For this
reason, and for this alone, the Constituante adopted only the
first articles of this law, articles which established the
definite transfer of all the land to the hands of the workers,
without any ransom. The other articles of this law, which
concerned the order of the apportionment of lots, its forms, its
methods of possession, etc., could not be adopted, although they
were completely elaborated in the commission and nothing remained
but to sanction them.
We, peasants assembled in Congress, we, too, have been the object
of violence and outrages, unheard of even under the Czarist
regime. Red Guards and sailors, armed, invaded our premises. We
were searched in the rudest manner. Our goods and the provisions
which we had brought from home were stolen. Several of our
comrade-delegates and all the members of the Committee were
arrested and taken to Peter and Paul Fortress. We ourselves were,
late at night, put out of doors in a city which we did not know,
deprived of shelter under which to sleep. All that, to oblige us
either to go to Smolny, where the Bolshevist government called
another Congress, or to return to our homes without having
attained any result.
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