Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-11-06

The Russinn Hall.

AHc huShAan hAtIs
long list OF names published in the pub
lie prints designates the Committee Of Ar
engagements Of the Contemplated ball, we will
not say in honor, but in adulaiion, OF Russian
nationality The gentlemen who are thus
paraded as sympathlzers with the principle of
foreign absolutism are now upon the record
They must abide the personal consequence Of
their notoriety, which. If our country should
ever be redeemed, will be of no enviable char
acter Should the liepublic persh-should
Capitalization continue its rapid progress, and
override the rights Of the people and of the
States, confirming the usurped powers of Fed.
eral officials and Transforming our Govern
ment into the likeness Of Russian despotism,
then, perhaps, degraded and enthralled pos
terty will accord those names such liprever.
ence as bondmen give their masters. When
the political destinies of Russia and the Uni
ted States shall be linked together, and our
people shall be content TO barter freedom for
national power, and exchange principle for
aggrandiSement; when all our glorious ante
cedents shall have been forgotten, and the
ireemen of America shall have become apos
tates from the creed of self-government which
their fathers taught when the name Of Kos
ciusko shall live no more in the grateful mem
ories Of our race and Mouraviefi and his Cos.
sack horde of woman violators and child muir
derers shall have honor in the land, then may
this Committee Of Arrangements rejoice in
their participation in the festivities of the fifth
of November
But we believe and fervently hope that
! that hour Of their exatation shall not come
We believe that these time-servers will live to
repent the evanescent pleasures they antici.
pdte amid those ball room spendors, and to
find the political fruit they hope to Gull from
| these ovations turn to bitterness in the mo-
ment OF their tasting, The day will come
when the American people will recognize their
mission upon earth, and reopen the fountains
of their sympathy for the oppressed of other
climes The patriots of Poland may strike
Intellectual blows at tyranny, and the blood of
her martyrs may in vain reconsecrate her soil,
so clten made the arena of libertys unavail
ing battle. But her woes her heroism, her in
eNtinguishabe flame of patriotism that has
burned always in the darkness of despotism
and throughout the tempest of revolution eau
not long appeal without response to the citi-
zens of a republic. For the while, our re-
pnblicanism covers beneath the frown of pow
err 1t is therefore, that the oppressor is glo-
rhed, and the victim Of oppression denied
the tribute which freemen owe to those that
struggle to be free. But, when our own
shackle5 shall be rent asunder, the sympathies
OF yore, the memories that are eternal will
reassert their claim; and, If we cannot hep,
we will pity and respect the Pole, and repu-
diate this unnatural alliance with his hered-
itary tyrant
The gay devotees OF fashion that will thronp
the Academy of Music, on Thursday next,
must look for some thorns among the roses
that they tread. The time will come when
they will blush to hear their names associated
with the occasion The daughters of the Re-
public who will give their fair hands to be
clasped by the sailors of the Czar will not re-
member, while they whirl in the giddy waltz
that Polish matrons are weeping amid the
ashes of their homes-weeping for their hus-
bands slain in fight, their children slaughter.
ed in cold blood They will not remember
that the maidens of Lithunnia have been
given to the lust of brutal Cossacks, and that
all Christendom, except Russia and our own
infatuated people, shudders at the tales Of ra.
pine and distinctions that are written of un-
happy Poland, They will make merry with
the representatives OF the power thai enacts
these horrors, and go home to repeat their
tesal joys in happy dreams. But when here
alter themselves are matrons, they will shame
to tell their children of their presence in that
glittering ball room They will rather tell
them, as their own mothers did how the brave
Poles struggled for their freedom; how they
were baffled downrtrodden and enslaved, vet
while they yielded their bodies to the knout
aud scallold, they never yielded the prin.
ciple for which they fought how some
among them, despairing of Poland, fought for
that principle in America, and were co-war-
riors with our revolutionary fathers, and were
the friends of Washington The great ball of
the fifth of November will then be remember
ed only to be deplored and the hearts that
were happy on that night will ho saddened
with the reOollection