STATE PAPERS. 
remotest posterity. You are going 
to fight in defence of your country, 
your privileges, your freedom, and 
-your fortunes; in defence of your 
parents, wives, and children; in 
short, of ali that is most dear to 
man. (4 | 
We have an army raised by your 
zeal and assistance, supplied with 
every requisite, which will be your 
‘protection. There isan heroic spi- 
rit and courage which promises to 
support it. Such anoble ardour in 
defence of the country and national 
liberties, as is only to be found in 
free nations, inspires us with the 
- most flattering hopes. We receive 
from a}l parts news the most con- 
soling to our paternal feelings, with 
what eagerness citizens of all con- 
ditions, at the call of their country, 
enlist and join the national army. 
The love of our country pervades 
all individuals, and excites their 
generosity in the public support. 
There is no class of citizens who, 
inflamed with a patriotic zeal, do 
not contribute, according to their 
capacity. We havea certain con- 
fidence, that the same gracious 
power who bas inspired the whole 
nation with such a noble ardour, 
considering the justice of our cause, 
) and the purity of our intentions, will 
- not refuse his irresistible aid. 
| But, above all, respectable citi- 
zens, seek for the safety of your 
_- country in union and firmness. We 
- have sufficient strength to oppose 
-- our enemy, but nothing can save 
us from the effects of division and 
_. discord. A foreign war is never so 
_ dreadful to a nation as the internal 
_ disunion of the citizens. Has any 
power been able to effect any thing 
against Poland, while all the citi- 
_| zens, joining their King, have bold- 
_ ly stood forward in defence of their 
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national “laws, immunities, and 
territory ? You will soon hear, dear 
citizens, the voice of falsehood and 
deceit; you will receive writings 
full of treachery and fraud. Those 
whose blindness and obstinacy have 
carried them so far as to make them 
insensible to the horror of raising 
their arms against their own coun- 
try, and of bringing toreign soldiers 
against her, will calumniate the pre- 
sent government, will create dis- 
trust against us and the virtuous 
diet, will try to divide and separate 
you, knowing that they cannot re- 
sist your united strength and endea- 
vours. Arm yourselyes with forti- 
tude and virtue, and give proof of 
such unanimity, sach concord, in 
the defence of your country, in re- 
sisting perfidy and deceit, as you 
have demonstrated in accepting, in 
voluntarily swearing to maintain 
this happy constitution ; and lately 
on the same occasion in the expres- 
sion of your patriotic sentiments, 
so dear to our paternal feelings. 
They who have brought a foreign 
army against your country deserve 
your vengeance, and not your con- 
fidence. Vhat army which comes 
for the purpose of destroying your 
government, prepares only the re- 
turn of your former slavery instead 
of liberty. You have already ex- 
perienced at how dear a rate Rus- 
sian protection is obtained. Vio- 
lently carrying off from our resi- 
dence, and during the diet, senators, 
ministers, and nuncios; the con- 
‘temptuous treatment of our nobili- 
ty, the violation of property, the 
oppression of towns, the seizure and 
forcible transportation of peasants 
and their families; and finally, the 
dismembering of the republic ;— 
these are the effects of the guaran- 
tee imposed upon us by Russia! And 
can 
