Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1854-02-02
Reform in Turkey. Z,
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.v-t AR. HENRY HOMES. b
lecture on the above subject was delivered in
The Tabernacle, New York on Friday evening"
The audience was appreciatiye, but by no means
SO numerous as the wolth of the lecture deserved.
Mr: Homes promised by saying that he was priv
iiesed 10 address his audience nthe onw I'd march
Of an empire for which their sympathies were e.
cited 10 no ordinary degree-concerning an emnile
winch, though the chief stronghold of Iobamms-
danism, was yet emiuently more worthy of triumnb
Than the hypocritcally Christian Russia. Itwould
afford him qualification If the facts W hicb h. com
m \ shonid Justify their preference. And
cannot effect this better than by escIibin sonae
.oi the reforms which the Government has miro
duced. and to show their ultimate and ineyitabl.
consequences upon the people and Government of
turkey. In 1889 the present Sultan granted
Magma Charta 10 all the 49, 00O 600 of his subeets.
securing 10 them equal and full protection Of fhs;,
me, liberty ant property. Slice which time Tur-
Key has held place nthe family of Europeon
uauons' and shares nearly allitbe benefits OF the
same international laws THIS charter of the peo-
pies rights was tue result of long period of in
lefnal disunion, disorder and national weakness.
the conviction Of which was forced upon the Gov.
eFnment by The war of the Greek Revolution. 1t
wa. granted from The necessity of keeping pace
Will the general enlightenment OF Eufope, and
retaining that federation OF its Governments brh
was so essential 10 its integrity as an Emnirs II
was while engaged in the wars with Greece and
iussia thatths late Sultan Mahmoud ,les,rov tbs
annlzanes alter an insurtection, and ;developed
and put IN execution a system OF national reforms
king Tor his nodel tue institutions of Christian
europe. The Magma Charta guaranteed thai
each SUBJECT OF the Ottoman Empire shall here,
aier De sgularly taxed according to hi 7,sealth
~ ..5l.Jl he triaf OF ali accused persons shall
1e IN public, in accordance with the Divine
Law. There shall always be due inquiry into
their guilt, and without regular trial ami con
:" demnation, no individual shall be alloWed. titb.
CT secretly or openly, to destroy another by poi
son, or any means. Eyeryinlivdual shall have
the quiet possession OF his property, aud shall be
~ at liberty to dispose of it as he will rhe mo-
perty OF a criminal shall not be contiscaitd -
These Imperial privileges are granted to all our
subjects WITHOUT exception; OF whatever secto
religion they may be- they shalt be equal slarers
" in them"
e These new regulations and the reforms imnlied
nave been appliedsto the. different proyinces-to
some IN greater degree THAI in Others Turkey
mas not been regenerated politically as yetby these
aelotlhs; perhaps she has not made quite SO rapid
progress as the onward spirit OF the age would
seem 10 demand; butthere is the strongss st eround
ior nope that with little patience, we shall soon
see turkey progressing as iapidlysas any o i The
european hations when she has removed from the
she laSored under at the starting point
he two last Sultans have been remarkable for The
energy with which they have prosecuted their re-
!ofnatory lnti SureS, even times when it won Id
seem 10 appe:r that their sole attention would 3
nave been necessary to maintain their position at
the heau al the Empire by the bayonst, The in.
trouucuon oil system of Quarantine for checking
the spread oil tile plague-the most dire .calanity 4
OF tutkey-was among the first Of long series Of
reforms. rms reform is the most remarkable
whel. we consider II as the fatnlism of the Turks
taught him that it was both useless and a sin 10 .
take PIE cautions against it. TO such an extent
ulu thelI rellglon carry them, that European ma
lions were compelled to protect themselves against
The Pestllence, by subjectng all vessels from Turk
ism ports TO quarantine of forty days. Thus the
system oil quarantine literally opened Europe IN
turkey. The second reform was the change in
he oh, 3
most useful OF modern changes in,Turkey Tn.
only apparent distinction between a well dressed
TURK and an European, is that of the skull can for
our haId ana. ungraceful hat Perhaps he would
even nave accepted the hat, did not its blim pre-
vent his forehead froln touching tue earth when he
BOWS IN prayer. He also suffers his hair and
oeafd 10 grow, two inches in lengths; and dresses
me latest Parsian style, save that his cont is OF
oiue and buttoEed to the throat. This reform.
though superficial, was not introduced without
great opposition from the people, aud the priest
hooa. The result has been that the Turk no long
81 E sees In lhe Christian person marked by law !
!or nus scorii and biSotys but subject of the Sui
tan; mau, like himself, with civil priy,lepes..7
vi late Years too, their mode OF living has
more anu more approached our own, and in tb,.
given by the officers of the Gov
eInnen', there is no pefceptabie difference from
the european. In boating on the Bosphors n 10
not unu. TO see Turkish gentlemeii and white
iurpaaed theolog,ans and Jutgeslolling luxurious
y IN Boston bpilt rocking Chairs. Simultenious
ped q
radical renodeling of the whole civil m,i,arv II
ana hnahclal orsanlzation OF tie empire He III.
umphsd over anarchy - dscord and inshbordina. l
tlon ana comnenCeda Capitalization of Inc nnu, II
srs OF the Government. The regular army Of 22(l
oOo, men, are disciplined according 10 Enfopeans
tactcs; they are well fed, clothed, and cared, foI:
ihey are doclie temperate, physically strong ami
nrays; ana are attached 10 the new mode of d,scin.
line. w 18th the materials existing in the depo,s IF
war ana the reserve forces ready to be called ont
II VIII be easy for Turkey nj shortnotice TO bring
in!o me sneld 5Uo,OOO men. In her navy She has
snips, carrying larger number OF guns aud nos
sssses more powerful war steamers than, does the
United states OF America. And her best ships
OF war were either built ty American nayal archl-
tects, or from models which they have sfnTnisbsd
The Government has encouraged popular ednea.s
uon, by repeated proeam nation TO The MussuImans
anu Christians. In Constantinople there are mo-,
less than 400 primary schools ttached TO ne
Mosques these are attended by Is 900 pnpiIs 4
VINO learn TO read and iwnies until they are of age
to Ue put TO some handicraft There are thrss.
tunes as many res asrs in Turkey as in Russia, In
plnpot1ion 10 the population. Constantinople has
also 200 schools forinstruction in civil and reei-
Gus law, The Goyernmsn have established navajo
military, and medical schools in Constanfinople II
eachS having hundreds of students, and many A
VINO professors are Europeans; and in lie med
zeal school the lectures to the advanced class are
delivered IN French The abolition OF monop
oes, ana OF the'ss stem of farming the revenues,
was announcer Important reforms Is5a D II
Mannfactures have lang ished, though efforts n
have not been wanting 10 give them Al i'm
put the productions of The soil have lareeiy nj
creased, and the expectations are
y man they were twenty years ago The ann,taf III
Isssnue OF The Goyernment S35, eco. COO Owiis II
70 tne communal experimental chang DUNG these
u teiofm and transition, and the closing OF