Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-12-12
MORNING APPEAL.
THE GREAT RUSSIAN VICTORY

ment yesterday before Plevna, Osman Pasha,
who was wounded, surrendered uncondition-
ally. The Turks in Plevna were dying of
hunger and cold There is great Joy here.
Bucharest is covered with flags. Plevna is
now in the hands of the Russo Roumanian
armies The Agence-Russe makes the follow
ing announcement 'OSman Pasha attempted
to break through in the direction of Widin.
He was attacked in front and rear and was
compelled to lay down his arms after glori-
GUS struggle, in which he was seriously
wounded. All with one voice praise his
duct
This comes toward the realization of the
long, long dream of the Muscovte. He seems
near his inheritance. Entertained In the
long night which has brooded over the Greek
Church since the City of Constantine fell into
the hands of the Saracen, have not the custo-
dams of the Christian faith longed for the res
toration! The Turk is to Europe what the
American savage is at the United States.
His occupancy of Constantinople is as incon-
gruous thing as would be the occupancy of
New York by the Sioux or the Nez Perces.
Think of Red Cloud at the mouth of the Hud-
son, or Joseph recognized ruler at New Or
leans, One is reminded of the old French war
and the other wars which lay along our Dor
der-with a willy European foe to furnish
arms and information to the red skins Eng
land, in some bitter days, did this office. The
numbering and scalping of settlers, the blaze
of burning cabins and the shrieks of ravished
women and brain battered children told only
too well what were the qualities of Saxon cum
ming and greed and cruelty Somebody with
a warming voice wrote, few wears since.
story called The Battle of Dorkinr" 1t was
at once prophecy and check 1t was
wise supplement to the Crimean War Brit
ain had winked at Louis Napoleon's bloody |
houlevards; but Kingake, like another seer
dealing with new Lochiel or later proph-
etess upon the blasted heath, told but too
truly the story of that butchery. Since then
England has seen her unnatural ally-once
her subject and once her dictator crushed
by the iron hand of that power which stalks
through the nightmare of the aforesaid Battle
of Dorking. and the Uhlan shakes his hand
across the German Ocean in direful threaten
ing. There is some hearty recollection in the
Court of Berlin of the stout days when Peter
the stalwart, the amorous, the rude, was ad
nired of the Potsdam Giants and their Com
mander Indeed, since the days of Alarick
and Attila the Teutons have had an alarming
weakness for Trans-alpine raids. They have ;
sought the Southern sea- they have hun /
pered for that dominion which seems the heir I
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ing power Prussia cannot afford to be the '
false friend of this tremendous giant The |
tight little isle" finds itself in dilemma c
which is all the worse for the inconsistencies .
Of its professions To be sure the Greek a
Church is even farther away from the Angi f
IAN establishment than the Mother herself
Dut Christianity is, or ought to be, the en- q
Dodiment of better stuff to-day than it was a
when Richard smote the Infdel The Turk il
murders and ravishes and sells into slavery \
md all in the name of the False Prophet !,
1e flies the flag of Mohammed and faunts it l.
n the face of the orifamme of Oriental Chris O
ianity Say what Mr.. Disraeh will, the q,
on his side of this fight is Allah, il a,
Allah! Our Parent Country has not been a
ither consistent or humane, in all his deal II
ngs. His attitude toward the Union was but %
eebly atoned for by her fifteen millions of =,
ollars The Trent and Maximillan, Louis fl
Napoleon and the hard hearted House of n,
iapsburg these are to be reckoned in the tie
cunt. The MORNING APPEAL hopes that the tn
talwart Northern will NOW his way to the NJ
Mediterranean and sweep out of existence the pc
oul blot, which, with bowstring and basti- We
ado, with dogs and vermin, with lechery and bi
lurder, obstructs the march of civilization
nd ''snarleth in the gentle eyes of Peace" to
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