Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1863-05-01
TIE xoyanRaT OF POLAND.

to LntlC proseois or possible euects upon cur
own struggle. Yet, as the latest mails from
Europe b;iog vs Intelligence that the INCUR
1ceiion sgsMst Russian rule ia sill maintain
;ns :tssi, it may hs we'll to look for little at
The merits of the question.
Ire obi, stions Of Russia towards Poland
sro Get forth in ths first fourteen articles OF
the Treaty Of Vicuu,: and the Emperor Al
sxsrdsr himself enumerated them as follows:
"a Qoassi.utior; tho preservation IN public
ensct,ncr.s Of tho Polish language; tho re-
rt.ic,i2n OF pubic appointments to Poles;
f,.s6ofn OF copmerc.i and national army"
In pursr:ncs Of tho treaty, consGtutional
cs.s,cr Wis aven promulgated. Shortly
aftes, sien peaco ~as fully restored, the
chatter ,s.s revoked; the national army"
ya4 ,.iused, Cad Poland WIS garrisonod by
R,ssisus; tbs Constitution vas replaced by
6eapo..c ccds.
p,l.nd y.as driven to anus IN 1880; the
Plies Tough: with the bravery OF desperauon'
and in IL. ,arribio battle Of GrochoW, thelr
eoyihe,re:. faachtars) moved down good.y
h.iYcoe &c .uscovitet; but st Ossrclenka
.i,ry were uyerpuwssed, and Poland fall sssin
l!n:tsr Irr absolute dominion Of the CZ'r.--
S'rc, lhst d,y the n.tion has been hold down
~ b,utsl free. Multitudes of the best and
r,ls. exalted o. Poland bsve bean constantly
hurried Of 10 Siberia; but Polish national
snr,ralio2s have never died. Poland was not
utterly Gub:usd, so long Us msthers taught
cir children 10 curse the Car every night
in .LYi. p,sYers; and noblest ladies, 10 show
tlait bi:1er sense Of the slavery of their
,r,nt:y, wo.s their bracelets in the form OF
l;,.io g.,;d.u handouts with tho lock snapped.
E5o meu of the country were not likely to
81. auet il thor chains while they SAW this
sEpssl - ,hsis manhood glittering on the
wIl;a S.:ycpian arms. In 1917, there was
s;o,a ~. outbreak, stimulated, however, by
Rusf:s helself; ard another batch Of the best
P2,qg we AIDED their way to the SHOWS OF 81
hc:iE.
Ginss lhis Conlsdsrscy EAa hesn aldnost
h..ur Gu. i-o.n oil intelligence Of the outer
World, pu!ani was again tho scene OF pas
;ionate rsro!! .ud he.oic effort. In 1861 the
streo,s q Warsaw bsd 10 BIZ oncu more swept
b. Gos5.ck cayairy. Some twenty persons,
ins,udlag I'D men, women and Children,
pg:, t,sia; the c:nzeas assembled in tie
sroAt church, to ss,ist at their funeral SER
y.cs--l! o ehu.ch wan cleared by soldisry.-
As.i,,, finding ;hs. tho people were still
erowdirg tho chwches, (tho on!y place where
lr,y ccula legally assembly, and there, after
ss.9;cs, seattiOusly singing rational hyson
g;th too 7rttQiE: Sod save Poland" the
Government ordered the Polish Archbishop
to c:css ri; cathedral to divina service alto
gs;tar. On the cid prelats' refu sal, he was at
crcs !hrcwn inio prison, whore, We balieve,
hs Till ,aEsu!sLea. Tnen citizens bethougGt
;ham Ct wearing mourning for tho victims of
tbs C;sRaCka; and Warsaw streets were
q. oucs sou BIO with universal black. instant
" pn crdsr was issued sg.inst mourning
wous2 ware stripped of their weeds Of woe
By the police, and evory merchant who dis
played yard of bls; * cloth in his store was
At once arrested and his stock coL6scsted. In
short, every extremity Of insoienco by which
r.oua people could 30 humbled and crush-
&c i1tc tbs dps. hcs been visited upon that
unfortunate land within TIE lsst two years.
I,g. ca tsEc tho lesson to heart. Such ia the
hard i..e Ct v.aquished nation! No Mus
ca7!a, no Cosssck, was ever so bArbarous
and brutal "a Yankee. No Russian chief
o! police WIZ ever so ingeniously oppressive,
SO carously cruel, IS would be Banks or =
Batter, o, : Mil-oy,if thase fair States should
evss lie n. their mercy.
In 1861, there WAS again great sympathy
snd indignation excited in Europe on behalf
If the Poles, and Lord Palnerston Chan
WHOM. 20 man more handsomely expresses
The arcs. liberal ssntimen) declared in Par
,Aner.. that tho course which the Govern
Isent of Russi. adopted towards Poland wss
cou.pleie ard decided violation of the Urea
lies o. yionns, tie s,ipulations thsn made
slvisa tcen broken almost as soon ss conclu-
tcd." Ii wns truo; nobody has ever denied
u. Lord P,merston has repeated the same
sen.iraent in the last debate in tho House Of
Commons on Polish sffaira; and be it remem-
hcrea that England, as party to tho Vienna
trsa.y, is bound, along with tie other Pow
ore Of Europe, to see that it is respected.
In the ID ssutiuc this last instruction
broke cut; tho Russians were defeated in
several actions; France becsme, as usual, We
aementIy excited by sympathy with the
Poles, and applied for the cooperation Of
England in so,ue energetic action on their
hetatf; hut the F! mpstby Of England YVES
81 for rhetorical efect-it might produce
poetry, bat no actiYe e1e,tion; and France
7,s icf, rlcne, as she WAS in TIE case Of
.ds,ioc, and may &c in the case Of this Oon-
ieds.acy. AZ! ,hsi tho Emperor has found
hinsvf at iih:It- to do-haviDg already
serious war Gu his hands-was to make
friendly representations to the Car, which
+oTe treated rs Mr.. Seward treated his pro-
posai for /. conference in America. Lsngis-
VICE, the Dictator Ct Poland, Is now d.
falta6 prisoner; and the instruction, though
stli burning herccly. Is believed to &c fast
burning itself Cut.
Onco :ao-o the Poles ere promised Oon-
S;su;iou,' ss they were in june, last ycsr
bat thsy know tho value Of Russian promises.
UaG.r I'm, las: CONSTITUTION tho Poles were
formally invited by the Grand Duke Cons.su-
une, to express ,hci, wishes freely. They
did 60; and through the Count -smoyski,
asked simply for the privileges secured to
,hcm by the treaty Of Vienna Count Zs-
moysk. was instantly condemned to impris-
onmeat snd exile. The report of the town