The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-12-07
COLUMBIA.
Thursday Morning, Dec. Z. 1866.
Unhappy Poland.

Unhappy Poland.
The Berlin correspondent of the London
Times informs us that amongst the other
woes heapod on unhappy Poland, the Czar
is about to add the mcrciless Russian con-
sc1ption. 1t was this which two years
ago produced the rebellion in that coun-
ty. Now that the spirit Of the nation is
hroken, now that Poland is completely
subjugated, the Gear designs calling upon
that down-trodden people for their quota
.due the Russian army before the late re-
beHion-75, 900 men. This will be an ex-
-hausting Drain upon q little nation of not
more than 100000 of people, who have
prelsably lost in the late war-by exile, by
political execution and transportation and
fight OF rebels-as many men as I'D
inaye made up the numbers orisinall' due
She armies of the Czar. And now, after all
the sufferings they have gone through,
rhen so much Of the best blood of their
1Eaation has been split in the field or on the
sscaffold, whilst many Of poland's fair
daughters and leading patriots are Ian
xuishing i'll Russian fortresses or perish
i2ng on the bleak steppes of Siberia, comes
this fearful visitation-the Russian con-
scription-carried out with rigor and
severity nowhere cqualled.
dt was done on the 5th ultimo and we'll
mny the London Times, correspondent say
IT was "a fatal day to many Polish
7mdsha' and BRIDE 1t sweeps the whole
country. Only the higher nobility and the
.canty compliment of professional men
left since the rebellion are left. Artisans,
mechanics, merchants, peasants, all go.
The writer goes on to say, that families
sxbS Nave particularly distinguished them
selves by their loyalty during the late
rebellion are also released from all service,
TO whatever class of society they may
belong" Poor, unhappy, down-trodden
Poland, the land Of Koskiusco and Of
?u1askil You are bound hand and foot
I'm the power of the oppressor, your strug-
eg1es for freedom have been useless-you
are conquered nation and you writhe in
vain That deep, deadly, inveterate hatred
you bear those Russian battaions, far
5itterer than ever cleaned from the dark
eyed Italians upon the white-coated Aus
train soldiers, is Of no avail. The heel Of
ethe rtyrant is on you, and you must submit
SO Foreign misrule. In the grasp of the
Tnanaonse Ruesia, with its million Of SOL
tdlery, with Your claws cut, your teeth
extracted, you are as powerless as a child.
,The writer thus describes the draft:
* Imagine the men walking up to the
terrible table, and you have spectacle in
comparison to which Hamburg with all
Its sordid anxieties and cowardly suicides,
Ea nothing but frivolous caricature. The
selection of the men, the redemption Of
the rich. and the gambling ordeal and
Anal enlistment Of the poor, require no
sess than a month to decide"
AS soon as the draft commences, many
lake to the woods, many try to fly the
country, but a slrong military Gordon is
established on the frontiers, and the pant
zng might've that falls into their net is at
1t once taken, without hope OF escape. OF
course the examining boards, in so notori-
sously corrupt a country as Russia, mako
snorrnous profits. Frequently, however,
after conscript has passed Government
aohcer. he is seized in the dead Of night
aand ledged in Jail to undergo another
inspection by medical men brought from a
neighboring town for the purpose. So Of
course the poor fellow is pretty generally
stripped before he gets through
Poor unhappy Poland, ever since, as
boy, (says the Richmond Times, we read
iThaddeus Of Warsaw" OF your noble
nsEugglers for independence, Of the fall Of
2he gallant Pulaski, at Savannah, in our
'defence, our heart has been with you in all
yoar unavailing efforts of right against
might, your sufferings subjugated,
esown-troddcn people.
1t js believed that the circus companies
will be deferred from any further attempts