The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-08-16
TURK AND TARTAR.
The Deadlock in the Eastern Hvar-New
Aspect of the Campaign-The Sick Man
Not so Sick as He Might BE.

ana Armenia with the result as doubtful
as it was last April, when the Gar de-
clared war. Fifty years ago it required
two campaigns for the defeat of Turkey;
it is not improbable even now that the
winters snow will find the Russians still
north of the Balkans in Europe, and on
the northeastern frontiers of Armenia in
Asia. The unexpected fighting quail
ties which the Turks have displayed and
which have made the campaign doubtful.
are simply astonishing, and have intro
duced new factor in the calculation of
results
Thus far Russia has lost every pitched
battle in which she has been engaged.
and the victorious Turks have inscribed
upon their banners Zewin, Delibaba.
Batoum, Eski-Sagra, Plevna and Loft
cha. The other encounters have not
been IN the nature of battles, and have
resulted IN favor of one or the other
power, according to the superiority of
force. At the outset of the campaign the
Russians gained very peculiar and i'm
portant advantages, and month ago
there was not military critic in Europe
who Gid not expect to see them in Adrian
ople and Erzeroum before winter. Their
brilliant movements gave them large adj
yantages and placed them in possession
OF very important strategic points. not
one OF which has yet been utilized for
permanent results. They crossed the
Danube at Ismail and Galatz in splendid
style, and only succeeded in placing
forty or fifty thousand men in the Do
brudscha marshes, where they have lain
idle for nearly two months, and where
their ranks are now being decimated by
gastric and malarial fevers. They crossed
the Danube at Sistova with equal dash
and brilliancy, and took N1kopolis by
splendid flank movement, only to hurl
their victorious legions against the in
trenchments of Plevna and Loftcha, and
retire to Sistova again, crushed and shat
tered, and unable to move until rein
forced. They occupied Tirnova and
other points in Central Bulgaria, only to
be forced out again, through fear of
losing their communications With the
aid of the Bulgarian mountaineers. they
dashed through the Schipka pass into
Roumelia, cut the telegraph lines,
burned villages, and even advanced so
far as to threaten Adrianople, and then
were sent hurriedly back again, after
defeats at EsBi-Sagra and Kesanlik,
into the pass, which they may hold a
short time, but which they may eventu-
ally yield, If reinforcements do not
speedily reach them. In Asia they di-
vided their columns and pushed forward
almost within sight of the domes and
minarets of Erzeroum, only to find their
army doubled up and driven back to the
frontier, with formidable insurrection
raging in their Caucasian provinces, and
only six weeks left in which to end their
campaign. 1t is apparent that Russia
has already put forth good share of her
power, and is thus far beaten. IF peace
were to be declared at present, she could
not show cause to the other powers why
any treaty advantages should be awarded
her, or why the reforms for which she
has fought should be enforced, so far
as her own prowess constitutes
reason. On the other hand,
the Turks would put in a substantial
claim, as victors, that they should still
be allowed to regulate the domestic
affairs of their Sclavic dependencies ac-
cording to their own sweet notions of
tyranny, massacre, slavery, rape, and
pillage. In 1854 the Turks did little of
the work against Russia. England,
France, and Piedmont did the fighting,
and Austria was a powerful ally by her
:efusal to let Russia cross the Danube
into Roumania. She was then outnum-
bered and overpowered. She had no
railroads and no means of transportation
| but ox-carts. 1t is no wonder under such
| circumstances that she was beaten. Now.
however, the Turks are without allies
and fighting single-handed; but already
the campaign has lasted longer than it
took Germany to overcome France or
Austria, and longer than it took France
to yanquish the latter power, although
Russia has the active assistance of Rou-
mania in men, munitions, and sub
sistence, the indirect aid of Servia, Bos-
MIA, Herzegovina, Montenegro, and
Greece, and the sympathy and such as
sistance as they can render of two-thirds
of the people of Bulgaria The result
shows, contrary to the general belief,
| that Turkey has not squandered the
millions of money obtained from England
since the war of 1856 entirely upon Sc
raglios, palaces, and luxuries. She has
built powerful feet which dominates
the Black sea, keeps the Russians in
their harbors, maintains communications
between the disiointed fragments of her
empire, and has proved of inestimable
value in transporting troops and NUM-
lions. She has equipped her armies
with the best of modern arms-the
American long range rifles and revolvers
and the Krupp steel cannon-andsh she has
learned the American system of field in
trenchments, with what result was shown
at Plevna. In the contest between these
two tough-fbred nations, the Turk has
thus far shown himself a match for the
Tartar. OF the ultimate result of the
contest between the two powers there
can be no doubt. The result of the
present campaign, however, rests in ex-
treme doubt The Sick Man is appar-
emily not SO sick as he might be.