The North-Carolina standard., 1849-08-01
Letter FROM POLAND. n

sse-paaa ss5sala Mean IRAEEleH, July 25s 1873
Ma. HoLBRN: have translated into English. and
herewith send you for publication, my old Fathers
letter from Poland. # you think i will prove inter-.
esfing 70 your readers please tay = DeioLe
YOU for Years past, and because you have always
expressed the friendly feelings qufOft.l-
nate country. ss~
JOHN R0SEMoND, OR KWI4TKoWSlIl
RxYeoRoD, February ss, is4e.
Ny DEAR SON: take my pen in my trernbllng
hand to inform you that spared % this present
day--thanks be to God for his merces and guidance
in all my troubles have commenced writing bur
do not know where shall send this letter. as yoH
may have left that State, of North Carolina, from
which, seven years ago, you wrote To- yonr uncle
He sent your letter to me by merchant Jew from ts
City of Warsaw. You say hereason yoH did not
address this letter to me was yonr fear thai ooo
government - would punish me for sending you 10
our army in, 1890; butt my dear child. have been
punished already. 1 was nearly three moatnssl9
chains and under heavy guard but proved that
only sent you to the Military Schooi 70 Aatlsn IN
1926, before the Revolution in 1S29-aAd by the tn-
fuence of friends got clear Many unfortunate
fathers, however, are still groanIng 70 ms nay IN
dungeons on account of their sons and foF oAoeeoA:
ence to our 8" good Emperor" sssgsstrs,
We took YOU for lost, until we read your letter.
We could hardly believe, until tonr letter informed
US, that you among the free people OF Amerlca
free and happy under the open heavens 4 reloieed
the precious news. It bathed my wrlnkled cheeks
in tears and those who listened TO me reading tTe-
manned in ploomy silence. You say that after many
troubles, two years .imPrisonneH m Aus serIa' aEd
pers by land and sea, you found Protecllon IN inc
land of WASHINGTON. WAsHINGTeN! That great
only the Father OF your adopted country
but we feel here that he is the Father OF all the world
His history is forbidden be read in our houses,
under penalty of two months Imprisonment; Dut ne
lives in hearts, and the world has begun TO follow
him, saving. there in America people live without
Emperors, Kings, and Princes, and why do VIC want
them here 2" 1t seems to that a kind Providencs
provided long in advances that same land OF WASH
ington refuge for unfortunate sons, wneH ms
sentKosciu sko and Others TO assist IN Crushing inc
yoke of English power.
will give YOU my reason for not answering yonT
letter Immediately. By the Ukase OF our gooo:
Emperor" all Communication is forbidden with the
Polish eXiles in America, unless our letters praise
the Emperor. and say how good and kind ne IS to
us; bat before would ever appear to praise that
tyrant and write false letters determined to wait for
better times. And now, whenfevery thing is chang
ing here, write. This tyrant Nicholas has snatched
the infants from their mothers breasts, and sent them
away, that they may forget that they are born
Poles. He has prohibited our language abolished
our schools forced daughters to marry ms soL-
dies, and carried away all ancient relics 10
He has put under large taxes and filled our ctlea.
towns, villages and houses with his cruel soldleFs
and now he forces us to call him good Father ana
he thinks, we Will soon forget our names forever.
But notwithstanding all this, countrys hour has
not passed yet. He employs fifteen thousand spies
to watch our movements; but in spite of bis mean
and sneaking police, we have secret communication
with the Hungarians, and are sending our yonng
men daily to their assistance. hope still 10 see the
day when shall unbury my rusty sword, and
wash it in the blood of our oppressors. We are
sworn to- vengeance. Old and young, women and
children, all preparing for the conflict, and before
many years you shall hear When your country
calls you, you must return. Tell the brave young
Americans not TO let distance fghten them from our
sides, but LET them give brofherly hand and il
they should fall in our defence. our daughters viii
kheel on their graves plant flowers upon them, and
sprinkle them with their tears, saying the Winds
that blow ON the tops of the trees carry my sorrow
to their native land.'' 80
You say you have settled in North Carolina, and
that you eniey the SAME privileges American elti-
zens do. We are far from that here. We are noth-
ing but poor slaves. You say that in America the
people have different societies and denominations,
and that every one worships God in his own way
and speaks what he pleases: Very different with
us. We are afraid of our shadows. We are forced
to the established Church, to pray for our good
Emperor" and his family. But love you for ons
thing, my boy, that you preferred home among
foreigners rather than submit here to the despotc
yoke. Here the chain always iingfes in our ears :;
but we trust that God will yet turn His holy face1
upon us-that by his power our scattered sons may
return to their old fathers, and the strongest hrone
on earth be shaken to pieces. You have read the
history OF. your country. You know that whenever
any nation has struggled for liberty, we have fought
for them and left them free there is spot the
earth where Polish blood has not been split And
WnaI nave we received IN return! Notnln9 Out 8oQu
wishes. Look at the French. When they wanted.
us to fight for them, went. From the beginning,
in the battles of Jenna Marengo, Wagram. Ausier-s
litz, Leipsic, Dresden were with them, and with
them alike in victory and DEATH We stood by them
to the last at Waterloo, and the end at St.
Helena we were by him; but when in 1881 with
fields soaked nsblood and covered with tlIe dead
of our sons and daughters, we asked them to help
us, we received nothing from them but viuuLa e
POiOne." That is all we had for blood. Aud
what are they doing nowa Fighting among them.
selves like FOOLS and the world laughing at them.
Up to our latest dates from Hungary, by our se-a
cret advces, there ten thousand of country
men under Generals Benz Dembinski, and young
Radziwell. Gen. Benz has received, for his bravery,
diamond taken out from the Hungarian crown.
must end this letter. Though in your early
years you vanished from me, you are always on my
mind. Return to me. This old house shall be open
to you, and shall be yours and you will find enough
for yourself, your wife, and the rest. If you will
come, and have no money for yohr voyage, let me
know, and will send it you. And then, resting on
the banks under the shade of the old trees will
surround you, and listen TO your history and your
troubles among foreigners.
Your affectionate Father,
JACOB KWIATKOWSKI.N