New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-17

,orm an exception.) Even for the Christian popd.
atoms of Turkey the time has gone bs to
receive the directions of civilization bS order,
from above. Give them liberty, AID they will
retrieve their manhood. Restore tom to their nor
NAL conditions, give them sslfgovernment, destroy
forever the possibility Of regime of Fanariotes,
and these populatio.s-Greeks, Albanians Bulga-
rians, and Slaves-will each in its own circle at
once rush TO work, and cultivate the rudiments of
order and civilization
The various elements into which the Turkish En-
pire must dissolve are already surrounded by GER
tain bodies which win facilitate their crystalliza-
ton. On the north are the Principalities and Ser
bia west and south are Montenegro and Greece.
These States, wholly or half independent would
prevent chaos from resulting upon the expulsion OF
the Turks, and facilitate the formation of new men,
bers of confederacy. The TschernOgortsy, or In
habiants of the Black Mountain, who have been In
dependent for nearly a century and half are called
robbers and marauders by the Magyar liberals But
this small tribe of Serbs, singlehanded reconquered
it's independence against fearful odds, and main
tanned it for time nearly equal to that during
which about half of the Magars willingly recog'
nized Turkish supremacy. Turkish Croatia and the
Herzegovina may fuse and form unit, or JOIN Ser
bia and Montenegro. Bosnia, although inhabited
by Slavic race, is more than any other portion
mbued with Mohammedanism, and the Bosnacs
are generally unfriendy to their Christian country
men. But their return TO Christianity will be al
most instantaneous as soon the Ottoman rule dis
appears from Europe Bulgaria is another Slavic
unit houmela is inhabited by Greeks and by
Say -Bulgarians The Slavic region will fall nat
uray to Bulgaria; the Greek to Greece and to Con-
stantinople. The Albanians present an ethnic and
historic problem. They are hedged in between the
Slayi and the Greeks, stretching their roots among
the latter The race is mixed; perhaps remnant Of
ancient Epirots, perhaps new combination of the
various tribes and races which dwelt or roved In
Roman times and until the dawn Of the Middle
Ages between the Adratic, the Egean and the
Black Seas and the Danube. Some phlologlsts
maintain that the basis Of their language seems TO
indicate closer affinity to the Latin than to the
Greek. 1t may be corruption of the remnants OF
various dialects once spoken there, or new tongue
-
on good terms with the Serbs and other Slavl
around them. About 200,0 900 Albanians are scat
tered over Greece and the Peloponnesus, whittier
they began to immigrate in the fifteenth century.
In Albania Proper they may number about ,3Oo,-
900 souls. ALI these reasons give to the hardy
mountaineers of Albania the right to form an indie
pendent unit.
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the Turks will find its natural center in Athens and
in the kingdom already constituted, or may form
a State by itself. Above all these countries towers
Constantnople with all its recollections of past
grandeur and with all its indestructible Circean
charms and seductions; its geographical position
intensifes the halo surrounding its name.
Napoleon is reported to have said-although this
saying is not very well substantated-t the pos
SCISSOR of Constantinople was the master of Europe
Frederick the Great said something similar about
France, and with far better logic. Fourier con-
siders Constantinope the future central Phatans-
fere Napoleon's dictum is not sustained by events
The activity the conditions of European Social po-
litical industrial, and commercial development are
no longer concentrated about the Mediterranean.
Besides, railroads, steamers, and telegraphs have
reduced, almost to nothing the strategic signi6ca-
ton of COnstantinople, and domination over Eu-
rope, from any point whatever, is now the dream
of uDatic. True it is, that the past seems to JUS
tify to certain extent such speculations and pre-
dictons The Byzantine Empire accomplished
wonders during an existence of nearly "a thousand
years. But nine-tenths of these wonders are due to
Al lot No. otap
of most powerful Capitalization, commenced I'M
der the Roman Republic, and developed and per-
fected under the EmperOrs previous to Constantine.
Under his successors Byzantium became still be-
perfected focus of contradiction which 1t con-
tinued to be after the division of the Roman world
by Theodosius. 1t was by this marvellous central
izaton that the Eastern Emperors subdued the mil
itary anarchy which destroyed the West. Goths,
Huns, Avars, Saracens, and Bulgarians, for time
victorious were ultimately subdued. This central
administrative organization arrested the first and
fercest onslaught of the Saracen force, before
Charles Martel encountered in France one of its
minor rills The greedy Crusaders Overpowered
Byzantium as much by subterfuge as by bravery,
and, dividing its rich spos, struck the most deadly
blow to the Empire. They impoverished the coun-
thy, destroyed the Capitalization, and thus prepared
the way for the Turks, who finally ate up the East
ern Empire pecemeal. This Capitalization subdued
even the Church, and preserved an uninterrupted
confederation of Greco-Roman culture transmit
ing it to Western Europe. But this could all have
been obtained as well had any other spot become
the focus of the Capitalization.
However, this same Capitalization, so powerful