The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-08-31
For the Union.
For the Union.
RUSSIA, TURKEY, AND TURKEYS ALLIES.


RUSSIA, TURKEY, AND TURKEYS ALLIES.
The extracts that follow from rough made
ago.
1922 July Is. Mr.. WiIberforce said in the House of
Commons that it rather disgrace to all the powers of
Europe they had long ago driven back the Turks
into Asia nation of barbarans the ancient and nveerne
enemies Of Christianity Lord Londonderry said in reply,
that it might be no easy matter throw back upon Asia
some FIVE millions of souls and that whatever the nhu-
mainly of the Turks the sentence OF transportation pro-
nounced against them would hardly prove effcacous.
July 80 Lord Holland in the Of his speech in
the House of Lords the alien BILL ortfes his opin
ion that it absurd to suppose the existence of Turkey
as European State necessary the peace and webeing
of the of Europe by citing Addisons opinion to the
effect.
June 2s 1922 The of the shocking of
the Greeks by the Turks in the island of Sco and at Con-
stannope is made the subject of pointed remark in the
House of Commons to-day
The Vienna Court Gazette of March % 1921 speaking
of the instruction in Modavia headed by Prince psan
IT, the liberation Of the Greeks from the Turkish yoke
and of his having petitiQned the Emperor Alexander for
support remarks that the Emperor repes his petition and
refuses him aid of kind that he orders the Russian
general Count Witgenstra commanding the frontier of
the Pruth and Bessaraba to observe strict neutrality
and communicates this his determination to the Ottoman
Porte.
between Turkey and Greece. 1t disastrous to the
Greeks The Turks used them horribly The Greeks APP
peaed Europe for assistance but without at first
Turkey resouely against the right of other pow
es to interfere in war her and her rebel subjects
1t was her own affair entirely Europe must stand off.
Punishment hcrsvongeance if need be. So reasoned
her manifcsoos At length the enlightened judgment and
classic sensibes of Europe could no longer stand these
barbares in the glorious old land of the Athenans
The eloquent Canning then premier of England got his
blood up though its impulses for while were hushed by
the duties of his post Our Websters, too rose In tins
hemisphere The butchcries at Mssolonghi, when the
Turks took that fortress the horrors they committed on
the women the fury of their soldiers in the Morea, where
constant clouds fire and smoke say the histories bore
frighul testimony the widespread devastation
the Turks had broken their faith with the Greeks by
the violation of promised armisce reused all Chrsten-
DOM Conferences protocols alliances ornaments, fol-
lowed In the end the Greeks saved The succeed
ing year 1927 behold the ethics of the Sultans manes
put down by the rational pens of European statesmen
and his whole fleet shattered and dispersed by the
combined naval of England France and Russia at
Navarino. So ended that
Great changes have there been since Times and per-
and nations have been turning round and round but
principles remain. French woman following her son.
French conscrpt him embark with his regiment
Marsees go to the against Russia, said "here he
goes to fight in he knows nothing about, and
against people who have done him no harm" The mo-
raty of this is not easy adjust in right proper
tons between the combatans Its policy belongs to Eng
land primarily. 1t was her counsels and influence that
pushed on the compulsory movements against Turkey in
1921 She sent her most renowned statesman and war
rior the Duke Of Wellington, St Peersburgh TO pave
the way for them Her ships led the in den,oshng
the Suans feet at Navarno And, to the present
in this day. loudly blazoned for Europc's
safety if the French soldier naturally enough knew moth
ing about it. Engands minister, Lord Clarendon, adroit
accomplished, and thoroughly British he is
to letting out its real character when he said last March,
the House of Lords that if Russia became great sea
nothing could prevent her giving law to Europe but
amount of naval superiority the part of Britain to be
maintained only by constant aad heavy calls upon her
finances Significant woras--repete with matter for
comment and especially proper to be weighed in this
try
Should England and France fall out il may yet happen
that the former win find preex for getting Constantine
pie herself before the ends Let this be thought