The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1854-03-21
E'hc Eastern Questions.

The nsurgent forces of tie Greeks in the
various provinces Of the Turkish empire are
sad to number forty Thousand strong. This
his added further element of complication to
the Eastern question. The allied forces will
hTc to encounter not only the Russian armies
bit to support the authority of the Sultan a.
gaust his OWN suhIects-to defend bis throne
AMI empire from without and within. These
rsngs seem to explain the obstinacy of the
Car and his tcmerity. The almost simultane
or outbreaks in Macedonia, Thcssay and Al
BAHIA, show too plainly the hand Of Russian
intrigue. The Gar had his cmissarics at work,
sowing disafTection to the Turkish authority,
while hc was holding the language of deception
in his diplomacy. He knew that alnonga pop
uI;ton of 12,0OO,00O Greeks. what gold could
net accomplish an appeal to tanaticism would
effect. II he had no allies, therefore, in the ma.
ticns he hal allies in every part Of Turkey,
where corrupt or bigottcd Greeks could be
found. When his intrigue were ripe, he be-
came insulting and defiant
To sui,luc such an enemy, if the inSurrcctinn
Should spread, would be harder task than to
defend Con<tantinope, and preserve the integg-
rtv Of the Turkish Empire. Yet the allied
forces will be forced into position from which
tley cannot escape, and which they would me-
yer have voluntarily assumed--lhat of armed
Intervention in domestic differences, unlcs they
threatened the general rcposc. And here is 4
remarkable feature of the history of the times,
tlat two of the powers who ntcrpred in the
former internal disputes between the OttomanS
and Greeks, against the former, ending in the
battle of Navarino, which destroyed the Turk.
ish naval power, should he found sustaining
Turkish authority against Greek insurrectlon,
and the integrity of All empire which they as
sisted 10 weaken In these circumstances,
even with the aid of Austria, there is sad aud
serious work for the allies. Blood must How
in torrents, if Il war not only OF races but OF
religions, is to arise out of the complication
which had its or gin in lrilling dispute: but
which has been brought to its present danger
Gus ntrlcacy by artfully fomcnting religious
passions. 4 war having for its motive and
end political power and territorial aggrandze-
mcnt. vii! thus revive those conflicts that stain
ed the annals Of the middle ages. The Mos
lem and the Christian is brought again into
hostile array, when in the midst Of Il civiliza'
ton il was vainly thought had banished such
disputes into cloistcrs and colleges. While in
the East the battle will be mainly religious,
the standard may be raised in Western Eu-
rope, having political revolution for its object,
and inscribed with the overthrow Of existing
thrones and Iynaslics. What but dire contu-
sion can be the fruit of such contests, blending
all passions, all interests, all impulses, honest
aud criminal, in one extended and indefinite
struggle In no period of the world has man
kind been threatened with devastation more
enthusiastically News.
1t is estimated that the supply Of coffee is
20 per cent less than last year.