, 1863-08-28

in the South are patriots struggling for in
dependence. Traitors in Canada arc only
fit for the gallowB The jackass in the
lions skin has at last found his fellow, and /
we commend him to season Of meditation
among his own thistlcs
THE POLISH MH93' EAT1SsAr GOVERN
The Polish National Government is
great mystery, and if it were not Tor its re.
cognition by the patriotic people OF tnat
pnhanpy country, We should almost noJus-
tilted, in spite Of its historic record, In SCI
tinc II down as a myth. Such thing was
nerer heard Of before as an invisible, un-
lnown. executive. acting on behalf Of an
ipsurcent people, imposing laws and taxes
upon them at its pleasure, and obtaining
willing obedience to its slightest wishes
and injunctions. This however, is not all.
The National Government holds its secret |
couc1ayes in Warsaw, under the very eyes
Of the Russian authorities, and dictates its |
orders, and commissions, us if it were q le-
cal, and constitutional body. The police
Of Russia who are accredited all the world
over, for their cunning and talent, have not
been able, Us it is affirmed, to detect these
strange, and mysterious instigators Of the
rebellion, who seem to be endowed with a
sort Of ubiquity, and are everywhere pres
ent either in person, or through their agents
and spies, in all parts Of the country.
This is condition Of things which it
seems impossible to fathom upon any Of
the accredited principles which regulate
European governments. And it is the more
remarkable in O province Of Russia because
it is well known that this Power Is always
master Of the position whatever it may be,
and that the proceedings Of the most secret
societies arc as open to its knowledge,
through the system Of espionage which
it has organized throughout its dominions,
as they would be if they were Published
through the ordinary channels Of public
intelligence. It is in vain to say as an
excuse for the pretended Ignorance Of the
Russian authorities that the police of Russia,
s1c not 50 dexterous as the police Of tho
Polish Government, for this as VIC hlnted
above, would be to suppose what would
fa1sify the whole history Of Russian Gun
ming and diplomacy. Ruin Pietrowski
in his Escape from Siberia" says that
during the Polish emigration, the Russian
functionaries were in possession Of every
fact connected with it ;. and that he was
shown on one occasion complete list Of
the names Of the e,nigrcs, with
written particulars attached to each.
Russia, on this occasion, made use Of the
French police through her embassy ut
Pa1is, which was charged to obtain by any
and all means, the secret doings and
thoughts Of the emigres in that city-so
fur as they affected Russia; and this was
done By the usual and unusual methods
which the French police employ to attain
their Object in any given commission.
t So cc1tain is it, therefore, that this reso-
lutiopary Government could not exist with
out the knowledge Of Russia, that We are
driven to ask whether she hcrzelt
did not organize it, as well as
the insurrection; whether her profes
sions to the contrary arc not the white lies
Of diplomacy; and whether, as usual, she
is rot cheating Europe by the trick she i:
playing upon it, and whether it will moi
turn out through this trick that she vii
gain her own ends, whatever they may
eventually, prove to be.
It is no more incredible that, taking ad
vantage Of the old, uncomfortable desire
Of Poland for distinct nationality, she
I should have caused the revolution Of 1868
than that she should hare caused the reyo
| tuition Of 1881, which is now an accredited
fact Of history. Nor is it more incredible
than this other astounaing,bu well authen
ticated fact, that she instigated Turkey te
70 to war with her, and brought about The
| Crinean campaign.
We do not propose to deal in this ari
! Gle with the notires Of Russia for this up
parently .jelo-dt-se action, nor with the
prospective benefits which she intended
! should accrue to her from it. Wcspeak oi
the facts, as such, and no more; and nd
I duce these at the present time to show that
| unaccountab1e as her conduct may be in the
| matter cf the Polish revolution, it is mol
without host Of similar unaccountablt
1rcccdents in her history.
We mar be assured that she has power
| full REASONS 10 justify her course to herself
| for she never moves without heaying ths
| lead and making sure Of the depth Of he]
| water. Nor could she move In thus in
stance unless there were completely will
her counscls in the Cabinets Of England
md France. That there is an understand
! ing between these Power sand yer.
probably others with Russia seem
/ to be clear enough from the fact that th
Europeah soyercigns are dealing with th
impersonal Revolutionary Government q
if it were substantive, and recognises
existence, whereas, as We have seen, it
altogether intangible, md has no principa
to represent It in the discussions Of the mt
dating parties They aIe mediating bt
tween Russia, rather considerable tac
and the Polish Committee Of Governmen
very roe1ical myth! How is it possib]
for this to transrinee Nobody know
anything about the Committee-evcn Ru
: sia prctcnds to be ignorant of Its chic
ard members! How, thin, can the Pow
ers communicate with it : How will the
address their dispatched How get r
plies? Who is to reply? Will they r
ceiye unsigned answers, or cnrmunic
tions Of any sort:
: These are rcry important questions, an
the subject and the OCCASION to which the
| apply are without parallel in diploma!
aifairs It is an unhcard Of degradation
the functions Of diplcmacy, and the cha
> acter Of European Sovereignty, forso man
crowned heads to stoop to the ignorniny
:. dealing with an unknown abstraction cal
1 ing itself q Secret National Governmen
1t is mystery within mystery-and
Russia did moi know what she was abnu
it she did not direct the counsels Of II
great Powers, she would never submit
The ignon,iny Of being q party to auy sue
mediation.
The difficulties set forth above have bee
! suTmounted in some way or other, and y
! have intelligence from the Vienna Pre-