The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-07-31
The Erightful Scene, in SYRIA.

orea' agitation prevailed at Aleppo and Of KeHs City
The Frightful Scenes in Syria.
lhom the London Times, July Is
The accoun received yesterday rom The ast Of Syria
have realized all worst fears On ,p ~. 81 thus
and 500 ef r ~ amsseas was attacked the
suates, with the exception Of the Engsh sr IL eon,
aowp In short the whole place seems 10 have oans
having shown their usual completely with authorities
THIS irehtin event must remove the me aggressors
cautious politician. Instant scrupes OF ine most
NE royld from crimes uh IN nStlst take place 10
noes. No one - will be a repyOach TO Il for
forth. The tel what another week may bring
II. :. Aieppo has shared tie fate Of Damascus,
-s 81 Jerusalem Christians Of every patton and
sshsSrh including number Of Protestant Engishmen,
Fave been put the sword. whatever may have been
the beginning Of this movement, there be doubt
that it has assumed most formidable character. Yes
teTday IT feud between two mountain trb> a. To-
may be the onslaught Of the Mussu aan races
on the Christians whom recent events have caused them
TO look upon with increasing hatred and dread Before
arrive, before the Turk be made 70 feel
that Europe will stand tritng in this matter IL NAV
DC S az sSey saSe nay IN the whole Of ASIA
cur for centuries the protection of the European
Powers may be swept om the earth by this fierce
break Of ianaticism, all hopes Of better future may
be destroyed, and the regeneration Of these IN.
happy LANDS made impossible forever by single month
unchecked lawssnes. When late it may be dis
that civilization been more overwhelmed
by deMge as II was beginning to blossom and give
hopes OF bringing forth fruit
II Is range that a land which WAS the cradle OF
Christianity should continue, age after age, TO be the
place of its sharpest trial. II would almost if
fpe hung that renowned and holy of Asia
condemned II TO keep forever its former likeness TO fur
nsh eTsecutors and martyrs frenzied demand
ing blood and tmid Governors giving up the gnitless
death Since the days when the Patrarchates Of Antioch
and Jersaem went down under the first shock of
the Christians Of Syn ia and Palestine have been
the most I'D ufcd subjects of the most fanatcal part Of
Islam. Their fate has somewhat resembed that Of the
tribes whom Israel ages before found in the land
They have been exerminated, reduced to the coud
Of slaves forced conform TO the victorious
faith The small number of Christians in Syria and
Egypt, compared with the vast multitudes whom the
first Caphs found in those countries show how active
have been all these causes OF depopuation In the
er periods of the conquest the slaughter prodgous
In later times misery has done the the sword
The population has died out, merged into thel dom
pant phen ancestors engaged in the Crusades
they had real justification in the evils endure by their
fellow Christians, and probably from those days these
there has never been time when the religious
found pretext in some act Of cruelty In Europe and in
Asia Minor the Christian has had only TO do with the
Turk, whose bgory has been tempered by his qualities
as politician and a ruler Nowhere in the western
parts the Empire have slaves Greeks TO undergo
the habitpa i'll usage and the periodical violence which
he's been the portion Of the Syrian Christians from their
Arab persecutors
What is to be done with a country in which these
things often happening, and in which they may
happen at any hour? Are we TO give up the Land
which has higher interest than any other 10
the IN ss1r tina, man Of our religion
possessed wholly by the most savage popula-
lions Of the East Are e, ,Oao hare kept he Sudan on
as difficult for an En0hmon to va The Of Caris-
an history as to p,,lstrotS into the mosques Of LeocaS
baps every city far Bagdad be closed to Euro
peans after their native Christian population has been
being put to death or TURNED out of the
try with orders never 10 set foot in it again. be
unable to venture mile from the Mediterranean coast
without guard Of Mussuman cavassesS But all this
must be conceded and more, tco unless ready
deal sternly and summarily with these Druse
and Arab rufiians, and the conniving Turkish
authorities. is likely, indeed, that for the |
moment the Porte win be rather frightened We
have doubt that NJ Musurus informed his govern
ment OF the temper Of the English nation, and Am
bassaior in Paris will doubtless make equally pressing
representations The troops win be despatched with
something like alacrity 10 Beyrout and Fuad Pasha will
do his best to put step to the disorders But what
CoDstantnople politician that be should able 10 darn
up the current Of Asiatic fnaticsm, which has now
broken It's bounds and flooding the southern provinces
Of the empireY The perpetrators Of outrages have
little respect for the class which Fuad represents and
which they would extermnae with as much pleasure
We do not know how far the commissioner may possess
the qualities necessary for dealing with savage
state OF nenzy, but he VIII certainly require them No
Kind Of conc iation or coaxng win be Of the least avail
as VIII only Il &c the marauders high notion Of their
own power and encourage them TO the attack d.
recty the troows withdrawn. Only the most reso
lutte demenor and the active operations will be of
any use lhe question: then, Is, whether Faud Pasha or
indeed any Turk endowed with the requisite energy
and resources We fear not The behaviour Of the
Turkish officers seems TO indicate that they
lad little power their men. In one case |
there is 10 believe that the commander |
really took part with the murderers; but generally the
work has gone while the troops have stody kept 10
their barracks, and their officers have known
that was OF no use try ing to bring them II tbs
was the case with deachmens, why should II not be
with an army Who shall say that the force acting
fuad lasha will show any real activity pun shng out
RACES which every true believer in its ranks considers to
Porte Is incapable Of keeping order will then be- time to
consider whether the Turk has been long enough
there, and whether Chs nations ought not 10 take
counsel as 70 the future o. this Interesting and
hahpy land.