liie.—The Executive Committee."