New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-03-24
P0,'is Letter.
Irregular Correspondence.)

Paris. France, March 3rd, 1880.
Accounts, received from Russia,
in Paris state that almost the entire
country is anxious for change and
more or less openly sympathizes with
the revolution. One report, not destined
for publication, says that the revolu.
ton is now ripe, and that no human
power can prevent it's outbr eak. What
has already occurred is represented as
a mild foretaste of what has yet to
come. 1t is a mistake to suppose that
the events with which the Empire of
the Gar is thretened will be confined
to the large towns, such as St. Peters.
burg, Moscow, and Kew. The same
evaporation against the maladminister
ton and corruption of the authorities
exists in every town and village Of ST.
IBERIA, in every inhabited part of the
steppes of Little Russia - in fact, the
most remote districts are not free from
it. Prior to the Inauguration of the
Reign of Terror, Russian malcontents
belonged to two distinct categories.
One OF them comprised people who,
though dissatified with the existing
state Of affairs and desireous for a
change, hoped to attain their end by
pacific means. They nevertheless, had
an occult literature of their own, and
carried OH an active propaganda
amongst students and working men.
This group included large number of
adherants belonging to the better elias
SEES, and professed to be oppose to,
means of violence for the realization
OF their theories. Latterly, howe ve1
they have rallied to the other group of
malcontents, which, since it's forma.
ton, has been party of action. They
have always gone by the name of Nj.
hilists. With comparatively few ex.
ceptions they belong ed to the middle
and lower classes. They have also re.
crulted partisans chiefly in the univer.
stiles and factories. Many of them
are men of culture, gifted with an iron
will, and ready for every privation and
| sacrifice in the common cause. The
prospect Of being transported in cages
like wild beasts to Saghalien, march ed
through the snow to Siberia. tortured
in some prison cell, or even executed
in the citadel of St. Petersburg, arc
matters of small consideration for the
Russian Nihilists.
- Average intelligence and honesty
would have stuffed to induce the Cars
councillors to warn him that nothing
could be done by intimidation and vi
olence. Even the Russian peasants
who live far from the centres of reyo
lutionary plats and conspiracies, have
an obstinate, logged way of resisting
the authorities, which is without ex
ample in any other part of Europe
The magistrates appointed by thu
Car find the peasants taciturn, an(
seldom, If ever, succeed in obtaining
evidence from, one against the other
On the approach of the taxgatherer tn,
peasant hides all he possesses. Onl,
last year hideOus storie IS were told O.
Russian peasants multilating them
seves in order to shirk the army con
scription. Amongst themselves the,
are honest enough, but every means i
justifiable in their eyes for escapin.
the oppression that poisons their yer!
existence. General Loris Melikoff ma,
imprison, prescribe, and execute; bu
he will neither pacify nor terrorise
The hydra of revolution has been lie
loose, and it has an unlimited Scoop
for action.