Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-09-20


This unhappy country seems more likely.'hink'
the North American to be Rugged TO death by The
| Allies than tom TO fragments By the knssia1s'-
Whatever delusion the Western powers may have
| labored under. when they commenced the war
respecting the condition of the Ottoman Empire
every thing goes to prove that they have sinee
found ii TO be dilapidated and worn out that II
mast fall TO pieces by its own weight, unless
kept together 10y foreign aid or some new spui
ofreform introduced iuto the country. On this
subject, the London Times oi August 3lsi, has
an article from which we make the following ex-
tract:-
at will not be doubted that the presence of two
armies, with all the establishments which depend
on them. must Of itself make no small change III
the feelngs ond habits Of a race accustomed to
domination II cannot he said that the French
have ever transgres sed the bounds OF national
friendship. or used harshly the great power they
possess; but conscious Of the sacrifices which
their country is making for the Sultnn's cause,
they have Justly insisted that the material resour
oes in barracks and hospitals, winch the Iorte
possessed in superhbundance, should be pafty
given up for their use. and they wisely proclaim
ed their determination al all times to enforce per
sonal respect from tho Mussulmans themselves
At the present time this last seems an unneeessa-
~ nreenntion; the humbled Ottoman will refuse
nothing TO the uniforms Of the Western Powers;
but thechange has been rapid and - mouths
since the resolve was WISE and has produced not
little of tho influence which the allies now ENJOY
To deal thus with the preiudices OF race may
be rough, but it is an effective treatment una
probably more merciful in the end than the patent
system wa often pursue in our own POSSESSIONS
among people who look on conci'iatioh ms merely
the ofrsprinp of fear. and thus are eneonr-
nred 10 outbreaks which must be forcloly
repressed. Whatever the cause, there chhh't
be doubt that the blgotry of the Stomoon'
Turk is fast disappearing. Not only the ancient
nj SIC Of St Sophia, but the holy precincts OF ty
cub may now he entered by the Frank openly
and without exciting murnur. Races ana ma
lions are what they ar made the Turk Is doetle
and unreasonable g ugh, and year and a haf
Of French Infantry has done more for bis reform
tbnn n millennium of missionary labor. Whether
the raee is to last and 10 rule, or to die out leaT-
ing its inheritance to n band of mutually detest-
ing naiionaliiies. wa will not discuss. 1t may he
that a line Of Sutans is to descend into tho FL
tnre; il may be that the Allies will soon have t.
seek in the palaeesof Europe. ruler Tor the rich
provinces. the bfend rivers, the noble sens and
hnrhors which they have saved from an eneronch
ing foe. But one thing Is elear--that bigotrs
aies not show itself in Constantinope, either II
the pasha on the porter that tho Western ma
tons are all powetfulnnd every political obstacl
to the improvement of the country removed"
1t is impossible 10 mistake the tone of this N
ticle. As plainly as circumstances will permit
tells us that the Turks. as race, ARE hgetea IA
naties who have hitherto opposed every thing lik'
reform and liberal progress that they are pre-
vented from doing now by the imperons dom
nation of the foreign troops in their midst; tia
the Ottoman has been "humbed" and made
doeile'' instrument by those who assume to b
his protectors; that he ha. been " roughly" deal
with. and that there isno other way to accom-
psh the ends of the Allies. Farthcrmore.it seem
to be doubtful wheths, it will not be necrssar,
10 dismember the Ottoman empire, and impose
Christian monarch upon European Turkey. Rus
sin never went half 5, FAR as this.