The daily gazette., 1879-04-23
From the New York Herald.
The Moral Revolt I'm II ussia.

by the Gar, as "Young Italy," "YouDg
Ireland" ana "Young Germany" were
in their time recognizei in their several
countries by Iepr ssive governments; ; for
the Cars ukase Is declaration that the
revolt in Russia has already gone 50 far
hat the civil authority Is unable to deal
with 1t, even iu land WI ere the civil
Iauthorty is not rest aimed by any laws
that puarsnt' e popular rights. l. stead
of conceding the draft If constitution
which the people hoped for the autocl at
DEGREES return TO the absolute rule Of
the sword.
Events like the murder of Bairast hew.
ski, at Moscow, exhibit the peculiar char
sCter Of the trouble with which the Rus
sian autocrat las to deal. In his own
house, surrounded hy his guests, gen
ileman is shot dead by n beautiful eill of
mob e family, who is perhaps one of the
quests. Women shoot men dead in other
countries alsc, but always for one com
mon cause related to their personal honor.
They shoot the recreant lover Who has
betrayed and abandoned them. They
stake Their lives only on a revenge related
to passions that lft them beyond all COM
nor cons derations of daily life.
But PiascO,ia Katscha executed the
will of one of the Russian secret societies
probably as volunteer, like Vera Sas-
sulitch, though her act Is more remarka-
BILE than was the act of tl at heroine OF
the revolt, because there was in Vera's
case All immediate prOvocation calculated
to inspire sort of generous ferocity that
is quality of the Tartar blood. But in
the present case the victim was not even
All instrument OF the brutal represslons of
the police. He bad only informed the
authorities that he lad Teen threatened
and that act is sufficient to launch the
thunderbolt In his own parlols.
Solov!efs attempt to kill the Gar is
commonplace beside Al assas sination
like this. Regicide 10 attempted in all
countries, and year never passes over
Europe but a shot IS aimed at some
monarch or al some one in position of
equivalent dignity. England, Spain,
Germany and Italy can supply half a
dozen recent examples of these vulgar at
tempts Of vagabonds and luna,ics but
an assassination which shows that the
; whole youth of the better classes of the
country, and of both sexes, are inspired
with such enthusiasm for a common
cause that they are ready to put down
their lives at any moment on condition
that they may thereby perform all act
, which they are told or which their own
impulse suggests may serve that COM
mon cause, is fact of quite another
order, and one that should incline any
! government to consider very earnestly al
the possibilities of the conflict that is be.
fore it ere II decides hat only blind
continuation and exaggeration Of meas
ures of savage brutality are to be count
ed upon Tor the correction of this evil.
Side by side with This trouble comes
up also a formidable Ifficulty in the 'os
sack country payment of taxes is re.
fused and on agood and rational ground
and the resistance is such that military
force of some importance is defeated il
the attempt to enforce collection OF the
. impost, and yer, much larger one musI
be called in. 1t is even apprehended
that this revolt may spread from th'
Cossacks of the Don to the Cossack
throughout tue Empire, in which Gas,
the imperial army would have on it:
Lands very important element Of Tia,
national strength in strictly III litar,
9 SCI Sc. In order to understand the diff
Guilty with the Cossacks it is neces. ar,
. TO recur to that order OF primitive Id, a
. which is at the basis OF the teudal system
e All primitive people hold Their lands un
| der SOW reign authority on presumed
or actual military tenure-on the obi
s CATION 10 render personal service whel
i called upon IL, the sovereign's armies
: But in All age of paid soldiers taxation is
the alterna i've of personal service. Mel
!; do not serve themselves, but they pay
d and the government epuips its arnie
= with The money. Now the Cossack
i claim that they hold by military tenure
y and that they have been called upon an,
have responded in that sense in the re
cent war, and consequently that they ar
: not properly subject to the attentions O
of the taxgatherer. 1t may be that ther
;. is some contoslon in their ideas on thi
!. subject, and that they are no more calle,
1f upon for soldiers than parts Of the Elm
d pie subject to the ordinary draft, an
= : they are not to blame # confused, for tn
D, subject Is not clear, in is much as tn
, taxation, which comes as a relief fion
y the old system, is followed up by tn
j. scheme OF .conscripton aud forcible SCI
% vice.
IL But the Cossack trouble is not on
lkeiy 10 prove permanently lnpolJan'
Their grievance is definite and clear all
J can be reasonably satisfied, while thei
power has known limit and location
and can in the last resort be put dow
with force. Not so the moral revolulio
le with which the government is t
= y face in the most vital part Of Russia
X society. II the trouble with the Co:
I'd sacks is to be of real consequence il
only because of its relation in point ,
a. time with the other; for If it shoul
~ -, prove obstinate it might occupy the hand
n of the government to such an extent a
's to prove an efficient aid to the nihilist!
ne e socialists, anarchists, Slavopbiles, Par
,h sIavists and all other possible develop
lie ments of "Y ouDg Russia" which woul
assuredly join hands with the leadiI
element OF revolt in the attempt To fore
upon the government some recogn'tio
-. OF the humanity of the Russian peopl
y. a. and of their legitimate claim TO posse
those lights and guarantees for rish
which are accorded to every cope