The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-06-30

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London Correspondence of New York Times J
.AYcddes ambo! The Russians COM
plain that the Turks lombard and de-
stroy undefended villages. The Turks
report frightful excesses by the Rus
slams in the Caucasus. Atrocities III
Bulgaria are now met, in English pam
phlets, with records of Russian mas
sacres in Poland. Even as late as 1874
the United Greeks in the Governments
OF StediLg and Lubin were barbarOusly
treated under the authority OF the
Gar. The peasants III the district OF
MinclcWiCz tried to resist the impOsl-
ton upon them by an alien priest, and
were beaten, with the COSSack whip,
known as, the "nagaika." Fifty blows
were givfh to every adult man, twenty
five to every woman, and ten to every
child, irrespective Of age or sex, This
is all duly set forth in parliamentary
papers. To-day Count Ladislas Platter,
Polish patriot of high position, pub
fishes a letter to Mr.. Gladstone, III
which he attacks the inconsistency of
the ex-Prime Minister for champiOning
the SlavOrS Of the East and showing
an utter indifference to the acts OF bar
bariSm perpetrated on the SlaVS OF the
have been called forth by the cruel
sulman fanatics in Bulgaria, provoked,
be it noted, by an insurrection arranged
from Russia, indignation against Mus
cOvite barbarism in Poland ought to be
much greater, for there it is the au-
thOrities and the Government itself
which have acted the part Of Bashi-
Bazouks in POldachia, by Teyeling in
massacres and horrible atrocities upon
a peaceful people, whose crime was to
cling to their religiOn.1 On Tuesday,
Sir Henry james, NJ. T., a Liberal legis-
lat0r of distinction, addressed the
Liberal association in the city of Here
ford, and denied that the Eastern queo-
ton originated i'll The Bosnian revolu-
ton and the revolt Of the Herzegovina.
On the contrary, he said, it had occupied
the attention of Liberal leaders fO1
years. From 1891 when Edmund
Burke denounced the misrule of Tur-
key, down to the Crimean war, English
efforts had been unceasing with a view
| to the reformation of Turkey, and more
| especially in regard to the Ottoman
treatment of the Sultan's Christian
subjects. On the day of the signing OF
the treaty CLOSING the war, Lord
CIuIC SdltA LlItlU VI l. VI MY Woo w
share the advantage of being part OF
the European family Of nations, she
must adapt her laws and practice so as
to make them compatible sWith the
community of states into which she re-
quired admission. Sir Henry James
urged that Turkey had not done 50 and
never would, because the MussuIman
character was not in keeping with
liberal rule and justice to Christians
To the credit of both conservative and
liberal governments, he declared that
year after year the Foreign Secretaries
of both political parties had lectured
and warned Turkey on her failure tC
keep her promise to govern her subjects
with equity and justice. And thus. the
ball Of recfiminatiOn is tossed from
side to side, until the character Of botl
Russia and Turkey are ~uddled witt
charges, many of them only too true
| Both powers have perpetrated ontlage$
upon justice of the most tlagrant kind
| and the partisars Of Russia are just Is
| blindly unfair as the pro-Turks when
| they ignore the crimes OF one party
| and unearth the atrocities of the other