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Show THE LATEST ASSASSINATION. . The assassination of Gen. Bob'rikoff, the" autocrat of Finland, is a severe lesson to the ojpreeor, and it might well iiave been expected. "When tbo peaceful Car determined to break faith with Finland, abolish the solemnly guaranteed constitution of that country, and reduce the inhabitants to a etato of vassalage that they had boen solemnly and repeatedly assured by successive CarsblcVsJjoiild never bo called upon to submit to, there was a unanimous and vigorous protest entered by the Finnish people; and they adopted such measures as they considered within their rights to protect the remnant of their liberties. The Czar's response to this was to wnd as dictator to them, this Bobrlkoff of evil fame, a man whose impute way for unrelenting severity of administration, adminis-tration, and brutal ferocity in 3)unlshlng political offenders or those who in any manner sought to set up the least barrier to the most arbitrary despotism, des-potism, lie entered upon his work with a relish and fierceness that made the yoke of his rule tenfold galling In oppression; he put their mother speech under a ban, abrogated their Immemorial Immemo-rial laws and usages, disported their constitutional assemblies, discontinued their postal arrangements and suppressed sup-pressed the stamps, and in every way set on foot measures to obliterate their nationality and racial distinctions and make them wholly Russian. His. fatOv has overtaken him, and no doiibt the iike fate will overtake any other Russian Rus-sian dictator who, wouja.uee thp -?ame means of oppression. |