, 1881-07-31

OF some university or technical
high school. None of them
IS oider than ~ nor younger than Fl. Among
US there was the daughter of Minister of
State and Senator belonging to the highest
anu most refined circles of the st. Peters
burg aristocracy. This was Mile. Perovsky.
there are sons Of landed propretors,
OF merchants, distinguished chemists, and
electricians whose names have become Gel
! ebrated in science. There are Government
| employees who, while ostensibly serving the
| Gar, are secretly working ut his destruction.
Lastly, there Is your humble servant, a law
yer, teacher, telegraph operator, chemist,
shoemaker, bookkeeper of bank, and so OH,
alld all Of us, and many thousands of our
| friends strewn all over Russia, passionatel5',
ardcntly, desired to kill the Gar.
Fol: MYSELF
| may say that, though good shot, have
| always had IAN insnpportable aversion to
| shooting other than wild animals, such as
| wolves, vultures, mad dogs. and such like.
But would calmly and cheerfully kill man
who treads Under his execrable foot 90 OK. 900
| human beings, bathing III their blood, for {
| consider such Il man thousand times worse
aud more dangerous than wolf or q mad
dog. An animal can kill five, ten, perhaps
twenty men, while our nefarlous despotism
has destroyed thousands and thousands
Of lives, and STILES :1e spark
Of liberty and intelligence out Of
10, ,000, 600 Of other lives. But hear the moral
and virtuUus reader remark. "ln your at
tempt to blow up the Cxar many innocent
| people might have sutfcred.' This is true.
But to this we have to answer, "First, that,
as in all warfare, so in
ouI, STRUGGLE AGAINST czAEDoM,
those who serve our foe are our enemies too;
and secondly, that, even if IL rev really III
nocent lives should perish, this is a necessity
which. no great war, no great movement for
the freedom Of mankind, can escape. We
deeply regret this necessity, but we are
deeply and gratefully conscious Of the fact
that until now the Russian revolution has
cost much less innocent victims than other
similar movements"
uarthann's descriptions of tile manner in
which the tunnel was dug, of the hardships
endured, and the dangers of detection that
constantly beset the consplrators, is quite
graphic but of no special interest at this
date lie brings with him to this country his
credentials from the Socialist and RcvoIu-
tionary party in Russia, which read as fol-
lows:
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE or THE RUSSIAN So
C1AL REVOLUTIONARY PARry, April ., 16sl.-No.
A5-To Len Hdrt1nunn-DE.A1 COMItADE: Our
on 70 no rec 'H ae WEE par 10 IN
view the better plan appears to be while con-
tinuiny our struggles at home. ut the same time
to dissipate the prejudiccs hostility and entnity
which arc too often shorn In the dealings Of
European countries with Russia. It is our duty
to point out INT Europe has no knowledge
She Is looked upon as country with O
barbarous government, Inherited from Mon
%otnu invasions, coupled with lazy aristoc"
racy. But Europe Is not acquainted with Rus-
sin proper nor with the Intelligent classes
which sho comprises in her population. In her
rope a oiIicisi ATT hussia has ALWAYS ai drawn " her
sword In behalf of the cause Of rctrogrcss!on
and for tho frrtherance of dynastic despotism.
The Russian people from time i,nnlcmorial have
ever been hostile to the policy OF the Gov
ernmeut, and in our times have found etfectual
means to hamper those movements OF the
tyranny. It cannot be denied that the Eu-
ropcan, nations remember too we'll the
ys0ssvs as hS eu ey hse e
n,c1ubrance Of tho former surcrines fresh
in their minds, they cannot possibly blame tho
thai cnthrali them Borrower, our people are
justly entitled to European Confluence
and sympathy. This. no doubt, will be accorded
DETERMINED TO DESTROY OUR GOVERN
and to breestablish direct relations with Europe.
While awaiting this happy cons unmation let us
do all in our power to make our eye acquainted
To you, then, dear comrade, is conhded the
great work Of organizing aud founding In
tho purpose Of disseminating our doctriues- AL
though we have decided to carry on our CAM
paign against the Government with re- |
Yet Yet we III authorize you you nevertheless, dcarr
colnrnde. to accept pecun'Ary aid from other |
nations, first, for the purpose OF making known
purposes in the interior Of nussia; third. for |
aiding tho oppressed victims Of our |
tyrannical Government. We arc con;
tho painful process Of her own emancipation |
she will not fall to give to your mission ample |
proofs OF her sympathy eca a5Sistanes GoSsr
OF the Socialist and Revolutionary Party in
ST. PETERSBURG, Oct q, Nov. 20, 1880.
HIS DoINGS.
Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune |
NEW YORK. July 30.-Is Hartmann in |
New York, or is he not? The Herald the |
past two mornings has made special feat I
ure Of the noted Nihilist and wou1G-be as |
sasin of the Gar, who was Implicated in |
the attempt to blow up the In |
ago, and who, since that time,
detectives, eyadlng his. pursuers at every |
turn. Hartmann, it is said arrived in New
York some days ago, and 1t appears that
since then he has devoted his time to the |
Of articles for the New York /
press, with a view to exploiting himself |
before the American public as Il professional
assasin and leader of the Nlhilist moyeme Mt
as yet, it is apparent he has been seen by !
perhaps
NOT MORE THAN THREE PERSONS
who profess to know his itientity-a Ger
nan and an English editor and
;econd-ratc lawyer, to whom, it is
stated, Hartmann applied, soon after his
arrival here, for legal advice as to whether
lc could be extr adited. lie was informed.
I'M told, thai, being a political refugee only,
he Russian Government could not harm
lin, and upon the strength of this advice he
to make public the details
# the part he played in the
Moscow fasco, which had for its
purpose the death of the Emperor Alexander
l., and, in addition to his recital of that
went, to take occasion, as lie represented as
lavirg done this morning, to glorify the act
md the actors, and to proclaim annihilation
a. EA.k A- 1T.n