The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-11-05
Poland.
TFrolm the Liverpool Courier, October 4. |

B 81
r History does not record any war underta
ken for pure humanity. Occasionally wa
has been waged for which humanity was
pretext, but underneath the cloak Of philau
) thropy there the real motive-be it policy
am bition, or hatred. If ever a war shoult
be waged on behalf Of men and women su f.
fering under the most inhuma an tyranny, Po
land must be its scene. The intelligence
daily brought by the kilograms is absolutel J
sickening. Palaces plundered, houses burned
} women outraged until death in convulsion:
relieves them; children tortured these are
the burdens of the telegrams. There is uC
gleam ofmercy or common hum apity. They
who have fed from their native Poland to bt
out of the reach of contendiDg parties. or o.
the, executioDers, are now required to return
II they Go not return, want and beggary are
to be their portions; if they do return. death
is their destiny. If they attach themselves
to the agents of the Gear. they are doomed
by the national government. If they favor
or seem to favor the insurgents, the AK, the
gibbet, or the knout awaits them. 1t is trea-
son to be neutral, and the penalty of treason
is death. The prisons are crowded with vic
Tins, although daily fusillade thin their
! Du m hers.
Every morning unhappy man are led forth
to execution guilty or not guilty. Exam
pies OF terror are needed, and perhaps the
more innocent the victim is the more likely
are others to be terrified. SO at least, thinks
the Gear, who lashes Poland into insurrec-
tion by whip of scorpions. If one half
the narratives of barbarous cruelty inflicted
on the Polish people by the Czar's officers
be true, hen there are demons in human
shape let loose to appal the world.
What is to be done? England will not 60
fo for ha n Of 20
in Mexican politics, and will. perhaps, need
her surplus force fora war against the United
States; Austria will not take the initiative
n action against Russia. The three Powers
have agreed to wait for events; that is, for
the depopul alton Of Poland and the utter ruin
of land bordering on civilized nations
They will wait for events; that is, for the
sack of Warsaw. The impotence of the ma
tions is mocked by the Emperor, whose
tender m ercies are cruel.
But the three Powers will write another
letter. The letters previously transmitted to
the Court of St Petersburg have. we suppose,
so greatly ameliorated the sufferings of the
Poles, that another effort at composition
should be made The Gear, however, cut
short the correspondence. He iDtimated that
be desired more letters. He does not
understand words without deeds, and he de-
close them. The next letter is not to be
addressed to the Gar. The diplomatic
agents of the three allied powers will be in
formed of a fact which all Europe kGows al
ready. In sublime strains they will be taught
that the treaties of 1915 are no longer binding.
The meaning Of such an announcement is
this: The Gar holds, Poland on certain con-
ditious secured by the treaty of 1915 These
conditions be has violated, and therefore g
has 10 right to Poland under the treaty.
How the Gear will mock such an i'm potent
conclusion! He recently informed the En-
peror of the French that he held Poland by
right of conquest. He won it, he said, in
1912 from tn g Great Napoleon. Hedelivered
Europe from the usurper, and seized Poland
by the sword and by the lance. What cares
he for the treaties Of 1852 Cossacks are
better than torn parchments. He does, by
right of conquest. kill. burn, outrage and
DESTROY, and will persist in doing SO. 1t is
vain to exhibit to the Gear few shreds of a
torn treaty, and to tell him that they are
worthless. He is the strong man armed in
possession aud he defes the Western Powers,
while he tramples upon all that men respect
or venerate. a passing cloud would affect
the Gear more than the reading of an. obso-
lee treaty.
Russia knows no law but that of brute
force. He who would restrain her must best
her by sea or land. Strength with her sup
plies the place of Justice. aud terror is her
Cnly persuasion. Diplomatic correspondence
with such power is worse than useless
To prove to his own hordes how thoroughly
he condemns the Allies he redoubles his
cruel;ies to the Poles after the receipt of
dispatch What should be done is clear; the
Asatic should be driven from Europe But
who is to do it? England heststes, Austria
wavers, France waits; aud meanwhile the
Cossacks spread wreck and ruin, and outrage
all that men revere and woman guards.
We bad better stop our ears and close our
eyes to the sounds and sights of misery
From Poland come only mourning, lameuta
ton, and woe. There is no deliverer, and
the opp-essors despises those who talk but
will not act. The partition of Poland is |
branded as the shame of Europe. What
name shall poster:y give to this abandon
ment of a hapless people to the barbarity of
a m ldmau?