The New York herald., 1876-09-23
The Mussulmans Not So Bad As
They Are Painted.
TESTIMONY OF AN AMERICAN OFFICER.
He Thinks the Turks as Much Sinneo
Against as Shining.
FACTS AND CURIOUS INCIDENTS.


noplc consult the French physicians FOR chronic
pilment called TO him for the purpose of obtain
ing his imprcssion0 regarding the late events in
Turkey. In a conversation of length gathered
from HIM the foowng:--
STATEMENT TO raE HERALD.
"The horror felt at tho outragcs committed in Bull
garia by the Croassian rrcgunrs snd the General is
MS great Consantinopc elsewhere, though IT is
thought that in they have been exaggerated
sull they OF such a character that the
Gininuton by half OF the calculated number
ofvctims would no. alternate thor a.rocty. Unor-
,uralcly tho Turk has been xc,usrvrly blamed,
and he does believe that 1t Is far play throw
the responsibility entirely upon him. the difference
between the Turk proper and the Tchcrkess IS about
the same MS that between the regular soldier OF tho
United States and his Indian ally. l am sorry the In
dian ally did punish tho insurgent Sioux in that
manner, aud that the Tchcrkess did not play
part toward the Bulgarian the ally dd to tho
Sioux believe that tho Turk docs sincerely regret
The ouraecs of the bashibazouks and that the otto.
man government did not endcavor with such means
il had at its disposal at the time to put stop to
shem is a mistake, Tor, Notwithstanding the deep red
color In which he has been pictured by sensationalst
reports know the Turk to be anything but
BLoonrnIEsrY CRUEL
The tcnes of his faith, of which he is most generally
strict observer teac!. him The contrary. Moreover,
any who has resided a suilic ent time among tho
Turks to judge them fairly knows tneir statesmen
be experienced to risk the alienation OF The SUP
port, both financial and political, which such acts
would inevitably produce among The friendly Powers
o! Europe
TURKEY Is LIKE AN APrLE
tha, boy continually throwing sticks at to bring
down, and which only alls to do because he is
scared 10y the neignbors dogs BY the time that these
..,tJ.
iuln
In answer my inquiry whether he was in Cons,an-
tinople at The time ol sofia uprising General Mott
sad al was amt al the breaking tho 3ul-
garan manifestation, and know the panic the latter
occasioned even among Christians Tor IN the East,
you must understand, there arc
CHRISTIANS AND CHRISTIANS
whose antpathy toward each other is greater than
that OF the Monammedan 10 the Gaiour.
RELIGION
"'A dog of a Ca,hoh > "a beast Of an Armenian, "a
thiei oil Greek, renegade OF Bugar-
IAN but mid Ways OF expressing
compliments lulcrchauged by the followers of
Therefore naturally tho
bcrs OF otner schisms dreaded ,ue tender care
which the lamOiKe Balgarians would have taken OF
EXISTED Cons iantnopc from the day the Doodess
revolution OF the soias had been very great had
been cnaercd dangerous by the daily reports c,rcu
lated 10y parties OF the pretended projected
massacre vi Inc CHRISTIANS oi the capital ny the Mo-
hannieuan y, puiaton ihat the news OF the massacre
u HOhanmeuans py The CHRISTIANS OF bug'ria would
but add luc to TIE are already burning, and endagcr
safely OF The inhIbitauts Ui CoDstaDtlLUpc,
be and therefore, u was decidcd tuat every
available means should be used to prevent
WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN HusDEEDFoLD WORSE
than that by which the world has been shocked. No
troops beng al the disposal OF the government at tho
time winch could The seat trouble promptly
the telegraph used to the Icherkess
regulars 1hc position OF the government military
point OF view was crucial An army of observation on
The frontier OF Scrva III presence OF much superior
force; the rest OF Its troops endeavoring TO crush
a REBELlioN
u,r- and fl,,.n had oil
their efforts tor nlnc months apparently combined
revolutionary movement akn place between army
observation and the capital. cutting The only rant
road connecting them the lesson 1t mad received OF
the Importance OF The uprising IRON what
tuaiy existed in other provinces, and the ex-
aseerated reports sent 10 from the Bui-
garan district, oil called for immediate action
but few days later, when regular troops could be
Gent AT the timc despatched to recall
TchcrKess irreguars Out II Was found 20 be much
more diicu call them bacN than IL mad been let
them loose. 1t may be that sonc-but am convinced
but very class superior TO the common Tcher-
kcss irregular took parI IN The series OF horrors that
have been vivIdy described, anu feel sure that
when proof has pointed out those lew 10 The Ottoman
government they Will meet
rIIEiR MEgTEp PUNISHMENT.
