Yet the serfs in Russia were freed in March, 1861, just before our Civil war began.

They freed their serfs without any war, and each serf received some acres of land.

They freed twenty-three millions, and we freed four or five millions of blacks; and all of us, who are old enough, remember that one of the fears in freeing the slaves was the number of lawless and ignorant blacks who, it was supposed, would come to the North.
"We talk about _universal_ suffrage; a larger part of the antiquated Russians vote than of Americans.

Just as I came away from St.Petersburg I met a Moscow family, travelling.

We occupied the same compartment car.
It was a family consisting of a lady and her three daughters.