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visionary and dangerous prize for which millions have been
and are yet te be expended. FQrrests the growth of ages bave
been uprooted, heroes murdered, the sacred right of property
wantonly violated, nourishing villages seized ирп, ог forcibly
divested 0f their lands und curtailed 0f lawful limits. Рто-
prietors of hamlets despoiled of their hard earned and well
cultivaled acres, от presented with ап exile, equivalent in the
mountainous region of Caucasus: great landholders harased
with vexations law-suits, small ones obliged to part with their
inheritance at the price 6.xed by arbitrary usurpation. от take
it back without comrmsation afer it had been stripped of all
its natural and acquired value, and the well-endowed betrothed
daughters of honest toil, torn from the chosen of their hearts
and compelled to marry coarse military caricatures and ofscou-
rings, that their dowry тау detained in the colony! Frightful
as is this picture, it is nevertheless so true that its odious
features сап scarcely admit of exaggerationt.
Dear Sir! Envy and intrigue in vain would attempt to sti-
Пе that voice to which ту heart responds, the voice of our
country, which unanimously proclaims уои опе of her choicest
worthies! Уои ате the evening sun оп her extensive horizon!
Before the bright orb descends into shadows, let it illu-
mined with а splendour that shall leave оп its track ап ип-
fading twighlight to be seen and admired by grateful poste-
rity, and every succeeding аде. Destroy this monster! Touch
him with the «Spear of Ithuriel», and lay him stripped and
unmasked at the feet of the glorious descendant and the ети-
lator of Peter the Great! А single glance at this fully ехро-
sed deformity, and Nicolas will spurn it from the face of the
earth, and consign its abhorrent progenitor to public infamy
and eter•nal e.xecration! То purge the soil of Russia from so
deadly а pollution nothing is wanted but а diligent investiga-
tion, by upright competellt and honorable теп, of the prin-
ciples and fallacious promises of the new-fangled system, and
а full inquiry into all the unquitous details of its execution.