The Morning herald., 1875-09-13
THE HERALD.
WILMINGTON, SEPTEMBER ls, 1875
TURKEY-HE RzEGovINA.

We have, in one Of our earlier numbers
given full and exact information about
Herzegovina, the now famous province Of
Turkey. Our views upon the probable
spread of the rebellion have been fully re.
allied t:us far. Bearing in mind that
Turse, has been gradually losing power
for over two hundred years; that she has
been worsted. during that time, in every
encounter she had had with her great an.
tagonists, Russia and Austria, we naturally
look for the source of her weakness. In
tie olden time, when the scimitar and cres-
cent, were synonymous of terror to Europe,
Turkey was ruled, and her armies led, by
soldier Sulsans, who were educated for
war, and bred in the emp. In our time,
and for nearly two centuries, her Sultans
have been the nurselings of the harem and
the pup cts Of lis managers. The old war
spirit which made the poet apostrophise
Called, as "the sword of Cod" has died
out. The influence Of French fashions, has
emasculated the warrior spirit of the poe
pie of all the large cities and adjacent dis
tricts of the Ottoman empire. The visible
violation Of the Injunction Of the Koran,
markedly SO. The borrowing Of money
upon interest, in other words, the issuing Of
the Turkish loan, so absolutely inhibited
by Mahamet, has recalled the Sultan with
all the wild and warlike tribes who yet
regulate their lives by the precepts of their
Holy Book. Tribes who are the heritors
of the soldier spirit, which nerve the arms
of the Turks at Acre, Jerusalem, and
Varna.
What has Turkey lost within a century !;
practically all of Arabia. The Wahabee ru-
Ter at Riad is the master of nearly all of that
country, and he is quite as hostile to the
Sultan, as to any Christian potentAte-look-
ing upon the former as an apostate-the
latter as an inhdel Egypt, formerly one
Of her mightiest fiels las threatened the
very existence Of the Ottoman Empire, in
the time of Mahom-t Ali, who was only
stopped in his march to Constantinople by
the great powers Of Europe. Now under the
Khedive, she has aims, and purposes in
consistant with the doctrines Of the Koran,
and at war with the very existence Of the
Turkish powers.
Greece with its hardy soldiers, daring
mariners, and great merchants was in the
beginning fthis century one of her most
important provinces; but the memories
which arose from the sight of the fields Ct
NJ ,rathon, and Platea, and that surged up,
as the waves Of Salamis beat upon the
shores of Attica, called the Greeks to
arms. The result We all know-the cres-
cent sank in disgrace at Navarino, never
to rise again upon the land or waters of
Greece. Algiers, formerly the great seat
of her naval power, is now cut up in de-
partments Of the French Republic. Tunis
and Morocco, are held in terror by the
gradual encroachment of the Tri-color
towards their capitals, and even if the
Sultan were in mortal danger would be
powerless to aid him.
Eamberg tells us, that in the wild re-
gions beyond the Oasis, the Sultan is
looked upon as backslider; Russia, how
ever, by her conquest east Of the Caspian,
and the utter subection of the Circas-
slams, as well as her dominancy upon the
waters Of the great inland sea, shuts out
all hope of aid from that quarter. This
leaves her Syria and the district of coun-
try from the Black Sea to the vallies If
the Tigris and Eupbrates in Asia. But
in even this region she has many bitter
enemies. The Maronites christian peo-
pie, the best warriors possibly in the east,
have absolute control of large mountain
district in the Lebarius, and would be sure
to take the field, in any contest with
christian people. The same may be said
Of the Armenian, in the vicinity of Erze-
room and the mountain regions, from which
flow the Tigris and Euphrates
In Europe she has practically lost her
power in the watershed of the Danube.
Servia, Moldavia and Bosnia are semi
independent. Montenegro compelled her
to loose her grip several years ago, and
now Herzegovina is up in arms for free
dom. Turkey is doomed. Her people
are barbarians encamped upon christian
soil, and ought to be driven out. The
great powers may wrangle as they like,
but sooner or later the double-headel
L. L., Al.