THE ASSASSINATION OF THE CZAR.

Western Star, Issue 430, 26 March 1881, Page 3

THE ASSASSINATION OF THE CZAR.

t'6 the editor. , SIE.-I have read (wo or throe lending articles in the newspaper 3 coinvner.tihg on the inni’der of the Czar. Their Sense may be all compressed into one senteht-e, ‘Served hurt yight for resisting the introduction of TV esterii ideas into Russia.” Poos not “ Western irleap** Tiipan parlifltnenrnry government. Is Vnurder on allowable fneahs of promoting that tobWt ? In the present case will it be likely to forHvord ; t'? .Is the want of it the original or principal enhse, of quarrel ? Hid not (he discontents. which have otdininnfed in Niliilisni. originate about (he time of - the emonc.h nation of the Serfs'? If parliamentary government had heo'n established earlier, would the serfs, ever have been .emancipated Aat least for . a I'ong time ? Have Von' ever observed pint almost; feyerv convicted Nihilist ccn'spiniibr lias bebh'of the class 'of nobles or IheiVlclientß ? It :js not clear, therefore, (lirtt they fortn not W.dt'inbcrotic but.an aristocratic: faction ? t>o these aristocrats want parliatnentpry gv verivJnent ' as a guarantee against toppressiot»> or as an instrument of tyranny hr legislating ‘ foi’ ■ the serfs in ft way .that will hiffkc theVn Vegitt (h.’e'daTsAF' lheir eerfdom P tins end do they iM'want to tie the hard that Wields th'e sceptre, so that it shall ppt be able to restrain theVD in their Work? Would it haye been right for the Czar to denude himself of the poWeV to pi-ofeet the. liberated serf? ? Poes- Wbt (he '.want of at tempts to impose conditions tin (he new Czar prove that.’ the Nihilists are h miserable minority,Trviiig to impose a form nf government on a nation Hat does not want it and is Viot prepared for. it ? t)id (he Western ■nations alluded toiiave effective parliamentriry •government when t heir serfs werte liberated ? All through tlic downfall of the feudal svst em, was there net a tacit’alliance between the liifmhle freetaen, the'serfs, and tire monarch*? , Is there hot an analogy between this fart and the state of matters, hi Eussia to-day ? . Is not the 'absence of all Attempts to improve the vfccs'Bion a proof that it was not a policy that urged them on so milch as revenge, the rage Sand revenge of disappointed avarice and pride ? fs there nut a parallelism : between 'the assassination of President Lincoln and that Vtf the Ctnr?’ If-lho answer bn ih- (he affirmative, may we .n’ot 'class bof.h men alike iamdng the martyrs fOr human freedom? As J am 'not sufficiently acquainted with Eussian affuirß, I put my ideas in the form of question^—l am, &c., EIVEETOX tAXT. ■