New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-10-19
TURKISH NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

sHREWD AIIKNPTs - m>LEAD TtEurE IHE
sIoEY OF IHE BULGARIAN Cn>'u-elp>~-EE'-
RFANr CHRISTIANS ~ ruE TURKISH SERVICE
BLACQuE BEY's HISTORY
lrRoM TIE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT or riT rHnrSrl
CoNsrANrrNorLr. Sept. 2G.-upon the superstition
that madmcn arr apt to look upon every one with
whom they come in contact as insan,-but upon mo-
other grounds IL possible To account for the meas
urcs the Sublime Porte has taken To give The world
what may be called the Turkish side of the Bulga-
rian horrors. There has however, been NO method
about this madness. When first vague runors were
br1litcd about that extraordinary scenes had been
enacted I'm the Christian States of Turkey the Gov
crnmcut at once denied the rmnan IN toto. We
were told that these reports owed their existence 10
some cyil-disposcd persons who had greatly cX-
aggcratcd slight outbreak which had occurred
among the Bugarlns a small baud Of whom had
been excited TO rebel hy The rcprc- .utaIons of FOR
eign agents who had attempted to sow discord
among them. The bulguans, however, had quickly
acknowledged their error and had returned CRATE
fully to the paernal protection of the Porte which
was ever ready to listen to the appeals, or 10 inn
prove the condition of its subjects, regarding them
as its children, Mussulman and Christian alike. This
"highfalutn' language might have satisfied many
people and had been accepted true had not news
paper enterprise aud the very praiseworthy action
Of the American Government in sending Mr..
SCHUYLER its Consul-Geucrl here to Bulgaria,
thrown more light upon the subject. As this Hight
began TO dawn upon the Turkish Government early
last month il was considered advisable to somewhat
modify the original dcnal-0r, IN fact, apparently
TO forget that il had ever been gvcn-and this was
done through the agency of an official Commits
sioncr who drew up lengthy report refuting the
story of the massacrcs of and Outragcs upon lnno-
| cent people. but slightly changing the order Of the
defense by stating that the acts which were com
mittcd had been called forth by way Of rcprisals
for similar and even more atg0cious outragcs COM
mittcd By the Christians Details, such as local.
ties dates, and figures carefully suppressed,
and the American Commissioner was right-as
has since been proyed-when he spoke Of this report
as {" tissue of falschoods from beginning 10 end g
! have already given you extracts of tins document
side by side with statements made by the nhabi-
tants Of the villages and since that time undOubtcd
evidence has been furnished that these statements
were correct in almost the minutcst details. In
spite of this when submitting Edb Efcndi's report
TO the English Government, the Turkish Embas,a-
dor stated that tins conscientious report exposes
in the most impartial manner the latest events OF
which Bulgaria has been the sceucD And vet in the
face Of this Mr. Schuyler has had the audacy 70 de
clare this report as a tissue Of falschoOds and what
in the eyes of the Porte, supported by Mr..
Barring and others, has proved that he was right!
This report OF Edib Efend did not meet exactly
with the reception the Government had hoped for.
1t published at length in all the important jour
nails Of Europe, but many of these newspapers re-
fused to place credit in it. "A commission was then
organized under the presidency of Salim Eilendi,
which reported its proceedings at Philippopolis,
where it tried many prisoners and sentenced large
| Ia Le vylo tom af ia
went to prove that the Bulgarians deserved their
fate, as they were insurgents. The Porte then sent
Bacque Bey and Yovantehs Ehcnd to draw up n
report, thinking that by sending the fonnor-a
Christan-they could more easily persuade people
to accept their account of affairs as the true one.
Could the "unbelievers" any longer refuse TO give
| credit to the report of the Government when that
report was made, not by Mohammedans alone, but
! by Mohammedans and Christians togetheri 1t il