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plies to his own question by coupling them with
: the Spaniards. "They are the two nations most
remarkable for possessing each great Empire
uselessly" Both nations, in different degrees
deserve the censure here expressed.
To speak of Turkey separately, few persons
in the United States are aware of how pertina-
ciously that nation has continued to hold in de-
cay and darkness the very regions composing
the original seats of Greek and Roman power
civilization; the great regions over which The
: Cross Of Christ was primitively planted The
area of Asiatic Turkey, marked by line Of
fourteen hundred miles from the mouth of the
Euphrates, slightly curving to the Helespont or
Island of 1euedos. cannot fall short Of If it
does not exceed, a rit hundred thousand square
miles, between latitude 80 degrees and ~ degrees.
Turkey in Europe stretches from the Bospho
rus at Consta. la PIE % iper Croatia, and.em-
braces The grisiea saats ai science and civiliza-
ton in EGrJIa. f,lslt may yeli awaken our
reflections, and give to ,hem n tone very consol-
ing to cur pride u feeling, is the fact that on
the ground thus oeizel and held BY force of
arms BY this horde. in both Europe and Asia,
were written the entire Holy Scriptures and the
whole body OF the Greek and Roman classics
On this same theatre, may not say, there
have been invented, if not perfected, every art
and science which gives force to human, intel
lectual and physical power?
/ Now, is it not strange that when the course of
/ events has taken its refux, and the Turks are
called upon by the force of circumstances and
the irresistible revolution evidently in progress
to relinquish their usurpations, they are styled
martyrs? Let those who claim our sympathy
! for the Turks show us their history since A. d.
1850 when and where they have done aught to
give them the shadow of such a claim. There is
G. Il L.. J Ill
supported by the events recorded in the general
history of Europe, Western Asia, and Northern
Africa than that the domination of the Turks
was commenced, pursued, and maintained by
| force-surely by the right of conquest. They
entered upon Chrstendom as alien enemies and
now, in the day of their humiliation, the COM
plexity of European policy operates to weaken
reaction.
The appended historical table, taken from
Lavoisne's Historical Atlas, viii truly exhibit
the claims of the Turks to the sympathy Of the
Christian nations:
A. d. 672, Constantin0ple beseiged five months
by the TURKS.
1899 KOnia taken by Gilman. founder Of
the Turkish Empire.
1926, Prussia in Bithynia, taken bv the
Turks
1861. Adranople taken bv 1he Turks.
1885,. and 1895, NconOIi, Jhe Hun sarlans
/ twice defeated rv the Turks.
1421, GaIHpoli taken BY the Turks under
Amurash l.
) 1929. Salonica taken from the Nenetians
kv Amlrath ii.
1895. Ssmendria and Belgrade taken by
TIE Turks.
A. reat battle of Tarna. Ladislaus,
King Of Hungary. defeated and
slam by Amurath II.
Ilj3 Constautinople taken by Mahomet
H. ana the Christian Greek En-
pires DESTROYED.
l46l, Trebisond taken BY Mahomet III.
I47O, Negrnpont taken by Mahomet ii.
I417, Croia taken by Mahomet Ii.
I478, Scutar taken by Mahomet IL
1921, Belgrade taken by Solyman III.
lj22, Rhodes, Island Of, taken by Soly-
man III.
1911, Naval battle of Lepanto. Turks
defeated by Don John of Austria.
] 1871, Famagosta, in the Island of Cy-
press taken by the Turks.
1916, Canea, and in 1916 Retimo taken
by the Turks.
1869, Gambia taken, after seige of nealy
thirty years.
1858, Belgrade taken by the Elector Of
Bavaria from the Turks, who re-
take it the next year, with Nissa,
Semendria, Essex and Orsoya.
17l6, Turks defeated at Peterwardein by
Prince Eugene, who takes Temes-
war, in Hungary.
1856, Otzakow taken by the Russians
from the Turks.
1869, Chotzin, taken by the Russians
from the Turks
l770, The Ottoman fleet in the Archi-
pelago destroyed by the Russians.
Same year Ismeal and Bender, in
Archipelago, taken by the Russi-
ans.
1888, Chotzim taken by the Russians.
Otzakow taken by the Russians.
1889, Bender and Ismael taken by the
Russians who oyerrun the whole OF
MOdavia.
TURKEY ~ ASIA.
1926, Prusa in Bithynia bcseiged BIZ 9th
man and taken hy Orchan.
1927, Nicomedia taken by 0rchan.
1862 Taken By Amurath !.
l4Go Sivas taken by Bajazet, and retaken
by Tamerlane.
1902 Angora, Bajazet defeated and made
prisoner b7 Tamerlane.
Trebisond taken by Nahomet III.
$780, Beseigcd, but not then taken.
15ll Taurs taken by Sclim ].
1916. Aenpo HANSON Algouri, Sultan of
Egypt, defeated aud slain by Selim
].
1917, Grand Cairo, Tnumanbai successor
Of Kanoou, is twice defeated by
Selim ], who takes the city.
1922, Rhodes captured by Solyman II.
The preceding historical memornda present
only few events, occurring at long intervals,
in the course of a system of puerely physical
conquest, extending through twelve centuries
past history. Since the conquest of Rhodes,
four hundred and thirty-one years ago, the two
MahOmetan Powers have been left in the pos
session of most OF ther conquests What the
Christian and civilized nations of Europe have
gained by their discoveries; settlements, and
Improvements westward, may be regarded as
compensatons for their losses in the ancient
seats of civilization.
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