The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-08-25
HERZEGOVINA.

peror Nicholas once designated Turkey,
again in . bad way. This time the dang
comes from one of its own dependencies, Il
Sclavonic principally of Herzegovina the il
. habitants Of which are hardy race of moul
taineers mostly protesting the Greek n
igion. The territory of Herzegovina is abor
200 miles square, of which 40 are under Gu
ture, 25 are used for grazing purposes, 40 al
covered with dense forests, the remainder q
the county consisting Of barren plains an
rugged, precipitous mountains. 1t thus ap
pears that scarcely thirty per cent of the tel
ritory of Herzegovina contributes to the sup
port of its 10000 inhabitants, only one
fourth of whom are Mahommedans. Tn
only place where there is any manufacturing
done is the city of Fosca, which number
about 10000 inhabitants, and which send.
some wool, leather and iron to the Dalmatiar
| town of Ragusa.
The danger to Turkey from the instruction
in Herzegovina arises not, therefore, from the
power OF the insurgents, who, if attacked by
regular army could only keep up mountain
from the fact that they are surrounded on
every side by men of the same race and pro-
tossing the same religion, many of whom are
Austrian subjects The supremacy of Turkey
over Roumania and Ssrvia is merely nominal
and the Servians, like the Bosnians, the
Croats, the Dalmatians and the Montene-
grins, by whom Herzegovina is surrounded
on every side, all belong to the Slavonic race,
and are animated by the same religious and
political hatred of Osmanli rule.
If Austria is sincere in her professions of
neutrality-a fact which may we'll be doubted
she can only prevent her Croatian and
Illyrian subjects from giving open assistance
to their neighbors and brethren; but if the
Bosnians, the Servians and the Bulgarians
should take hand in the struggle, il would
task the whole power of the Turkish Empire
to bring them back under the Mussuman
yoke.
The scene of the present instruction is
separated from Constantinople by the Bal
kan range Of mountains, and the nature of
the country is such that they could, like the
Carlists in Biscay, keep up the struggle for
years. England cannot afford to go to war
again for the sake of propping up the rotten
fabric Of the Turkish Empire-France has |
her hands full and can do nothing beyond |
the reorganization of her shattered armies for |
nome defense, and the telegraphic reports of
! "concert Of action" between Russia, Ger
many and Austria bode no good to the Turks,
Who are now, as they have ever been, in
ruders in Europe and prosecutors of the
christian populations they have been allowed
o plumber and to Cypress for centuries under
he pretext of preserving "the equilibrium
# Europe" 1t has been often said of these
occupants of some of the
NEST countries in the world, that they were
My encamped in Western Europe, and in
pite of the efforts of the diplomats to clay
>" the Eastern Question" like Banquc's
host, will not "down at their bidding" but
eriodically returns to disturb the slumbers
the oppressors and to revive the hopes of
he victims.
The sympathies of the civilized world, once
D powerfully aroused in behalf Of the Greeks,
ere lately revived, though not to such de-
rec, by the attempts of the Canadians to o
lake off the Turkish yoke, and by the quasi I
lccessful struggle of the Dlnubian Princi- I
alities and of Servia to achieve independence. t
he policy of Austria is to conciliate, and, if r
,ssible to ansex all the scattered members q
the great Sclavonic family who are in direct
intact with her Southern provinces, and if 4
10 can secure the alliance of Russia .
: taking her as partner in the partition of O
1rkey, and that of Germany, by giving up b
e or two Of her purely German provinces, |,
nat is now called Austro- Hungary would '
come a powerful Hungarian and Sclavonic 4
npire ruling over some sixty millions of n
lrlke subjects, whilst the cherished dream
all the Czars since Peter the Great would
accomplished by the conversion of Con- :,
Intinople into Russian southern metropo- n
i, and the annexation of Asia Minor to her h
ucasian dominions. The temporary ami
alton Of the power of France and the
licy of self-isolation pursued by Great
itain since the death of Palmerston have
lde all these things possible, and even G.
obable at the present moment. Il
The possibility of locating on the banks Of al
> Danube as center of great Sclavonic Il
lpire has been more than once adverted to hi
political writer's of eminence. Upon this 81
'gni6cent river all the great Sclavic con- VI
errors established their power, and in the es
rpathian range whose name in Sclavc sig in
les "the stronghold of the brave" they th
We always made a victorious stand against ar
eign enemies. OF
The Sclavic tribes included within the linn nj
of Russia, Austria and European Turkey si'
mber over one hundred millions, while the de
erior regions occupied by the Ilyrian, Sc
eek, Croatian and other Helleno-Sclavic wi
,ulations of Turkey. Austria and Greece op
natural fortresses, fit abodes of CT
free, uncomfortable race of men; BIZ
ir entire seacoast, from Ragusa NO
the gulf of Cattaro in the Adriatic to the pr