Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1853-07-28
Russia aad Turkey.


give our readers but Il poor idea of
the question likely to involve Russia
and Turkey, and incidentally Eng
land and France, ID war. Russia,
as the head Of the Greek Church,
claims the right to pr tect the com
municants of that chlrch within the
dominions of the Sui Ian Of Turkey.
This claim involves the right of the
Emperor of Russia I'd mai ntain an
army within the Sulta rs dominions.
The claim is resisted by Turkey,
backed by England and France
The following ex pll nation Of the
state Of the case from the New York
! Herald, will enable our readers better
to understand tile tie egraphic dis
patches in our paper Yesterday, and
may explain similar dill patches here
after. The article wa written be-
fore the receipt Of t be Frahklin's
news:
LATEST on THE TURKIsH QUESTION
WARLIKE ASPECT OF All AIRS. There
can be no doubt now t bat the Turk
ish question has come to crisis
the crisis of peace OF war. Count
Nesselrode, in his diStat oriil letter to
Reschid Pacha, says t bat the deci-
siye moment has d riv ed, and that
the Turk must sign the Cars ulti-
matum, which is his original demand,
or abide the cohseq hences. The
Turk had refused, and the Car, on
being informed Of it. ID reported as
having acted in the trp e spirit of a
man accustomed to absolute power
and regarding himself as the arbiter
of Europe.
! The Paris Press 4iys that the
Emperor had mi de personal declar-
alton to the English and French
ambassadors, to the eff4ct "that the
destruction of his he cts should not
prevent him from ihy,l ding Turkey
and obtaining the re par ation which
lie believed to be : rs due. "'l This
PREPARATION simply am pu pts to this:
that Nicholas is resol y to be the
sovereign Of the CO PM unicants of
tho Craak Churrb lin Tho Turkish
Empire, at the hazard Of war with
England, France and Turkey COM
bined. The concessib n demanded 81
the Sultan he has unqne4 tionubly, for
sufficient cause, reiuse ed, in the teeth
of an army scattered alohg his north
, ern frontier, of half d million Of
Russians, though they may be a:
fanatical as the anciept crusaders in
, support Of the sacr ed Church Of
which their Emperor is the nnnoint
ed head We say the Sultan ha;
properly refused the de mand Of tn,
Gar. because its concessI ion would b.
equivalent to the quart ering of al
army Of forty OF fifty Thousand ennis
3saries and soldiers Of 'Nichola
throughout the Turkish dominions
with the consent and under the pro
, lection of the Sultan. And this i
, the ground of the refusal Of Abdu
! NJ edjid to purchase a peace On tn
: terms dictated from ST. tersbure
: The Emperor is reputed to be in ;
e condition of extraordinary excite
0 ment for such a man as Nicholas
e who ordinarily directs the nv vement
f of his ambassadors ana his armie
r with the GOODNESS of inyincible power
2 And well he may be uhduly agitated
2 for while his tanatical barbarians ex
9 pect war, and will be disappointe'
Wifi they are not let loose upon tn
4 march to Stamboul, the Sultan's III
: lies OF France and England may sug
i gest. not only the destruction Of tn
Russian fleets Of the Black Sea an'
f the adjoining waters, but the, posSi
: bility of the movement of Louis Nh
poleon with a French army acroS
: the Rhine, the rising q the Italians
j the Hungarians and the Poles, an'
the bombardment of st. Peters burg
! itself by the combined French aRl
r English naval forces. The ter tiblt
t work at Navarino, when England wa'
, on the other side, on he one b nd
and the revolutionary movements o.
lIS4S on the other, are strongly 4ug-
gestive of combinati on of move
menis which might well perplex the
great Napoleon himself were he now
in the position Of the proud and I'M
perious Nicholas.
| 1t is manifest that FRINGE will play
no secondary part in the event OF
the collision which is so feaffully inn
pending between Russia and Turkey.
The representative of the Empire
land the glorious achievement Is Of his
uncle, Louis Napoleon is clearly I'M
pressed with the same ideas Of "man-
lifest Destiny and Of the exT ectations
Of the French army and the French