It was organized in 1879, and was responsible for the assassination of Alexander II.] [Footnote 3: These endeavors were evidently the reason why the Russian Government was originally inclined to ascribe the anti-Jewish movement to revolutionary tactics.] [Footnote 4: The Polish noble landowners.

See Vol.

I, p.

93, n.

2.] True, the appeal was the work of only a part of the Revolutionary Executive Committee, which at that time had its headquarters in Moscow.
It failed to obtain the approval of the other members of the Committee and of the party as a whole, and, being a document that might compromise the revolutionary movement, was withdrawn and destroyed after a number of copies had been circulated.