'Not having taken tour through that country have
been unable 10 explain 10 myself how or under what
influences the bashi bazouks were able to
between Christian and Christian for Bulgaria, ac-
cordng the statistics gwen by tho Monde there
Twelve thousand aud odd Cahoiics large number
OF orthodox Greeks there, OF no portion OF whom We
have as yet heard murder. Even they dld not
tako part the insurrecuon they should, according
TO the general d scrpon gwen OF these anaiical and
barbarian opprcssors. have been massaercd as
Christian dogs"
BULGARIAN INSTRUCTIONS
.'What is your opinion regarding tho instructions
said have been iound Oh the captured and slam Bull
garan calcisy"
There can be no doubt as TO their ccnuinencss re-
piled General Mott "and the account published OF
them in Memorial Dipiomdiique is, am satisfied.
correct one and from il we can Judge OF tue terrible
that would have cnsucd, Tor every large and
small town, village and hamlet was ordered to bc
burned lis inhabitants even those Bulgarians who
their property pagej. Ia tho large towns OF ADRIAN
oplc Pninppopon and ratar BazardJik only those
CHRISTIANS
PROGRESSING THE BULGARIAN TxSErs
be saved ana then only in cosc they were will
.ng to JOIN the insurrecton In the testimony OF one
WiSo, OF Baidwa gwen in the same Jouina, we read
o Mudirs and Isphichs murdered IA certain Chcr.H
hacndl aud uis men sa'n cut IN pieces and roasted ;
the road 10 sophia cut telegraph wires destroyed, rai-
roads up railway sta.iUns (Bciowa and ohcrsl
burnt both the Christian ana MohammedanS OF fohan-
aky massacred anu a number OF other such facts
witch Won probably have all read of and when 90
show that The intentions of tho nsu gents wore IN
kccrng with the acts OF their ncghborng villagers
"a great deal has been said aud written about
THE ATROCITIES OF TnE TURNS Az sEavA.
II is but lately that they have entered that country
ana they have no douot, burned villages on Their
way The ocrviah troops, during heir occupation
OF and advances into turkey, let iaming record IN
their track oil burning villages, devastated iarms, &c
speak their treatment OF all persons not OF
,nc'r parry, D"th Mohammedan ana Onr's'an wno
happcnod TO iai into ther hands; and Is
astonishing that tho ignorant irrcg-
aIar and bashi-oazouk should follow tho
cncts Ol his iath when call tor IAN eye for an
,yo" "a tooth Tor too,h. There is not battle
icld IN herzegovina, dating IRON he time when tho
Insurgents hau the upper hand but Will show the
mutated carcasscs OF the lurksh solder the treat
mont received there, aud It's hiil iop cven
cording the most partial accounts, ornamcntci WIN
pyranlius Turkish heads piled the trophies and
monuments OF Christian revolutionists and, although
The illustrated press OF Europe was nlcd with
pictures oil executions Of Turkish prisoners
aud the hunting down OF Turks Tor tho
purpose OF taking crop OF human cars,
some OF winch reproduced III the American Illus.
traled Journals QUERY raised against the per-
pctratou OF such acts, tough they were Confirmed by
Tcnablc letters to the European press Most probably
IL was because the Montenegrn and HcrzcgoyAan did
not complain, but accepted as matter OF course the
same treatment they administered. Turkey, as q
nation still occupies her station ana the faitb ot her
people dear TO them as our own rs 10 us, and |
will venture to assert that politically and religiousiy
she Is lar more liberal than some ot her CRristian
ncighhors For scyeral cenlnrIes The Noslem has