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OBSOLETE IDEAs.--No. 4.
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that Seryus Tuus one of the most wise and sruoas
Of the Roman Kings dedicated dista in the Temple or
Hercules in honor of the domestic virtues of his wife Iana-
quill The following testimony is also given by lvy TO
the domestic character Of the famed Lucrea whose yir
tues have been the theme of poets and historians for
more than two thousand years. give il in the words Of
Mr. Hooke in his excellent History of the Roman Republic
"One day when Sexus Tarquinius entertaining his
brothers. their kinsman, Colatinus being Of the
pany, the conversation happened to turn upon the merit
of wives Every one extoled the good qualities OF his
own but Collatinus affirmed that his Lucretia exeeed
all others In order to end the dispute they took the
method which mirth and wine inspired which was 10
mount their horses and and surprise their wives and
1t was agreed that she who found employed in the
most becoming her should have the preference
Away then, they galoped first TO Rome where they
psed the Kings daughternaw in the midst of feasting
and diversion, and the ladies seemed much disconnected
the unexpected of their husbands From Rome
they FASTENED away to Coata the place where Colatnus
resided in time OF peace he grandson Of Egeus that
nephew OF Tarquinus Prscors whom that King gave
the territory Of Coatia in property Though the night
far advanced when the Princes arrived there they found
Lucrea with her maids about her spinning and working
in wool The company her husband brought her Of sud
den did not dscompose her and they all pleased with
the reception she gave them
As may be supposed the decision was unanimously in
| favor of the wife of Collatnus.
What splendid figure Lucreta Mott Lucy Stone Abby
Folsom, and the other unsexed female Boomers would
have made among those glorious Roman matrons!
| Synpaoizing
Our minister the Ottoman Porte in his presen tation
speech and in behalf of the people Of the United States
some measure pledged government deep sympathy
in favor OF the Sultan and decided hostility to the Gar
Our secretary of legation at London in like manner
late public dinner his auditors hat lively inter-
in the desnies of the Ottoman empire pervaded the
United States and that the people all without exception
anxious for the maintenance of its integrity and in
dependence" This seems to going little beyond
that diplomatic courtesy which usual such occasions
and may well inspire hope that the United States will in
good time be brought to cooperate with the corae
inputting down that great the
| Car.
Now let what modern travellers say of this emf
pre, which, according ministers and secretaries
legation the people and of the United States
anxious to maintain and preserve do refer to
the thousand and books of travel recently published
England, and many of them republshed here, which
written in the true spirit Of John Bulism and specially in
tended to foster that deep sympathy which both the
people and government of the United States feel towards
Turkey quote from late French traveller, who
specially deputed by the then Prime Minister NJ Guizot
inquire the condition of Bulgaria. province of Eu
ropean Turkey inhabited almost altogether by Christians
| of the Greek Church.
ain August says NJ Blanque q found bands Of wild
Arnaout who had ravaged the country with fire and sword
still lingering in various places and the plains Of Nissa and
Sophia occupied by more than 10000 men of the Sui
tans ESQ caed) regular army, with artillery
Here and almost everywhere the houses burned the
trees up Dy nalnakcu, ntlf-StrYeQ
women and children wandering about the woods and
wasted fields In all this wide district there was nothing
but symptoms of terror and traces of desolaton The
peasants said, "Givo arms If we had but guns and
powder would drive these wild beasts from the
woods"
The insurrectionn% continues NJ Blanque was sup
pressed but terror egned in all hearts One must have
the gloomy despair of the Bulgarian PEASANTS and the
science Of the Arnaout hodes form idea of what the
Christian population must have suffered during this sad
period Europe which takes Hpey an interest in the
cause Of Acdn negroes is not sufficiently that there
era al her gates may say in her very bosom mil,
hons Of race Christians Ike ourser tcho arc treated
like dogs in their quality Of Christians under government
10 ohich all Christidn pocers send accredited ministers
The writer sums up detail of the process Of Turkish
oppression under the system of reforms paronized by
| the protecting powers of Christian Europe in the
following significant words In fine Raeas sH The
system Of and yionce rendered only odious by
hypocrisy and perfdious appearance of legality"
Surely, such government this is not proper object
Of sympathy either to the friends of Christianity or the
lovers Of liberty and it may be asked why should either
of them regret the fall Of empire originally founded in
the widest and most ntoleran anatcsm acquired by
conquest and rapne and maintained by oppression Why
should the people Of the United States their sympa-
thes government which has for than FIVE hun
dred years been rcading the necks of Christians
crushing every vestige of civil and religious liberty and
converting into deserts the aires regions Of the earth
Above all, how dare representatives abroad thus
pledge the whole people and virtually the government
the United States, in behalf of the integrity Of relent-
less desposm which cannot be worse and is incapable of
becoming beter2 Even if the feeble puppet now entirely
in the hands of Lord Radcliffe were ever SO sincere in
prosecuting his reforms he is totally incapable of carrying
them into execution, he sustained by all the
Christian powers of Europe The indomitsble spirit Of
Mussulman natcsm Is arrayed against him The prccepts
of the Koran which constitute the basis of the civil gov
ernment II that may be called which is exclusively
depouc oppose nsuperabe Obstacles and no radical re
form take place in the Ottoman empire without
the complete downfall Of the Mahometan faith which in it.
self would be revolution that necessarily dismcber
the empire The truth is old decaycd and corrupt
governments sustained only the necks of degenerate
dcmorazed people, beyond the reach Of reform There
are neither materials foundation for new structure
To expel their abuses would be like attempting 10 wash
the dirt out of mud wall for there nothing but
abuses There remedy for them but conquest They
must be placed under the harsh discipline of revolution
and subugated by energetic Intellectual race which
viii either resuscitae them by its example keep them in
subsection by its power of both which the Ottoman gov
eminent is entirely incapable Such has been the des
tiny of every nation recorded In history which had reach
ed the last stages Of corruption and dcgeneracy and such
win be that Of the Ottoman eupirf In the words Of the
old nursery ballad
"Al the doctors in the land
a Can't mako Humpy -Dumpy stand"
This provoked by long scrie. of
but the spark that lighted III