The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-10-24
EDITORS CORRESPONDENCE.
NEw YoRK, October n, 1873
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sccounts delayed the Niagara between Halifax and
this por until yesterday morning. AT O'clock full "A hour
over her usual running time Never was more mPaens~
exhibited by the people Of New York Tor the arrival Of
Atlantic mail than this occasion. causing the de-
lay be for the Tune the subject ofunyersa comment and
wondement.
The lelegapLic dispatches concerning Turkeys refusal
10 obey the Cars commas for the delivery Of the
bodies OF kossuh. Benz, Dembnski, Pecze and Others
preceding the Steamship caused tbs excitement OF course
IacGnowledge myself deceived in the opinion expressed
in my last ON foreign affairs that England would fail
Turkey in her hour Of need From appearances
Britain and indeed France. will stand by the Srtan at all
hazards But Of their position and apparent determina
zion anon.
demonstrated, through the columns Of the Unon the In
eyabe necessity for the existing condition Of things be-
tween Russia and Turkey, in Hungary met the fate
which subsequently, befel her Your readers win also
ecoec doubtless thai In urging the probability that Eng
land would interfere effectively in behafofhe Huns based
my views upon the supposition that Russas
ment against Turkey would evidently compromise
British Interests in the East and on the Mediterranean
make English resistance the Cars plans of
almost political hfe-anddeath necessity Under that
yiction could realize thar the Queens ministry
under the control of arsocratic preudiceshat they
sympahized with the prejadces Of the
privileged OF the British isles, lead them forego the
opportunity Of checking the mad Of aggrandzement
upon which Nicholas had evidently on when merely
firm necessary 10 accomplish The task tbs
the knife, then aar off, which, having sabse-
queny approached with railroad speed, stands 20
AZ hand that all the journalists Of the continent
ceiye the chances Tor general European be
imminent Than any previous epoch within the last thirty
Their fixture anticipate the policy they
being forced pursue satisfied that they would submit
anything Nicholas might undertake, rather than
national likely prove Of the consequences
Of with Russia The nsoient of Nicholas
the saan Il strikes me- conceived In like belief thar
England "cond not be kicked into a war'-to
pfessve IL inelegant Americanism The demand OF the
bodies of the refugees is insoent because being peremp
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No treaty exists which Russia Austria Is party
with Turkey embracing any such exnadion provision.
er careful OF the whole ground the English and
French ministers Consiantinope concluded that neither
the treaty Of utshukKamar that of Passarowitch.
ustes the Cars demand accompanied (your readers may
YET know by the unreseved declaration Of his special
envoy that his demanded the refugees, that be
might hang them, like dogs, To the nearest tree
gather from steamers mails that the English and
French cabinets have already endorsed the stand taken BY
their ministers. England having Immediately ordered her
Mediterranean feet TO appear Oh the Bosphorus without
delay, aud the newspaper organ Of M Thiers-which IL
the behind the French presidential throne in such
nattershayng promptly taken ground vehemeny against
the hit and propriey Of Rusas demand This demand,
by-he-by though anticipated by the beraists Of both
hsmisPheres is proof that Nicholas has gone half
over his Hungarian victory. In this demand he goes
step further. and dances naked before all Europe
Never civilization has existed, has thnnefveiied
undsguised object Of royal arrogance stood before its
eyes than is the Antocrat while making this demand
Turkey Having wreaked his hatred Of free institutions
"a free beared nation contendng bravely with its
eeign eoastitafioaa rights him abruptly
menacing another independent sovereign with and
pine the penalty for refusing violate the rights of
lions hospitality thai he he Czar) dip hands
the blood Of whose resound Europe and
America for eir patriotic dsyotion- The Au,ocsAss late
in the wIrk of aggression upon human rights thus
seems actually 10 have phsenzed him.
This and demand brought out in singu-
lar relief the virtue Of the Mahomedan, con,rasted with
the ssvagey Of tho pretended Christian and emsss Of
Cod he impiousy claims 10 be. In the nobility and
generosity Of the conduct OF the Sultan, have rebute
dpon the basees tyranny and hypocrisy of that Of the
Gar which will fail TO tell upon the hearts and minds
Of civilized world the Fastening Of the grand day
etributon when injuries Inflicted upon the
many centuries viii surely be reyenged The morality
Of the Moem does indeed shame the proagacy of Chris
an morals, These refugees beaten and yanqushed men,
may thank their that by Providence they permit
ted seek the hospitality of those with whom hospitality
strangers distress is article Of aotiye-not nomi
ns-regious faith Of men who not TO be terrified into
the demanded Of nhumany and impey, by the alter
native OF invasion by the cza 10000 men in H,w
noble this sight Of Turkey clnging firmly to the nobest
article OF her religious fsih and holding IL like shield
hepe and the hunbled, against the Autocrat
the stongest empire in the world!
Even the Londoo Times (Which, for consideration,
stood maualy by the Autocrat during the Hungarian
WARP deserts Nicholas though he had asonished
the conductors OF that word-renowned Journal by
vn<xyseted perAdy Who're is the greater crime in
ing Turkey than Hungary Il il worse to nva-
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Few heroes than whole country merely because
he invited become the erecuoner Of perjured EN-
peror English commercial interests, Of which
Times ORA WIS most Of revenues now men
aoed by the Gar his fame led ian unity generated
part by the Times itself for many pounds shngs and
pence and forthwith find that journal turning alarm
II possible to undo lis work Of the last eighteen
months Verify, the way OF the uansrressor a. indeed
hard. We are told that the peace Of Earope-hat "Mo
loci" 10 woo many thousands starved and OPP
pressed 70 death yeahys threatened by the attitude
assumed by the Car All the pretended Of
the peace OF the coanent-the bankeshould long
have been the consequences Of their
In siding with despotisms in the struggles Had
they rskng tte, gone with the masses, Nicholas would
not now be taking steps insure the most immei aie
comag of Of grand between Rassia and
Iaon In which, preserve their consequences, II not
their very nationality England and France H side with
the latter % destruction Of the hope Of the bank
or. that they may the Of
ney already them from the soveregns govenmenis
Of continent
II am filed with abomnation Of any term writ
ten u Is the hypoorca cry Of conservatism for 'he
peace of Europe Ny dss Of peace and security includes
aIsHr-is based IL, should be that Of every man
who hopes for real and permanent tranquility. would
keep from fighting for surely would
encourage people IN the assertion OF their rs
Of robbers in house, seizing upon whatever they
Is IL for the security Of peace erpel them BY
taking ther lives Surely real peace vile. unresist
ins hopeless sav4y in which the right. Of posiery
given over and dynastic owners Peace,
reason right freedom, all Remove the cyclists.
the idle and