The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-02-27
The Slavic Union Advancing.

Tho MoskoD Gazette prints q very in
teresting letter from Michael Czaikowski,
a pardoned Polish rebel of the Revolution
of 1880, who has recently returned to Rus
sia and published his political confession
of faith. A pensioned Turkish Lieuten-
ant General, better known as Sadyk Pa
sha, CZaikowski now confesses that, in
spite of his former hatred of the Cars
Government, he realizes the necessity of
reconciling the Poles with the Slaves, and
of weaving them from their partiality for
West European ideas. The older he has
grown the more clearly has he recognized
the propriety of reunion between all
Slavic races, and the more fully has he
been convinced Of the justice of the say
ing of the Polish King, Johni Kasmir:
that the Russians and the Poles, the two
leading Slavic races, should unite in one
State under the Russian scepter. For the
sake of greater harmony between the
Poles and the Southern Slaves he founded
Polish colony in the neighborhood of
Constantinople, and later organized the
Polish Slavic Cossack Legion, with the
view of making it the nucleus of the Po-
lish emigration. The Slavic tongue and
Slavic customs have been zealously culti-
vated, and Southern Slaves, especially
Bosnians. have been attracted by these
communities. Since the accession of AL
exander III. to the throne, and particular
ly since the appointment of the Marquis
of Wieloposki to the post of Civil Gov
ernor of Poland, he has felt friendly to-
ward Russia and INDUCED in the most
sanguine hopes of Russo-Polish recon-
ciliation. The insurrection of 1868
not only bitterly disappointed him, but
influenced his whole subsequent life. The
numerous Polish fugitives who escaped
after the failure of the insurrection to
| Turkey were filled with the most intense
hatred toward the Czar's Government.
They intrigued against him on account OF
his Panslavistic views, and finally pre-
vailed on the Porte to reorganize the Cos
sack Legion, which was placed under the
command of Turkish officers, and thus
| robbed of its Slavic characteristics, es-
pecially of the right of being commanded
in the Slavic language. Under these cir
cumstances nothing remained for him
save to tender his resignation to the Sui
| tan, which was accepted, with the tender
of pension corresponding to his rank.
Freed from his military duties he resolved
to devote his whole attention to recon-
ciliation between Poles and the Russians,
and applied for permission to return to
Russia, which the Emperor's mercy
promptly conceded.
This letter, communicated by the writ.
er to the Mosko,c Gazette, has produced
the greater sensation because Sadyk Pasha
was engaged during the Crimean war tC
instigate all insurrection of the Poles
Cossacrs. and the sectarians of the an.
cient faith in Russia, and had been gen.
orally known as one of the most violent
foes of the st. Petersburg Government
The Russian press appears to attach spe
cial stress to the conversion of this man
especially as many other signs indicate
that Panslavism is gaining adherent'
steadily among the leaders Of the Polisf
party. Last year two political pamphlet;
openly advised the Pole. to escape Ger
manization by a reconciliation with theil
Russian brethren. and there is now Po
lish committee in Paris favoring the same
i1lnn IL o.