New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-05-31

strike for their liberties, for If her regenerstiom
demanded upon such . state Dr. things il would
never take place. But the war in which Russia
ii Engaged has already set in motion train of
events which will be more potent in producing
it than would the appeals Of oratory, the recol-
lection Of ancient wrongs Or even the. love Of
country. Yves speak Of the redoubling Of oppres.
sion which the war and the extremities to which
the Czar may DO drisen, will bring upon the
people Of Poland the enormous burdens Of adj
iitional taxation. the intolerable tyranny Of
fresh military and police restrictions. and the
consumption Of her male population to recruit
the perishing armies in the South. Inc nrst
blow struck would undoubtedly be in resistance
81 Immediate wrong and oppression, but y might
prove the signal Of general and de'erminea
effort ii throw Of the Russian yoke.
The following extract from the address gives
| an almost complete idea Of its whole tone and
character
For year past our country has seen its
| fields traversed by Two immense avalanches Of
soldiers coming from the North and precipita-
ting themselves Southwark into the two yawning
guifs of Wallachia and the Caucasus, There
the Turkish eimeter lays them low for the
cannon roars, the TeDeums in the churches re-
sound unechoed, but none return to bear witness
Of the victories they have won. On the con-
trary, mysterious voices whisper in the ear that
word defeat; and the faces Of every regiment
that arrives are more doWncast and more pale
than those that went before And yet these
armies are not enough; they are being ex-
hausted, they are shriveling up: for sealed
papers come to the village registrars, which,
| when they are opened, condemn nine OF every
thousand peasants to the he'll Of military SER
Woe At this mournful news the steppes are
ipeopIed With fugtiyes, the forests with rangers,
and In the villages only old men, women and
children are left The cholera never 80 un-
/ peopled them as now the pitiless fear Of the
Ezar For how can the Gar be without fear,
whom even the Turks are beating, while Eng
land aud France are arming against him
4 france who, formerly, in spite of England,
i could pass one night at Moscow, and only be
I driven thence, according to the popular SEN
tenoa, by the Generals Frost and Famine NOV
France is no more in the eyes OF the people Of
Poland the France Of 1872, but that Of l848
1 1t is the revolution which enfranchised oul
/ brothers in Gallioia; it is emancipation; it il
1 freedom--iti is Poland. Heretofore, between thu
/ free people and Poland rose the insurmountable
wall Of the Russian, Austrian and Prussian
forces, united together in one fasces Of roya
conspiracy; to-day this conspiracy is dissolved
| Russia isolated, and her army, the principa
barrier, rsmooed from the West 70 the South
Between the West and Poland there is no NOR,
barrier; access to Poland is left free to thu
European Revolution; for what matters to tn
II people the letter Of Napoleon Ill and his con
sentative assurances Does it knew them
Can they have on it's imagination the sam
influence as the memory Of the revolutions Q
France, Vienna, Berlin, Venice, Rome an
Hungary All these revolutions, which. 81:
Il years ago, did net move it, have since appeare
ito it, clothed with the prestige Of the past
Paris, Vienna, Berlin, Rome, Venice, Hungary
they all mean liberty Poland. it is Liberty
and more, il is independence, glory, bravery
And liberty is the abolition Of the Russian re
| cruiting system, the abolition Of socage labor
The abolition Of a vexatious police--it is tn
proprietorstip Of the land; tits freedom for u
igious worship, free trade, markets open for il
grain and cattle--it is, in q word, wealth, pros
II perity, we'll being This is how the good sens
of the people of Poland sums up the preser
question, and solves it with5one single argr
ment: the Turks aans beat the Russians-Wh
NAV not the Poles p,