The New York herald., 1876-09-11
MI. schuyler's Report ON tho Moslem
MuSsncreR.


The preliminary report Of Mr.. Eugene
Schuyler, United States Consul General to
Mr. Horace Maynard, our Minister to Tur-
key, in respect to the massacres in Bulgaria,
is published to-day, and we are not sur
prised at the effect it has had upon the Eng
lish people. The original dispute between
the British Ministry and the British press
was as to the truth of the information the
latter supplied. The correspondent of the
London Daily Ne,cs had written that the
Turks had butchered thousands of men,
women and children in Bulgaria, that whole
villages had been obliterated, and that the
devllish work was still going on. Mr.. Dis
raeli, when his attention was called to
these reports, declared them to be
the "exaggerations" of correspondents,
and said that the government would
await more trustworthy information. lie
received it, not from his own agents,
not from Sir Henry Elliot, the British Am
bassador at Constantinople, but from this
report by Mr.. Schuyler. 1t shows that the
correspondents did not exaggerate, but
actually underestimated the atrocities of the
Turks AS an official report, founded on
patient and thorough investigation, it is ac
ceptcd by the English people as true and it
settles the question between the Ministry
and the press in favor of the press 1t was
at this point that Mr.. Gladstone made his
grand attack. Mr.. Disraeli and Lord Derby
stood convicted of indifference or ignorance,
or both and the charge that they had "com-
promised the honor of the British name" was
urged with terrible effect. 1t was seen that
the Christians in Bulgaria had been sacrificed
for the sake of maintaining dead or dying
English policy in Eastern affairs. The Eng
lish people demanded a change. The Lon
don Times, though it does not demand the re-
call of Sir Henry Elliot, condemns him for
not understanding the true character of
what was happening in Bulgaria, and virtu-
ally suggests that he shall be superseded as
the representative of England in the East
ern question. The Daily Ne,os, in reference
to Mr., Schuyler's report, declares that "Tur-
key is a tolerated Power and this war tole-
rated war. 1t could never have entered the
mind of any European statesman that the
day to cut and carve Europe wherever they
might prove the stronger on the field of bat
te." All this means that there is to be q
change of English policy in respect to Tur-
key. England is to be cut loose from an
unholy alliance with the Turk, and this
change of policy is not the act of the Dis
raeli Ministry, but of its opponents.
Mr.. Schuyler's position in this revolution
is influential, honorable and independent.
He had nothing to do with English policy,
but he had the courage, the skill and the
power to tell the truth of the Turkish mas
sacre and the outrageous conduct of the
Turkish government. He acted for the
United States, but in doing so rendered an
inestimable service to England and to
all the Christian population of Turkey.
The independence of his position, the abb
sence of any motive to exaggerate, made his
report an authority. 1--WE do not know"
said the London Times, ''that anybody
now denies the substantial accuracy of
the darkest pictures that have been
drawn of the atrocities in Bulgaria" The
report describes horrors which will thrill
the soul of the reader with indignation, and
the moderation of its tone, the exactitude of
its statements, make the impression all the
stronger. The people of America will be
glad and proud that their representative has
done humanity this splendid service. Mr..
Schuyler has not meddled in the politics of
Europe, nor with the questions of war which
the Powers of Europe must decide for them
selves, but he has touched with the spear of
Ithuriel that squatting toad of Mohammed
which sat whispering its lies in the ear of
sleeping England, and it springs to its feet
like Satan revealed in his own likeness.
Judge Pierrepont's Letter.
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