Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1858-05-06

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My Highlander Chief has not yet depart
ed, and is grumbling because have given
you so much time. Isn't that ungrateful
of him? Father and mother send much
love. expect to be in the city before
long to do little shopping. when
: | shall need your advice in choosing
ccrtain--but good bye, with many kiss
Yours Afectionately, Lucy.
a new play is announced in Boston I'M
,ler the title of can Editor with S5000.''
The Providence Journal wonders whether
he was a government officer, or had been
robbing bank.
The Emancipation Of the Serfs in Russia
Aletter from St. Petersburg, dated March
2lst in lie .Nord gives the following inter
esting information:
The committee for the government OF
Nijni-Novgorod, charged to investigate and
prepare plans for the emancipation of the
serfs, held its first sitting on the Sd inst,
that being the anniversary of Alexander IFS
accession to the throne. General Mour-
avief, the military governor of the prov
ince, made remarkable speech, from which
we make the following extract: la 81 .o
Gentlemen, imbue yourselves with the
spirit of your mission. He who holds in
his hand the hearts Of kings has called you
to accomplish a mighty work, to give free
dom to those who do not possess it. And
if such be your mission. think on the great
ness of the part that Providence has. as
signed you here below. BE not unworthy
of it; do not prefer your own material IN
terests to the welfare Of these millions of
human beings whom their lot has made de-
pendent upon you. Moral interests take
precedence of material ones, and you ought
to prove it by your acts. | said moral in
terests; yes, gentlemen the solution of the
question now occupying us will assuredly
raise us to higher degree of moralization;
and it will enhance the lustre and exalt the
moral dignity of the class called to fulfil
this work with self-denial based on the
conscientiousness Of human rights.
Amongst the people whose material ex-
istence we have to secure, there is many an
individual who, content with his present
position, desires no other. Glory and hon
or to the owners Of such individuals! But
their happiness is merely fortuitous Now,
gentlemen, you are called to substitute cer-
tainty for chance, and remove from the ad-
ministration which relates to an entire class
of persons everything of an arbitrary char
aracter. But success will not be obtained
in this, so long as we continue to see in
man mere productive power similar to
that of animals in general; we shall only
obtain success by resuscitating, or rather
by restoring, the human dignity which had
been stiied, and by invoking the assistance
Of free labor. twill be only then that an
intelligent and equitable appeal, unaceom-
panied by any arbitrary requirement, will
reawaken the living strength of the nation,
and will infusc life in what now appears to
us to be 'eld. j ei Hs r.
Do not separate then from our material
calculations, the respec: due to the rights
of man; render to man that which belongs
to man, and you will justify the confidence
of the sovereign of the nation may say
more-you will deserve the admiration of
the whole world, whose eyes are fixed upon
you at this moment. Your work will win
for you the blessings of the Omnipotent
and those of cohesive humanity, whilst
history will rank you among the promoters
of Justice, among those who love their
neighbors, and will name you as founders
of your country's prosperity. M 'Hd aa'
: A Moscow correspondent of LIE Aord SAYS
that an important ukase has been signed,
the effect of which is to preclude landed pro-
prietors henceforth from converting their
peasants into domestic serfs, whilst they
are still to be empowered as heretofore, to
convert their domestic serfs in PEASANTS
The government will thus follow up its
idea of tranforming the peasant serfs into
peasant proprietors. H .gfgels sals
The emancipation of the numerous class
Of serfs attached, not to the glebe, but the (
person of master, is attended with great |
and to this day neither govern
mcnt or nobility have come to any decision
on the subject. Thcgovernment by the de-
cree referred to has at last endeavored to |
prevent this class of serfs from increasing. |
2 "A letter from Moscow states that the |
government asapplied to the various mort
gage banks and credit institutions of the
.ountry to obtain statistical returns of all I
he small estates belonging to- the poorer
lass ofnobility, and mortgaged to the cred 7
6 banks, having from five to twenty-five /
peasant serfs attachedto them. The object
disengage these peasants from
lie small estates, and TO establish them up /
IN the crown lands. aeelal scr :
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