Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-02-27

the devout patriot must feel at the prospect
of liberating his native land. A man who
could never hope to be anything in the leg
itimate political world may become very
great parsonage indeed in an improvised
revolutionary government. Clerks without
offices get named chiefs of departments
journalists without journals, ministers. A
youth, who in the legitimate political world
would think himself lucky TO obtain the APP
| pointment of clerk to vice-consultate, may,
in the world Of revolution, aspire to the
| post of ambassador. Ferrari, without ask
ing for it, had already been entrusted with
an important mission by the London Rev
olutionary Committee
Then what career the revolutionary
army offers! Brief, perhaps, but brilliant
while it lasts. Commissions are given with
generosity, promotion is rapid; and, when
the functions have ceased the title still re-
mains. Thus Europe is full of scaptains,
and colonies, and knights at arms, who
gained their epaulettes and spurs in skirm-
ishes not recorded in history, and hold their
|
position was never exactly known, and whose
very existence is now forgotten.
will say nothing of the bascr delights in
which revolutionsts on horseback have been
known to indulge-of the wines and cigars
of aristocratc flavor and price, which too
many of these suddenly temporarily enrich
ed democrats love to consume. "lrhe priest
lives by the altar" and why should not the
revolutionary altar be supplied with the fine
wines of France, Germany, and Hungary,
and with the fragrant incense of Havannah
If the oppressed people have to pay for it,
have they not, for centuries, paid for the
luxuries of a still more luxurious nobility
and court2
However, it Is only when a revolution
has gained certain amount of success that
its children can run riot In the manner in
by men of conviction, whose heart is in their
work, and who, instead of self-indulgence,
are prepared for self-sacrifice. Koscziusko
was as remarkable for his frugalty and So
briefly as for his heroic qualities; and Carl
baldi has shown the same virtues in the
present day. But once alive and moving,
the revolution breeds parasites, and the
parasites of revolution are the most offensive
creatures imaginable.
Certainly the laborer, i'll every career, is
worthy of his hire. Nevertheless Ferrari
thanked heaven that his private resources
enabled him to spare himself the humiliation
of receiving money from the intending lib
orators of his country.
The London agent of the Ministry of Fl
nance had offered him drafts on Warsaw,
payable to bearer at the house of one of the
principal bankers, who kept the revolution
ary account with perfect fidelity, and, at the
same time, with the full knowledge and
sanction of the Russian government; but
Ferrari preferred to regard his appointment
as an honorary one. All he had TO do was
first to tell the members of the Central Com
mittce how affairs were going on in London
and afterwards to inform the London Com
mittce, from time to time, of all that tool,
place at Warsaw.
The London Committee was far from be
ing rich; but the day before Fcrrari left fol
. Warsaw, Count Konradin had persuaded
some of his English friends to contribute tt
the funds of what he called "a Polish chari
ty, and had given large sum himself Jan
t kowski had subscribed fifty pounds, Ferrur
five -andtwenty; and Boutloytch, who die
81,
/, of generosity, had made a modest Offering
of ten pounds. An English gentleman who
q during visit TO Warsaw, had been attack
/ ed and maltreated by party of Cossacks
had given hundred pounds; and altosethc
something like four hundred pounds wa
f collected and paid into Losdon bank whicl
was in correspondence with the bank at War
Il saw. The receipt from the London banke
(Which gave credit for the sum to an imagin
: AIRY person called Ladislaus Morawski) VIA
q Minister of Finance 1T Warsaw; and thi
"a stood him in lieu of regular letter of intro
If duction, and, indeed, replaced it very advar
II tageously.
tie as possible; to use the telegraph for real
: ly important matters; and 10 wait 70
further instructions until the arrsva of Kon
:. radn at Warsaw.
/. 1t has been mentioned that leather, i
o the code of telegraphic signals agreed upon
i stood for Ferrari himself. "Trade' mean
a insurrection !" "money' meant simpl
% money!" "brother' meant .associate
-e "elder BROTHER" "minister;" 6 father,
k "chief of the government; ''arrival
"conflict; !" "hides, /" Russians !" "uppt
/ "leather," Poles;" and so on.
, The kilograms were to be plainly sugse'
4 tive, not fully explicit. Thus, ''leather Sci
ID to Berlin" would mean that Fcrrari ha
st gone to Berlin, and naturally was to |
s seen there.
le '.NIy elder brother is ill.," would mea
W that one of the ministers had got into tro,
10 BILE.
Is ''Another arrival upper feathers muc
v damaged" would mean that in fresh col
flict with the Russians many Poles had bee
&c injured.
: Finally, emo letters was to signify th
81 an armed rising had taken place and ''scr
. adyices," that every effort was made to SUI
port it. When it became necessary to ser
- this telegram, FerrariNwas at the same tin
:. to state at what frontier-town he wou
~, meet his London correspondents. In 9TH
a words, ne was to tell them that, to Pose
=. Cracow, or elsewhere near the trontic
''leather" had been sent
IA However, Ferrar had scarcely arrived
th Warsaw, when it seemed probable that b
,er mission would be brought rapidly to a CO
cluson. The information carried to St.
tersburg by the government messenger, wi
had left London at the same time us Ferra
was acted upon forthwith; and Ferrs
no would have been arrested at the Pruss
the Polish frontier: had he not already passed
lu- and actually arrived at Warsaw when {
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