Connecticut western news., 1875-09-17
THE RESURRECTION IN TURKEY.
Clear and Easily Understood Analysis of st the Whole Affair.

A Clear and Easily Understood Analysis of
 the Whole Affair.
 The disturbancein Herzegovina grows more and more serious. The Turkish government is evidently not disposed to yield, while the revolted Christians are Servia, and in Dalmatia. Disturbances of this kind have frequently occurred in Turkey, and the present revolt might be settled as the former were. In case, how ever, the Turkish government fails of success this time, we are not unlikely to see new kingdom formed in the East, with or without general European squabble.
 The whole gist of the insurrection in Herzegovina is told in few words. The Christians hate the Turks, and the Turks hate the Christians. The Turks are ex- tortionate, and the Christians are not disposed either to pay the heavy taxes or to submit to the robberies of Turkish officials. And above all this, there is the question of Servian nationality-the nationality of people who formed once almost as numerous and important a principality as Poland.
 Servia proper, Herzegovina, Bosnia, Dalmatia, and Montenegro were once Servian territories, and are stillinhabited almost exclusively by Servians. Even the Croats are 8 part of the same race, speaking the same language, and differ ing from the Serbs proper only in being Roman Catholics, while the Serbs belong to the Greek church.
 The history of the Serbs, like that of all of the Slovenian tribes, is very ob- scure. Where they came from nobody has yet been able to make out but it has been ascertained that in the middle of the seventh century they migrated to the Roman provinces lying between the Danube and the Adriatic. These provinces the Serbs obtained from the Emperor Heraclius for having assisted him against the Avars and other savage tribes, that formerly dwelt in these re- gions of his empire. Since then they have lived, now independently, in a kind of confederacy of various little tribes, having for their chief authority an elected magistrate, and now again under the rule of the Byzantine en- peror. In the twelfth century Servia appears as a very thriving and highly commercial country. Its political life was then concentrated on the eastern coast of the Adriatic The extensive Servian territories had abundant natural wealth, and most of the Europeon gold was at that time derived from the mines of that country. After the Turks con- quered Constantinople they began to push their arms further north, defeated the Servian army in 1889 on the plains of Kossovo, and in the next century we | find the Osmanlis supreme rulers of the Serbs, and the ancient Servian land di- vided into Turkish pachaliks.
 A handful of Servian patriots took refuge in the Black mountains, now known as Montenegro, and carried or there truly heroic defense against all the assaults of the Turks. Soliman IT. extended his sway as far as Vienna, but could never conquer the mountain refugees, who thus became the mair representatives of Servian liberty, traditions and nationality.
 The Serbs living outside of Monte negro, and numbering altogether about eight millions, are divided between Austria, Turkey, and Servia proper the Sultan counting more than foul millions of them under his rule | ment- possibly, just on account of this division-the Serbs have always pre- served strong national feelings of unity independent nation, they would proba ply be constantly fighting with eacf other, as they did formerly; while nov the Serbs of Herzegovina, of Bosnia, o Belgrade, of Ragusa, and of Bocco d l ings to each other as the Poles of Cali cia, Silesia, and Warsaw; and as th' government of Turkey is incomparably 1 weaker than those of Prussia and Russia and the Serbs are much better warrior than the Poles, there is very fai chance of seeing Servian kingdom es tablished between the frontiers of Tur key and Austria. This would be all tn more easily done, as there is already semi-independant Servian principalit, existing, around which the whole of tn nationality could be collected.
 Up to the present moment the Serb under the Austrian rule remain toler ably quiet, but the moment the Serbs o Turkey shall have achieved their inde pendence, the Austrian Serbs will i'm mediately rise in arms, and undoubtedl, have the support of their compatriot outside. Although comparatively bet ter treated than the Serbs of Turkey they still have many reasons to complail of the Austrian rule. The original con vention, in accordance with which the
 were embodied into the Austrian em pire, was never observed. It was under stood that they would have only to de fend the southern frontier. Instead c that, they were sent wherever Austri
 had to carry on war-on the Rhine a the time of Napoleon l., and at Sadow in our own day. They were promise
 full liberty of religious belief, yet ire quent attempts have been made to tur
 them perforce into Roman Catholicism The bloody events of 1869 in the distric of Bocca di Cattaro, in South Dalmatis
 have clearly shown how little chanc
 there is that the Serbs will ever becom
 loyal subjects of the Austre- Hungaria
 monarchy. There can be little dout
 that had both theAustrian and the Turk }, ish governments well understood thei , true interests, the would long ago hay
 let the Servians go adrift. They ar
 the cause of great expense and of almos
 constant fighting. But to allow the Sel vians to become independent would b , to begin the work of general dismen , berment of these two empires. And th8
 is what the Sultan, the Emperor Frar cis Joseph, and, with them, all the othe
 sovereigns of Europe, are afraid off,
 NeaO York Sas'e.