The daily gazette., 1881-04-16
sATURDAY. APRIL le. 1851.
ANOTHER theme for the romance

ANOTHER theme for the romance OF
history is being furnished in these
passing days by the story Of the life OF
the Russian girl assassin. High social
station and superior education will
place her upon q unconi ested throne
among the PLAIN, simple, unpretending
and often illiterate fanatics who have
have considered themselves as singled
out from their fellow beings, for the
commission of deeds intended to bene
at the human race by the destruction
Of its tyrants. For tyrants they are in
the eyes of all Americans that believe
in the right Of self-govsrnmens. How
ever, much, therefore, we may sympa-
thize with the hard fate of the dead
Emperor, still the living subjects that
daily suffer untold hardships and mis-
fortunes without number cannot be
overlooked. The words Of our i'm
msrtal Declaration Of Independence
can never be forgotten. 1t is as true
now az it was in 1776, and applies as
strong now on Russian soil to the edu-
Gated, as it did on American soil, that
Call experience hath shown that man
kind are more disposed to suffer while
evils are suferable, than to right
themselves by abolishing the forms to
which they are accustomed" We
cannot see the abuses Of power in Rus
sia /; we can have but faint idea of
the horrors Of such government to
people who, having taste of freedom,
would enjoy the invaluable privileges
that are enjoyed under governments
that We ourselves do not consider free
governments, such as Francean Eng
land and even Italy and Germany.
Taking the words Of the Declaration
that we have quoted above as the
truth, what must be the feelings of the
educated lower classes of Russia as
well as the higher classes that are not
in favor at court, to produce so numer
GUS class as the Nihilistss To make
men and women face death in its
greatest terrors when they know that
1t will be sure to be prefaced with
tortures We can have no sympathy
with the Nihilists, as we understand
their opinions (; but how shall we have
sympathy with government whose
hard features produce of the most
Efftuous such characters as the Nihi-
lists lave drawn to them. The Rm.
peror Of Russia is the head of the
Greek Church. What a mockery is
that form of religion that would dare
I TO follsw in the footsteps of Him "who
spoke as never man spake," and yet
grind down the people in such a way
l'as to produce madness in the minds of
the very neighbors whom the authori.
ties daily meet and by whom they are
through fear congratulated although
they would, II they dared, at once
state their grievances. But there is
in Russia no permission even to peti-
tion the Imperial authority for alleyia.
ton mush less for any redress of
grievances arising from the form OF
government, which ia supposed to be
the will of sovereign. The right OF
petition which Americans hold so dear
is not known in Russia, and while we
may admire the greatness of the act OF
the late Emperor which set twenty
millions Of slaves free from human
bondage to his more aristosratic sub
1ects, We must not forget that he made
those twenty millions the more slaves
to himself and his corrupt crew Of
sycophants whose tyranny inflicted
upon the people is perhaps rarely
known to their sovereign, whose hear
may be tender enough to those whom
he knows. 1t is not of the sovereign
but Of the government the people com
plain. IL permits tyranny from
which there is no escape, and no re-
dress for wrongs indicted even on the
best and most lnnosent.