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Show ; " TO THE CZAR OF THE RUSSIAS. 5 j Amos finniiilngs OnV-s a Resolution lie- I gun! In ll the Perecutlon of the .lews. I Washington. Dec. 20. In the houso i t( yesterday Cummings of New York of- j I fored a resolution setting forth that tho ! ' members of the house of representatives of the United States havo heard with j profound sorrow and feeling akin to ' horror, the reports of the persecution of , Jews in Russia, reflecting the barbar- ' ism of past ages, disgracing humanity and impeding the, progress of civiliza- . tion. That sorrow is iutensilied by the fact that the occurrences should happen . "f in a country which has beeu a firm , friend of tho United States, and that clothed itself with glory not long since ' by tho emancipation of serfs and by its defense of the Christians from tho oppression op-pression of the Turks. The resolution directs the state to forward it. to tho American minister at St. Petersburg for presentation to the czar. |