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PUBLICATIONS OF THE POLISH LITERARY SOCIETY * .
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The Literary Society of the Friends of Poland is about to publish a volume of Transactions , which we have reason to believe will contain much interesting information on the past history and present state of that heroic but ill-fated country . Meanwhile it is incumbent on us to direct the attention of our readers to the publications already put forth by the Society ; to the soul-stirring
address of its President *; to the manifesto of the Diet ^ and the petition of the 1600 gallant exiles ; and especially to the monthly reports entitled ' Polonia , ' which will appear regularly , and of which the main portion will consist of papers written by enlightened natives of Poland , authenticated documents and correspondence , and hints for the best direction of the feeling which is at length showing itself on this subject . It is desirable that these
publications should be largely circulated ; that British men and women should know what deeds are perpetrated by barbarian despotism in its triumph ; that they should learn what ways are open for the expression of their sympathy and their indignation ; and that for the cold and blind indifference of the past some late atonement may be made now that crimes have been committed which might perhaps have been prevented , and perils have arisen which mieht have been averted .
A «_ 7 question of foreign policy is naturally left more to statesmen by profession , than one which concerns our own condition , grievances , and rights , as affected by our own institutions . They are placed on their high watch-tower , that they may the better note what passes afar , and report and advise accordingly . The people may be expected to wait for them to give the impulse and apply
the stimulus . But as to Poland , the people have not waited * Even amid the agonizing struggle for their own political emancipation , there have been sundry outbreaks of sympathy , and testimonies of fellow-feeling with those who fought a fiercer fight for a more desperate stake , on those remote plains . Many hearts throbbed anxiously with alternate hopes and fears , while Might had not yet vanquished Right in the unequal conflict . It was not
the people ' s fault that Poland s envoy came an unrecognized messenger . From time to time petitions were not wanting ; nor , in the great gathering of the Unions , amid laurel boughs and the gay wreaths of victory , was the banner absent which bore as its inscription ' A Tear for Poland . ' Again and again has the tale of devoted patriotism called forth that magnificent response which is only heard when multitudes are agitated by one common emotion .
* 1 . Address of the Literary Polish Association to the People of Great Britain . 2 . Manifesto of the Polish Nation to Europe , and Address of the . Polish Refugees in France to the British House of Commons , dated 29 th May , 1832 . 3 . Polonia , or Monthly Reports on Polish Affairs ; published by the Literary Association of th 0 Frienda o * Poland . London / 1832 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1832, page 587, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1820/page/11/
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