The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-05-21

WASHINGTON CRY, May II, 1854.

WASHINGTON CRY, May IL, 1854.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD.
| Ihave luckily obtained copy Of an address from
the Polish Exiles in London to the esident OF the
United States which enclose. II was forwarded
to the President by Mr.. Buchanan, our minister at
London, with very eloquent and touching letter.
This memorial gives the best calculation OF tine 70
sh question that has been written. It cannot fail
to be read with interest throughout the United
States. 1t is understood to have been written by
stanislaus worcell, distinguished as philosopher,
scholar and patriot x.
TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AME-
RIGA, THE MEMORIAL OF THE POLISH CENTRAL
DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE.
| Poland, every way oppressed as she is, may wor-
thily understand the grandeur and the bearing of
| American policy. She does understand them; she
appreciates both the inner meaning of the manifes
tations Of American sympathy with the elements of
the European future, and also the reserve imposed
on those manifestations by existing international
relations and, respecting that reserve but profit
ing by the last and perhaps the most significant of
those manifestations she, through US, would place
in the hands of the government of the New World
those nformations which she knows to be indispen-
sable to every State preparing to actively influence
the future destinies of Europe
1t is to this, by their position, by their power, by
the renovating principle which, in the strength Of
their youth, they inaugurated in modern history
that the United States of North America seem to be
called. In procaiming themselves independent, and
at the same time republican, in the face Of world
yet altogether monarchical, they boldly took the
| initiative of that progressive movement which was
70 draw all peoples after them, and assured them
selves the first place in the new order Of things
created by them.
And as if the republican principle itself had need
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lopement along the ages the only great republic o.
the worm-eaten Europe of that day, Poland expiring
under the violence Of royal consprators and the de
| leterous influence of monarchical elements which
had been introduced into its BOSOM sent the latest
Of the heroes of her past to die under the walls of
Savannah, and borrowed from the war for American
independence, the hero-intiator Of her future-kos
| ciusko. Ell
] To the American monument of Pulaski responds
the mound raised to Kosciusko upon his natal shore
| by the hands Of all Poland; and since the mighty
shades lowering over them grasp hands athwart the
thickness of the terrestrial globe the indssoluble
pact is sworn of the common destines Of America
and Poland.
For since then Poland has not one instant ceased
to live in the shroud with which the kings had
wrapped her; and, at the moment in which America
is preparing to give back to her old mother Europe,
preside over her future destinies Poland finds her
self ready to reenter the lists and to reconquer the
existence which the monarchies refuse her.
1t is this last fact which should be known to Ame-
RIGA; 1t is of this that we to inform her-and we
are competent to do it; for, representing in the
emigration the renovating principle of Poland that
Of its future vitality we have since 1880 mixed in
all the manifestations Of Polish national life, from
those Of the martyrs of the expedition of Colonel
Zaliwsk in 1884, to those Of the prisoners issuing
triumphantly in ls4s from the dungeons Of Berlin,
now, have borne witness to the vitality of their
country before the inqusitors and the executoners
Of Vienna, Of Berlin, Of Warsaw and of Petersburg
It is also we, the Polish Democratic Society, who
Artsn Dali
wanting battle-felds in their own country, have
sought them since l849 in Hungary, in Italy, in
| Germany, bearing the Polish flag wherever foated
that of freedom, of which it was the inseparable
companion.
But it is not of the subterranean life of Poland
that we would bear witness, nor even Of that eccen
trio life which, lacking scope to manifest itself with
in broke the vase and spread itself beyond, in the
form of emigration or of legion All that is known,
ascertained incontestible and more, all that is of
the past What we would bear witness of is the
near future of Poland and those elements Of the
present which already guarantee its infalible adj
vent.
Con6dants Of the secret thoughts of our people,
through thousand channels, worn underneath bars,
frontier barriers and seas by the repressed love Of
liberty one side and the exiles love of country
on the other, in order that they might communi-
cate together and concert the means Of reunion,
we simply tell you it is so, and establish the fact.
But il it is not permitted to furnish the proofs of
its existence, Of that general universal disposition
of mems minds which but Ensembles itself the more
carefully it thereby assures itself prompter and
competer satisfaction, of that sulen fermentation,
progressing In manner 80 uniform, though rapid,
as to be imperceptible until the moment In which
the vase is broken, we can and are about to prove
that it cannot be otherwise and that the cabinets
Of our oppressors misunderstood this fact, and by
the measures which they take and the events which
they provoke rendering 1t inevitable, it is be-
cause the principle upon which they base them
selves is a principle OF death-a fatality binding
them, and pushing them to self-destruction.
One of the grounds of security upon which our
ores nf o01ishv O Ia fha
rent inaction of Russan-Polan in ls4s. This mac
tion was fatally imposed upon it by its position
then; and this position is now reversed.
Nowhere more than in Poland has general move
ment need df time to ripen and burst forth--for a
double reason, peculiar to this country On the
one hand the want of great centres Of population
strown villages and on the other the marked sepa-
ration between the people and the noble class.
This separation is one not only of interests, but
also Of habits, of beliefs, of affections, and, in
most of the provinces, of dialect or language. The
only sentiment which untss them is their love OF
country, but that so differently conceived that the
proper moment for rising could not be the for
both classes unless it should be imposed upon them
both by European events 1t is to the treasbns OF
the nobility that the people attributes the defeat OF
the efforts in which it has taken part since 1894
and, though the mobiles may be now ready TO join in
a popular movement because they are convinced
that thout it their own force would be insufficient
the people would not obey the appeal Of the mobiles
unless It obtained from them farther guarantees
than they have already given. For the Polish no.
bihty alone the meaning Of ls4S was clear: so the
people remained everywhere passive, except in the
Grand Ducby of Posen, where, being nearer to
events, 1t better understood them, and responded
with an ardor Of patriotism which even the mobiles
whose policy was one of expediency, thoughtit ne.
cessary to calm. Besides, it needed, for the mutual
understanding of the two classes for q common
movement, and still more for any concert between
populations dispersed over an immense territory,
more time than elapsed between the triumph OF
February and the fall of Rome and Hungary with
ont taking into consideration the had
on the public mind by the dealings of the French
government with the partitioning Cabinets the mas
Of June, and the triumphs Of the reaction at
Vienna, Berlin and Dresden, in Baden and in Lom-
hardy the bloody suppression under the very eyes Of
the French ambassador of the rising in the Grand
Duchy of Posen, and the bombardment Of Cracow
and Lemberg. The Russians, waiting, were concen-
trated in Poland for the new effort they were pur-
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