Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-12-10
LETTERS FROM TIE PEOPLE.

EDITORS APPEAL-ThiDking it would
please the numerous readers of your
paper to hear something ab1ut HeIze-
govina, the country TO which at present
Is turned the attention of all the pow
ers of Europe, l trust to them my first
effort in her behalf. Born in Dalmatia,
on the very border between this Austrian
province and Turkey, will say only
what know to be the truth, as many
a time in my early youth l have trod
the soil for the liberty Of which the
brave HerzegOvinians are now shedding
their blood; ana in telling what have
seen will be brief. have seen fair
country with fair climate, but on
which instead of the beneficial rays of
the Gun, shone the gloomy rays Of the
Ottoman moon. This is the context of
what intend to say, but to eXpatiate 8
little, will say have seen fertile val
leys but no cultivation. have seen the
brave insulted by the coward; / have
seen the christian man Knocked at ia tle
exercises of his religion by a Moham-
me1an; have seen The christian woman
forced to the embrace of the polygamous
Turk, This is what l have seen, and
now what have not seen: have not
seen a school for the education of youth;
have not seen church for the wor-
ship of God; have not seen hospi.
tai for the sick and the needy, and in
all my visits to that country l have not
seen a smile on the face OF her down.
trodden people; and this all, where? in
Europe, not far from Italy, the mother
of learning and arts; not far from Ger
many, the country of industries. II
there is any people under the shining
sun that needs the sympathy Of the CIV
ilized world, it is the christian people of
Europe grooming under the heel of the
never-to-be-enough execrated Moham.
medaB. In behalf OF the few who are
scattered over the mountains of their
country, fighting for her freedom against
overwhelming odds, I appeal to every
man who unsheathed his sword and
shouldered his musket in defense of his
native land. In behalf of the christian
derided by the Turk, appeal to every
man who believes in Christ and reads
his gospel; in behalf Of those brave wo.
men OF Herzegovina, who, while their
husbands, their sons, their aged fathers
and their brothers are all from home
chasing over the mountains their COM
mon foe, they at home are suffering he
roically all the privstiOns caused by
their absence in the hope that the day
will soon come when their oxen, their
COWS, their SHEEP and their few hogs,
will no more be taken in payment of tine
exorbitapt taxation. In behalf of these
women, appeal to the noble women of
this country, who well know what il is
to miss the father, the son, the husband
or brother from the table and from the
hearth, and be conscious OF the fact that
their lives are constantly at the mercy
of the foeman's bullets. But what shall
say in. behalf of Herzegovina's unedu-
Gated you.h2 What in behalf Of her
poor, who are swarming through the
neighboFing countries in search of bread?
And, lastly, but no less empbatically,
what shall ! say in behalf Of her. viz
tuous maidens, many Of whom are sent
by the governing pscha as a present TO
the harem of the effeminate Sultan in
Constantinople? And is this all to be
tolerated only because the downfall of
Turkey would involve Europe in a WARP
Let the war come, let Europe shed
torrents Of blood to efFsce the ignominy
Of the too long liberation.