The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-11-29
Christian and Turk.

than they can do.
Christian and Turk.
The old hostility between Christian ana
Turk has been banded down TO the present
day. and cannot be extinguished. English
seifshness and hypocrisy have succeeded In
placing a large part of the Christian "orlo
in a false position with regard to turkey.
england invented the Eastern question,
and she duped France and Italy INTO
alliance with her. Her object was to pro-
mote her own supremacy by checking Rus
sia. whom she imagined to be her grea1
rival in eastern supremacy and In her SUI
premacy on the seas.
Tn no part of the world has there been a
greater amount of mock philanthropy ana
Christian hypocrisy than in England. Ike
for Hall sent forth her emissaries to disturb
the peace of this land by a crusade against
A frican slayery-a condition In which the
African reached a higher degree of civiliza-
ton than he has ever attained anywhere
else. And vet the poor Irish were suffering
from o tyranny and deprivation of rights
more CALLING than any yoke ever imposed
unop the African slave in this country ; for
q better fed and more jolly individual than
the African in the southern States was not
To he found in the laboring class of any coun-
try on the globe. But England was grleVeo
TO death for him, while she sent her officials
and armed police to hunt down md perse-
cute the poor Irish, with white skins and
warm and genial hearts, and with wit aud
indomitable bravery and fortitude in trial
that entities them to rank with the best OF
mankind. e.
But this was British philanthropy! The
negro in America excited more sympathy
in Exeter Hall and at the levees or the
Duchess of SWITZERLAND than the wall OF
the Irish-the noble Irish-at their very
doors. Could there be aphase of hypocrisy
more detestable? :
And 80. too, the voice of lamentation Of
the modern RACHEL in European Turkey
and Crete-RAcHEL weeping for her child
rem and would not be comforted, for they
were not-excited no sympathy in Exeter
Hall. The hearts that could palpitate for
the black African, the eyes that could cry
for him, had not a palpitation nor a tear
for the Christians of Europe groan-
ing under Turkish oppression. Why's
Because England's diplomacy for Eng
lands selfshness thought it safer to stir
I'D strife in this country than to succor the
distressed Christian grooming under the
tyranny of Paganism in Europe. The Turk
was to be maintained for the protection of
England. Philanthropy, sympathy, blood,
religion, even humanity, must be stiled
there. Exeter Hall subsided-stilled its
picus heart and dried its divine tears east
wardly but there never was any cessation
of the pulse nor any diminution of the food
of tears for the black man, who was SO fat,
and who so kicked and sported in his graft
MISUNDERSTANDING was so free from re-
~sponsibility Of all sorts.
This is English philanthropy.
How long will it continue? The negro is
free. Behold him! England and Exeter
Hall can 20 no further in that direction,
and they have again presented to them the
question of Christian against Turk. Can
they still deceive the world by. covering 1t
| I'D with the I" Eastern Question ?" Is Eng.
land to be always successful in her shallow
| disguisesP Is Lord JOHN RUSSELL, the
| type of bigotry and selfshness, again to
| mislead her counsels? If retribution be.
longs especially to anything in this world.
it is to hypocrisy and bigotry. And if Eng
land follows this line longer in her policy
and her diplomacy, that retribution is no,
far of.
Just now the question is between Chris
tianity and Mahommedainism. Between
Russia, a young and rapidly-growing Pow.
er, and England, an old and arrogant Gov.
eminent, which endeavors to shape all the
diplomacy Of Europe for her own advan.
tage and the continuation of her supremacy
on the seas. To these all her Christianity
and philanthropy have been subordinated
She would fight for the maintenance Of
barbarism in Europe If she deemed tina,
essential to her political supremacy.
But there has been q great change.
France, her catspaw inthe past, is helpless,
and SO %prejudiced against her for allowing
her main protection from the inroads of the
Eastern Powers to be struck down by one
Of them, that were France to-day relieved
and restored to strength and health she
would treat with disdain any proposition
from England to JOIN her in another Cri
mean war.
No, England can never get up another
Crimean army she cannot hide the rea
question of Christian and Turk she can
not crib, cabin, and confine one. of the great
est Powers in the world which is CROWNS
rapidly, while she is standing still; eh'
cannotsustain the rotten power Of the Turl
in Europe; she cannot bolster the tyranny o
1885, 900 Turks over 10,64O,O 900 Christians
she cannot prevent the removal of a respec
table Grecian Empire nor the extension o
Russia towards the Bosphorus,; sht
cannot subordinate the world to her ambi
ton and her supremacy. Russia cannot b.
chained-the Christians cannot be kept IL
~bondage-one Of the most delightful divis
ions of Europe cannot be kept in a state O
semi-barbarism under the sway of the Mus
summarize cross cannot be kept dowr
PROSTATE before the crescent, and all fol
the selfish ambition of a country which wa,
ready to see this country run streams O
blood for the liberation of the negro, ant