Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1885-11-19

The invasion of Bulgaria by Servia is a
regretsble event. But a few years ago the
p~rincipalities along the Danube and the
Balkans from the Black Sea 10 the Egean
Sea, and from the Turkish to the Austrian
borders, was more or less freed from the
heavy yoke of Turkish oppression. Their
true interest then was to keep up a good
understanding with each other, and alsO
with Albania and Greece, to throw of
what remained OF the Turkish yoke, and
so TO stand independent before the world.
Could they have become States in a we'll
constituted republic, in union and peace,
that independence would have been theirs
and peace and progress and prosperity
whh it. But old traditions, notions and
habits were still too strong among them for
that, and each principality must have it's
little princelet or kinglet, and each
little monarch have his court and his
army, and each little center It royalty its
ambition, its desire for a wider territory
and its petty painting for glory end fame,
the inevitable e]pidenIc tia. iIhCrrs in the
monSrChical virus. The supeTiority II the
republican system, as adapted to modern
idess and contemporary civilization, could
not be more strikingly demonstrated than
in the case Of those provinces. Bulgaria,
by Teannexing a portion O. her own terri
tory that the treaty Of Berlin-entirely
owing TO the insistance of the English
minister, DisTaeli-had divided from it
against the desires Of both parties con-
cerned, became larger han Servia. This
mortified the latter power, and it
is now pouring its armies into
Bulgaria. Bulgaria, being DESTROYS
of settling the new arrangement
Amicably through he Intervention of the
powers that made the treaty of Berlin,
was DESTROYS to avoid any important dis
play OF armed force, which those powers
would naturally regard as offensive, and
did not concentrate its army, or make the
preparations it might otherwise have
done, and was therefore less prepared for
an armed opposition than for a diplomatic
struggle. Bulgaria listened TO the objec-
tons and complaints of Servia with good
temper, and to preserve peace offered
such concessions OF territory as it expected
would satisfy its irritated neighbor. The
absence of concentrated forces and the
general want Of preparation in Bulgaria,
look like evidences Of the peacesble in
tentions and general good faith OF its
King, Alexander. The Bulgarians are a
brave people, but unfortunately their
army had, 10 a great extent, been officered
by Russians. The other day the Car
summoned all these officers home.
The unavoidable result is that Servia is
driving all before it, aud the prospects of
Bulgaria are gloomy in the extreme, for it
can offer no efectual resistance to its harsh
invaders. The result, whatever it may be
between the two provinces, will be injuri-
Gus to the independence of both. Bulga-
ria has enlarged, or rather restored, its
territory by revolution, and Servia has
invaded a neighboring province. All this
is in c~ontrsyention of the provisions of the
treaty of Berlin, and the two provinces
must come before the powers as pleaders.
not as independent parti1ipators in the
settlement that has to be made. This adds
to the power over both Of those who
signed the Berlin treaty. The suzerainty
of the Sultan is also appealed to, and that
strengthens in Turkey a power it had al
most lost. In Its present aspect the whole
business Is deplorabls, and it is likely that
Russia and Austria will interfere In a way
shat will make it more 80.