The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-03-06

the Muscovite nation. Our traditional
motto being the freedom and brotherhood
of nations, we pardon you even the murder
of our fatherland, the blood of Praga and
Oszmiana, the outrages in the Warsaw
streets, and the tOrtures Of the cells of the
citadel. We pardon you, because you, too.
are miserable and weary; because the dead
bodies of your children are rocked on the
gallows of the Gar, and your prophets
freeze in the SHOWS of Siberia. But if in
the decisive moment you do not feel COM
Function for the past and holier aspirations
tor the future-if, in your encounters with
us, you give support to the tyrant who kills
US ana treads upon yOu-woe be to you!
for In the presence of God and the whole
world we devote you to the shame of eter-
nal subsection and the torture of eternal
slavery, and we will call you to dreadful
war, the last war of European civilization
with the savage barbarism OF Asia
WARSAW, January %, 1868. U.SD
The Central National Committee. acting
as a temporary national government. con-
sidering that to cast off the foreign woke
the greatest possible number of fighting
men is required, and that no one can ex-
cuse himself from military service; also
that every citizen who lives by his own
labor should, in going to battle, have suit
able provision both for himself and his
family, DEGREES as follows:
ARTICLE l. All citizens who live entirely
by their own labor and will fight for their
country in the ranks Of the national army,
shall receive from the state property
share of ground not less than three acres
in extent.
ART. 2. The publication and execution
of this decree is entrusted by the Central
National Committee, acting as a temporary
national government, to the military and
civil commandments of the districts
WARSAW, January 90, 1868. N.S)
The latest accounts from Poland Ito the
9th of February show that the Poles are
still making Roadway, having defeated
superior forces of the Russians at different
points and gathering recruits after every
success. A letter from Warsaw, dated
February 9Th, says:
"Whilst the conduct of the Russians
towards the Poles is most barbarous, that
OF the latter is quite the contrary. They
attend to the wants of the Russian prison.
ers with every care and generally release
them. In the post office of Kurow they
found 900 roubles belonging to private
person, which they at once returned. On
the first they occupied a manufacturing
town, LODI, where they Immediately es-
tablished a national authority, took 81 900
roubles belonging to the government and
$4,000 to the town, for which they gave
receipts. The communications between
the insurgents and their organization baf-
file the sagacity of the Russian authorities,
and if Prussia and Austria remain neutral,
and the Poles succeed in procuring more
arms and prolonging the struggle until an
outbreak occurs in Russia-Of which ru-
mors are afoat-thngs will assume very
serious aspect; and even now the Emperor
Alexander and his advisers must be bent
on prosecution, and nothing else, not to
cOncede what is due to the Poles. Great
troubles are, fear, in store for Russia,
and those who always appeal to the gener-
Gus and benevolent character of the Empe-
rOr are his fiatterers, and not friends, since
they ought to tell him the truth, and in
duce him to practise it. Having eXiled the
most moderate men, such as Count An
drew Zamoyski, or sent them to Siberia
having imprisoned the mobiles of Podolia
for presenting a respectful address to him,
expressive of their wants and wishes, he
finds himself now with the whole Polish
nation facing him and demanding its rights.
Will he remain intlexible, and still continue
the policy Of his father?'
The Austrian authorities have stopped
many Gallicians, who were about to cross
the frontier into Poland, but in spite of
their watchfulness, small parties manage
to cross the Vistula, which is frozen