The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1863-06-11
Lesson i'm Organization

Lesson Ill OTSbuIZdtIOu.
Nothing can better illustrate the power
Of centralized organization than the events
which are now transpiring in connection
with the Polish revolution. The patriotic
! impulses of the people have never died out
under the long years Of oppression whioh
Russia has Inflicted upon them, but have
been kept alive in the hearts of the people
by one Of the most perfectly organized
systems ever known. During all this
lime. when the world deemed Poland
crushed and utterly submissive, the fire
has been sumbering which finally broke
out into revolution. The Country has been
ripe for revol, at any moment when the
word was given. A vast league existed
which numbers spread its ramiications
whenever Pole vas TO be found. This
league embraced the patriotic snd intelll-
gent populace OF Poland. and yet there
were but ten men in it who knew each
other. Divided into tens. each body OF
that number was commanded by the
tenth man. This Tenth-man belonged to
a leagus of ten of his OWE rank. who we've
presided over by Centurion. The Cen
furious, in like manner, acknowledged
by tens to Chief, and they, by the same
ratio, TO a Town Committee. In this
manner the system narrowed into a com
mittee of seven at Warsaw, who where
styled the Central National Committee
This committee, which is the boay under
whose direction the revolution ia row
progressing, is governed BY o.e man, who
takes raraa as Gcaeral Supervisor. while
the o..ner six have each a separate depart
ment of S;a.e, and act as Cabinet Minis
ters.
To go back to the beginning. we will
find where the secre>y and power of thi
league existed. No mails knowledge went
beyond the league OF ten 10 which he be
longed. His most intimate friends might
belong to other organizations OF the same
nature, but he never knew it, No Tenth
man knew other than his nine comradea
aud the Centurion 10 whom he reported,
and 10 Centurion went beyord the limits
of his Tenth men. The Chief Of Cenlu-
rions, governing thousand men, possessed
aS little personal know ledge, and the Town
Committees who held power in tue next
rank were equally obIvious. Thus. up to
the very fountain head, secrecy aud silence
to know that they were unit in the great
organiza,ion, and never sought to become
> wiser. Spies and traitors could only i'm
plieate their immediate comrades. without
affecting the great body, ond let indiyidu
al sedition grow ever SO strong, it was
harmless The Auasian oilicils exhausted
every method To break up this league
but .heir blows were every where warded
of. Death, impress sed into the army, and
that living tomb. Siberia, we've the lot OF
al who could in any manner be implicated,
and yet they could only sc. scattering
ten here and there. while the great body
lived and tlourished in the midst.
IL was to this organic ,tion. then, that
Poland looked for relief. Each member
awaited IN silence and patience the order
from the Central Committee to raise in
defence of hi, county 1t is now deemed
certain that the srbiary conscription which
precipated the insure ton was designed
10 break the pc wer of this league, and il
succeeded So fer as TO take twenty thousand
young men from it's ranks; but the object
was not gained Another object, which
has been freely attributed to the Gar, was
gained, and that was to bring on the in
eVltable struggle while Russia was free to
deal with il. She met an enemy through
ly prepared to resist, and have fought the
battle thus far, not with rabbls and mobs.
but with perfectly organized citizen sold
iery. Let the result be what it will, the
Polish l. ague will ever be hereafter the
model and exemplar of plotting patr,o tism
- Chicago Times.