The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-02-02
The Purltans In PalestincLIIlhn1i
Colony "A Failurc-A war Nesse'
CafJed for,


The reading people Of the country have
,een advised, for some time that gang oil
,cstless Puritan Yankees, from Name mum
,ering some one hundred and sixty hau
wandered on from home away 10 the
aIoly Land" and had dotted down on the
lite of the ancient city OF Jafia, where they
had started an american Colony lhere
IL trouble in their campl Isthatsurprlslng
Uhere and when did the propagandin8
Puritan ever set himself down, without Tue
relations and local institutions OF tle
society. into which he obtruded, being dis
turbed, and often dlsrupted' To attend 70
other peopics welfare seems to be the
claimed mission OF the creature.
This colony Of fanatical adyenturers and
pcace-disturbcrs, we say, are In trouble.
They have gotten themselves among peo-
ple who don't like them aud who will have
nothing to do with them! and they are Sc
yerely suffering, in consequence. The
Turks, possibly, have been posting them
selves on Puritan history. Possibly this
one colony have developed enough in that
line. At all events the adventurers have
made complaints to Mr. +. joy MoRRIs,
American Consul at Constautinople, OF
cruel treatment from the Turks, and that
official has sent their doleful details to the
Department at Washington. The diplo-
matte correspondence was sent into the
Senate ON Wednesday. 1t represents the
condition of the colonists as ''Ueyy pitidblel'
One of their complaints is, that the Sub
lime Porte will not grant land TO foreign
ers, unless they become his sutjectSl'-that
is, turn Turk--shout Great is Allah, and
Mahomet is his Prophetw This the Puri-
tan will not do; wise in his own conceit,
hc stubbornly refuses to follow the homely
Injunction, "when You are in Turkey, do rs
the TTkeys DOR And lol notice is served
on him to move his traps--to "git'-to
skcdaddle-to "vamosc the ranch," and all
that Kind of "Ioly Land" vcrnacular.
Tho New York Tribune publishes letter
from Constantiuoplc, which gives us q
spare idea Of this Puritan invasion of the
Holy Land, by the aforesaid one hundred
aud sixty from Maine. Under date of De
cembcr 18th. says the writer:
THE American Consul, reports, rs | un-
derStand, that the man who organized the
expedition has proved to be unworthy of
the trust rcpoSed in him, and the coloniStS
find themselves in need of everything, or
without money, either to return or stay
where they are. They are suffering from
the fcvers of the country, and the mortality
among them has been very great Some
ten or twelve had died ut last accounts. and
Others were sick. They wish To get back
to America, aud beg the Ambassador TO
send q mdR-Qf-trdr 20 take btH gg.
The ualic ending ct that sentence crop
ped out the genuine Maine Yankee, who,
possessing more holiness than he needs, for
home use, has "call' to 90 abroad and
pcddle out the surplus for the welfare of
the heather; and if he suffers, must, needs,
have somebody else afford indemnity, pro-
lection, and foot the bill! Probably. no
other people, on the face of the globe, would
have conceived the idea than the legitimate
descendants of plymouth Rock"-landers,
that after failing in rsconsiructiHg ancient
Jatfa and making of it 4 New England Bu-
redu, they would demand national
mdR-ot-icdr to bear down. take them aboard
and carry them home.
To think, howcYcr--aS the Tribune letter
advises-"that the man who organized the
expedition" in plain language, has turned
out u swindlcr THAT is, the supercargo OF
this gang, who started from Maine, in the
United States to carry back and replant
the Gospel in the waste places of the Holy
sand, when he discovered that itwould pay
no longer simply abandoned the tanatical
fools TO Puritan fate and Turkish hate.
But this is not complete, without one
more extract from the Tribune letter. We
quote:
"In strange land. where they are As uu-
protected As they would be on a Texan
frontier, without money, broken down by
sickness surrounded by those who speak q
strange language, and who look upon them
rs interlopers, it is not singular that their
hearts should fail them. Ii is sad 70 think
how many hearts have been broken by dis
appointment In that land, how many de-
luded themselves into crusades 10 that land
which we call the Holy Land" When
will the world learn that the Kingdom OF
Christ is n spiritual kingdom and the Jeru-
salem where he is TO reign is spiritual Je-
rusalem, and not the old, dirty Jewish city
WHICH was NllNC \hNb NNN nov NllG " pc VI
u heavenly city? The Porte has made \ for
NAL protest against this colony and has de-
clared that they cannot permit Americans 10
colonizc Palestine. They cannot allow for
eigners take possession of their most fertile
province. tbelongs, they say, to the natives,
who pay taxes and do military service.
Shall these be driven from their fields by a
colony of Yankees, who will be subjects OF
another Government and pay them moth
ing, who might even be inclined some day
To take possession of the country? So they
request Mr.. Morris To send them home
again.
If he does, Consul MORRIS should be i'm
peached. Let them stay there! Turkey
has long been called the "Sick man" of the
nations-let him be compelled 10 swallow
these Puritan infalliblc pills-thcy may do
him good! More; they may work him out
from the crunching grip of the great Rus
sian bears claws, which, for no brief pc
riod, have been sharpening for his vitals,
Serious Condition of Affairs.