The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-11-18
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lie tive apply 70 II the red hot iron with which
il b,snds the living man.
flour language be bitter and corrosive, II "a be-
cause 1t IL the echo Of the shyeks Of vlosted women.
the means OF aged mea dyi ing uader the rod, and
the clankiDg OF the chains to the sounds Of which
our fayorfse poets, our most loyal friends are rars
ported to siberis.
In foreign lard we have commenced an epen
warfare BY words, in anticipation Of an active
struggle.
Our word ia q call-it is the bell afr of an
nouncing that the mathis Of the great tee Of the
resurrection Of the peoples c0mmea also for the
Rus-isn Dation. Tbis voice win not cease to re-
sound until IT is changed into tocsin or canticle
ct triumph
Distant as VIC are from you, ve ara your kindred,
your brothers, your only friends. We have recon
ciIed the K, ssans with the people Of the West VINO
The Poles have offered the hand to US in our
character Of Russians. Such 10 also the of the
words that We have addressed to themzsnSh Is the
preciated our love for the Russian people, On your
aide understand IT also, and love the Poes-bc-
cause they are Poles.
What do the Poles aek?
An independent Poland, which will be free to con-
federate itself with Russia emancpsted from auto
cracy without allowing itself to be absorbed by her
The federal ubion is that perhaps, which is most
opposite to the uniformity Of despotic centrsli-
cation.
The present annexation OF Poland to Russis is an
absurdlty--s work Of brutal force. After twenty
three years Of persecution the government dare not
displace single regiment In all Poland without
sending another In its place.
These forced unions only perpetuats hatred, and
time works no change. Are Hungary or Lombardy
Austrian?
The only Baltic provinces which accommodate
themselves to tie Holsteino Mongol government Of
Petersburg arm their children out of devotion, in de-
fence of thu Greek Orthodox church-with the Luz
theran Bible in their pockets.
II we Russians will not understand the necessity
OF the restoration Of Poland, Poland will not the
lees separate from u.s. Or else she Will be serarated
from Russia by others; and then she will become not
indepeDde Mt. but foreign to us.
The question between Poland and Russia Is a
family questicD-not one or foreign Intervention.
We ought to settle it for ourselves and that without
alms.
For it Is not ire Russian people that you defend
IN Poland. The Russian people, at the fret hour Of
victories You sustain there the pretensions Of the
CZar-of that Gear who leaves the half of Russia in
State Of serfdom, who takes nine recruits out of
thousand, who permits the officers to strike the sol
Ciers the agents Of the police TO beat the bourgeois
and all who are not peasants to beat those who
reasants. Know, them that in defending him you
sustain all tie scourges Of Russia that in 6ghting
for him you fight for seigno, ial rights, for rods,
slavery, organized theft by the employ es and the
spoliaiions made in open day by the Bojards.
Poland has suffered enough from Russia. Even
had she been guilty Of erroIs she has long ago ex
piared them. Her children under age havs been
carried off, her women thrown into prison, her de-
Tenders have persisted in Siberia her friends are dis
persed all over the surface Of the globe, her trophies
have been carried to Petersburg. They ha 70 not
even left her past.
No! On the Polish soil grow laurels for Russian
warriors. It is full Of the tears Of women, of the
blood Of men shed by your fsthers-perhsps by
yourselves. On the borders of the Vistula, near
the cemeteries Of Prasa and of Volgs, there is no
military glory for you. Tie only possible gl,ry for
you in Poland is the glory of reconciliation and Ii
ance!
What you have to do--how You should set your
selves to wofk-you will learn when the time will
have coMe. Our counsels shall rot fail you. But
in awaiting these events, understand the truth of
our words, and by all that you hold sacred, swear
never to carry arms against Poland.
1t In not the Gar who exacts this oath Of You; it
Is the popular conscience-the remorse of the peo
pie. And though you should perish for this cause,
your blood will be sacred-you will have fallen ex
piatory victims to the freedom of Polaud-a freedom
to be shared in common with Russia; the commence.
ment of the free association Of all the Savonans in
a-united and fede lated republic
The above document has historic interest from its
having been extensively circulated in Warsaw in March
last in the Russian language and also secretly dstr
buted amongst the troops without the government be-
in Of it. 1t has been translated for by Ken
lucky gentleman.