River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-01-08
THEY MEAN BUSINESS.
Rabid Proclamation Issued by Russian
Nihilists.

The executive committee of the nj
hllist party in Russia issued on the day
following the cars return to st. Peters
burg most violent proclamation. The
party row avows that the late diabolical
attempt was made by their order. The
following is the document:
On the 18th of this month, on the
Moscow and Kursk railway, by order of
the executive committee, an attempt
was made on the life of Alexander III.
by means OF an explosion. The attempt
failed. We DO not find it convenient TO
publish at the present tine the reason
of the failure. We are convinced that
our agents and our party will not be
dishear tened at the failure of the at
tempt, but will gain from it a new exr
perience, lesson of precautiop, and at
the same time fresh consciousness of
their own power and of the possibility
of successful issue. Addressing our
selves to all honest Russian citizens who
value liberty, to whom the national will
and the national interests are sacred,
we once again point to Alexander H. as
the personification of despicable des-
potism, of all that is cowardly and san
culinary. The reign of Alexander III.
from the beginning TO the end is u lie,
in which the famous emancipation of
the serf ends with Makof's circular.
From the commencement to the end L
has been devoted to the consolidation
of the classes hostile to the people and
the destruction of everything by which
the people lived and wish to live. The
will of the people was never SO con-
temptuously disregarded and tramped
on. The present reign has supported
by every means all those who rob and
Cypress the people, and at the same
time Systematically exterminated all
who are honest and devoted to the ma
ton. There is not one village that has
not supplied martyrs who have been
deported to Siberia for supporting COM
munal interests, and for protesting
against the administration. From
among the intelligent classes tens of
thousands drag in an interminable
string to Siberia to the mines, exclusive
ly for having served the cause of the
people in the spirit of liberty, and in
order to attain higher level of civil de-
velopment. This ruinous process of ex-
termination of every independent ele-
ment is at last simplihed. Alexander
III. is the usurper of the nations right,
the main pillar of reaction, the chief
author of the judicial associations.
Fourteen executions weigh on his con-
science. Hundred Of sufferers cry for
vengeance. He deserves to die for all
the blood he has spilled, for all the suf.
fering he has inflicted. He deserves to
| die, but it is not alone with him that
we have to do. Our object is the nation
| al welfare. Our task is to emancipate
| the people, and make them masters oil
their fate. If Alexander III. would re-
cogni1e what dreadful calamity he has
inflicted on Russia, how Unjust and
criminal the oppression he creates, and
renouncing his authority, would trans
| fer such to an assembly freely elected
by universal suffrage, and provided
with instructions by its electors, then
only would we leave Alexander III. in
peace, and forgive him all his offenses
Until then struggle, an implacable
struggle, while there remains in us q
drop of blood. until over the ruins oil
despotism there waves the standard CT
national liberty, and the will of the
| people shall become the law of Russian
life. We appeal to all Russian citizens
to support our party in this struggle. Il
is no easy task to support the whole
pressure of the government forces. The
failure of the attempt ofthe 10Th Of
OF November in an instance of, the
many difficulties with which even
separate and comparatively unimport-
ant episodes in the struggle are attend
ed. We want general support in order
to break up depotism, and return tC
the people its rights and authority
We demand anG expect such support
from Russia.
st. Petersburg, Nov. p, 1879