Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1849-11-03

thus FIVE thousand Christians are placed in the !
terrible alternative either of facing the scafold
or of purchasing their lives by abandoning their |
faith So low is already fallen the once mighty |
Turkey that she can devise no other means to
answer or evade the demands OF Russia
Words fail me to qualify these astonishing /
suggestions, such never have been made yet /
TO the fallen chief of generous nation, and /
could hardly have been expected IN the 18th /
century.
MY answer does not admit of hesitation
Between death and shame the choice can be
neither dubious or difficult. Governor Of Hun
gary, and elected to that high place by the con-
fdence Of fifteen millions of my countrymen,
know well what owe to the honor of my coun-
try. even in exile. Even private individual
have an honorable path TO pursue. Once the
Governor of generous country leave no
heritage to my children--they shall at least
bear an unsulied name. Gods will be done.
| am prepared TO die; but as | think this mea-
sure dishonorahle and Injurious TO Turkey,
whose interest sincerely have at heart, and as
| feel it duty to save my companions in exile,
if / can, from a degrading alternative, have
replied to the Grand Nlzier in a concilatory
manner, and took also the liberty to apply to
Sir Stratford Canning and General Aupich for
their generous aid against this tyrannic act. In
full reliance on the noble sentiments and gener-
Gus principles Of your EXcellency, by which, as
we'll as through your wisdom you have secured
the esteem Of the civilized world, | trust TO be
excused in inclosing copies Of nay two letters to
the Grand NiZier and Sir Stratlord Canning
" / Informed that the whole matter is a
cabal against the ministry of Reschid Pacha,
whose enemies would wish to force him to
eXtradition in order to lower 1t in public estl-
nation, and render impossible its continuance
in Office 1t is certain that the grand council
held on the 9th and 10th Of September, after
tumultuous debate, the majority of the council
Ganl, IN rnfpt aNgfr. Il he
ity of the ministry against il. No decision was
come 10, in consequence Of the alterCation
which took place; but Notwithstanding, the
ministry thought tit to make US the revolving
suggestion have named.
- This mode Of solving the difficulty would
not, | am convinced, save the ministry, because
a protection only given, in contradiction Of the
Sultan's generous feeling, at the price Of FIVE
thousand Christians abandoning their faith,
would be revolving to the whole Christian
world, and prove hardly calculated TO win SYM
pathies for Turkey in the event OF a war with
Russia, which, 10 the opinion of the most eX-
perienced Turkish statesmen, is approaching
fast
"As 10 my native country, Turkey does, |
believe, already feel the loss of the neglected
opportunity Of having given TO Hungary al least
some moral help to enable it 10 check the ad-
vance Of the common enemy. But 1T appears
to me that il would be very Ill-adyised mode
=
TO Austrian scatiold, and forcing roy unhaP-
py companions to ahjure their religion or ac-
cept the same alternative.
mo friends to the Turkish government
would spring up from my blood shed by her
broken faith, but many deadly foes. My lord,
your heart will, am sure, excuse my having
called your attention TO our unhappy fate, since
it has now assumed political Importance A
bandoned in this unsocial land by the whole
world, oven the first duties Of humanity give US
no promise Of protection unless, my lord, you
and your generous nation come forward to pro-
lect Us.
''What steps it may be expedicnt that YOU
should take--what We have q right to expect
from the welI-known generosity Of Engand--it
would be hardly fitting for ne 10 enter /
place my own and my companions fate 10 your
hands, my lord and in the name Of humanity
throw myself under the protection of England.
" Time Presses--our doom may in few days
be sealed. Allow me to make an humble per-
sonal request. ! am man, my lord prepared
to face the worst; and | can die with a free
look al Heaven, as | have lived But am also,
my lord, husband, son, and father; my poor,
true-hearted wife, my children and my noble
old mother, wandering about Hungary
They will probably soon fall into the hands of
those Austrians who delight IN torturing even
feeble women, and with whom the innocence
Of childhood Is protection against persccu-
tlons. conjure your EXcelency, in the name
Of the Most High, 10 put a stop TO these cruel
ties by your powerful mediation, and especially
to accord to my wife and children an asylum
on the soil Of the generous English people
- As 10 my poor, my loved, and noble coun-
try, must she, too, perish forever, Shall she, /
unaded, abandoned 10 her fate, and unavenged, !
be doomed to annhliation by her tyrants' Will
England, once her hope, not become her conso-
latiOn
The political interests of civilized Europe,
so many weighty considerations respecting Eng
land herself and chiefly the maintenance Of the
Ottoman Empire, too intimately bound up
with the existence of Hungary for me to lose all
hope. My lord, may God the Almighty for
many years shield you, that you may long pro-
tect the unfortunate, aud live to be the guardian
Of the rights of freedom and humanity | sub
scribe myself, with the most perfect respect
and esteem,
(sigued) Z. L. KOSSUTH'