The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-04-12

Turkey In EurOpe-The Latest Phase OF
the Eastern Question.
From The Herald.
In our Paris letter, published on Wednesday,
lJe gave the programme of movement for the
Inrther disintegration.of the Ottoman empire,
originating in the lands between the Danube
md the Balkan, where the Moslem power can
least bear to be put to any new test The pro-
gramme is simply a project for the revival of
the kingdom of Bulgaria, extinct since the
fourteenth century - an ancient Christian
power, overwhelmed and borne down by the
original irruption ofthe Turks into Europe. 1t
thus proposes to read backwards the melan-
choly chapter of modern history that made
great Christian population the slaves of bar
barous race and to commence the reconstruc-
tion of that part of Christendom at the point
where the sword of the fanatic stopped all
progress. The particulars of the program me
merely indicate points in the constitution OF
the projected realm but these points are sig
nifcant of the nature of their origin. They
show that the project has grown up IN the
widespread influence upon the people OF
great recent example-the success of Hungary
in demanding from her tyrannical ruler
separate national organization and govern
ment. Hungary is made the model for the
establishment of the new power. Just as
Francis Joseph must be crowned King of Hun
gary, so the Sultan must be crowned King of
Bulgaria before he can legitimately rule; andhe
must rule also through minister and ma
tional Bulgarian Parliament. We are told
that the Servians, Montenegrins and Greeks
are leagued with the Bulgarians for the sup
port of their demand, and that its denial will
Inevitably be followed by violent measures.
It's acceptance would itself be great revolu-
ton and thus, in either event, we appear to
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political and social condition of one OF the
most interesting portions of Europe-the
border land of centuries of struggle between
opposing ereeds and races.
Whether the establishment of new king
dom, including a portion, perhaps all OF
European Turkey, and sure to be soon indie
pendent of the Padishah, is to be the accepted
solution of one of the most troublesome of
political problems, time only can tell; but
the case is one that presses for settlement, and
q settlement must soon be found. Moreover,
according as that settlement is good or bad, so
will Eastern Europe be disturbed or at rest
for century to come. The wonderful strength
and the great necessity Of Russia will bear
down the scale against the ideas of the West
ern powers. Russia is ambitious of maritime
development and naval greatness. Peter
stamped that tradition ineradicably upon her
policy when he became a ship carpenter.
Frozen up through half the year in her north
ern extremity she requires southern outlet
through the Euxine, and will have it. That
is part of the inevitable future, and Russian
preponderance in the Mediterranean will be
the result. France and England stopped this
once by force of arms. They cannot do it
again. Let France move now and she will
find that united Germany of fifty millions of
people is her next-door neighbor, and is in
close alliance on this very point with Russia.
Let England move, and India is gone. Rus
sian military posts are established within
striking distance along the whole Indian from
tier, and any undue expression of British SYM
pathy with Russia's foe will deprive England
of the vast wealth of her Asiatic empire. She
Ehas given hostages to fortune, and must
look on with folded arms. In view of all this
what part should the Western powers take in
this present movement. They should en-
courage by every means the setting up of this
new Kingdom. The continued domination Of
the Sultan in Europe furnishes the preteXt
that Russia wants. So long as her move
ment can take the shape of intervention for
the protection of oppressed Christians it will
commend itself to the prejudices of Europe
and all will be easy; but Christian kingdom,
ruling all the lands from Hungary to Greece,
will be bulwark against her, and her first
great difficulty.