The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-11-29
The Armenian Massacres.

Editor Morning News-Sir: 1 read in
your esteemed paper, as well as in other,
American papers, the terrible massacre
committed recently on the Christian Ar
menians by the Mohammedan Turks in
Turkish Armenia. We, native Armenians,
in this country feel very deep obligations
towards these papers which doing their
ideal duty-impartially and fearlessly con-
demning what is unjust and wrong, and
praising what is just and right-put be-
fore the public the barbarian outrages
of the middle ages repeated in the nine
teenth century. Well, however horrible
and awful these atrocities may look, this
story is not surprising, for us natives,
who know well the real situation of the
Turkish empire, and the feelings of the
government and the Musselmen populace
towards the Christian subjects. This is
the oyerrun excess of the ever-boiling
water in the pot. The so-called European
Christian nations, the signatory powers of
the Berlin treaty, for the sake of their
selfish interests in Turkey, have been,
for a long time past, deaf and dumb to
the often-repeated fearful complaints of
the so much wrongly treated Christian
subjects of Turkey, who are forbidden by
the government, under severe penalty, to
carry arms, and who are warned, under
awful threats, not to make their deplora-
BILE condition known to the outside world.
But, luckily, these eVer-burning volcanoes
of atrocities have, once in a while, loud
| outbursts like this, to thunder through
/ out the civilized world to the greatest
! displeasure of their performers, and to the
! best explanation of the situation of the
/ Christians in Turkey.
The Armenian nation, the first Christian
| nation on the earth, has passed, heroically,
/ storms and tempests ancient and modern,
! at the sacrifice of thousands of thousands
| Of her dear sons, without changing the
/ sacred cross of Calvary with the Moham-
| medan crescent on the Persian fire How
can she be forced TO do it during the nine
teenth century, when the shining rays of
! the cross is shining from ocean to ocean,
and from the pole TO pole?
The Armenians the Anglo-Saxons OF
. the east, are the most enlightened, most
I enterprising and the most respectable
/ element Of the native population of Tur,
/ key And II rs for their love of the edu.
. cation and progress and not "for the sole
/ purpose Of acquiring citizenship thai
being attracted by the true civilization
. of this blessed country, come here to sat
. isfy their desire and return to their home
/ to enlighten their people, too. OF course
human beings like them, enlightened by
/ the free spirit of America and inspired by
the true civilization Of the nineteenth cen
I fury, cannot yield any more to the out
. rageous atrocities of the dark ages
Hence, unlike the other fellow sheep, show
distinctly their dissatisfaction wher
heeced too deep to the skin by the gov
eminent or the Mohammedan people
II is to these kind of acts that the uujus
/ Turkish governmental great enemy tC
| the American eduCation-giVing politica
shades, asks the state department of tn,
/ United States not to protect American
citizens i'm Turkey. And to our creates
surprise and the deepest sorrow, we Sc,
that in many instances Uncle Sam ha.
been too courteous in showing Turkey
the actual weight Of his fist; consequent
ly, "a good many times the American nat
| uralzauou papers are spitted on anJ
torn TO pieces boy the Turkish officials IN
defiance of the American protection
Those splitting lips and the tearing nugerI
Of these officers would bo made 10 Zee
terrible pains had lt been for the citizen
snip ot one = The great powers Of Ecu
rope. Armeuians have made very desira
ulc citizens iu This country and yor,
urureable ana progressive while ln theN
native country rniutcrostod mission
arHs VIII attest this fact and lmpurtla
. foreign C9ufuIr VIII testify to thla truth
m iF fur tha negligence OF tho srInah Eu
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