, 1860-08-02

the world from crimes which will be rcproach
to il for ayes. No one ctn tell What another
week may bring forth The next mail from
Ds5roa. may inform US that Aleppo hss shared
the late Of Damascus, that at Jerusalem Chris
number of Protestant Englishmen, have been
put to the sword. Whatever may have been
the beginning Of this movement, there can be
no doubt that it has assumed d most formidable
character. Yesterday 1t was ieud between
two mountain tribes: tomorrow 1t may be the
oaslauyht Of the Nussclulan races on the Chris.
tiRn, whom recent eycnta hare caused them to
look upon with increasing hatred and dread
Before Buccor can arrive, bef,re the Turk can
be made to tcel that Europe will stand no vi.
ding IN this matter, II may be that every village
in Syria, nay, in this whole Of Asia, may be
stained with blood. Races which hare lived in
security for centuries under the protection Of
earth by this fierce outbreak Of fanat,cism, all
hopes OF i better future may be destroyed, and
tue regeneration Of these unhappy fn1ds made
impossible fur eScr by single month Of un-
ch+cEed iawuluess. When too late, it may be
discovered that civilization has been orce more
to blossom aud 10 give hopes Of bringing forth
tru I.
It is straoge that land which was the cradle
of Christ aaisy should eo1tinue, nse after age,
to b. tho place Of its shRrpest trial. Iswould
almost leeul US if spell hung over that re-
nowEed ana hul, corner Of Asia, and condemn
I'll it 10 Keep forever it's former likeness, to fur
nish pereecutors and martyrs, t1enzisd multi
tudes demanding blood, and timid Governors
giving UP lhe Kuiltless to 6eath. Since the
days when the Pa.1laTchates Of Antioch aud
Jeruaaem went down under the first shock Of
Arab invasion, the Christians Of SyEia and Pl
es.lne hare beeo the most iil.used subjects Of
1tA 81 # f.4r %t.Ir f,%n
hus s'mc~hat resembled that Of the tribes
whom Israel, nges before, found in the same
land. They hare been ex!erminated, or reduced
to the condltlon Of Slaves. or forced to conform
to the victorious faith. The small nnc,ber ot
Christians now in Syria aud Egypt, c-m2ared
found in those couut1iss, shows how actiyehare
been ali these causes OF depcpufa1ion.. III the
earlier pfriods IT the c3pQut8. the slaughter
was proiig gihu5. In later times misery has done
The work Of the sword. The popuis,ion has
died out, or merged into the dominant races
When our ancestors engaged 10 TUG Crussdes
they bai real Justification in the evils endured
BY their fellow Christians, and probably from
the religious spirit which prompted such ad-
ventures should not have found a prete1t in
come ass o. cruelty. In Europe aud in Asla
Minor the Christian has had only to DO with the
Turk, wtose bigotry has been TEN 3ered by his
qualities as q politician aud ruler: Nowhere
or Greeks had 10 undergo the habituat i'll usage
aad tho periodical violence which has been the
portion Of tie Syrian Christians from their
Arab prosecutors.
Whut is 10 he done in q country in which
there things are 60 often happening, and in
shich they MY happen al any hour! Are We
to glve up the land " hich has higher interest
shun any other to the human race, that every
maa # our religion may be extermicated from
it, and their plAce possessed wholly By the most
AayuHe populations Of the East: Are we who
have kept the Sultan on his throne, to aquicsce
in a stale Of things which will make 1t u diff. .
cult for Ell Eagl:ahu,an 10 visit tue scenes Of
Christian history rs to penetrate into tue
mos |, es Of Mecca? Are We to permit Aleppo,
Damascus, Jerusalem, aad perhaps every city
as far as D4gdad. to be closed 10 Europeans
Cfler their native Christian population has been
mIss.cfed cr driven out1 Are NC prepared to
hear Of our missionaries being put 10 dcath or
turned out Of tie country. with orders never to
set foot in it again AID TO be unable to venture
nile from the Mediterranean coast without
gusrd of Musse}mau cavases? But all this
must he conceded. ind more too, unless nc are
ready to deal 6ernfy and summarily With
these nruse and Arab 1ufi4ns md the connlv-
ing Turkish authorities. 1t is likely, irdeed,
that Tor the moment the Porte will be rather
frightened: We hare 70 doubt that u. Aa-u~
rus has Informed his Government Of the temper
Of the English mutton, aad the Ambassadors in
PlriH will doubtless make equalty pressing re-
rrcsenta a1ions. The troops will be dispatched
With snnc:hing like nlAcrity to Geyrout, aud
Fuad l'asha will do Lis beat 10 put stop to the
disorders. But what is Constaotnop,e poli-
ticiau, that he should be able to dam up tue cuE-
rent Of Asa.ic tana:icism, which Eas uow bro
ktu its bounds, and is looding the southern
rrov.rccs of tue empire? The perpetrators Of
1h. sc outrAges hare little respect for the class
which Euad represents, and which they would
e1tsrminae with Us much pfca:ure a3 they do
the Clristians-
may Eos 'css Inequalities necessary for dealing
win savaEe faces in stnte of frenzy, but he
will certainly require them. No kind Of con-
ciliAtion or c3axip9 will be Of the esst avail. as
it will only give the n1araudess high notion of
thcir own power, aad encourage 1Aeiu to renew
the attack directly the troops are Withdrawn.
