Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1884-05-10
ST. FRANClSVILLE. a. MAY TO- 1884
P00l P0LAID.

OF oil the national tragedies In modern
bistory-and there have been many-tbat
OF Poland stands alone in melancholy pro
emineuce. Other nations have been hu.
inflated conquered, crushed brought from
highest estate to lowest bnt each of
these has obtained ut least partial Iestor.
stiou and compensation, regained . por-
tion at least of tho former power and pres
tige, and secnred the respect even Of it's
hereditary enemies. Poland oaIy has
fallen Dever to rise again; has been strip
pad Of every vestage Of recognized nation
atty has had ber name literallv blotted
from tho map Of Enrope. There is, by
oourtesv, . "Kinsdom of Portland now but
it IL merely ono Of the provinces of tho
Ras.isn Empire: = province divided in.
- ton departments and ruled BY Russrans
for Russia's exclusive benefit. Tho poli-
cy Of relentless dena ationalization has even
prohibited, nnder severe penalties, the
'use Of the Polish language 10 tho cou: ts
and public schools, and no longer ago
than 1870 the Russian cafendar-ofd style
was forced unon the Uoiverity of War.
saw, minor educational institutions, and
made obligatory in all legal proceedings
and Official cor.esnondepce. Enss;a shares
with Austria and Prnssis the immortal In
fanny Of the partition of Poland; but
Rpssis has supplemented an Infamous
robbery by still more jDfAmous tyranny.
From 1874, when the third partition an
sihilated the political existeuce of Po!snd
hi kvr t,oo x1,r~ g.
sud practiced with diabolical insenui sy
and persistence which 10 language can
dttiDgly de- cribe. When If ever. the bis |
tory Of these imprisopments, tortures |
executions, and wholesale |
Eusssacres is faithfully written, tho world |
will shudder and sicken at story which |
6sds no parallel ssve in the awful record |
pf fTiberius, Nero aud Csliguls. Thousands |
II The bravest Polish men and the pohlest |
Polish women have eudured q living
death in poisonous dungeons, have track |
ID with their blood the road to Siberia
to perish in Siberian mines, have " ithed !
Aud died under the sick or the knout
and for no other cri ne than loving their
native land aud laboring for its deliver
anee. Thousands and tens of thousands
more have been driven into hopeless ex.
lie. become wanderers on the face of the
sartb, without a country and without
homo. OF those who remain in Poland,
md dare to yield to the commones. IN
,tinets of patriotism, the nose favored
suffer perpetual cruel ixion Of the soul,
md are fortunate indeed if thor bottles
'aoape the prison or the lash. For tbough |
he Rassian yoke has ground tho Polish |
,eck for . hundred years it has not sha-
Eeu much less broken, the Polish spirit
,as not dimmed much less extinguisbed
hat pure fame of liberty which burns in
very Polish bosom, whether on the bauks
'ftbe Niemen OK the mississippi, the shores
# tho A, lautic or the Frozen Sea. Before
sihilism usurped it's place, tae spectre of
! Polish insurrection haunted the palace
# every Russian Gear, veziug alike his
waking and bis sleeping hours; aud no
Russian Car has besitated to exercise
hat spectre by all the appliances of des-
'otic and merciIess crue ty which fear !
md hatred could suggest.-St. Louis |