New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-05-11

NATHANIEL BURBANK,
lst Lieut., Acting Asst Adj't General.
The Attempted AssassInation of the Car
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Between l740 and 1901 three Russian Cars fell
victims to successful conspracies The child Gear
Ivan was deposed in l74O. Peter III was deposed
in 1853 and murdered in prison, and in 1901 his son
Paul who succeeded him, was strangled in his
own palace. II was the success of these three
conspiracies, resulting in the deposition of one
czar and the murder of two Others that led some
one to pithily describe the government Of Russia
as Z" despotism tempered by assassination"
That this mode of getting rid OF an obnoxious
monarch atrociOus as it is has not entirely fallen
into disuse is evident from the report which
reached us by the last steamer from Europe, that
the Gear Alexander had been shot at by man
standing within few PAGES of him, and narrowly
escaped with his life. The intended assassin turns
out to have been Russian landowner of the middle
class, who, being reduced to poverty by the enlan-
cpaton of his serfs, sought to ayenge what he
conceived to be the wrong done to him by the EN-
peror by killing him. The shot was well aimed,
and only failed of taking effect through the inter
position of peasant, who thrust aside the assas-
| sins arm at the moment of firing.
| The man made no effort to escape, and at the
moment of his arrest the Gar strobe up to him,
and, Selling him by the shoulders, asked sharply,
" What have done to you that you should seek
| my life y" Then followed statement of the
grievance and the reply of the Car is noteworthy
as Indicating the fears that Cypress him. " am
happy to know !" said he, ;" that you are not mis-
| cradle Poander." All those miserable Poland
ers trodden down under the iron heel of MOura
vief their towns and villages burned, their crops
devastated their property confiscated, the very
| flower of their people murdered in cold blood OF
crowded into prisons, to be sent off by thousands
| to the Caucasus or to Siberia, their nationality
trampled out and their very land des0lation
| Wen may those manifold crimes cast gloom oven
the life of the puissant Car of all the Russias anL
the shadowy figure of some Polish avenger be evel
present to his thoughts to remind him-lilIe the
skeleton at the old Egyptian feasts-that
| he, too, is mortal! that tile dagger in G
resolute hand is still a potent weapon ant
that bullets do not always fail of their mark,
1t is a feature peculiarly Characteristic Of the
leading American radicals that they are the oper
! and avOwed admirers of an unmiugated despotism
The government Of Russdis in their eyes, the beat
| ideal of what a good government should be. Iht
Gar, who at this day is as absolute as in the time
of Ivan the Terrible is praised for every great ant
noble quality. Mr.. Cassius Mareellus Clay, tht
United states Minister near the Court OF st Peters
burg assists al banquetS, Where he makes Ions
! speeches in laudati0n of the paterna character o
I the Gar and elOquenty dtlates upon the pOtiGa
atfinties that exists between the United States AM
Russia, and the manifest advantage that woult
accrue to the world at large by a close alliance
between them. As the radical journals nave beef
in the habit of discOursmg In the same strain, AM
as Mr.. Thaddeus Stevens sought 10 distinguish
himself, Oh Thursday last by introducing resou
ton into Congress cOngratulauag the Gar on hi
escape from assassination and also c0ngratulatin
the Russian serfs =" on the providential escape 0
the sovereign to whom they owe the bless
ings of freedom" we have very littl
donbt that The radicals regard the ena1cipatio
of the serfs az nmDiy conpensating for The enor
mons inoiitfes committed nv the Gar il, Poland
and for the entire deprivation Of a classes of TIN
Russian pnopIe Of every yestige Of a politica
rirht II il unite natural moreover that what til
radicals an ardpntIv admire thrv shnuld ZaaIous i
lestra 10 initiate Cartain Russian nobles Tecentl
pcfitioned with tho bumblest Difference, that III
i,zar vyrrTld ursciorgly allow them tn have som
small snar3 IN Tie administration of affairs The
/, were sterniy INA 10 mind their own business. an
| warned that, il they repeated their request
would be m their peril &c tain De titions for rt
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