The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-02-14
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| CONST-AN[FINOPLE DEFENSE
LESS.
A. CIIY THAT HAS }EEN REsEEGED
TWENTY-TMREE TIM Es A1zn TAKEN
/ SIX TDEEs.
| A Constantinople cor cespoz 8eat says
''The defense of Consta ntinoa3eis hard
] " worth talking abo ut. There is q
ridge OF haights fifteer mlless to the
north, OF the city that stretches over q
line OF seventeen mill es froms a point
near the: Black Sea to the seasof Mar
mora. Some batteries and obhar works
have BEEN erected OIL them, cannon
mounted. and bitches dugxa Even if
they were: as f0rmiab lie as they ought
to be we have no arr ny to hold them.
! Hasty I9Vies Of citize rs ca2aa0t be de-
! pended upon. The Russians would
carry th2m 90 any event, land would
push FOL. the heights Of Daoud Pasha
and the plateau behi nd CasSim, Pasha
These positions over look ell STEAMBOAT,
and from them pl unging fire could
| be directed into it th at in avfew hours
would render it unit enabta.. The Cru
suderaand Aohamm ed IE,lbnougIt the
Greeks to terms by the heavy cannon
aiding they kept upon tha,n froal .tless
commanding elevation !, Neithen Of
thea, have any fortified lines, that
would give the Russians txpubbe.
The fact that the city cannot stand a.
seiga is doubtless the REASON why an
effoIt is, being made to Bring. the Bus
siaas to "a halt by the armistica..
"Constantinople has undergone naore
siages than any other c1tgin tAeworld
It, has been besiegcas twenty+tAree
times: Twice by the ancienh Cracks ;;
thrice by the Roman Emperors;, once.j
by the Latins, the Per dams, the, .A.Nares,
the S4aYs, and by one o. it's e39th1onedI
4oxereigns, Michael paleologus;. twice.
bby the Bulgarians; onee by Byzantine
hrebels; seven times By. the Arabs, and
fthree times by tha< Turk 1t Was
taken but six tims9$. BY Aloabiades,
I5the Roman Emperorse SeI1i1las, Seye-
IEus and Constantine the Dogs Dan
!colo and Count Baldwin, Mo Emperor
Michael Pealeologus and NEaha5nmed. III. |
/ ''In 672, under Constantine IT,, it was
besieged for seven years by the Arabs,
| They made the s,1aroun&ing country a
desert, Gprooting trees, laWdling VILLA
ges anG habitatio-2ssy and converting the
Ifourislaing envir9ps in<2wsste. Then
came 4he Crusad9gs4in 1905. The dew !,
astation committed by tho Fren3h and /
| Venetian chamriQns. cE the cIuss ex-
ceed8d even tha5 OF tbs Arabs. They
burned the richest and Largest quarter /.
Of the city, and inflicted such q blow
on Is that it mayer recovered It's form 8 /
wealth and prosperity. They pr0fanedj
tbs Cathedral Of ST. Sophia, broke intQ1
the tombs Of 5hreByxantine EmpeFo-s,.
dragged out their skeletons and scat
| tered their bones in the streets T lh.a1;
| fired the pubic libraries, ridiculed the
Greek religion by decking their hc9ses
with the yas4ments Of the clergy, and
their heads with the pontitical tl&Eas. !
"Were Is not for the Incompatible
beauty and advantages Of it's situation,
Constantinople could never hayep pisen
again from its ashes and survival such
terrible ealamities.
"Whsst now is most to be agaE0hend-
ed is tlrat if the conditions Of peace
prova. very hard, and the Setitan is O
bligsd to cede large extent Of territory
to the Russians, the partisans Of the
degosed Murad may ATTEMPT . revolu-
ton and the reinforcement Of Abdul
Hamid. It is easy by methods often
practiced in Ottoman history to put q
Ereigning Sultan out Of the way. His
ttoEn servitors may strangle or poison
him, or his guards betaay him. There +
has not been al houa since the PRESENT.
Sultan was on the throne that PLOTS
have not been devised to open the way
to a successor. Not long ago thirty OF
more Of Murad's body servants we're
seized in the Palace Of Tchirigan in
the dead Of night and strangled on sus-
picion OF conspiring for his restoration
to power. The court party is deserv~
edly unpopular. Damad Pasha, the