Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1872-10-26
THE AMERICAN POLAND.

" Las IcFAu AAc recent ACCOUNT OF
the aosging Of Polish young lady by
the Russians, without thrill of honor
making every nerve tremble: On. indig-
nttion IS excited a, the brutal tyrants,
and our pity is given to the unfortunate
girl Who was beaten 10 death for merely
expressing her love for her unhappy
country.
Now let US look At home and see
whether under the broad folds Of the
Star Spangled Banner. in the land which
Is said to De par excceIl-nce that of the
free, something Of an analogous charac-
ter is not taking place, the same in
polling motive being q, the bottom of
the transaction. viz: Political hate.
There Is now in the jail at Albany, ew
York, a Young man named D. 5. Ram
sour, not yet IS years Of age, who IS
condemned to be imprisoned for eigh,
years and to pay fine of 500. What
the crime was Of this youth the follow
ing lines will tell. Ii Will doubtless read
like tals of the middle ages, or OF the
times in England when the authority Of
the Star Chamber was supreme, and the
people were arrested, imprisoned and
punished without or with the mockerv
of trial; of the times in France when if
the dread words Par le Roi" were pro-
nounced at the door OF a dwelling. II was
at once opened and the inmates dragged
to Jail. But it is not those times nor is
it in those lands. In the nineteenth
century in the United States OF Emerica
this youth, D. S. amsour, a student in
Wake Forest College. was arrested by
United States troops in the hall Of his
juvenile debating society and carried to
jail. His crime was that some time
before he had ridden with a few of his
companions in the night and returned
without molesting any enc. This was
done" says Professor Taylor, his in
structor. lin that spirit OF fro'ic or desire
for adventure which would lead any boy
of his age to do the same" The lad was
taken to Raleigh, kept in prison until
April, indicted for murder, which was aft
erwards changed TO conspiracy. By his
counse's aiivce he pleaded guilty, and
was sentenced to eight years imprison-
ment, which he is now undergoing at
Albany. New York. What dos
all this read Ike? Is it not the same
spirit of overbearing tyrrany that caused
the Russians to strip the young Polish
girl to the waist, and after lacerating her
flesh with the knoUt to leave her to die
with agony and shame? Not many
months ago the country was shocked
beyond expression at the execution of g
number of Cuban boys, because they
had distributed some of the ornaments
on the grave Of one of the Spanish
leaders. Is it not the spirit that
prompted the punishment of Ramsour
for boyish fEolic OF exactly the same
character that urged the judicial murder
Of the CRhan youths? 1t is the same
and none oth-r. And this is the spirit
that actuates the Radical party; bitter
haze. malignant spite, are their stock in
trade. They Will not let the bones of
the dead rest in peace, nor turn their
swords into ploughshares, but still
nourish the bad passions engendered by
deadly strife. Is this in consonance
with the spirit of Ameaican liberty? with
its institutions? with the laws that should
govern us both in fact and feelinp2
Surely not Surely the time has arrived
when the animosities of the war should
cease aud its enmities die out. We ask
all who desire to extend TO others tina.
benignant justice which they themselves
would expect whether the time has not
arrived when kindness, good feeling and
mutual good offices should supersede
the angry. revengeful passions which
lead to condemning boys to felons cell
who have committed no crime that wonld
deserve so harsh a Judgment and so
severe punishment: