Between a people and a government that has such an attitude toward the nation no foreign element, such as a secret police eating away at reciprocal trust will ever come to be, to incite mistrust on both sides, and elicit an artificial scissure and the demoralisation of the nation. O, that each and every Slavic government would take this to heart! Bad intentions are not always lurking behind every free expression, nor does every free movement signify a coup in the offing! Should hotheads and traitors plot and forge something, the municipal authorities will inform the government, which will then put a timely end to it all. The great Petrovsky beseeched Russia to remove the unnecessary and notorious secret police, but unfortunately without success. However, its continued existence can be attr
