, 1877-01-28
The Turk Has Always Studiously lg-
nored All Treaty Obligations.
And the Treaty Of Paris, Therefore, Can.
not Be in Force.
He Saws the New Turkish Constitution Is
Worse than al lmposture.
England Largely to Blame for The Present Con-
dition Of Things.
THE EAST.
GLADsTOSEfs SENTIMENTS.

| at Taunton t0-uay, said: - we ouent 10 Mtn
our own business, and Why we should mind th
Eastern question is because ne have chosen tt
make it our own question. It was made. ou
business under circumstances which no true
hearted Eug1ishman will disown. have heart
within few days the tenor Of letter from
Alr. Schuyler, the United. States Sccrctar,
OF Legation and Consul General at CONSTANT
noplc, in which he says he is about to make
further report on the trials and executions il
tho State Of Bulgaria Il think you will find Ii
it, he writes, abundant confirmation Of the re-
mark at which Selim EGendi took offcnse.'
quote this, because those who wish to lull tht
people Of England into IN ignoble slumbcr art
fond Of saying there has been exaggeration OF
! this subject.
THERE HAS BEEN NO ExAGGERAT1oN
| except the c1aggeration that the Turks had in
! their capacity aud desire Of reform. Do not
| listen to that for moment; but as to the black
deeds done in Bulgaria, the whole vocabulary OF
human language is insufficient to paint them as
| they deservc.''
! The people OF England are bound to resist the
| seductive language Of those who tell them now
! the Conference has met and failed. There
is no more to be done. It is you,
| the people of England, whose re-
sources and whose actious have maintained
Turkey in the position Of power she has abom-
inably msused. After the Crimcan war the
European Powers took the engagement Of Tur-
key to do her part. They declared By the
treaty OF Paris they would not interfere With
her in the fulfllment Of that engagement. The
result is that the treaty Of KainardiL concluded
q century ago, which gaye Russia the right to
interfere for the protection If Turkeys Chris
tian subjects, was destroyed, and We, in con-
junction with France,
DESTROYED THAT RIGHT.
Can anything be moro plain than If we de-
stIoyed that right VIC cannot diVest ourselves Of
the allegation to put in its place something
equivalent or better. Therefore, to say our re-
sponsibil!ties are discharged BY having sent hon.
orable men to Constantinople to givc tho Porto
good ADVICE and then come away with nothing
but refusal, that advice is nothing more nor
less than nockery. Doubtless you hare read on
various occasions speeches OF the Prime Minis
ter.
II have not sought to make this speech an at
tack On the Government | think We are justi-
fed in attacking them, and it is Just possible 1T
the proper time may be taking share in do
ing So But the settling OF past accounts is Of
secondary consequence. Tho Prime Minister
has repeatedly dwelt on the importance
Of maintaining what he calls the faith
Of treaties. Now the vital qustion for US is
this: Arc the treaties of 1856 in force or uot3
Turkey had not fulfilled her obligations, and
therefore the treaties are not in force. hold
it to be ridiculous, hold it to be monstrous, to
say they are in force as between Turkey and us.
II the treaties arc in force hardly know what
liberties you possess. You are
IN D1sGHAcEFUL POSITION,
you became accessories in the maintenance OF
power marked with perhaps the deepest dis
grace recorded in The whole history Of man
kind. The Turkish Constitution was worse than
an imposture, because it committed tie Chris
tian minority to the tender mercIes Of the Mo-
h,nmedan majority in the Council to which
We arc invited to leave the task of doing Justice
to the Poste's subjects.
In CONCLUSION,
Gladstone said the good fame of England Was
never more completely at stake. II the inccs-
SAINT DINING into our cars Of maintenance of
British interests, if the infusion Of every word
of suspicion against the policy of Russia, if the
abuse Of those unhappy Turkish Christians
who, having been an enslaved people, arc ncces-
sarily in such respects open to tho de-
moralKing influence Of slayery,-if the
recent invention OF the Turkish Constitution
made to order aud intended to act as a bar to
the propositions Of the Conference; if By these
or any other like device flor must say the
imocination of tbc Turkis,, nrcss nj th;e co,,r-
.-~ p <a.+i1o h..a.a ..s;..a. .'"s 49, soau-
ll} - ic'.ne pcsono anstn1"s III manufacturing
them}; II oy these things you are going
to be drawn aside from the great
purposc YOU have in view. thcn
-. ch,11 1a.To =, ,>o,+ar;t.7 ~. a1...,
~ esa14 w pos.1s1 W. ae.Aneuo'y us
son tnat tne people oi hhglaho, having long
dWelt IN Lie apathy winch was due to the igno-
rance that we all Iabored under, and having been
once awakened to the gallant and noble effort
- ~ara. - 49, H.;,..,a,. - .-'. noD4e ~ euol'
and 11cedom' were content to be
AoLAAn ~ 9LEEF AeA1h.
tney 1ouno Inc TASK ol outy 100 heavy for
1ne' ~ WIS 'nofe couse,lienb 1or every man togo
aooot Ills own pu1su1ss, us own money
these painful aud narrowing subjects. It NAV
be so. But If that be true, these are marks of 4
degenerate nation. This is the conduct that !
emphatlcally
But, gentlemen, if you really wish to be worthy
Of the forcfathcrs from whom you are descend |
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