, 1877-07-01

know on which side to cast their sympathies
in the great struggle now in progress in the
Orient. It has seemed to them much 1iks
witnessing m aerial conflict between buz-
zard aud hawk, or like the struggle which
the wife of rather brutal husband is re-
ported to have witnessed between her hus-
band and bcar. and with reference to which
"she didn't care much which baat." Both
parties have the reputation of being semi
barbarous NAroIEoS's famous remark, is
endlessly repeated: 'sScrntch the skin of
Russian and you will find q Tartan. On the
other hand, the very name Turk has passed
into synonym of sensuality and brutality,
the result OF centuries Of sad experience in
Eastern Europe. Why, then, should We OF
the far Occident tske sides in the controversy?
The passing gentleman, who hears two FISH,
women dispute at the top Of their voices in
choicest Billingsgate, does not feel called up
on to investigate the quarrel and take sides
with one OF the disputants. When pot and
kettle renew the long-standing difference as
to which is the blacker of the two, neither
dining-room nor parlor furniture need
become warm partisans Of the one
or the other sooty combatant. IF two Af-
rican Kings" are. disposed to fight ont their
savage disputes, VIC do not worry over
the fact; and why need ne allow onr nerves
Turks and Russians, who hang on the skirts
Of European civilization, aud continue to
have grand war every twenty-five years?
Would it not be mercy to the world if, as
the famous Kilkenny cats were shut up over
night in IN apartment BY themselves, and
the next morning there was left OF them but
the tip Of tail, these two belligerents could
be brought upon tract hundred miles
square, and then compelled to fight till there
should survive only the mustGhe OF Rus
sian, With the syllable cich or ali lowering
around it, with possibly rag Of turban
lying near? .
Such ideas and feelings might not be un-
natural to the popular mind in it's rude en-
deavor to get, in q confused way, at the gen.
eral sense of things; but they wonld not do
credit to intelligent persons. It is true that,
in certain salient respects, neither Of the
combatants in question calls for admiration;
and that, whichever side one espouses, he
will have frequent occasion to blush for his
CLIENT: somewhnt Us Tonlbs lawyer mny be
supposed to do. Russian despotism is about
as severe as Turkish tyranny in its
rule and in the punishment dealt ont
to those who resist it. The greed
of dominion which carried the Otto
man power from Asia to Europe, across the
Bosphorus, and to the banks Of the Danube,
is fairly balanced by the Muscoyite greed
which swallowed Poland and Finland to the
west, and which, every ten years or so,
makes q mouthful of an additional province
in Asin. The administration Of justice in
Russia has not fair reputation, and its Sc
cret agents in other lands are reported to
carry bribes in both hands; while the cor
ruption OF Turkish Judges aud oficials is Of
worldwide notoriety. The Turks are great
re1igionists in their way, and have had
rather severe notions as to attempts to con-
vert a Moslem into Christian. OF as to the
pretense Of native Christian to social and
political equality with Moslem; but Rus
sian Inv, in defense Of the Orthodox Creek
Church, is not much more encouraging to
Protestant missionaries, while the Roman
Catholics Of Poland have found the Gar q
hard master, and the Pope owes him no
good ri1l> Execntiona- banish1nanaaa. and