rade-peasants who have come by chance to this Congress declare
to these violators that the only Executive Committee that upholds
the idea of the defense of the Constituante forms a center around
which are grouped all the peasant workers. We call the entire mass
of peasants to the work that is common to all--the fight for "Land
and Liberty," for the true government of the people. "We all come
from the people, children of the same family of workers," and we
all have to follow a route that leads to happiness and liberty.
Now this road, which leads to "Land and Liberty," goes through the
Constituent Assembly alone. The Constituent Assembly was
dissolved, but it was chosen by the entire people, and it ought to
live.

_Long live the Constituent Assembly!_
_Down with violence and tyranny!_
_All power to the people, through the agency of the_
_Constituent Assembly!_

[Signed] The Third National Congress of Soviets of Peasant
Delegates, United on the Principle of the Defense of the
Constituent Assembly.

PROCES-VERBAL OF THE SESSION OF THE III NATIONAL CONGRESS OF SOVIETS OF
PEASANTS' DELEGATES, UNITED ON THE PRINCIPLE OF THE DEFENSE OF THE
CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY

The Provisional Executive Committee of Soviets of Peasants' Delegates
nominated by the fraction of the Second National Congress of these Soviets,
which, to the number of 359 delegates, was organized on the basis of the
principle of the defense of the Constituent Assembly, had addressed to all
the Soviets an appeal inviting those who believe in the defense of the
Constituante to send representatives to the Third Congress, fixed by the
Committee for the 8th of January, and destined to offset the Congress
called for the 12th of January by the Committee of that fraction of the
Congress which, to the number of 314 votes, took sides against the power of
the Constituent Assembly and joined the Bolsheviki.

The Peasants' Congress, meeting by districts and by governments, as well as
the local executive committees of Soviets which have chosen us, knew well
to which Congress they delegated us and had given us precise mandates,
expressing their confidence in the Constituent Assembly and their blame of
the Soviets and the Bolshevik organs that impede the work of the
Constituante and call the peasants to the Congress of January 12th. These
congresses and these committees have charged us to use all our effo