Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1852-02-27
MARTYRS OF RUSSIA.


OF Siberia; but why distinguish them The
hne OF separation would be altogether fictitious
With the exception of an aggravaion of cold,
the whole OF Russlass Siberia--beginning at the
Vistna
One speaks of the condemned; but every
Russian is condemned. In country where the
law is mere mockery there can be no serious
Judgment. All are condemned; and yet no one
Is judged; there is no distinction between suffer
ing and punishment
The universal punishment is not such a posi-
tive evil it is that breaking of the heart, by
that moral anxiety of spirit, crushed beforehand,
by an inevitable combination Of misfortunes. In
that mercllesS world where everything seems
to possess the fixed rigid!ty of lis native ice,
nothing Is hxed-alllS pregnant with chance and
doubt
All are condemned said we; and serf per-
haps the least so, even in his seryitude and mis-
cry for he is not even sure of that very mise
ry--so-morrow, ell may change for him he may
perhaps DO carried out, either for the army or the
factories; his wife given to another; his family
dispersed.
The soldier is condemned--not only because
he was, all Of sudden, carried off from his home
and has ever since been subject to that contnu-
al bastinado, called military service; but also be-
cause he Is totally ignorant of the time of his
liberation, the law was thirty years formerly
now twenty but what is the law in Russia
The officer is condemned; he Is forced against
his will into military sChoo!--he follows in
spite OF himself, the rude and monotonous path
OF unceasng exercises, paradcs, and changes
from one garrison to another. Sad prizes, of
war even whilst his fortune promised him the
enjoyment OF the world But what betalls him
if he does not serve His family is thencetorth
spccted--perhaps ruined and degraded--and
for hlmseli--he is lost forever
Lost! What means that word Killed But
it is apparently something more than death, since
il Is the occupation of the officer to fight and so
expose himself to dsath-otherWse says he, he
would be lost.
The serf, who is seized for the army, says, "If
ain lost" lie is in the very depth OF his mis-
fortune he can descend 40 lower but the Off
Ger can descend he has yet something to fear,
which is worse TO him than death--he tears 81
IBERIA.
When the scrf is made a soldier hi S body on
y is taken. They care not for the heart; but
with the officer, il is the soul that is needed the
problem OF the Russian government beir z, how
TO seize the soul of man whose life OF insup-
portable misery renders death Indifferent to
him.
This soul has been early deadencd in those
schools where is taught only the yoid--nothing
notwithstanding moral So that, from the wea-
rnCss, he is thrown into the arms of those en-
erva,ing pleasures which dtadens it yet more
But even the tWotoId operation does not always
succeed in eXunguishlng strong mind All
that Still remains OF the man must be restrained
must be overcCmc-und that By moral ter
ror. What terror! An unknown punishment.
HE Catholic lnquistion, besides lis dungeons
and fortunes, continued 10 the end lis physical
torneuts Ivy moral torment-Gn CtCEua. hell
the nfuty OF time. Russia has u heil-sn in
fiuity Of syace-ihe horror OF the desert, and Of
the void.
A neycr-cnling distance lie who makes the
Journey on foot, loaded with heavy chains, starts
young, aud arrives nged--a man, twenty five
yrars old, foil Of hen.th AMI lie, started fycm
Poland; three years after shadow cropped IN
70 kamtschalku
\ multitude Of suif,rngs result from the eli
mate it,et-merciiess chmatc--some few de-
greas nearer the Polar Sea were sufficient 10
cause death.
If the Russian, even at hom,, shut up SIX
months in his oven. his heated ROOM can with
difficulty keep out the furious north wind, what
mus, il been this second Russia, whcso the cold
eats into you, where steel breaks like glass,
where even the dogs that draw the sledgc,
would inevitably perish were they not cased with
fur!
70 arrive there without resource would be
dclivcrauc", for enc would die but death must
not come too quickly Established in smalI
fort, in the midst Of the icy dcscrt--during two
or tlree years, sometimes longer, digging the
earth, or drawing the harrow, fed upon sour
mix ard bad fish, the exlIcs die slowly beneath
the lush
Even those who are not condemned to this ter
riblc doom, but no have kind Of half liberty
"a sort of physical existence, almost toierab!r,
fad tie moral effect scarcely less DREADFUL II,
10 them, Siberia Is not an eternity of suffering,
il Is one of torgct!u!ness, where they feel them
selves dsappeHung--dy away from the living
worla, from their families, from their friends.
TO lose ones name. to be called Number 10 OF
-, and, if your tnmi!y still remain, TO hegct
children without name, 4 miserable race, which
w,li perrciuatc itself in eternal wrctcheduoss
The ruined man ruins his chilQren--he IS ours
ed--so are they--nnd BY a !rlghtiul cresccndo il
happens, that the children Of man who is him
self condemned 10 the mines for twenty years,
will remain miners for forty Of fifty years, or ev
en- unto death, their children after them, and all
their poSteriiy
Siberi" net only draws degradation upon per-
sons transported e il. but also upon things 4
bell aas trans ported there for having sounded
the toc>in dur.ng a revo,t--cannon was trans
ported, and received the knott &; Tobolski But
the degradation is indeed a most serious affair,
10 persons, where it implies bastnadoing at
viii
Had the exiles only to fear q complete change
in their habits, the passage from an indoent
A>ia,., life, t. life q labor even that would q
lone Be sufficient, t. render Siberia the drea1 OF
the Russian Their cittmiuate mode q, life can
hardly bear the essy existence Of the West q
Europe, 4 Russian lady declared to me that II
was impossible for ker to exist in France; an
infinite hunter of Eastern !uxuries are wanting
T. her Our servants appeared too rough for her :;
their voices harsh and proud She could not
support the natural friction Of a world Of equal
!ty She missed the batteries and attentions Of
Ter women, her nfc >! heated rooms ana baths
the leplt atmosphere Of her Russian house
What would have become Of this poor woman,
i, instead Of 4 Journey to Paris, which she found
50 painful, she had performed the voyage TO Sibe-
ria
There is tradition in Russia that Catharine
Cor perhaps one Of the expresses who proceed
ed her in order to lower the pride Of certain
great ladies', occasionally favored them with
M order for their tlagelation. which was 10 be