Great Emancipation In Russia
A number oà the Pemocralic Pacifique reeeivtd by the Cambria, contains iteresüng letter froin i[s crrespondent at St. Petersbur'gli, dated 13ih of May, from w'hich it appears 1 lint iho aboütion ofslavery in Russia hasjasttaken a vast steji, tftanks to the genérosity, as no'jle as it was unexpeotet), of M. Ruminn, one of th? principal proyJe:ors of tliat country. Yielcing lo tiic impulse oÃ' a noble heart, th:s realthy individual has snJrJenly given complete enfranchisement to eigl.t thousand serfs of both sexes,who bclongrd to hira in tho Govor.'iments of Nijiu and Ria'zan, and what is moro admiro bis conduct is completing bis wirk ri!' c'nnrity ; lie lias abandoned to this popaJatiDii rostored to liberty by him, for n triflittg rent, tlie enjoytnpnt of thfl domairts over which tliey aro diflxised. Tilia, doublé dood of charity was moroover accomplished v, th thesimpücity which slill fartlier enbnncos i(s merit. "O il the departare of M. Rumian from the domaiiis wliicli he liad JList so generously ceded, nll ihe libernted serfs, u-ith the exception of the sick, ruslied n n niass to accompauy him whomtbey htely onll-j ed their mnster, but whom fhey now cnlle.i ! their faiher, even bevond thejierritóry n : which his domains are situated. "VV!:cn the hour of separationnt lengtb arrived, it was not to eight thousnnd persons merely that M. Ruminn bad !o uddrfsshis ilianks and aJieus, hut to twenty thousand persons, belonging to ihe po'pulation of other villages, who all nroused by l'ne echo of this great deed of humanity, liad come to crowj arounil ihe gene.r.ous benefnetor. "Jf we join thi.s new fnrt (o the rfforls already made forthe abolitior, ot bondage in Russia, by tho prince Woronzofl] the Count ProiasofTand M. KologrivoÃT, and i espeifilh' to the powerful encouragement gien by the Sovereign bimself, mav vre do' at ast bope shortly toseeiho riay of libc.ity dawn for so many thóusanda of men who si 11 furnish tbeodious spectacle I of hlnvery in the bosom of a Christian and civilized nntion V' .
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