The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-06-23
THE TURCO-RUSSlAN WAR:
lis Aspects in Relation to the Religion of
the Present Day.

of the very able essay read by w. J. Jones,
! Esq, before the Young Peoples Associa-
ton of this town, at its last meeting. We
are sorry that want of space prevents Civ
ing the paper entire, as it is upon subject
of great public interest at this time:
! ! must hasten over the series of events
extending over period of four hundred
years, by which the Turk from being the
terror of Europe has become the subject OF
its bounty, and from being dreaded as the
master of christendom has became the in
teresting invalid, fed by the pap-spoon of
Prtestant England and soothed to slum-
Der by the holy chants of Pope Plus the
| IN. Neither Protestant nor Catholic have
ever dared to attempt the determination
of the Turk from Europe; and when in
1887 the Russians with reconstructed gov
eminent and powerful army, dragged
| into war with the Turk, were about to
drive him to extremites, protestant Eng
land interfered and securing the aid of
Prussia procured for the followers of Ma
homet a new lease of their European estate.
Jealousy of Russia was of course the first
cause of their action on the part of Eng
land, but from this beginning grew up
that policy of protection of the Ottoman
power which has since governed the British
councils. AS the extent of the British
empire in India increased, and as the i'm
mense profits in which came from the dis
graceful and ubiquitous traffic with that
besotted land, dawned upon the mind of
the British merchant and the Tory politi
clan, the Turk became the pet of England.
He was told in effect, ego on with your
Mahommedanism, build your Mosques and
plant your Crescent, swear away at the
christian dogs, Cypress them with taxes,
and kick and scourge them, or sell their
children into slavery if they do not pay;
aye, if your old tiger thirst for blood comes
back too strong on you, use your cimeter
occasionally and take off head now and
then, only don't break out into your old
habits too strongly,-don't massacre
whole principality at time, Christian
England will protect you. We want a
road across you to our India possessions,
we want our merchants to do the buying
and selling for you at Constantinople, and
our cotton-spinners to furnish you with
five millions of pounds stearling, or twenty
five millions of dollars of cotton goods per
year. We want our ships to have free
passage through the Dardanelles and the
Bospborus to carry our cotton goods and
bring back the wheat for our overgrown
population and all we ask of you is that
you will behave yourself, not like chris.
tian, but like Turk of the 10Th century
and moderate little your fierce thirst for
blood SO that our protection of you shall
not subject us too severely to the contempt
of all christendom." But Turkish cruelty
and Turkish thirst for slaughter were too
strong to be always kept down by even
Mother Englands Molly coding. There are
doubtless men in my audience to night WHO
recollect the horrors of the Greek Revolu.
ton and the thrill of disgust which went
through America. Mr.. Clay made it the
subject of one ofhis most splendid speeches,
and the Nauasina hats which the ladies
wore indicated their sympathy with the suf-
fering christians of Greece. A modern his
Greeks were implicated in revolt of the
Moldoivans, ordered his governors to dis
arm the christian population and check the
progress Of treason by the rigors of punish
hln Il. t1,n
patriarch of Constantinople and other
prelates were hung at the church doors,
and thousands of unoffending families were
wantonly murdered in various parts of
the empire. In the Island of Scio descent
was made and almost all who were found
in the chief town were brutally murdered.
The scene was terrific; in all parts of the
Island pilage, murder and contlagration
ragged for several days, and it was compu-
ted that twenty Five thousand individuals
of both sexes were put to death and thirty
thousand women and children were carried
off as slaves. Many merchants, natives of
Scio, who resided at Constantinople, with
out the least evidence of delinquency were
impaled by order of the Sultan. The prin
cipal town in the Island of Ispara being
taken by treachery, rather than by force,
the Turkish beseigers rushed into the place
with furious eagerness and put to instant
death the greater part of the inhabitants,
not sparing women or children. In the
Marea Ibrahim Pasha, returning from
an unsuccessful attempt to reach Patras,
assuaged his disappointment by the slaugh-
ter Of the inhabitants without distinction
of age, or sex. This was too much for
even the stomach of Englishmen and above
the whirr of their cotton looms come the
shrek of women and children murdered to
glut Mahommedan hatred of christian dogs.
A diplomatic correspondence was opened
by the British foreign office; But the Rus
sian bear was again crushing down from
his polar SHOWS, and England dreading the
destruction of her Turkish pet, and above
all, her markets for cotton prints, and her
road to India, invited a conference at Lon
don and toned down the demand of chris
tendon for Turkish humiliation, to fleet
be sent to the Archipelago to stay hostili-
ties and mediate between the belligerents.
The English Admiral received express Or
ders to use every exertion in his power to
prevent the effusion of blood. But the old
srior had not so learned the art of war,
and when one of his boats with flag of
truce was fired on by the Turks he put
his fleet in line of battle and the result was
the SPLENDID naval victory of Navarino.
This untoward event." as Wellington
called it with his British obstancy, resulted
in the independence of Greece. Gored
with blood, the Turk laved himself in his
marble bath, relapsed into a state of ele-
CANT invalidism, while Mother England,
with pap spoon in hand established herself
at his bedside as chief nurse and for
twenty years longer, he taxed and OPP
pressed, and sold into slavery his christian
subjects without let or hinderance.
In 1850, Louis Napoleon began to agitate