St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-29

will. In general slavery here is til,
curse of the country.
s.In few lines will explain how a
slave is bought or sold. She is taken
home--yisited by a midwife and a doc
tor to see the state Of health. Ii her
state and accomplishments are approved
she is purchased. The following Is q
copy of the purchase contract: i the
name of the proprietor of the slave) de
clare to have sold to x, (the name of the
purchaser) the Slave--fOr the sum OF
-piasters in gold, which slave is my
property. l have received the money
in full, and declare that X (the slaye)
is now the property of -, ami that he
Is satisfied with her actual state. (Seai
and name OF the seller.)
"Slavery is against the religion of
Islam. | have consulted many high
softas about it, and find it Illegal. But
here customs and usageS become law.
and the imperial harems contain more
than 1900 purchased slaves. Many
slaves have run away from their
masters to the British ambassador
nd her majesty's consulate, but
all these authorities could DO was to put
themselves in communication with the
police. Once the slaves go to the police.
British embassy and consulate have no
authority to protect slaves. Slavery
could only be suppressed by the sultan
issuing general decree granting liberty
to all slaves, and that could only be done
through the strong representation and
pressure of Europe. We know that this
slavery, as Ali PaSha used to say, is the
curse of society here, the cause of
polygamy, which brings thousands of
other evils with it: yet Europe, which
is DESTROYS of abOliShing it in Africa.
ignores its development in the center of
Europe. 1t is not surprising if the civ
iliZed powers pretend to ignore the
atrocities of Armenia on account OF the
far distance of that province; but to ig-
more the state of Constantlnople, at the
gates of Europe, is astonishing and
really incomprehensible.
''If the powers wish to leave affairs in
Turkey in the status quo, it is the duty
of the press, and more especially in the
enlightened Liberal English papers, to
stitution unworthy of the century in
which we are living. We hope that ven
cradle statesman, Mr.. Gladstone, will
take the matter in hand. We, the lib
eral Turks, Mohammedans, look to him
to liberate us from our condition as
much as he desires to liberate the Ar
menians from the yoke of their cruel
rulers, and we beg to submit most re-
spectfully to his highly enlightened
judgment that he should not make the
Mohammedan element responsible for
the abuses which are taking place
among the Christian element in Ar
menia; for those atrocities are caused
by our political institutions, and not
by religious feelings. The fortu-
nate Christians have the treaty
of Berlin and the five great powers 10
support them and their CLAIMS; but we
unfortunate MohammedanS are left TO
the mercy of our despotic rulers, and
we can only upliit our hands to heaven
for help when we are in our mosques.
We then pray to the Almighty Creator
to deliver us from a terrible condition
which our forefathers never realized.
and which our children will, L nope,
never see. Let us hope that through
the efforts of the generous English ma
ton slavery will speedily be abolished,
and that this reform will be prelude
to constitutional reforms-not similar to
those tbs English are blessed with, for
that would be asking too much. We
ask no more than constitution similar
to that which our eX-vasSals, Bulgaria,
Servia and Roumania, are enjoying
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