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that “Tchernuishevski had written the appeal to the
serfs.” As proof of the truth of this contention, a note
found in the pocket of Kostomarof is read, which,
observe, was when he had already been a long time in
prison, sentenced, ready to be sent away to exile, and
in which he is asked to correct a misprint. The note is
signed “Tcher.” The secretaries of the Senate, before
whom this letter was laid, were not able, it is true, to
find any resemblance to Tchernuishevski’s handwriting
as a whole, even admitting that, when the letters are
taken separately, twelve of the twenty-five letters
resemble his to a certain extent; but the Senate in pleno found
the resemblance striking. With incredible ease it is
said, in the next place, that a copy of Tchernuishevski’s
proclamation to the peasants has been found in the
possession of Kostomarof, although no original is
forthcoming, and although the style bears no resemblance to
that of the great author. And, in conclusion, a letter
is read, full of scratches and erasures, which comes from
the Third Section, and which is presumed to be from
the accused, since it is signed “Tsch,” and directed to
one Alexis Nikolayevitch, who is presumed to be the
poet Pleshcheyef, whose Christian name has the same
sound. Tchernuishevski firmly denied having written
this letter, which, moreover, would have been entirely
innocent in any other place than Russia and modern
Germany. Pleshcheyef denied before the court not less
firmly that he had received it; but they were not
believed. It was regarded as a proof of the attempt of
the accused to stir up the serfs, and his culpability is
increased by his obstinate denial.
“As guilty of participation in a conspiracy for the
destruction of the present political arrangements, N. G.
Tchernuishevski, thirty-five years old, is sentenced to
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