Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-05-27
TODAY AT MOSCOW.

The great event of the coronation OF
ALEXANDER Ill, of Russia, to which
he and his SO,000,000 subjects have
looked forward with so much anxiety,
takes place to-day, and unless the tele-
graph shall chronicle his sudden demise
during the ceremonies at the hands OF
some venturesome Nihilist armed with
the inevitable and deadly nitro-glycer-
inc can, the rays of this evenings de-
Ginning sun, penetrating into the splen-
did halls of the ancient palace of the
Kremlin, will flash from the teweled
crown which he has, after so long de-
lay, at last succeeded in placing upon
his august and uneasy head.
The browning of the young Car has
been long deferred by circumstances
over which he has had no control, the
postponements from time to time an
nounced being the result Of unpleasant
demonstrations on the part of that ire
pressible organization Of liberty-loving
Muscovites, the Nihilists, but at last
his majesty, having screwed his courage
to the sticking point, fixed upon the
9th of May as the day OH which be
would brave the dangers which beset
the flower-strewn pathway to the
throne, and accordingly preparations
for the momentous event have been
undertaken and carried out on scale of
grandeur and magnifi cence hitherto
unknown amongthe monarchies of the
old world.
ALEXANDER reign thus far has not
been one to excite envy of his high po-
sition among less favored mortals. 1t
is now over two years since his fathers
tragic death, and since that time he
has spent the weeks and months shut
up in Gatchina, almost as much ola
prisoner as NAPOLEON was at Elbe,
and he has lived in mortal terror of the
unseen foes that have constantly sur
rounded him.
II the Car should escape assassina-
ton to-day through the vigilance of
the police and soldiers who are loyal to
him, or owing to the miscarriage of the
plans of his enemies, it will be the part
of wisdom for him seriously to consider
the propricty of making some conces-
sions to that large party in Russia
which is determined to have a change
in the form ofgovernment. The days
of absolute monarchy, even in Russia,
ure numbered, and the SO,0OO,OOO PEG.
pie who have been ruled by the arbi-
trary ill of one man, have resolved
that their rights shall be respected.
Now they have not the slightest voice
in the government; every official re-
ceives his appointment from the Car,
and is respOn sible only to the Gar for
his acts. No Russian of rank can travel
abroad without the authority Of the
Gar, nor can he refuse to return when
ordered to do so without having his es-
tates confiscated. The power of the
Emperor lies in the simi-military pO-
lice, who must do his bidding, and this
army is now a million strong. The
whole machinery of the government of
Russia, from the hereditary and abso-
lutte monarchy at the head down
through all the details of the arbitrary
and offensive military espionage over
private affairs, is wholly repugnant to
the spirit of human progress that has
taken possession of mankind, and alto
gether incompatible with individual
freedom. The Nihilists are determined
to temper this despotism with assassi-
nation" until there isa changeOf some
sort that will give the people a voicein
government, and to this determination
will do will to give due
attention.