Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1826-09-15

common fund the twenty fifth part OF his annual
income, but this regulation, il is said was little
I observed
The head society, or that styled the &C Central
! Direction" was established at Peterborough, and
subordinate " Directions" were scattered all over
the empire. The Commission of Inquiry state tina,
they have learned by reports, though the confess
| sions OF the accused do not bear out the nforma-
tion that cheap journal was to be established for
the purpose OF acting public opinion, that songs
and caricatures were TO be circulated, and that for
those purposes, photographic press was to be es.
tablished ont of the country, and printing press
in some village, at distance from the two capt.
| tails
| Discussions afterwards (and. az we gather, in
the year 1920, for the report is lamentaby deficient
! IN dates, began TO take place upon the forms OF
government best calculated to benefit the People
and most suited to the condition of Russia; and at
tenon being directed To the grand distinctions OF
Government, republican and nlondrchicai, large
majority was found on div vision to prefer the re-
publican. Republican ideas afterwards took the
lead OF monaIc hical ideas; though many members
affirmed that, if the Emperor would only give Rus
STA good laws, they would continue his devoted
subjects and defenders. Debates OF this kind were
frequently carried on but resulted in the adoption
OF no decisive modes of proceeding.
AT one OF the subsequent meetings, the assas-
snation of the emperor was spoken of BY mem
from dislike of the proposition itself, and by
others from doubt of Its policy. 1t was, how
ever, afterwards adopted. but no attempt was made
to put it in execution, and the society afterwards
became partially dissolved, and was going fast to
decay from the inactvity OF its Several
OF the leading members abandoned 1t, and probably
| all would have done So but for the perseverance
OF one Colone; Pesel, bold and influential Off
Ger, who had long been its life and soul. He kept
! It together Tor time but disunion, and even dis
7 sension, prevailing among Its meubers, 1t was at
| last, in February, 1921 announced by the Central
! Direction, that the society completely dis
! solved, well account of the subsistng divis-
ions as from fear of exciting the suspicious of Inc
! Government. y large number of the members ac-
tually believed That the association no longer cXs-
tied: but the active associates, glad by this expe-
dent 10 get rid OF their pusillanimous brethren,
organizes themselves in 1922.
| The views and proceedings of the society, thus
renovated, and led on by the able and un,iring
Pestel, were more direct and active than former
ly, and aimed directly TO the overthrow of the
Imperial Government. Incipient measures, such
as gaining over several regiments of the soIdiey,
settling plan of Government SC. SC. occupied
the society til towards tie end of the wear 1924
| AT tina; time, every thing ripe for the blow
which was to be given by assassnating the En-
| peror, on an expected review OF the troops by
| him. As, however, the review did not take place,
! the attempt was necessarily post poned.
Several oithe members began TO waver in their
! views and feeling>; and iudecisve were they,
that Pestel, the only seadfast individual am ing
them, was obliged 10 agree to further posi- pone-
ment OF the blow intended until 1926, when
general cow niion OF the principal members was
TO be held and new steps decided The death
OF Alexander led TO new consultations in the So
ciety, and 50 yscating were their plans, that no
thing positive decided on, until the eruption
IN the D(lfb Of I1areu,ier which ieI IN
closures, the apprehension of the principal mem
bers, ard the final prostratien OF the society.
y detail is given of the arrangements intended
TO be pursued, ai,er the assassination Of the En-
peror and the imperial family, but they would not
be sufficiently interesting to be added TO this al
ready extended account of tie origin and proSres.
of the Union IF Safety, and its auxiliary associa-
items. As TO the accuracy Of the particulars sta
ted coming they do from individuals implicated,
and through the medium of an imperial commission,
the reader must judge for himself, though il pro-
per TO say, tlst air OF mcGerIion and candor
runs throughout the report.
After reading the his Org Of ibis associa ton, il
is matter OF surprise that, e'-tensive its
ranihcaions, able in point Of talents, rs were
many OF its members, aud SO lo.g a time as il ex-
iied that it was no, earlier discovered or that it
did not sooner, if not srcce .sfully, deyeope
Us objects, and exert its influence.
IN Y Statesman.
OF the report made tc the Emperor of Russia.
ny committee appointed to investigate the causes
OF the Instruction which exploded at the acces-
sion OF Nicholas to the throne OF the Cars and
which published last week, the Journal DIES
Debas speaks as follows at the outset OF lone
article {: sc Ii not in this instance one of the
irothy combinations of Germany, in which some
vague thoughts Of revolution were lost in the wild
ian'asie" OF metaphysics, or in the ridiculous mys-
teries OF lodge, which burst forth against The
authority of the monarch nor was it tie flaming
meeting Of few under officers, who thinking the
old army wounded in its honor, concerted, almost
IN public, vengeance which they regarded az Ie-
climate The Russian document presents neither
that absurd corglomeration of insignificant details
which sent Us from Berlin, that union of III.
romantic and dramatic which promulgated nv
certain famous inquests in Paris. The Russian
committee OF inquiry have not had recourse 10
those articles which the truth itself to be sus
pscted They have rot found it necessary to la
Dor during three or four years. TO demonstrate that
dozen OF students had held conspiracy it was
not founded with cruel levity upon a few words
dropped at random by two or three young officers
On the contrary, by proceeding with a ildicious
lenity, vii simplicity, with generosity-it ha.
most ample dispositions, and confirmed by public
explosion. 1t has exposed these unhappy dIscoye!
res in manner clear and grave so that an in
partial reader must be convinced that the report
presents, II not all the truth, at least many ndispu-
table truths, brought together in point of view
both natural and just, disengaged from all poetica
GctiOn, and from oil forced cons1uctions.n
Abiding TO The German Committee appoin,,
ed TO report upon the origin Snd extent of secret
societies in the Austrian dominions, whose report