THE BLACK BOOK OF RUSSIA.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume IV, Issue 207, 23 March 1877, Page 13

THE BLACK BOOK OF RUSSIA.

The Polish Historical Society of London has already dealt one blow against the cruel tyrant of the land of Sobieski by publishing a widely-read address to the Slavs of Turkey warning thenf tf beware of the Czar and the emancipation which comes from Sfc !^lt Expressing the warmest desire for the liberation of the Turkish Christians from oppression, the Polish Historical Society bade them be on their guard lest the Cossack slip in and take the place of the Bashi-Bazouk. What the Poles hWeW done against their tyrant, however, cast, into the shade all the effects of the memorable address to the Slavs of Turkey. • J? a po 7T f , ul volume * bound in sepulchral black, and appro-priately-called the "Black Book of Russia" from its WiblTSntente stall more than from its gloomy binding, the tale of Muscovite barbarities during the last Polish insurrection is related with a simple pathos which freezes the blood with pity and horror The deeds ot demons let loose might fail to rival the abominations of which the officers and soldiers of Russia were guilty. As was saS of Bulgaria, it can be said of Poland, that at° every sta^eTthSr progress, murder, and rapine, and arson, the burning towns and imF*' ft* raVi3hing °! W ° men ' Wbter of old mS and children, the massacre of the weak, the wounded and the sfck marked the march of the Russian armies. Ife was a sc?ne immthe lowest depths of hell, rather than anything merely inhuman We can fancy the consternation with which thl Muscovite Government must recognise this terrible resurrection of its crime Sad haa no longer a strong arm to strike, she has a voice to denounce to the execration of the civilized world the batchera of her Sn afcty and the persecutor of her faith.-' Liver^l United IrLwT