The Gonzales inquirer. [volume] (Gonzales, Tex.) 1853-current, 1854-04-15
Russia and Turkey.


ry, we find an article in relation to Russia and
Turkey, from which we clip the following MS
a portion OF the subject not unnteresting to
the general mass Of readers. The writer is
speaking Of the attitude which will be assum.
cd by the population of the different provinces
of the Empire. In reference to Crcassia in
Asia, he says:
| In Europe, Turkey alone and unaided could
do little outside Of her own frontiers to einbar-
rass the Russian Goycrnment.--what might be
effected by her allies is another question which
our limits will not permit us now to discuss (;
but in Asia the case is different. The warlikc
tribes Of Circassia and Georgia have long eth.
cr "nged furious war against Russia or have
borne with impatience the yoke imposed upon
them. They are of the same religion as the
Turks, and have other bonds Of sympathy with
them. Their principal leader has especially
distinguished himself by his heroic resistance
to the invaders Of his country, and by yicto-
rics and successes which, were they not verfi.
cd by the acknowledged failure of all attempts
to snbduc him, would appear utterly incredi-
BILE For nearly twenty years has Shiamil
maintained this unequal contest Every sea.
son has ended in defeat of the Russians =
and we are credibly assured that last year
| J.
Shiamil is not n Circassian Chief but the
head of very powerful tribe inhabiting the
ncighboring province of Daghistan. The Cir.
cassians themselves have for some years been
left unmolestcd by Russia, which has been sat
| isiicd with the possession Of one or two isola-
ted forts on the coast, and with maintaining
during the summer season very Intellectual
maritime blockade; but tho hatred which these
hardy monntainccrs have long borne TO their
invaders has not been extinguished Once
| furnished with powder and other means oG at.
tack they would rise TO man, and by rep
ctition of acts of daring and courage scarcely
to be surpassed would drive the Russians
from the few fortified positions they hold on
the Black Sea. Their great chief. Zefir Boy,
has mt length returned to them. This remark
able man left Circassia nearly fiftcen years ego
To seek succour from the Turkish Government
in the struggle which his country was then
carrying on against her enemies. Before his
departure Inc made his countrymen swear u
solemn oath that they would never acccde to
terms of peace, bnt wage an implacable
war against Russia, until he should again ap.
pear amongst them. Finding that succou,,
either from tho Porte or any European Power,
was for the time hopeless, The brave old man
preferred TO live in misery and want at Adri-
anople to releasing the Circassans from their
| 'oNu ~ 'SsuihhB w i'utiNS Niu.
Speaking OF tho dangers to the Ottoman
Empire from the decrease of the Turkish race
he says
! IT appears TO be n physical fact, in proof of
which instances might bc adduced from the
earliest known history of the world, that n
pure Tartar or Mongol race cannot exist when
brought into equal competition with an indog-
manac race, and that as soon az IL ceases to
be the dominant and conquering tribe il sure
ly and rapidly decays. This is remarkably H..
Illustrated in the Turkish Empire AS long as
the Turks were engaged in foreign wars and
congucsts, as long ms they held undisputctl
sway over the Christians, they were vigorous
aud formidable. So soon us they were con-
fined within their own frontiers and were no
longer able to wage nm aggressive war against
their ncighbors, rs soon as they were compell-
ed by the interference of the Christians, their
strength and prosperity daily declined. lthas
been continually declared that the reforms i'm.
troduced by Sultan Mahmoud, and completed
by the rcgn!ng Sultan, have not been carried
out, and tho condition of the Turkish popnla.
tion has been pointed to in proof of this as.
scrton; but the very instances cited prove
the contrary. Formerly the Christians were
entirely at the mercy OF their Maho,nmedan
rulers, lf n pacha, or Boy, or even Turk.
/ inu HIfuNpltiNC, WIS lt want tl htOnNN, nc nat
urnlly turned to the Christian merchant or cul.
imprisonment, the bRs,inado, or the
torture soon oxiorcd what Inc required. But
now that the rights of tho Christian subjects
of the Sultan are recognized, and their lives
and property respected, the MnSsuluan can no
longer have recourse to such means for sup.
/ plying his wants. We do not mean To- deny
| that IN distant provinces OF the Empire acts
of injustice aud oppression are not too ffc.
quently committed, but they are exceptions.
and must not he laid to the charge oG the Coy.
ernmcnt, The result is, that the Greeks and
( Armcniane, and other industrious Christian
rnces, have rapidly increased in wealth. The
/ Turks do not attempt to compete with them
/ in tfade--e Turkish merchant is almost an.
lkown-- and scarcely IN agriculture. Without
the meats, therefore, Of living afforded by his
own industry, he is Obliged TO borrow from his
christian neighbo1r--So mortgage his land.
and 70 pawn his goods. II the Christian oi
those parts Of Turkey in which there u mix.
ell population were to call their debts. there
would scarcely rstnain pacha os a Turkish
I gentleman who would not be ruined os No.
hsmmeean vlllsEo which would not pass into
the hands ef the Aunvnsans, Greeks, or slaves
I Young man, private word When you 90
couTtine, find oui as SION as roesibic, wheih.
er your ssisetloas are hcins planted more IN a
bned's cf dry goosis An,' things gcnesaily, than
ia palsasing heart hesamci 10 by warm ribs,
aud al that. Many bllaw hes laid h,n.ssi;
eas ts sail spsde woman. and oely found a
seFv extensive assoStmeai ef cos,ou. whals.
lN,ae, ssd similar dslusisc lnsiitu,lcas .Iasg
look cyes ths scs~ss t,sscse eeseT 10 the ,ss.
sne-
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matter ever ana ossT IA her mind she has
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