Description of the Ukraine

speaking of religion and God, yet scorning and persecuting every creed which is not of Greek persuasion; spreading her propaganda of panslavisra, which visibly disorganises, under various colours and different shades, the vital parts of Turkey and several other states. Further, bribing swarms of authors and periodicals in foreign countries, she prostitutes with the utmost impudence, the words of justice, disinterestedness, and virtue, and dares to speak of her pacific intention; because she was suddenly stopped in her aggressive career by the magic and all powerful word Poland! Happily, Kussia has in herself the germ of her own destruction. There is no law, no liberty of the press, no personal security in Eussia. All the civilians, and the army, are so badly paid that, according to approximative calculations, they cannot subsist more than two months in the year out of their pay, and, therefore, during the remaining ten months they must exist by robbery. Plundering the people, and compelled to maintain their own superiors, they let loose the flood-gates of immorality, and excite general hatred or contempt to the government. In short, they form one cancer of corruption, and promote insurrection, the more so that the Russian nobles may be considered as the very heart of despotism. There being almost no control over them, they are at times more oppressive than the czar himself, and the Russian people, therefore, are subjected, not to one but a whole swarm of tyrants. A Russian noble is sole master and sovereign of his serf;