Vindication of Russia And the Emperor Nicholas
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"Do not forget the peasants, " he said to the officer whom he had instructed to prepare a code of laws ; " they are the most useful class, and your serfs have always been treated like helots, " " These words, " says a sympathetic English historical writer, * " sound strangely in a Russian despot's mouth, particularly when we remember the state of the Russian serfs. " Why so ? This Russian, though he had the good or evil fortune, as the reader may deem it, to be born to the awful responsibility ...of absolute authority over more than sixty millions of people, — this despot was a man of the mildest, most amiable, and most humane character, even by the showing of his most inveterate enemies, the aristocratic Poles. " Poland may have suftered under Alexander, " says Hordyn- ski, a Pole, and one of the most passionate and prejudiced writers who ever put pen to paper ; "yet he loved the nation as a friend, which every one of my countrymen will allow. When he was mis- taken in his measures, the reason was that, sur- rounded by bad men and enemies of our nation, he was prevented from knowing the truth.
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"Do not forget the peasants, " he said to the officer whom he had instructed to prepare a code of laws ; " they are the most useful class, and your serfs have always been treated like helots, " " These words, " says a sympathetic English historical writer, * " sound strangely in a Russian despot's mouth, particularly when we remember the state of the Russian serfs. " Why so ? This Russian, though he had the good or evil fortune, as the reader may deem it, to be born to the awful responsibility ...of absolute authority over more than sixty millions of people, — this despot was a man of the mildest, most amiable, and most humane character, even by the showing of his most inveterate enemies, the aristocratic Poles. " Poland may have suftered under Alexander, " says Hordyn- ski, a Pole, and one of the most passionate and prejudiced writers who ever put pen to paper ; "yet he loved the nation as a friend, which every one of my countrymen will allow. When he was mis- taken in his measures, the reason was that, sur- rounded by bad men and enemies of our nation, he was prevented from knowing the truth.
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