, 1877-04-15

d ing to shun the only friend who can draw
a aside.
a TIE TURKS IN EUROPE.
Five hundred years of history have, Il
:, think, satisfactorily determined that it
= impossible for the Turks and the Christian
, to live together without the degradation
the Christian races, and their abject SLAYER.
, | while at the same time the Turks themselyt
retrograde rather than advance in ciyiliz.
, ton. The Turk Of 1877 is even more ba1
was the Turk who followed O1HMAN an
ORcHAN from 1900 to 1850. The aggressiv
days of the Turks were marked by all tn
devastation, cruelties, fanaticism, and revolt
ing infamies which had rendered the previ
GUS conquests Of ZMaH1s KHAN and his sue
cessors 30 GLORIOUS" and yet SO destructive
but the Turk from the earliest day has
been man Of violence, and he is the same
to-day, limited, however, by his capacity
and his means. Unlike the Saracens il
Spain, and in various other parts, who did
so much to promote learning and the arts,
the Turk gave himself up to war. conquest,
bloodshed, md barbarity. The history
OF the conquests in Asia and in Europe be-
fore the final destruction of the Greek En-
plre and the occupation Of Constantinople id
filed with his daring, his fatalistio courage,
| and his barbarity. The fact of the fall of
Constantinople was due not only to the war-
| like character of the Turks, but to tie weak
ness Of the nations of Europe, and their
Jealousies Of one another; and it may be
now said that the existence Of Turkey as one
OF the Sovereign Powers of Europe, and even
the recognition of Turkey as civilized na-
ton, has been due to the same two causes.
For long time after the Turk entered Con-
stantinople, the nations of Europe were
singiy too weak to engage with Turkey; and
the attempt at combination has been de-
tented by the jealousy of the rivals. The
Christian world has been unable to unite.
Catholics and Protestants have refused to de-
liver the CIR & Christians, and, until the rise
to power sM1sStrength Of Russia, there was
no consid kbody Of Greek Christians to
take an il the enslaved Christian
The Iur4have held possession of the old
Greek moire1for nearly GOO years, though
their capture.6f Constantinople was delayed
much longer. During all that period, all
the States and provinces in Europe embrace
ing Greek Christianity have been the virtual
slaves of monarchy which has no written
law save the Koran, whose faith involves
and declares the Christians to be forsaken |
and outcast by GoD, and fit subjects for
murder or any other barbarity by the faith !
full. No words in our language can convey
to the mind the depth of contempt and in
fanny implied in the term "Christian " dog"
rs used by a Turk in reference to Chris
han. For 600 years the States of Greece and
The Slavic provinces have been ruled BY an
absolute and despotic Government, one
which has treated the people rs SO many
beasts, and with even less humanity than
hey treat their own beasts. The local Gov
'rnment is mere fiction to give license
o all forms Of robbery and barbara
=. The Courts bear no RESEMBLANCE to
nything known as courts in any other land
he local Judges in land where there is no
NV are arbitrary despots. Even in Con-
tantinople these Judges make no disguise of
elling judgments for the highest price; and ,
this be done there, what kind of Judees {
re likely to rule in those distant provinces
'here the people are Of the hated and pro-
'ribed rice and religion, and who arc deliv- !
red over as fit subjects for extortion, con- +
scauon, and all manner Of outrnges upon s
10 person and the family? Property is held :
r no tenure save that of the personal will I
the local ruler, and the lives md persons I
men, women, and children of the native
sople are equally at the mercy of the +
ling race. That they hare not been ex- t.
rmlnatad has been due to the rapacity and n
IT to the mercy of the Turks. These prov p
ces have furnished rich fields for plunder. G.
le ordinary tributes exacted have been :"
ormous, but the irregular ravages, the "
aolesale stripping of the substance of the -
ople on every possible pretext, have been T
Erible in their severity. In all these "
1g years it has been the custom to ii
yard an army by turning it loose 81
some Of these provinces, with license to pt
rye itself in blood, in lust, in cruelty, and
plunder, upon the unar1ned, helpless IN
ople. An instance Of this happened last in
INNER: Under the pretext that rebellion 1e;
8 intended, q corps of regular troops and ell
other of Bashi-Bazouks were turned loose a
o Bulgaria, and there committed the atro- In
les which hive shocked the civilized world, ne
i which have had the strongest effect in ~" IN
'us1ng public sentiment in England against ~ ~
J hereditary afiliation of Eueland witt, t.,
rkey. err
{ vas not until Russia, in the early part
the present century, made an attempt to -
eve the Christian people, that any thing II. II.
'ous was done to mitigate the barbarities It /
loted upon the Christian subjects of the to
tkish Empire. Greece was moved and sec
outraged to strike for freedom. English Mr.
ousy of Russia, dreading the effect of lar,
Eastern extension Of Russian power on TO
permanency of British rule in India, T
interviewed, and compelled peace which fon