The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1863-04-30
The Revolution i'm Poland.

PRoCLAMATIoN OF THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT
CAUSE OF THE OUTBREAK DEFINED.
The mails received by the City of Washington at
New York bring the full text of the proclamation
issued on the 22d of January by tine Provisional
Government Of Poland, setting forth the cause OF the
outbreak against the Russians, and appealing in
fiery terms TO the patriotism of the Poles. We give
tie document entire
PROCLAMATION OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE.
The vile usurping Government, maddened by the
opposition of the victims of its oppression, has resolved
10 give them a final blow-to seize many thousands
OF their bravest and most ardent defenders, to clothe
tkem in the hated Muscovite uniform, and TO send
them thousands of miles away to lasting misery and
destruction. Poland is neither able nor willing to
submit INTERESTINGLY to this crushing outrage, and
an energetic opposition 10 II Is a'one cOnsonant with
her duty to posterity. Bands of brave and self
sacrificing youths, penetrated with an ardent love for
their country, and an unbendiDg faith in the justice
aud aid of Heaven, have sworn TO cast off the accurs-
ed yoke or die. Let the whole Polish nation follow
them.
After the fearful shame of slavery, after the in
credible fortunes of oppression, the Central National
Committee, now your only legal Government, sum
mons you, Poles, to the field of the last of your
struggles, to the field of glory and victory, which
with Gods help it will give you, for it knows that
you, who were but yesterday sufferers and victims,
must now become heroes and giants. Yes, you will
conquer your liberty and your independence by the
greatness of your courage, and by the holiness of such
sacrifices as no nation has yet inscribed in its histori-
cal annals. You will give cheerfully and unhesitat-
ingly to your reviving country all the blood, life aud
worldly position she will require from you. The
Committee in return promises you that the strength
Of your bravery will not be wasted, that your sacri-
fees will not be lost, for it will guide with a strong
hand the helm of which it takes possession. 1t will
destroy all difficulties, break through all obstacles,
and pursue and punish before the severe but just
tribunal of our offended fathcrland every mark of
distavor or even want ardor towards the sacred cause.
On the first day of our openly coming forward, at
the moment when the holy struggle begins, the Com
,uittap declares all the sons of Poland without any
distinction of faith or race, descent or station, are
free Uad equal citizens OF the country. From this
moment a land which the agricultural population
possessed on condition of paying rent or giving task
work to their masters is Internationally their pro-
perty and that of their heirs. The landholders who
will be injured by this arrangement shall be COM
pensated from the general funds of the State. The
families of all laborers who join the ranks of the de
tenders of the country, or die in glorious death while
so serving, shall receive a share of the land protected
from the enemy, out of the State property. To
arms then, Poland, Lithunia and Ruthenla, to
arms for the hour of our mutual liberation has
sheath, the sacred standard Of the Eagle, the Knight
and the Archangel is unfurled.
We also wish 80 address a few words to the Musco-
yite nation. Our traditional motto being the freedom
and brotherhood of nations, we pardon you even the
niurder of our fatherlaud, the blood of Praga and
Oszamiana, the Outrages III the Warsaw streets and
the fortunes Of the cells of the citadel. We pardon
sou, because you, too, are miserable and weary; be-
cause 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 this decisive mo-
.rent you do not feel conjunction for the past and
boiler aspirations for the fulure-if, in your encoun-
'ers with US, you give support to the tyrant who
kills US and treads upon you-wOe be to you for in
the presence Of God and the whole world We devote
you to the Same of eternal subsection aud the torture
# eternal slavery, and We will call you to a dreadful
war, the last war Of European civilization with the
savage barbarism of Asia.
WARSAW, January y, 1868.