Daily Republican., 1877-10-09
[For the Republican. n
ABILITIES OF THE TUR RKS,

that Englishmen had invested.
Why was SO little credit given to the
Turkish Empirep Is it that our peo.
pie do not know anything Of the Otto
man? or, have we been so blinded oi
late years in reading the New York Lsd.
ger, and such sensational stuff, as to
have forgot to turn our attention to
History9 What are all of our school
teachers about, and what are parents
doing? are they leaving everything
for school teachers, and paying no
attention to their own childrenp 1t
used to be, in our day, that the public
schools had splendid libraries attach.
ed to them, containing histories, biog-
raphies, and lives of great men, to
loan out to the scholars, and quite a
number Of parents took care of the
rising gen GRAFTON, to see that they
were in the house after lighting up
time, and perused their library book.
Now, we can find children of all sexes
running the streets as late as ten
O'Clock, sometimes later. This often
throws the parent into collision with
the teacher, and the teacher goes to
the wall. a1
Lovers of History are very few, and
If one asserts what history tells, he
is very soon looked upon as an aris-
tocrat in books, and after s.igmatized
in worse language by his inti-
mates.
CHANGING some evenings ago to be
sitting with some men who loudly
were Furnishing Turkey, and
who declared that the sick man must
die, now that Russia was under full
headway with war, we quietly inter-
posed, afsar hearing all they had to
say, and asked them II they had ever
read the history of the Turkish
wars ? if they had ever taken the
pains to study who and what the
Turks were as fighting men for a
Thousand years past. ~
In the course Of an hour they, hav-
ing lent greedy ear, rose much sur
Erised, after having heard some little
of the siege of Nice in A. D. 1907
This was the first crusade made by
the christians of Europe to capture
the holy sepulchre at Jerusalem
During the first crusade, about six
millions emigrated from Europe to
Asia. In the first attack on Constan-
tinople the gates were strongly forti-
fed, the ramparts were lined with
archers, and after a doubtful conflict,
both parties listened to the voice Of
peace. W..
As they swarmed over Europe, the
savage countries of Hungary and Bull
saria were whitened with their bones;
their vanguard was cut to pieces by
the Turks, and the loss of the
Crusaders is stated at three hundred
thousand men. Myriads pressed on,
and in due time lay siege at Nice,
which the Turks defended for months.
After this the invaders presented
themselves in Phrygia. The heat of
the weather, the clouds Of arrows, and
the onset of the barbarians, over
whelmed the Crusaders +; it was con-
fessed, on both sides, that the Turks
and Franks were the only nations
entitled to the name of soldiers.
In the 18th century, the Turks
drove their enemy from Egypt, and
despoiled the christians Of Jeru-
salem, Damascus, Sc. The TURKS
according to history are persistent
people; they overthrow Lusignan
with a loss of thirty thousand men,
and the wood of the true cross was
left in the hands of the infidels.
For two hundred years the chris
tians of Europe carried on the cru
sades, of which there were seven
The Turks, during that time, were
often very badly beaten, but as often
did they rally and renew the conflict.
The flower Of Europe was there; ter
rible fighting took place; thousands
upon thousands fell not only on the
battle field, but by the barbarity Of
sort of action that is con-
tinued to this day, for after lapse of
six hundred years, they (both sides)
are charged with int1icting torture up
on their prisoners. tJealousy and dis
cord among the leaders Of the chris
tians ensued and they were finally
over whelmed on all sides by the pow
ers of the Sultan.
In the latter part of the 18th CEN
bury, after a siege of thirty-three days
the city of Acre, 10 miles from Jersa-
lem, was stormed by the Turks, and
death or slavery was the lot of sixty |
christians. It is very com.
mon to say "they fight like Turks"
for the reason that the Turks are