Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1846-12-05
TRAe end OF Poland.

ton oil the young oihcers oil the army.
The end OF Poland.
Some notice has been taken in the
journals Of this country of the recent
step which the Russian Government
has adopted in ORDER TO secure its. SUI
premacy in Poland and prevent fur
ther revolutions. This step consists
in the abolition Of the long existing re-
lation between the peasantry and the
nobility. This relation, although not
one of actual serfdom, has approach
ed it very nearly. The peasantry,
whose sole pursuit has from time i'm
meinorial been agricultural, have oc-
cnpied the land of the nobility, paying
in lieu of the rent in money such
and such services. Though thcv have
not been so utterly and directly the
creatures Of the nobility as if they had
been scrls, the relation has been ex-
ceeding y oppressive and pernicious in
every way, and has always prevented
the attainment of true national unity
in Poland. These feudal services,a
indeed all personal dependence of The
lower classes on the nobility, Russia
has either abolished or Is about TO do
50, thus gaining over, by the most
powerful motives, the great majority
of the population. In this way says
a late Schnellpost, speaking of Poland,
the unsuccessful watchword of the
Polish mobiles in the last revolution is
employd by Nicholas, with the most
refined policy, to transform the out
post Of Europe against Russia into its
strongest balwark; the firmest letters
which the world has ever seen are
here fastened upon the slaves Of Russia
under the hypocritical pretence of
emancipation. We translate from the
Schnelpost tie following paragraphs
Of the Cologne Gazette, on the subject.
"Thc news Of the approaching G.
Emancipation orthe peasants of Poland
is thunderclap for the friends Of the
Polish national cause. The ukaso is,
both in what il commands the present
and what il indicates for the future, a
trick oil policy which has few equals in
history. What in Galicia could be had
only as the fruit ola bloody revolution
is to be brought about in Poland by
undertaking legal reform, which
morally separates the peasants from
the land owners, and introduces the
Government as the powerful mediator
between the two, though in peaceful
attitude. In the Russian decree the
peasantry are spoken Of as "a useful
class Of the population,' whose we'll
being and moral habits must DO protect
ed; Oppressive Obligations and condi-
tons are not hereafter to be laid upon
them; the landlord will 20 longer be
suffered to drive them away at his
own PLEASURE while on the other
hand the agricultural IaboreT is allowed
TO leave hi, place after three months
notice; all fcudaI services which the
law does not Justify are removed; in
suits between the landlords and peas
ants a method less oppressive to the
latter is to be introduced: and, what IS
certainly 10 tribe, all this adopted as
preparatory to universal provisions
concerning the condition of the peas
antry;' that is, il is an introduction and
prelude to things which are TO come
hereafter There is no doubt that the
promised universal provision will
consist in definite and most positive
system of emancipation. As soon as
this reform is realized throughout the
we shall in truth have to say
Fins PolonIep What the revolution
Of 1881 looked 10, the victor over the
revolution will accomplish; the result
cannot be avoided"