Only the mast reaolute demeauor and the
most actlye operations will Re Of any use.
Tar qaes i'm then, is whether Fuad rasha, or
indeed, any Turk, is endowed with the requisite
Energy and resourcesF Wefear not. the be
h1vior Of the Turkish officers ssems to Indicate
that they had little power over their men. In
one case there is reason 10 believe that he com.
| mander really took part with the murdesers.
but generally the work has s2nc on while the
tr"op~ hare ktolitt kept to their barracks, and
their Gtt1ctr4 seem to have known that i. was oi
| no use in t1,isg to bring them out If this was
the Gaze with desachmcnts. why h'1ou.d i. moi
be 81 with an army Whn shall eav that the
force acting under Fund Pasha will show any
real activity IN furnishing outrages which ererJ
true belize IN its ranks considers to be 81 holy
| wosk. #, however, it should prove that tut
Porte in incapable Of keeping order it will be
| thea TIME to consider whe.her the Talk has no
been long enough there, and whether Christian
nations ought not to take counsel as to the iu
turc OF this Interesting aud mas: unhappy land
TORTURE IN ROME.
fFsom the correspondent Of the Tl1nes.1
The public have di.credited some of N,
statements Us exaggerated, and yet hare ai
ways persisted in saying tl.&t it was impossi
be TO paint in coio's too deep what was hap
pening in this lovely country. Let then, ths
time-servants, the moral cowards Of society
the reactionis.s, listen to tho following details
As soon rs the constitution was framed and th'
amnesty had oEeoel the prison doors, it was
noised ubFoad tha: L tuan who had been sbu
up IN secret was %'ill con6red in the prison 0
San Francisc, lie was taken thence BY SOM
young men who had also been confined there
honse by The advocate Pasquafe Arenarf, wh'
ha7 clothed aad fed him ever since. The poo1
victim Of opp!es.i7n has ere ated great in eres
here, sud among others Mr. Elliot and the Mar
chese Vailanarina hare been to visit him.
have done the same, aud the following harrow.
ing story have received from hts own lips
in the presence uf Arenare, Of Ncapolitau
friend. and Of n fareign consu1:
landed in Gsn0a. from Boston, someWher
IN lS,3, and wishing to see the south Of 1ta!y
fraveled till came ucar Viterbo, when / VA
cauti.ned no; to 20 to Rome; but still pnrse
vered IN my Intention Of doing 30, when va
arres:ea as not having passport, snd carrie
70 the Eternal City, where was placed in til
I Carcsre Nuovo- Not satisfied with the repor
which gnre Of myself, was tortured for tire
months as follows: Ny hands and arms wer
bound together. aud then, By ropes tied roun
the upper p4.t OF The arms, they were draw
back TIL my brenst protruded, and nj bone
sounded 'Crick! crick There was ano,he
species Of torment rrGctised upon me. whic
was this: At night, while sleeping, the doc
was secretly opened, and buckets Of water wes
thrown over m7 body. How survived It car
not tell. The keepcrswe1e astonithcd, aad sai
they had never had such m instance; But 80
will nerer get out alivc,' said the Caporale Ro
a|oi. replied that never expected 50 to df
and prayed Tor the Angel OF Death to CONT
The worst torture Of oil, however, vas the pri
Oh itself, ru5ul into which = few rays OF Egh
struggled from a5ove, and the stencil Of whict
for 1t lad been used By the gaolers as pr,vy-
WAS as bad Us desth. For three mouth
suffered thus. and then, w;tho,
any reason assigned, was taken fro
it and placed away alone in = roor
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