Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-01-27

Is Cue 10 tHe pEopleIy Oh Tie occasion ana
the relevancy of the subject that we defer an
allusion to that interesting phaze of the ques-
ton to another time. We have spoken of Mr.
Edward A. Freeman's dissertations upon the
subject of Turks and Turkey. As to the man
ner of this distinguished Englishmans deal
ing with the subject matter of the Turkish oc-
cupancy of part of Europe we quote as fol-
lows from his pen. as presented by the Fort
nightly Review for January 1876: 81 remem-
Der q meeting in some inland town, Derby, [
think it was, where a resolution was passed
in honor of the glorious patriotic spirit of the
Turkish nation. That the glorious patriotic
spirit of the Turkish nation simply meant the
obstinate determination of horde of robbers
to keep possession of the houses and lands of
other men, certainly never entered the heads
of the good people who passed the resolution.
They doubtless thought there was Turkish
nation living in Turkey, just as there is an
English nation living in France. We heard
much in those days about the rights of the
Sultan, as it was not everybody who under
houses of Greeks, Slaves and Bulgarians
were exactly the same as the rights of a burg
lar to the house into which he has broken, and
to the goods which he has found in it. Fur
Their on in the same article this vigorous wri-
ter says
Now the one point to be clearly understood
is that the state of things in South Eastern
Europe is not an ordinary case of government,
good or bad. 1t is a case of subsection to a
power which has no right to be called gov
ernment at all. The governments of civil
lied countries may be, and are, better or
worse, more or less in accordance with ma
tional feeling, There may be under them
more or less of political freedom; the judicial
and administrative system may be more or
less wellcontrived, more or less purely carried
out in practice. Still, in all of these govern
ments, in all the various shades between pure
despotism and pure democracy, the govern
ment at least processes to act on behalf of the
general body of its subjects or citizens, for
the good of that general body. The worst
European government processes to do equal
Justice between man and man III private
causes, and, for the most part, the profession
is pretty fairly carried out When it is other
wise, it is commonly owing to some defect in
the particular law, some corruption on the
part of the particular administrator of the law
1t Is not commonly owing to anything III the
constitution of the governing power which
makes it absolutely incapable of doing justice |
even if it wishes to do it. Such governments !
may be better or worse some may be posi- |
lively bad; but they are not essentially and |
ncurably bad. A government may be bad, |
because it is a government of strangers often |
'ive to national feeling, or because, though it |
5 not government OF strangers, yet 1t IS IL
he exclusive possession OF one class of the |
nation. Such governments are bad; still they
ire governments. They discharge-at least
here is nothing to hinder them from dis
harging- primary duties of govern
nent: life, property, female honor, may be
lone in all matters of merely private interest
But the so called Turkish government does
hone of these things; it can do none of these
hings. The Turks are still, as they have
,een ever since they landed in Europe, a
mere horde of invaders. That they landed
i've hundred years ago makes no difference.
\ government is not unlawful merely because
had its beginning in a foreign conquest. A
government which began i'll fore On conquest
nay be legalized in the course of time, some
ines in the course of very short time 1t
5 legalized as soon as the conquerers and the
onquered feel themselves parts of one nation
18th common national interests and feelings.
t matters nothing to modern Englishman,
!, mattered very little to an Englishman, of
he reign of Henry the Second, on which side
lis forefathers hadfought on Senlac or at Ely.
matters nothing to modern Frenchman
neither his forefathers were Gaul or Frank, I
berian or West Goth. But it matters now,
lst as much as it mattered five hundred
ears back, whether man i'll Turkey is a
urk. or subject of the Turk. England is
ne land of the English; France is the land of
ne French; but Turkey is not the land of the
urks, it is the land where the Turks hold
Their nations in bondage. The process of L
onquest which in other cases came to an end c
)oner or later, in some cases marvelously t
ION, has in South Eastern Europe gone on
this day. The distinctions, national and
,ligious, which existed five hundred years u
70, are as broadly drawn now as they were L
lese. The Greek, the Slave, the other ma v
ons under the Turkish power, remain now O
distinct from the Turk as they were in the :,
lys of the first conquest. The Sultan is to
S Christian subjects no more a national SOW 81
eign now than he was five hundred years A
lck He was an alien master then, and he +,
mains an alien master now Nowhere do -
e Turk aud the Christian look on one
other as fellow countrymen, as all the in
bitants of France or of England look on 6
e another, however distinct and hostile b
cir forefathers may have been in remote Il
es. At the end of half millennium, the
called Turkish government remains what
was at the beoinninr The Turks remain b.