The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1877-05-09

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The producer than small one, because the
larger The crop. the more slowly can the tax
gasherer 90 bis rounds, and Us the farmer i
not permitted to move bis grain from the
field antiltbe share Of the State has been
separated. the crop is exposed 10 all the in.
juries Of weather. and Is thereby reduced in
quantity and injured 10 quality.
Aud the differences in faith subjects the
farmer 10 indign,tles, expressions and injas-
tice from which there is no effective appeal.
The word u q Christian. though pomiually
good before the Law, is not regarded in any
court Of justice us against Moslem.
There has been no hope Of redress except
in rebellion. Some Of these revolts have
been successful. Greece freed herself ah-
solu,ely FROM the Turkish yoke. lSeryia,
Wallachia and Moldavia, established
neutrality-suspicious.. But Crete aud other
provinces we're crushed remorselessly and
their people nearly exterminated in their
desperate struggles for relief.
The attention Of the Christian powers Of
Europe has been long directed to this sub
isct. The natural instincts Of religious
brotherhood compelled Interference but
that jealous regard for the preservation Of
the so called balance Of power made them
look on. not with Indifference, for that was
impossible. but with apprehension lest any
one Of the powers might obtain undue ter
ritorisl acquisition which was sure to follow
armed intervention. For the Turk proud
and jealous Of foreign interposition, stood
ready to resist with arms any pretension Of
the Christian powers to redress the gris-
vances Of the Christian subjects Of the
Porte. - - '@'''7 s'
And 50 things went on until the massacre
last year at Saloniea, followed By the revolt
in Herzegovinia and Montenegro. aud the
rebellion 10 Bulgaria, crushed out with
atrocities never equalled in savage warfare.
compelled the European powers under the
imperative instincts Of humanity to aban.
don their neutrality aud to unite in Pc
remp,ory demand for . cessation Of these
barbarities, and q guarantee Of reform Of
1 Turkish administration. and tolerance and
protection to the Christian subjects Of the
Porte. Tbl. led to that long diplomatic
warfare, to those prolonged conferences.
which ended BY the Porte refusing to re-
cognise the right Of intervention in its do
mesiic affairs. And in the begOtistiOus.
Turkey had so eontriyed j, rs to repel the
counteuance Of those nations which in times
past saved her from ruin. and 50 Russia was
left to pursue without hini rance her plans
of ameliurstiug tue condition. Of the Turkish
Christians BY invasion Of the Empire.
That invasion is begun and on tremen.
dOus scale, and war initiated. the end or
magnitude II which no ran can foresse.
The rest Of Europe, perhaps the rest Of ci-
yilized mabkind. are not Inclined TO give
Russia credit for parsly Philarthropic mo-
tive. There is nothing Of the spirit Of
knight.errsntry in this crusade against
the infdel for the deliserabce Of the OPP
pressed believer There is a motive more
deep seated aud moro material than this.
Aud We may we'll believe that Russia
nos thinks the time has fully come when
she can perfect her long cherished ideas for
tue conquest Of Turkey. the control Of the
Black Sea. and above al. the possession Of
coDs,an,inople. Il Is these grapdsr and
more ambitions ideas which now % much
alarm England. some tiws aimee 80 wiling
TO leave to Russia the tax Of Furnishing the
turk. u l. those which thresten ~ give
to the var just begun is general aud i'm.
posing character. involving all d Europe.
AID affecting the interests u the whole eli
yiIired world. @a #% .
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