The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1853-10-27
rhe Turks as warliIte People.

1t is an impression quite current-bas-
cd probably on the lack of real knowledge
rather than on any actual facts--that the
Turks are degenerate people, easily to
be overcome and incapable, either in mill
tary skill or personal endurance, for a
severe war; The facts are quite Ao.her-
wise. The following from the N. Y.
Courier not only puts this matter right,
but imparts some very interesting infor-
mation.- Gin. Eng e.,,.,..@ - 80
1T is an egregious mistake to suppose
that the races and tribes which make up
the Turkish nation are either. degenerate
or effeminate. We have been among
them; we have seen them; we know them.
There is n OF in all Europe or Western
Asia a people capable of waging such
despera ion. They are strong and hardy
in body and are skillful in the use of
weapons. Their religious fanaticsm is
easily excited, and when once fairly a.
reused. it knows no bounds. In war
they deem sacred, they rush to a bloody
death as the surest road to Paradise
Thus their Koran teaches, and with them,
faith is no idle word-it is faith. The
very Russia at whose name all Europe
trembles, they have before metalone and
single-handed. III:
Through the whole of the last century
the possession of Turkey was the con-
stant object Of Russian ambition, but yet
in spite of several wars that object was
not sgained. From 1903 to 1912, the
Muscovites, sometimes bringing two hun
dred thousand men into the field, fought
the Turks, but gained little. AT Rouds-
chouk they sustained one of the worst
defeats of modern times, so that not with
out reason did the Turkish General write
to the Sultan that he had taken enough
infdel heads to make bridge for the
souls of the faithful from earth to heaven
From 1926 to 1928, Turkey held out a.
gainst the efforts of all the principalpow-
ers in favor of the Greeks, and in the
last year conducted two campaigns against
the Russians without aid from any quar-
ter. The very fact that the Turkish race
penetrated from the deserts of Arabia to
the banks of the Loire, and thatit estab-
lished in Europe an Empire which has
endured for four centures--four centuries
this very year-in spite of attacks again
and again repeated by the strongest of the
military powers of Europe, shows an in
herent vigor of no ordinary kind, And
Turkey now is not in her decline.
4 assert, said Lord Palmerston, not
long since, in the House of Commons,
without fear of contradiction, that Tur-
key, SO far from having gone back within
the last thirty years; has made greater
progress and improvement in every pos.
sible way, than perhaps was ever made
by any other country during the same
period With the advancing civilization
of the Turks, their military skill and mill
tary resources have increased; and yet
their temper has not become so softened
by civilization, that it will not when pro-
voked, exhibit its original ferceness.-
True, their religious spirit is not what it
once was; it has lost its proselyting zeal;
it wages no wars Of conquest; but it lives;
it feels; it can be goaded to madness; it
can fight to the last extremely. Turkey
is yet able torepeat the deeds of the Os-
manleys. And it must be remembered,
too, that she has allies in all the Mahome-
dams in Western Asia and Northern
far exceeds in their aggre-
gate even the multitudinous principles Of
the Muscovite empire. From Tunis,
Egypt, Syria, and Persia-from the sands
of Lyberia to the SHOWS of the Caucasus
contingents are already on the scene of
strife.
We believe that war between Turkey
and Russia is invitable, and such has been
our unvarying conviction from the outset
The four powers may side with Turkey
or they may desert her--it matters not
the war will speedily come. Russia may
muster an overwhelming force, may make
a demonstration which it would seem mad
ness to resist-it matters not, the Turks
will fight and fight desperately. The
Sultan, surrounded as he is by the repre-
sentatives of Western Europe now 'be-
seeching," and now "besieging, cannot
yield if he would He could scarcely
say yes before he would find his brother
on his throne. He has not yet given the
least sign of yielding. He has exhibited
spirit throughout that will insure the
respect of the whole civilized world. He
is in the right. Even those who have
been laboring to move him from his posi-
ton would freely admit it. Being in the
right, he has claim to the moral support
Of Christendom. True, he is a Mabo-
medan, but in all Continental Europe
there is not one country in which all re-
ligiOnS are so freely tolerated. Russia