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| ter, dvertOfie The very great reluctance
Ihad to speak of the subject all
| and will try to indicate summaril'
what my own poor private views upon il
are.
In the first place, then, for fifty year.
back my clear belief about the Russian:
has been that they are a good and even
noble element in Europe. Conspicuously
they possess the talent of obedience, OF
silently following orders given, which in
the universal celebration of ballot-5ox,
divine freedom, etc, will be found an
invaluable and peculiar gift. Ever since
Peter the Greats appearance among them
they haye been in steady progress of de-
velOpment. In our own time they have
done signal service to God and man in
drilling into order and peace anarchic
populations all over their side of the
world. The present czar of Russia
judge 10 be a strictly honest and just
man, and, in short, my belief is that the
Russians are called to do great things in
the world, and TO be a conspicuous benefit,
directly and indirectly, to their fellow
men.
To undertake a war against Russia on
behalf of the Turk, it is evident to me
would be nothing short Of insanity; and
has become, we may fondly hope, impos-
sible for any minister, or prime minister,
that exists among us. Twenty years ago
we already had mad war in defence of
the Turk: a mass of the most hIdeous
and tragic stupidity, mismanagement,
and disaster lin spite of bravest fghting)
that England was ever concerned in
since / knew it; a hundred millions OF
money and above sixty thousand valliGnt
lives were spent in the enterprise. By
treaties of Paris, etc, the Turk was pre-
served intact, binding himself only TO re-
form his system of government, which
certainly of all things in the world needed
reform. And now, after twenty years OF
waiting, the Turk is found to have re-
formed nothing nor attempted TO reform
Not to add that by bankrupt
finance he has swallowed a disastrous
tribute of many new millions from the
widows and orphans of England. As
fnis to all which he has wound up by the
horrors of Bulgaria and such savagerles
as are without a parallel. With these
weighty aggravations the Turkish ques-
ton returns upon us anew and demands
q solution.
1t seems to me that something very
different from war on his behalf Is what
the Turk now pressingly needs from Eng.
land and from all the world-namely, 10
be peremptorily Informed that we can
stand no more of his attempts to govern
Europe, and that he must qudm Fr5mu7
turn bis face to the eastward, forever quit
this side of the Hellespont, and
and give up his arrogant ideas Of govern
ing any ybody but himself.
Such immediate and summary eXpul-
sion of the Turk from Europe may ap-
pear to many too drastic remedy, but
10 my mind it is the only one of any real
validity under the circumstances. I'M
proved management of these unhappy |
might begin on the morrow al |
jer this long-continued curse was with |
lrawn, and the ground left free for wise |
md honest human effort. The peaceful |
Nongol inhabitants would, of course be |
eft in peace, and treated with perfect |
equity and even friendly consideration,
,ut the governing Turk, with all his
1ashas and bashi bszouks, should at
,nce be ordered to disappear from Eu-
ope and never to return.
This result is in the long run inevita-
lie, and it were better to set about 1t
low than to temporize and baggle in the
-ain hope Of doing it cheaper some other
ime.
As to the temporary or preparatory
government of the recovered provinces,
leared of their unspeakable Turk gov
rnment for twenty, or, say, any other
erm of years, your own experience in
ndia may prove that it is possible, and
n a few faithful and skilfull hands is
ven easy. Nor in the temper of the
zar and of the Austrian emperor need
he fair partition of these recovered ter
it0ries be a cause OF quarrel. Austria
lust expect to become more and more n
lavic and Hungarian empire, her 8. 600
90 Germans more and more gravltating
lward their countrymen of the great
ierman empire. The car, whose serious
ask it is to protect the christian subjects
Turkey proper, will justly have claim
D territorial footing in the recovered
ountry. To England there is one vital
interest, and one only, that OF securing
8 road to India, which depends on
,gypt and the Suez canal.
The thing TO be desired is concord |
mong the three greatpowers and il, as we
o hope, there isa mutual trust grounded !
n honesty OF intention on the part OF
ach, none claiming more than in the ma.
1re of things belongs TO him, We may
expect that the difficulties of
ne business cannot prove inseparable.
seems to me the advice of prince Bis
larck-a magnanimous, noble, and deep
icing man-wbo has 10 national aims
r interests in the matter, might he very
nay, were he appointed arbiter
here difficult disidences arose, what
ut benefit would be likely to result ,
ut on this portion of the subject l am
OF called to write.
The only clear advice have to give is,
, / have stated, that the unspeakable
urk should be Immediately struck out ,
the question, and the country left to
onest European guidance; delaying |
hich can be profitable or agreeable only !
, gamblers on the stock exchange, but t
and improbable to all other !
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