The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-01-30
Doom OF the Gar.

l.
London Daily News has received
from st. Petersburg copy of proc
lama:lon issued by the Revolution
Committee on the day that the Gar
to st. Petersburg. 1t reads
as follows:
On the 9th of this month, on the
Moscow and Kursk Railway, by or
der of the Executive COMMITTEES, an
attempt was made on the life of AL
exander ii. by means Of an explosion.
The attempt failed. We do not find
it convenient to publish at the pres
ent time the reason of the failure.
We are convinced that our agents
and our party will not be dishearten-
cd at the failure of the attempt, but
will gain from it a new experience,
lesson of precaution, and at the same
time fresh consciousness Of their own
power and of the possil ility of sue
cessful issue. Addressing ourselves
to all honest Russian citizens VINO
value liberty, to whom the national
will and the national interests are
sacred, we once again point to Alex
ander II. as the personifeation of
despicable despotism of all that is
cowardly and sangulnary. The reign
of Alexander Ii. from the beginning
to tlfe end is lie, in which the fam
Gus emancipation of the serf ends
with Makotf7s circular. From the
commencement to the end it has
been devoted to the consolidation of
the classes hostile to the people, and
the destruction of everything by
which the people lived and wished
to live. The will of the people was
never so contemptuously disregarded
and trampled on. The present reign
has supported by every means all
those who rob and oppress the peo-
pie, and at the same time systematic
ally exterminate all who are honest
and devoted to the nation. There is
not one village that has not supplied
martyrs, who have been deported to
Siberia for supporting communal in
terests and for protesting against the
administration. From among the in
telligent classes tens of thousands
drag in an interminable string to 81
IBERIA to the mines, exclusively for
having served the cause of the peo-
pie in the cause of liberty and in Or
der to attain higher level Of devel-
opment. The ruinous process of ex.
termination of every independent
element is at last simplified. Alexan-
der IL. is the usurper of the nations
right, and the main pillar of reaction,
the chief author of the judicial assas-
sination. Fourteen executions weigh
on his conscience. Hundreds of suffer
ers cry for vengeance. He deserves to
die for the blood he has spilled, for all
the suffering he has inflicted. He de
serves to die, but it is not alone with
him that we have to do. Our object
is the national welfare. Our task is
to emancipate the people and make
them masters of their fate. IF Alex
ander Ii. would recognize what a
dreadful calamity he is infictlng on
Russia, how unjust and criminal the
oppression he creates, and renouncing
his authority, would transfer such to
an Assembly freely elected by uni
versal suffrage and provided with in
structions by it's electors, then only
would we leave Alexander III. in
peace, ,and forgive him all his offenses.
Until then, a struggle, an implacable
struggle, while there remains in us
drop of blood, until, over the ruins of
despotism, there waves the standard
Of national liberty, and the will of the
people shall become the law of Rus
sian life. We appeal to all Russian
citizens to support our party in this
struggle. 1t is no easy task to sup
port the whole pressure of the gov.
ernment forces. The failure of the at
tempt of the 10Th of November is an
instance of the many difficulties with
which even separate and comparative
ly unimportant episodes in the strug-
gle are attended. We want general
support in order to break up despot-
ISM and return to the people its right
and authority. We demand and ex-
pect such support from Russia
st. Petersburg, Nov. %, 1879.
Nobody expects any Congressman to
distinguish himself for the first two
weeks. After that it is expected that
they will throw their whole souls into
.'here" at roll-call.
A man was standing on corner the
other day, gazing around at nothing in
particular, when friend stepped up and
said: "I see you have mourning band
on your hat" .sYes, I have; it's for my
mother-in-law, replied the man in
mourning. sWhy, did not know she
was dead" ''Well, she isn't, she's re-
covered"
A drummer" for New York house
called on merchant recently and
handed him picture of his betrothed
instead of his business card, saying he
represented that establishment The
merchant examined it carefully, re-