Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-13
THE CA USES or THE EAST.
ERN WAR


In the Baltimore Sun of a recent
date, we find the following
at has been observed that the dec
laration of war by Russia against Tur
key expresses as cause of the quarre
only a sentiment-the deliverenco OF
the Christian subjects of Turkey from
the alleged expressions Of that power
All the troubles which have ever exist.
cd between Russia and Turkey were
Z primarily Of q religious nature, though
, the Eastern question in its develop.
, ment has gradually become a political
problem, involving the existence OF
some nations and the commercial su.
premacy Of others. Constantine, the
first Roman Emperor who made the
Christian religion the official religion
Of Rome, made Constantinople the Cap.
itol OF the Roman Empire, and it be-
came the chief city Of the Greek Church
and the seat Of government. Ii was
captured by the Turks in 1853, the
last Byzantine Emperor, Constantine
| XIII, losing his lie in its defense.
The Turks are q Tartar or Mongol
race, of Japhetic extraction, and hav-
ing been driven by Tartar hordes from
Turkistan, they spread themselves
over Asia Minor and Syria and over
threw the Empire of the Saracens,
with whom they are often ignorantly
coniounded. The Turks were at one
time Buddhists, afterward disciples of
Zoroastcr, but readily embraced the
faith Of Islam, with its sensual and
fatalist features. They have now been
encamped in Europe for five hundred
years, and have never TO this day be.
come one with the nations whom they
have conquered have never given
them just or good governments, and
have never reformed, and it would
seem as if il were very difficult for
them to reform, because the principles
Of their religion are q hinderance in
that direction. The Christians of the
northern sections of the country found
n friend in Russia, which, under Viad.
emir the Great, who was baptized in
9S8, and had married the sister of the
Emperor Constantine, embraced the
hooano thn ohonn;on =, 49, -, nS
Sitb and Grom III hna;nn;na, w haa 80 ~
was to rocon,rro OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 10 "md
to repossess and round out the bound
/, ;s NO, 10 90 ho Jon;aS ~ ~, Non I ,';e,
and noI;,;col oscondone,. s,s ,ro,o ro'J'u o'hnaa
ad IL har nrroosas IA 80 ooso,''a.,.I,, ~ ~.
,Lo oon,, - r; 80 na,;"ns - :, III ~ w W
shonod ,hein nol;",' !" o,,osu ~ W. ~ /" Sss
conInr,r,ation - 'PPO'O 'NN" "
A ror;ow 81 ,ho roi;,;ool L;.,o 90
p,ss,a Iii, al sns 'i''.a, r.. ~ ",otg .,; VI
sentimont has aI,yors hoon % on ,oas oiosoas
81 hon IT.. s,"ay ,a. m" T".', =" e'aS M
enrana, No. V" '"",Is Nv ~. nu,A. & ino
;1sn nrroa,ionar,, s n1oran,"n, oO"" T " 1,n,y 80
hns M hoon ha!onao " ~ sohaI. h. an.y ~,
Thn;s,;"nao % oS s 10 G.,oI. ' CLn"oL % W. W.
shn oon"monoS ,osn ~ AN uoIdon;o nna V,,an Ivn
sho I onn1noI,od Tnsi'n,' a' .'', "''"on," oai'
coss;ona a 80 ,ho n rSr;s,nsS ;o gu 90 osLa, eIn
Nor,hnr,, ~ nro'';noos E pha ,T E, ia u p'ho h;s
,or;on Kino,aLa oontands .ha
orig;n of tha Crimeon wor IN iesi vas
a nnarrel between The Greek ond the
Latin churches os IN ,rivileges ~ Ia.
rnsolem Tnrlcw sava,;na ,ho I'ot;n
chnrch Russia toelr ntbe ola onorrel
of tho GreoL Chrrcb ond ola;rina
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