The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-01-07

would take third generation living in sight Of psrents
t.mbs, to make her prosperous village happy one. Of
ordinary circumstance the Emperor well kno~s bit
he also knows that such the present Ii no or.
binary circumstance and that he would catch no more
soloiers while there are woods and wastes which
emancipated population could flee by day night. To
60 olders is to lave their fathers graves for ever.
TO fly the conscrp tion IL to ray with some
hope OF return The constitution Of the Russim army
such 10 render immediate emancipation absolutely
mpracicabe II is the lower order OF serfs who form
the bulk of the army for the higher never to be
found there while they raise means to send subs
tute even by binding SELVES TO doaas ssrvads
lowest serfs (the least valuable at home) and mo-
bes, with lew foregnersas commanders The only law
In the camp the march, indeed throughout the
country is that Of the cudgel The sovereignty is,
Talley RAID said, despotism limited by assassination,
and tie national condition is one OF lawessness (mee
custom limited by the cudge The other siementsub-
jecs neither to bowtiHg cudgelhat Of the noble
Is the one which virtually sSs ss
4 the ser This not mere political speculation, but
historical fact
II is among the mobiles that the melancholy proverb
abces "A beaten is worth two who never felt the
stick" It is the mobiles have altered the very Ian
usge Which they themselves nssno o. only soe Mass'
araon between them and their serfs so that noble
may not be said to sleep or eat or to walk because seris
e every night sis pleased to refresh himself at the
dinner table; lis pleased to take exercise when he
walks and is The mobiles who have given TO the
xecutioner the little of officer Of nigh duty" 1t is the
pobes who have driven the ssrs TO have proverbs Of
too biSh. and the Emperor is too faT,n and again,
"A bird in cage Is very well, but q bird on the
Dough is better" While God is high aud the Czar is
far away the mobiles ever at hand and it is
tLey Who as class do choose to entertain tho pro-
ec of emancipation, and always contrive to neutrase
every imperial effort in that direction. II there Is any
ruor abroad of any , by jury in other countries it
is the mobiles who take that the term shall not be
understood and they attach It 70 the Infamous brandy
gard to the quality Of their article and are branded as
being lures When OF the Cars shrank At the men
ton the separation Of family, and ordered that the
retail sale serfs might BE- heard Of again. it
the mobiles who concluded that /. could not always
behind their n asters back. When Catherine command
ed the of the word slave from the language,
the mobiles caught eagerly at the new moe OF ssaas
dent children, and even Christians When Alexander
started at notice Of man for sale" and ordered
that human beings should never more be spoken Of
marketable articles 1t the mobiles who supported the
Imperial command and gave out more diligently than
ever, they had g coded" many slaves such
casion, that they had ready for final hire coach
man, cook or lot Ct peasants There have been
things that these vain shows in words
The mobiles always uneasy about the soft heart OF
their Gar Alexander Though they were amused at his
zeal against negro slavery when he had William Allen at
his elbow ct VienIa and that nothing could of
1t while he had empire full of slaves at home, they
were put on the watch by this spirit OF phianthrophy
own capital, where he became SO excited by the
conversation the subject Of slavery, that he seized
saints image and sw0re on j. tina. that ne would
the arrival of the hour OF danger That hour brought
by Alexanders chief subject-the o. the best
putatiOn in his empiIethe present Prince WOrOnzOH
In conjunction with another noble Of kindred mind,
Prince Woron zo framed scheme for patioa and,
knowing that the only hope was in early obtaining inn
peria favor laid the plan before the Gar with names
ended from among the highest mobiles in various
together with who less rich, but honor
ed on other scores. The Gar well pleased that
there to be danger OF the enterprise being actually
entered under the favorable conditions OF time OF
peace The opponents scheme set TO work to fill
their mind with suspc Of concealed pot
cal and out the names OF two persons
At the next eview Alexander cold and inquired
Why should you unite? You live in different provinces
Why cannot you act separately ia the spirit Of this en-
ttTprise will permit organization" So there
enc of the hope Tor that time.
Alexander permitted the gradual ancipation Of the
sers Of his three German Provinces and the achieve
nent is Itself proof that the MOBILES who Ge.
niger to themselves In the procedure The
two widely different than have space
to show and the anc aion has gone further. If
favorable could be to the change it is
manestly absurd to talk OF it at moment like the
sent when the dearth o and OF money for the pro-
secuon OF the the worlds talk The army could
neither be recruited kept together nor governed if the
liberty of Iovrg az given TO the population at
tached to the soil.
Add eat Is the thoughtlesspess aud cruelty Of
uniting to runner such tdipgs might now, under the
xstiLg Grain Ut the easan,ry and the consequent ex
speraon Of their usual niseies, occasion such social
reve to hear Of we could reach (as rumor Is apt to
o) the Russian serf would tell him to ode his time;
hat his posterity will sssuredly be Free later
hut that the ruling powers have such nenti at
ebel; but he has idea of law order beyond the
cudgel could counsel n only to hope nd patience
We would not be answerabe for what Experience has
shown TO be the alternative.