Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-05-20
ooNsp1RAons, FRENcH AND
RUSSIAN.


In France, when a conspiracy against
the Government Is discovered, It Is the
custom to make the most of 1t. The
newspapers TEEN with all sorts Of ru-
mors, and with such details as they
are allowed to publish; the Stock Ex-
change utilities the excitement, and all
Western Europe is thrown into Ter
ment. The French Government, III
deed, seems to be partial to these con.
~sniracies, and has even been accused IL
getting them up for purposes OF us
own. Contrast this policy with that
Of the Russian Government under SIM
liar circumstances, and the difference
q, remarkable. For months past there
have been rr,mors of a conspiracy~of
the most formidable nature in Russia
one which aim. not only at the deposit
ton of the imperial dynasty, but at
the subyersion Of all the established
institution. of the Empire, the redistri-
button of property, and the founding
of ALI agrarian social system. Yet
extensively ramified US this conspiracy
is said to be, the Government has been
strenuously endeavoring to prevent
any intelligence Of its existence from
becoming public the press is carefully
supervised; the police are everywhere
on the alert to search suspected per-
sons, places and parcels, and 1t il be-
lieved that the postoffice Is not very
scrupulous as to the sanctity of private
correspondence. Nc publication OF
any internal disorders in the Empire
Is permitted, but rs it is impossible to
exercise absolute control over so vast
all extent Of territory, some inkling of
the supposed state of things has been
obtained. Some of the French papers
profess to be in receipt of correspon-
dence from st. Petersburg, giving ac-
counts of a widely-spread conspiracy
directed by committees which are sit
ting secretly and in permanence at st.
Petersburg and Moscow. Their OBJ
jects are thus developed in a proclama-
ton which they issued last December,
| which runs thus s.
A general rising of the oppressed
| people Is inevitable. We, rs repre-
sentatives of the enlightened youth Of
Russia, comprehend all tho magnitude
of our task. We must surmount all
the obstacles which oppose q popular
revolution, and w must make its Sue
cess certain. We will give evidence
Of our existence by acts Of destruction.
We fear nothing, and nothing shall
stop lis, for our lives are devoted to the
work. The attempt of Demetrius ka-
rakasoff on the life Of the Car, OH the
10th Of April, 1866, was only the pro-
logue to the tragedy which we shall
endeavor to act out There are
three classes Of persons whom We ought
to render impotent for harm, viz: /.
Those personaSes who conduct the
administration Of the Empire, and the
heads Of the army. 2. The holders Of
large capital. 3. Those writers for the
press who are sold to the Government.
The first must be exterminated, the
second despoiled Of their property, and
the third silenccd anyhow. As to the
Car himself, we, who have decreed
punishment of death against all his
family and those in his service, will
let him live until the day when the
people shall avenge themselves with
their own hands. Let our cxecutioner,
our despot without will and without
brains, the puppet Of his fayoritcs, live
rs long as the oppressed, tortured and
betrayed people shall not have pro-
nounced his condemnation, and ordered
some peasant to split his skull with his
avenging AK. We will not usurp the
right to kill Alexander III. That be-
longs to the nation. .EI -
And again:
We proclaim that this bond Of every
citizen with our society is forever in
dissoluble. He who shall be guilty Of
the slightest disobcdience to the orders
of the Revolutionary Committee, Of
the least failure in observing the regu-
lations of our statute, Of the least
doubt As to the soundness Of our prin-
ciples, shall be cut off from the num-
Der Of the living as an unworthy and
III infamous member.
If this came to us by any other route
than "via France" it would look more
real. 1t is not improbable that there
are political conspiracies and secret
revolutionary committees at work in
Russia. There always have been. But
the programme of this n is SC in
~tensely "Frenchy," as given in the
above, as to justify suspicion that the
whole picture is greatly overdrawn
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