Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1853-11-05

sustained one Of the worst defeats Of modern
times, SO that not without reason did the Tur.
kish General write to the 3ultal that he had
''taken enough in6del heads to make bridge
for the souls Of the faithful from Earth &c
Heaven" From 1925 70 1928. Turkey held
out against the efforts Of all the principal
powers in favor of the Greeks, and in the last
year conducted two campaigns against the
Russians without aid from any quarter The
very fact that tho Turkish race penetrated
from the deserts Of Arabia to the banks oil
the Loire, and that it established 10 Europe
an Empire which has endured for four cen
turies-iour centuries this very ycar-in
spite of attacks again and again repeated by
the two strongest of the military powers Of
Europe shows an inherent vigor Of no ordi.
nary kind. Ard Turkey now is not in her
decline. al assert" said Lord Palmerston,
not long since, in the House OF Commons
"without fear of contradiction, that Turkey
so far from having gone back within the last
thirty years, has made greater progress and
improvement, in every possible way, than per
hGps wds eeer made by any other country da.
ring tie same period" With the advancing
civilization Of the Turks, their military skill
and military resources have increased; and
yet their temper has not become so soitcned
by civilization, that it will mol, when provoked,
exhibit all its original iierceness. True, their
religious spirit is not what il once was; it has
last its proselyting 2 al, il wages no wars ol
conquest: but il lives; it feels; it can be goad-
ed 10 madness; il can fight 20 the last extrcm-
lty. Turkey is yet able to repeat the deeds
of the OsMASLEYs. And il must be remem-
bered, too, that she has allies in all the Ma
bommedans of Western Asia and Northern
Afrca-who far exceed in their aggregate
even the mulitudinous hordes of the Musco-
vite empire. From Tunis, Egypt, Syria and
l'ersia-from the sands Of Libya 10 the SHOWS
of the Caucasus-contingent are already on
the march for the scene of strife.
We believe that war between Turkey and
Russia is inevitable, and such has been our
unvarying conviction from the outset. The
-Four Powers may side with Turkey or they
may desert her-il matters not, the war will
speedily come. Russia may muster an over
whelming force may make demonstration
which 1t would seem madness to resist-it
matters not, the Turks will Sight, and fight
desperately. The Sultan, surrounded as he
Is by the representatives Of Western Europe
now "brseeching," and now "bcsieginy," can
not yield if he would lie could scarcely say
yes before he would find his brother on his
throne. lie has not yet given the least sign
OF yielding. He has exhibited spirit
throughout, that will secure the respect of the
whole civilized world. He is in the right t.
Even those who have been laborinc to move
him from his position freely admit it Being
right, he has claim to the moral support Of
Chrstendom. True, he is NJ ,hommedan,
but in all Continental Europe there is not
one country in which all religions are so free
ly tolerated. Russia calls itself Christian, but
It's religion is not the religion of Christ for it
is prosecuting religion. 1t is religion
which makes It's converts nt the point of the
bayonet II is a religion which shows mercy
to neither ProtcstantS or Catholics neither
Esthonia nor Poland. Russia would not be
in possession Of Turkey week, before all the
Protestant mission establishments, which have
accomplished such great benefits, would tc
visited by the same exterminating stroke
which fell With such fatal effects upon the
missions in Georgia. Turkey. whether she is
aided or not in the coming struggle by any of
The -Four Pow ers, will have the sympathy of
oil men of just, liberal and Christian princi
pie; and if she falls, she will fall with honor