Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-01-31

/ and national ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. the spirit Of
the age demanded that it be settled upon
the great question of Immunity. The
Turk, who evclywh re rules with cruelty
n tyrannical oppressor. who came on an
evil errand, unbldden, and who is now an
interl per, dealing only in blood and car
mage, reaping no other harvest than gold,
through the walls of women. the tears OF
children and tho curses Of slaughtered
men, ought 10 be driven OIL of Europe.
But who is to do this deed? The Great
Powers could, but they are divided over
the spoils. lie showed very conclusively
that there was one power who knew clear
ly what she wanted. With mistaken con-
si.tency, Russia had pursued her policy IN
this Oriental Question AS all roads were
said to lead to Rome, so every ray Of Rus
sian Policy found its concentric point in
COnstantinople. Since the order Of the
day was consolidation upon an e,hnc
blsis, Prussia having made unit out of
forty German republics, Piedmont having
pr diced uni,ed Italy, therefore not hu-
mdHtty but nationality, was at the bottom
of Russia policy, and Il Pan, Sclauic Nit
ton is the great object and ambition of
Gortschakoff and all leading Russian
Statesmen. Russia looks South. That
beautiful ConsIantinople must be, shall be
hers. Possessing this. she would have the
true key to the treasures of her ambition,
the filnking Of he British power in India
and the extending Of her domain indefinite
~ Eastward. Though England now pos.
sesses Highway 10 the Orient, through
the SHez Canal the Red Sea, &c., yet she
could never abear 10 see The Russian
spread across her path in u way that would
eventually rob her Of her Eastern Empire.
Tne lecturers description of the scenery
of The Bosphorus, and of staninople
brggared description by any reporter 1t
WAS rich, racy, eloquent, mastery, The
scenery of the Bosphorus was the most
beautiful on the globe. The combination
of lanIsctpe and vegetation, of SET and
mountain, OF magnificent and attractive
architecture, is nowhere richer, more lux
urio1s and charming than FROM Kilios,
with Province Islands and Pera. Conslan.
tinople, built like Rome, on her seven hills,
situated on the glorious Bosphorus, which
there forms magnificent harbor, appears
magnificent beyond degree in the dstanc.
MOI Rome on Tlber, Vienna on the Danube,
Paris on the Seine, London on the L ames,
st. Petersburg on the Neva, could vie
with ConsttnIinope on the Bosphorus. Her
gilded domes and elegant minarets of three
hundred mosques, rising everywhere above
the bosom OF her beautiful groves, ST.
Sophia looking to heaven above them all.
the Seraglo, an a,semblage of palaces,
the home of the Sultan and his court, &C.,
presented one of the grandest sights on
earth. But, like the apple of Sodom, when
you touch the beautiful queen city, the
illusion vani.hes like the baseless fabric
OLA vision Her streets are narrow, crook
ell and filthy. There are more ruins than
habitations, more beggary than gold or
diamonds. more filth and squaor than
general comfort. If such were true of the
great Capital, what Of the distant provin-
ces under the distinctive sway of the
crescent. The lecturer closed grandly by
hoping that the day was not far distant
and the power not far away that would
usher in the welcome period when the
~ II AAh'b LSNNll II llOuI lOpG W lay HIS
bones in the tombs of his fathers, and
when the cross and not the crescent should
wave over the dome Of ST. Sophia
As the Lecturer was no vatcinator, he
did not tell US who the coming power was
that should WELD the sword that should
cut the knot, that should solve the puzzle,
that should save Europe from the Turk
curse, and leave no ground of disagree
ment among the other great powers. This
was well. 10 have given such informa-
ton would have left US about where we
were when the lecturer upon the " Ele-
ments of Empire in our Republic" after
all his examinations made the great ell
ement Of empire c0ASeien:e; as to who e
existence, attributes, and province, no
two individuals in this Republic, nor in
his world, entertains the same views.