The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-08-18

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bs eoecifat,r who Aings bombs 10
4 K, ID, IL. q sovereign can walk the
streets Vi T. Gden with impunity, can
even ujly the hospitaities
OF Belgrade qa't upper-tendom, in safety.
Herr Most who writes and publishes in his
little seven by ten newspaper, 10 London,
that it is di vine right of the people to kill
tyrannical kings, must be arrested, tried and
imprisoned at penal servitude for a term of
years, put Hartmann, who lays the plans
for kingly murder, who directs the instru-
mehts of his conspiracy who threw the
murderous bombs, 10 safe from any
official annoyance throughout Great Britain
Yet, If Guiteau had escaped to countries we
name we could not have officially demanded
him. For that reason, Mr.. Blaine, secretary
of state, and next to the president, the head
of tho administration, intmstes to the pub
lie that it will be the policy of the govern
ment to arrest Leo Hermann, nihiliat bomb
thrower and highway murderer, if
the Russian government asks it. We take
it that this intimation on the part of Mr..
Blaine is simply bit of strategy to maxi
good impression upon Russia, and at IT,
same time to warn Hartmann to change IA.
base, which he did by going to Canada,
where as in England he is safe. Elsewhere
we publish the correspondence between
Hartmann's counsel, based.upon ewspaper
interview with Mr. Hit, assistant secretary
of state, and Mr.. Blaine's answer to him. 1t
will be seen that Mr.. Blaine
puts in his disclaimer as to Mr.. Hits ex-
pressions Of opinion. The trouble with Hart
mann and his counsel, and all the nihilst
leaders, or, in other words, the nihilistic idea,
i, that political acts and assassination are
COMPOUNDED. We have nothing to say about
the cause of nihilism-that is its claims to
efforts in behalf of liberty and constitu-
tionsl and freer government for Russ
STA, but the waylsying and murder
ing of q man is no act
in furtherance of the cause of liberty or po-
litical freedom. This can only be accom-
plished by revolution, and the Staying of one
man is not revolution. The American colo
miss, more than hundred years ago, re
belled against the tyranny of Great Britain
They did it by the organization of armies,
by meeting in solemn conclave by their
chosen delegates, and the declaration of in
dependence; by setting up a new govern
ment, the fortunes of which they submitted
to the arbitrament Of battle in fair and hon
orable warfare. So has it been in every
country where the people have raised up in
revolution against their rulers and their
government. This is not the case In Russia,
for Mr.. Leo Hartmann and his nihilist
brethren resort only to dynamite bombs for
the murder Of the car and the assassin's |
rifle in the darkness for detectives and minor |
officers, even TO the taking of the lives OF
women. When people appeal to arms in
revolution other governments stand aloof for
virtually so, until the fate of war decides
that revolution. The revolutionists are rec
ognized from the outstart as belligerents, as
10 the case of the late confederacy, and as
belligerents they have rights that are respect
ID, which mere conspirstors and assassins,
as in the case of Mr.. Hartmann and bis
friends do not have. The confe-
lerste ministers Mason and Slidell,
captured by union man of war
m board the British steamer, Trent, on the
Ugh seas, were released under the laws of
nations, becsuse they were. as the represen,
alive of belligerents, entitled to the proiec.
ion of the British hsg. When President
lincoln stole into Washington city to be
disguised 10 his Scotch cap and
laid, in 1861, if the southern people had
,een oontent TO mouth and
rumble. and through few men
brow dynamite bombs, with which
0 untimely take him of, all Europe would
ave proclaimed them, not bellgerents but
ssassins and II the real murderers had fed TO
Europe they could not have remained there.
n time of profound peace the president of
his government has teen shot down bys
ruel assassin. On the heels Of II. Hartmann,
rho is the head centre of the Russian as ,
Assins, comes here Boosting of what he has
one and directed, and the question Of his
xpstristion II he be asked for,
ecomes a national one, for the necessity has I
rireu for treaty Of That kind. Il is all
onsense .sor Mr.. Hartmann and his friends
, express surprise that in this land Of. fiee- I
ON he is not perfectly safe from arrest for '
free people have no countenance for muir
er, no matter in what name It be perpe-
'aled. II the nihiIissic movement ia Russia b
e indeed q movement Of the people in be-
slf Of freer government, let them rise up :
, the msjesty Of their might, and under the
sinner Of revolution overthrow the present
overnment, or, attempt IL. and on lie ruins
~ such an one as they wsnt, and the world
i'll nave naught 70 say-bus the murder Of !
ssrs is not revolution. {
TIE Brennan Banner says that Of the
'r;y generals furnished BY Texas 10 the :
Jnfedsrsie army that only ten are living. ?
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