Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-12-02
VOL Xxx ISLAND POND VERMONT. DECEMBER

| should die because OF my devotion to such A
cause, am willing TO maet my fate.n When,
under an attacS OF pneumonia from ex
posure to severe weather in tn Q service oI
| his people, that emp sror put down his hea
on the pillow Of dust Russia lost as good a
monarch as was ever crowned. Then cams
| Alexander the Second, father OF the present
emperor. Amid the mightiest opposition
and innumerable protests, h., with one
stroke OF his pen, enancipated twenty nit
lion serfs, practically saying, Go free. Be-
| your own masters, au this Is for you and
| your children forever"
On the day he was basely assassinate
land will parenthetically say that | saw
his carriage in splintsrs, as it LOOKED when
he stepped from it, not to save himself, but
to look after some poor people o. the street
who had been hurt, and | saw the bel on
| which he died, the mattress yet crimson with
| his life's blood -on the day he was assassin
ated he had on his table, found afterwarj, a
free constitution thst proposed TO give the
right OF suffrage to the people OF Russia. IL
it had not been for the assassination hs
would bave soon signed that constitution,
but that horrible vio!enc, put things back,
as violence always does.
What marvellous character of kin lness
was Alexander ths = econ l. tn . father of the
present emperor, so that ths present EN-.
peror, Alexander the Third, inherits his be-
nignity. Alexander the Secoui hearing
that noblenan hs for.nsi conspiracy
against his life, had hi n arrested Tnen the
eyes OF the criminal were bfniaged aui he
was put in u carriage, an for some time
Travelled on, only stopping for fool. After
awhile the bandage was removed, and sup
posing that he must by that time have bseu
almost In Siberia, he fount that he was at
the door OF his own home, But this pun
ishment was sufficient.
The same emperor, having hearl that a
poet had written poem defamatory OF his
empress, ordered the poet into b Is presence.
expecting great sev,rity, the poet entered
the palace and found the emperor and en-
press and dukes AMI ducle ses gathered to-
gether. Good IN rning," said tue emperor
to the offender. II hear you have written
most beautiful posn, AMI have sent for
you that you may read it to Us AMI va may
have the pleasure Of herring it." TIE man
cried out, "Send ms to Siberia or do anc-
thing with me, but do not make me read this
poem in your Or sselce." He was compelled
10 read the detanatorv % sn, an tam thu
empress, against whom it was aimsi, siid;
II do not think hs will writs any more
verses about US again. Let him co. And
so he was freed
And now comes in Alex IN Ter the Thirl,
doing the best things possible for ths us lion
which he loves AMI which aS ariently loves
him. But what an undertaken to rule ons
hundred and twelve million pe1 Die, made up
Of one hundred tribes and rae - aui spsal.
ing forty different lanyuagesl Bus notwith.
standing all this things there move on mar
velousy well, and do not believe that out
OF five hundrsi THOUSAND Russians yol
would find more than ons person wac di'-
likes the emperor, and so that cllu my OF
dread of assassination drops SO fat it cln
fall no fiatter
Calumny the Ssconi liz You go to Russia
you are under severest espionage stoJ1ol
here and questioned IL are, an | in danger OF
arrest. But my ooiuion is that il mln
is disturbed in Russia it is bscluss ha
ought to be disturbed Russia il the only
country in Europe in which my baggage
was not examined. clrriei in my haui.
tied together with ehorl 81 that tlei,,
titles could be seen pils of eight o. tea
books all OF them fro II lii TO lid cursng
Russia, but / had no trouble Ia taking with
me the books There is ten times more diff
Guilty in getting your luggage through til,
American custom house than through the
Russian. | speak not of myself, for frien Is
intercede for me on American wharves, and
am not detained | was several days in
Russia before was asked if ha any pass
port at all.
Depend upon It, IL hereafter MN be-
polics of st. Petersburg or Moscow it is b.
cause there Is somsthin; suspicious about
him, and you yourself had bstter, when he
Is around, look after your silver spoons. |
promise you, an honest man or an honest
woman, that when you go til ere, as many OF
you will-for Euro Dean travel is deitius to
change its course from southern Europe to
those northern region;-you will have no
more molestaton or supervisal than in
Brooklyn or New York or the qliets't Lols
Island village.
Calumny the Tniri-2u ssia and its rule.
are so opposed to any other religion excs 1t
the Greek religion that they will not ALLOW
any other religion; that nothing but parse
cution and Imprisonment ant outrage int)-
cradle await tine dlsciy .e' OF any othsr re-
ligion. But what are the factss | had
long ride In st. Petersburg and its su ouros
with the prefect a brilliant, eficisnt an
lovely man, who Is th HI shsst Official in tas
CITY OF st. Peters )urg and whose cnief
business is to attent ths emperor. said to
him, VI suppose yout rs,tgion Is that OF tn ,
Greek church, "No," saii he; 81 am a
Lutheran" "What is your religionY' said
to one OF tho highest and most influential
officials at st. Petersburg. He said, II am
Of the Church Of England"
Myself, an American, OF still another de-
nomination OF Christians, an never having
been inside Greek church in my life until
went to Russia, could not have received
more consideration had been baptis.d in
In the Greek church and all my life wo.-
SHIPPED at her alters. had it demonstrate
to me very plainly that man's religion In
Russia has nothing to do with his prefer
ment for either Office or social position. Th
| only questions taken into consideration ar,
honesty. fidelity, morality and adaptation
to- L..
before reosived ali invitation to preach the
| Gospel OF Christ as believed It, Best les al
this, have you forgotten that the Crimesr
| war, which shook the earth, grew out o.
| Russia's interference in behalf Of the prose
cuted Christians OF all nations in Turkeyt
But" says some one, shave there no
been prosecutions of other religions In Rus
siap No doubt just as in other times IL
New England we burned witches. AMI as VI
killed Quakers, AMI as the Jews In Americ:
have been outrageouslY treatsd ever sincs
can renem Der, aud the Chinese in our Liant
have been peltei, and their stores torn doYn
and their way from the stea msr wharf d
their destined quarters tracked with thei
own bloo1. The devil OF persecution is II
every land and In all ages. Some OF us Il
the different demo ninations OF Christians Il
America have felt the thrust of persecution
because we thought differently OF did thing
| hlHerenty IRON tnoSe VINO would, ft Tue
had the rover put us in furnace eigh
times heated, one mora degree Of caloric tina
Nebuchadnezzir's. Prosecutions in all land,
but the emperor OF Russia sanctions none o
them.
had a most satisfactory talk with tn
emperor about tho religions Of the world
and he thinks and feels as voI and do, tina
religion Is something bstwean man an
his God, and no one has right to interfer
with it. You may 20 right up to ST. Peter:
burg and Moscow with your Episcopa
liturgy, or your Presbyterian cstechism. {
your Congregationalist's liberalism, or you
1mmersionist's Baptistry, or any other n
liRion, and II you mind your own affairs an
let others mind theirs you will not be m
Tested.
Calumny the Fourth-Russia Is 30 yer
grasping OF territory, and she seems to wal
the world. But what are the factsf Du
ing the last century aud O quarter th