Virginia statesman. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1828-1829, 1828-05-07
THE TURKISH MANIFESTO
From hs MOnitaT Of Thursday, February 9
CONsTANTINoPLE, Jan. -.

From tls MOnite'r Of Thursday February q.
CoNsTANTINoPLE, 5an. ID
Even the least informed are aware, that
an NIussulmen naturally hate the In6dels,
and that the ln6dels on their side arc the
enemies of the Mussulmen; that Russia,
above all, has q particular hatred of Islam
ism, and that she is the chief enemy Of the
sublime Porte. For fifty or sixty years,
anxious lalOuse to put into execution her
guilty project against the MusSulmen ma
ion and the Ottoman empire, she has con-
stanhy pro6ted by the slightest pretext to
declare war; the disorders committed by
the janissaries, who, thank God! are ami
hllated, favored by progress; she has by
degrees, invaded our provinces; her AFRO
gance and her pretenslons have been ever
augmentng, and she has, at last, imagin-
ed that she has discovered an easy method
of executing her ancient plan against the
sublime Porte, by exciting an instruction
against her cO-rehglOnlstS, the Greeks,
The latter united IN the name of religion,
made a simultaneous revolt-they did all
the evil they possibly could to the Mussul-
men, and IN concert with the Russians,
who, on their part attacked the Ottoman
empire, conspired the determination of all
the faithful, and the ruin of the Sublime
POrte-which may God ayert.-Thanks to
divine assistance, and to the protection Of
our Holy Prophet this perfdeous plot was
discovered a short time before 1t was to be
put IN execution.
The measures which ware taken in the
capitol without loss of time, checked at
their commencement the guilty projects
which seemed so easy of accomplishment;
the sword inflicted Justice on a good num-
Der of the rebels Of the Morea of Negro
pont, of Arcaurnania, of MissolonghI, OF
Athens, and other places on the Continent.
The rebels of the Moroa, and of the isles
Foyer, dared at the very beginning of these
troubles, TO engage with the Nussulmen;
,hey killed a great number Of them; they
reduced their wives and their children to
bondage, and under the name of the Go
yernment Of Greece" they committed IN
heard-of excuses. For many years, con-
siderable forces, both military and naval,
were sent against them, but our land troops
discouraged by want Of pay, did not display
the requisite ardor; our fleet did not sue
coed ON account ofthe ancient disorganiza-
ton of the arsenal. The matter being spun
ou-, other Europeans as well as the Russi-
ans, animated by ambition, furnished Sc
crety, every kind Of assistance to the
rebels, either by promises or by deeds, and
thus become the chief cause Of the prolon-
cation of our troubles. At last, led away
by the subdety and insinuatiOns Of Russia,
England and France united themselves to
her, and, under the pretext that their com
merce suffered by the long continuance
of those troubles, they prevailed on the
Greeks, by every kind of art6ce entirely
to renOunce their duties as [rayahsl tribu-
taries.
1t was at different times proposed to the
Sublime Porte no longer to interfere with
the affairs Of the Greeks, but to give them
a form Of independent government; to sep
crate them altogether from the Mussulmen;
to establish among them chief, as in
Wallachia and Moldavia; aud to grant
them their liberty, OncOndition Of an annu.
al tribute. Such, nearly, were the vain