The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-09-19

lesson of compliance With the requires
ments of that system!by immediate ana
stern remonstrance, and, IL need be, by
the strong hand of her military power;
or, failing in this, Europe herself must
stand disgraced: disgraced as though
guilty herself Of crimes that she might
and ought to have prevented, and did
not.
On this point Victor Hugo has written
thus powerfully:
sit becomes necessary to call the at
tention of the European Governments to
| a fact so small it,seems That the Govern
ments appear not to perceive 1T. The
fact is this, a people is being assas-
sinAted. Where? In Buropel Hasthis
act witnessesl One witnessI the VIII ole,
world. Do the.G0E ernments see itP No.
The nations have above them, something
which is below 'them-the Governments.
1--WE are abotft to astohish European
Governments by teaching them one
! thing, viz: That crIrhesare crimes; that
| it is no moie allowable for a Govern.
ment than for an hidiVidual 10 be an
| assassin; that Europe is S0liddif, that
all that happens III Europe is done by
| Europe; thatif there exists q. wild beast
| geVePnment1t musL'be treated as a Wild
beast; that at'the' rreseuD moment, quite
close by us, there uni def our eyes, people
are massacringy bufnIng, .plllagingsex-
terminating, cutting the throats of fathers
and mothers, selling the little, ,girls and
| boys: thabth children too small to be
sold re'being, cut in TWO by the blow OF
a, a,sabre; that families are barGt in their
| houses; that one town, Batak for eX-'
ample, ,,has been reduced in few hours
| from nine. thousand Inhabitants to-
4 one thousand three hundred;- that
! the cemeteries are. chOked with, mOre
corpseS than rcant be buried, sodhatuto
The living who have sent them Carnage
The ,dead,seha back the pestilen ee, which
is only, fair, We teaolEdhe ,Gevernme nus
Of Europe this: that pregnant women
are being ripped open to Kill The 'ohil-
| qren in their womb; that III the public
/ squares there are heaps of the remains
Of women with the trace OF this treat
meat; that dogs gnaw in the streets the
skulls OF outraged girls;i tbaU ali this Is
| horrible; that'a gesture of the Gov erh-
| ments Of Enrope ould be enough to
| prevent lit, and that the SaVag4S who
| commit these crimes are 'terrliylpgyand
that the civilized who let them c0mmE
Them are appalling. The time has come
| 10 raise one's voice. The universal, in-
digua ton is being aroused. There are
| hours when theIl human conscience
| speaks and orders Governments TO
| listen"
These expressions Of HUGo may seem
ardent and his style norid; but how can
| speech be restrained in.view- Of such
enormities peipetratad byaa nation
whose existence is s.imalntained only by
sutferance of those powers whose funda-
mentallaWit it is WautoAly violating,an
holding in degision! Such a nation has
nO!place among. civilized mankind Ii
belongs, MOTTO Europe, but to bestlality
and barbarism. Such a nation, as says
the London Spectator, should no longer
be treated as a government. 1t is but a
combination Of outlaws ,waging wal
upon humanity. II this were the only
instance OF Turkish diabolism under like
circumstances, charity might hope tC
} find possible mitigation. But it is g
Il horrible repetition of characteristic
, atrocities seen in the massacre of Scio
and in the Cypriote and syrian slaugh
ters, whose details made the cheek o
Europe turn'pale. 1t must moreover b.
remembered that once before, on thest
: same Danubian plains, ,BAJAzEE piled
up his boasted mound Of human skuil
as the fitting monument of his desc
lating raVages at the head of an army y
Turks.
The civilized world now challenge
Europe to see toit'that her own vauntet
, system Of public law shall be vindicatet
as against the treacherous Turks, ant
that henceforth there shall be no repeti
ton of such atroGitiespermitted on tn
soil OF Europe. For the Turkish Gov
ernment to say, in excuse. that she CAV
not restrain her troops in the field, viii
not suffice; for that is TO say that it j
3 not government. And if indeed n
4. longer government, but efuge 70
Darbarians and breeding ground TO
savages, then the sooner the better thai
q ''Turkey i'll Europe" be ,expunged iron
the map OF the. world
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