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Show beach Yprious reforms have been udopi Ho is Ru?siavbf;latc. ' The cmahclpattbn f the serfs has . produced quite sen througliputj the" whole' cmplrbr "A I amount of religious liberty was to b f the ecdfed'fo'thVRhssiaV sects,- The ; irre$t tary of StaCe druftcil the. following n Up!M"W0" Jaw,-which .was adopted I jj8i. I Senate, The following fs a' trnnsla i0. "Persons who. propagate ' hercs, j schism among those separated fri irtsou orthodox church, and who fouuil new d thcl,r,j"1a 010 faitn nr '"j' punishment for these crimes, They aro'to be deprived qf nl civil rights, and to bo transports laving colonle: those from European Rusi vords, t0 the Trans-Caucasian provinces; with from the latter provinces and frc 15 an I government of Straoopol, into SI than and those from Siberia, into the in mote confines of that region. "Subject to the same penalties a cently fanatical sectaries, who openly insi t, and orthodox church or its clergy. ' 'i I, i i m in ,i r i i, I. .ii ,i tie , 'Tliosowhb qutt ttio otthodoxrch r of and fall into, any heresy whatever,. iinst , "Are to be sent to the ccclcsiastlbi L of thoritlcs to bo Wtructcd nnd pewuni lers, . 'L'Ani dU lkltgion (Paris) fa la- mcntlng oii this law states.' "This hem paragraph contains tho germs Of all Age slbto vexatious. If a, person falUhtC ted, heresy whatever, Protestant or Rt iprK Catholicjjf ho is, for example, the fr itols of a family, be may be taken for ius Un- tlon to sprne distant mouastery ind ' children, wcantf hlto, separated from to be taught in sontul doctrint." ' -' Thi' WoU 8ays:"Thus,.in; this 7 law,, there l little, if any advance, t or that jitate pf things; which the authol tbe remarkable work, culled Jte. Itaitot, ?t the llussian Sects published last yci Parli? so cloqueiitty deplored. T ' tion,' lie isays, s with us as veto - - generous aspiration; it has not been tdcr- tipnpd. by;"tfie,.lar. The.-Cbngre ;,tis- Paris, Inspired' by the idcai of rai jlish civilization, imposes uponUhe Turklti vriss vcrnsJicntthe Ilatli-IIoHemyoum, prp cent iugYt hp equality , before "the ,law iiiil of every, tace. and, ;rctlgl6n; and w jj- still p'rcserving;an arscuatpf special idrib barbarous and sapcrinnatcd, against the of pur compatriots, whofo consclenc St. not accept authority 6f the olnciuTcti ), tB If we'wlsti to be . civilized pcoplb, lisry willingly accept the consequences of s of ' MhhffW ;. '.' kti ', '' "' r L.'' ... |