Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-01-12
ON TO CONSTANTINOPIE.

strative amativeness, the fair hair d-:'Aner
lean looking '-Muscovites have been strug-
Cling up out of the helplessness of is lorance
and degradation of vassalage into the fructi-
flying light of Progress. Think of this peo-
pie and their pedigree and then e7tima' e
their future, 'Far ha:"2d Ss-on," says
Wendall Phillips in hi. incon arabic eu'ogium
upon O'Connel the great A ,itator, edo not
boast too loudly of your percentage. Remem-
Der that under the Romans your ancestors
were in the chains of bondage for more than
five hundred years." And if our people, the
people who compelled language to breed
and grow out of the crude words and brief
vocabulary with which the Britans spake;
out of the coarse and barbarous jargon of the
Vikings; out of the inherited id;oms of the
SCOTS and the native iargon = the Picts; # in
spite of the jarl;1g velnacular of Caledonia
and Cambria, Ireland and Eng Ind, the jaw
breakers of holland and the soft moth lgs of
Phillip and the Papal Nuncio, the aggressive
language of Louis XIV and the stout gutter
ais of Germany there is yet an English Ian
guage, who shall tell to what far extent of
progress the admirable cross made up of Mus
covte and Circassian may reach? They are
forty million zaalots. The one object, the
Destiny of Russian life in the right to sail
upon the sea, equal with he best and the
grandest. When Peter went to Britain end
apprenticed himself to the trade of ship-cer
pentry, he was stimulated by the thought
4l,o4
with her triremes had skinned the sea;
that one Of the proudest glories of
of Greece was in her galleys of war, and that
even Solomon in all his glory looked with
more pride upon none of the fruits and ;lci-
dents of his Incompatible rei2l then the
shipping which made possible his voyages
which brought back apes and gold and mother
OF pearl and made possible his royal frtations
with the proud Queen of Sheba. These
gathering hosts p,U reach the sea. The Turk
is exhausted Thank God. Waive all the
living sentimentality of religious pretense;
waive all questions of morality and progress;
waive the bubbles and hal splitting of "a
balance of power in Europe" and stand face
10 face with the opposing civilizations. The
Jhnaman stands upon us Ike a nightmare;
the stable orient, untrue to itself, vonits its
busy ants upon the surrounding lands, The
Asiatic, for the first time since the Persian
INVASION of Armenia, seeks soournment in
another continent. But there, at the gate of
the most beautiful river in the world upon
the site of the fa'rest city named "a honor OF
a christian power; a dog in the manager and
foul lecher and assassin, sQuats the swat |
and cruel Turk He bears the same relation |
70 the wide and beautiful civilization of Eu-
rope that the cruel Indians Of our blood-stain-
ed border bore toward the feeble English col
ollies IN the old French war He is Englands |
mean. wicked, murderous tool-Not the ally |
# lnanful and courageous EnglishmeII, but
the base dog who sn&lIs at the door of the Brit
ish Diplomacy His end seems near The long
I1ent torrent Of ;ussian strength pouys over
the Balkans The road to Constantisopie is
clear for the triumphant lcgions OF the North
is never the road before. Not any Turkish
guns; not any English strategy; not any
shameless alliance; nothing in this world will
prevent the tiazan haired race from the frozen
zone from pouring iii upon the Sick Man
with all the inIeJuoas force and irresistible
purpose with which Alaric swept his way to
the due occupancy of the Sacred City Across
the heaying sea, free, prosperous AMI power
ful America shakes hands with her friend,
sympathiser and ally, Russia emerging from
her Polar night sees the CLEAN Of the day of
inc, y, +},a inv which co,,,co f hD,o