The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-02-01
EUROPE.
DETAILS OF THE "AFR1oA's" NEWS.
THE EAsTRRN QUESTION.


6tarihNldl on the Condition Of the 0SIck
and Russias
CABRERA, December 1s.-That love England
with the affection OF q son you cannot doubt,
and that 1t is ever the desire of my heart to see
her In the first rank among the nations is
equally certain; but to caress the errors of her
manlsters--tO that cannot lend myself
repeat, therefore, to your statesmen that which
1 have stated to our Own;-Do well, and you
will receive praise; but to lavish praise on those
who do evil is servlle adulaton, and l never
Halter. In the war OF giants Waged by England
against the First Emperor search in the pages
of those histories OF your country which narrate
1t for one single expression of condemnation at
the expenditure of millions OF lives and millions
OF money, sacrificed to combat one despotism
indeed, but certainly to sustain another not less
exacting.
Who, however, on the other hand, will not
confess with me, that the services rendered by
England 10 the cause OF human progress have
been immense? And | in particular bear test.
EnOny to the benefits received from you by Italy
sn 1860, without which we should not now be
existing ia the embrace of every member of the
italian family. But when see the Government
OF this, my adopted country, allied with Austria
and with Turkey, must tell you the truth
namely, that l nhale the fumes of chanel.
house, which all the national vitality NAV be
unable to dispel ii Great Britain places herself
IN contact with these dead corpses. / would
rather see her using her power and her influence
10 support these oppressed nationalities at pre-
sent going to decay in the pulrid atmosphere of
despotism, but who, remaining constant to their
desire OF purifying themselves, must certainly
rise one day or another to their natural places
in the fraternity of free nations.
Let US leave Austria, whose Emperor ought to
receive the fate of his brother Emperor of
Mexico, and which exists only through the dis
sensions of the nationalities checkmating each
Other's efforts towards emancipation.
Let us travel to Turkev, cosmopolitan as / am,
and believer in that God who desires not fac.
tOns and discords, but. on the contrary, that
men should love each other as brethren (which
determination can only be possible, however,
when we send the Dervish to the spade and the
Roman priest to the mattock). Believing fully
al this, can make no difference between the
natives of the plains OF Tartary and my country
men born on the sunny hills of Rome.
But have you any idea what this despotism of
the Turks protested against by you really is?
will give you an example.
One day, in the port of 0liveira, in the island
of Mitylene, inquired of Greek peasant the
reason why he did not gather up the olives, in
stead Of permitting them TO perish on the
ground. Because" he answered, "the Pacha
buys up all the olives, and we are compelled to
dellver them to him at such a low price that it
would not pay the expense OF gathering
them in"
Behold how the interest of this Door remnant
of Christians is neglected in temporal matters;
and for the rest, for all that concerns the pros
titution of the body and OF the soul, how am
TO relate it to you, who have so kind heart,
and who have a son and daughter? 1t is most
horrible. And If do not speak of it, oh for
give me: it is for the sake OF decency. and from
the respect which / owe you, that cannot de.
tail to you such brutalities.
Well, now, have laid before you the condi-
ton of the Christians under Islam, and Britain
the classic ground of human rights, the pro-
tectress of the oppressed the emaucipatress of
the slave, persists in upholdmg these fruits OF a
despotsm the most inhuman and the most
mOnstrous.
In 1927 England, France and Russia, in one
of those outbursts OF generosity which God
sometimes excites in great minds, accomplished
one of those facts which in the history of nations
are followed by universal gratitude. Let them
complete the sublime task; let them spare to
humanity fresh torrent of blood, and they will
receive from her a thousand bene6ictons.
q. GARIBALDI.