The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-05-18
THE TURKS.


THE TURKS. $50.
In alitaie pamphlet. called ssThe Turkish
Qaestion,' Uhe receipt Of which from Mr..
@. n. West. We have before acknowledged
wrif&en By Count A. De Gurowski, author o.
Russia - Il is. may be found = BRET c'eai
ana comprehensive View Of The Turkish ques-
ton. affom another point Of view than that
Of the Anglo French" As the Count y .
veter.n revolutionist, and himself was com
pelied 10 Nv from Russia in 1874, he can
scarcely be supposed to write under the influ-
ence OF pa-tiality to the Gay. 90 ,,ass sap
The Count gives Us precisely such an nc.
count Of the Otto,nans a. the whole world
cave before it became, the interest of the
Western Powers to represent the Turks as
worthy. by their moral excellence. OF the sym
pathies Of all Christendom. According TO
the view generally received before the iorfn "a
ton Of the Holy Alliance, and which ls con-
ir1hed in the most emphatic manner by TINS
intelligent writer, the Turks in Europe are
the most degraded. the most dissolufe' the
most infamous of people, among whom wo-
man is reduced to the most base and abject
condition, and the crimes which drew down
FIRE from Heaven upon the cities of the plain,
are as common and shameless as they were
in Seldom and Gomorrah. , ass
The Westminster Review, in late article
on Schamyl. the Prophet-Warrio Of the eau
casus. referring to the Circassian slave trade
,,,:xl. A. T.xsa. on cfv rorrarka
1.-THE trade is doubtless inexcusable enough,
but it must be remembered that it is very
different affair from the slave dealing with
which England and America have been pol
luted, Yes, altogether different; but that the
difference is not in favor of the Circassians
as the Westminster would represent it, the
writer may satisfy himself by glance at the
statements Of Count de Gurowski, confirmed
~ they are by the evidence of every man
who has visited Turkeyand the Caucasus
The slave markets of Turkey are kept con-
stantly supplied with white slaves; not alone
for servants; but women, men and boys are
exhibited in those markets in a state OF nudi-
ty and sold for purposes too vile to name
The sales, under this infamous traffic, are adj
vertised in the Government newspapers; and
women and boys for the harems, are brought
from the Black Sea, under the protection OF
an English flag! This slave traffic is not es-
sential nor designed for the cultivation of the
soil, but only for the qualification of the ba-,
sestpassions. Russia has endeayoredto break
it up, while it has the support and coun-
tenancs of those Holy Allies who are so hor-
ribly scandalized at American slavery! IS
Morris the physical state ofthe Turks at all
more promising than their moral. s. The Eu-
ropean reforms recently introduced in that
country, reforms modelled on the civilization
of countries whose social and civil institu
tons are radically different from those of
Turkey, have not penetrated skin deep. Ac-
cording to Count De Gurowski, they have
proved but paint on dead body. The Sui
tan is absolute in his power so are the Pa
shas in their respective Jurisdictions. These
men. upon whom depends the carrying out
Of reforms, are proverbially ignorant, corrupt
and effeminate. The Turks have no capaci-
ty nor disposition for agriculture, manufac-
lures or commerce. They can destroy, but
they cannot build up. They have conYartad
fruitful lands into deserts, but, as our a1o
truly says, "their rule has not built villagol
or hamlet, titled an acre or scarcely planted
tree" Ifany material Improvement is per-
ceptible in Turkey, it is due entirely to its
Christian population. The Turks, in both
Asia and Europe, are gradually dying out, it
is said, but they are Fastening their own ex
tinction by the common practice of forced
abortion among all classes of their women.
Such are the people who, perpetrating up to
this day the most unheard of crimes among
themselves, and prosecuting and depressing
with intolerable cruelty the Christian MAORI
ty. the original owners Of their country, such
are the people, in whose behalf the sympa-
thies of the Christian and civilized world are
invoked. and for the preservation of whose
nationality, England and France, which suf.
Tered Christian Hungary and Poland to per-
ish unaided, are disturbing the peace of the
| world. -
Count DE Gurowski is justly severe upon
the hypocritical rule of France. Russia is a
despotism, and Nicholas dsspot but despo-
tism is the trade of the Car, and liberty has
never been the birthright nor the desire Of
his people. France, protesting freedom.
crushed liberty in Italy, and voluntarily gave
up its rights to Napoleon. "Within three
years and half" says Count de Grnewski.
Item times more have been throwa into dun
geons in France, than during the evenly eight
years ofthe reign of Nicholas, who has had
two instructions and severe, .conspiracies to
deal with the galley, tsss transportatiops en-
ns@sse to Agerina, Cayenne, and other places
out of Europe. far, oatnumber the banish-
ments to Siberia, and the treatment of til
prisoners is vastly more cruel add iahnman
than in Asia"
what sympathy can civilizea America be
expected to feel witt. sueA a race as the
Turks What reason fos taxing sides with
Napoleon against Nich.aass Both sre ae.-
pots, the latter the msna honest, the NOR I'm.
man and the more christian af TIC to- T..