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ADDRESS to the Poles by their Country
men IN EnglGnd and France.

spirit of the age, and in the sanctity Of
your cause, you rose to throw off the yoke
ofthe oppressor. The world, in astonish-
ment, has witnessed your achievements
but nations whom honor, duty and even
interest, commanded to assist you, have
pusillanimously betrayed the common
cause. Future ages will show how base
was their conduct, how short-sighted
their policy. The contest is at an end
the sword ofthe autocrat has triumphed.
Europe, by her callous indifference to
your misfortunes, participates in the I'M
hallowed act. Poland is no more eras-
ed from the list Of nations, she is doomed
anew to long slavery.
Countrymen What can we expect
from the conqueror? His rage and fury
we have already defed, and fan unex-
pected effort of humanity, should attempt
to spare our suferings, feelings OF patri-
otism would be more deeply wounded
than they have been by every cruelty
and torture formerly devised to suppress
them for what, short of the indepen-
fdence ofPoland, can satisfy men who
have sworn to die for her freedom?
Poles You have hitherto done all
that became great and noble nation.
on have spared no sacrifices to attain
your great object thousands of YOUR
brave brethren have already sealed with
their blood their great compact with
Heaven to die for their country. But if
the sword of the enemy has spared our
lives, letus remember that we are bound
to devote every hour that remains to us
to emulate the heroes that have fallen,
and whose honor and glory are our most
sacred trust. No inducement of fortune,
rank or interest, shall betray us into an
act unworthy of our most solemn vows:
these must be guarded as spotless as the
name of Pole, which will henceforward
be left TO Europe as that of patriotism and
devotion.
Poles let US leave that wretched coun-
try, now no more our own, though soak.
ed with the best blood of her defenders
let US leave Europe, heartless spec
tator of our struggle and our despair.
America is the only country worthy Of
aftording an asylum to men who have sa-
crificed every thing for freedom there
Poland will be enshrined in our hearts,
and Heaven Will perhaps bless our devo-
ton.
The London Times, referring to the
Address of the Polish Refugees to
their fellow countrymen says,
Between 10000 and DO, 900 of the
best citizens of Poland are now in for
eign lands. They have the example of
the Polish Legion" before them, and
intend like it, to become nation with
out country, till happier times restore
them to the banks of the Nistula and
the possessions of their ancestors. The
Poles have neither ships of their own
country to carry them, nor colonies on
which to retire but they will find the
means OF transport across the Atlantic
from strangers, and may carry their
/ household goods TO a land of freedom,
where, among the people who gave an
asylum to kosciusko, they may wait for
( the result of European revolutions, and
the return OF more proPitious days for IL
berty."
--SSs~-
The Cholera,-The alarm in respect
to the Cholera in England had in great
measure subsidized. A letter from Alex
andria, in Europe, dated Sept. Odd,
states that the disease had entirely ceas-
ed at Cairo, and that at Alexandria the
number OF cases had diminished to 3 or
10 cases in day. According to official
returns published in Hungary, the Cho-
lera had visited 1862 towns and villa
ges in that kingdom.-One thousand
and one places were again free from the
scourge. The total number of cases. to
the 18th of October, 1875, 731, of deaths
I0l,13l. At Vienna, (including the
suburbs) 06 new cases occurred on the
22d. The total number of cases in that
capital, TO that day, 2,OS4; of deaths,
| l,2OI remaining, 29S.--A Hamburg
letter of Oct. 2lst, says, "The Cholera,
l assure you, looks far more dreadful at
a distance-itis by no means contagious
not n bit of it it lies in the atmos-
Phere, the air being quite sulphurious,
and we have summer weather; besides,
1T attacks only the lowest class ofpeople,
hard drinkers, people who live in other
respects badly, and of such as these from
10 to 10 daily die"
A letter from Live rpool says, "The
| reform 81 il may pass>-the discontents
may be ppeosed--public confidence
may be restored--but the match is yerV
near the powder"
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