Morning journal and courier., 1894-01-05
THE ARmENIANs.

THE An1HNAANSs The wrongs of This Famous Race
 Their Cause-An Address by . Con.
 necticut Clergyman In New York
 Last Night.
 By invitation of Dr. Gabriel, editor of the only Armenian paper published in America, Rev. Clarence Greeley of Mount Carmel, general agent of the International LAW and Order league, delivered last night an address before a meeting of Armenian notables in New York city. In his re- marks MT. Greeley said:
 Tho cause of Kossuth Is lost. that of Gladstone is unsolved, and ''the only name of Poland is sigh" The young Republic of Rome was destroyed by the tyranny of Louis Napoleon. What of Armenia, once, perhaps, the Eden of mankind2
 Let us hope that history does not repeat herself. We live in Q wonderful, an inter- national age. Commerce and cablegrsm unite the nations. The enforcement of in- tsrnational law might mean universal righteousness, rather than the mere, com mercisl balance of seven powers fighting over Turkey.
 Bulgaria, Servia, Greece and Roumania are free, and tho sixteenth Article of San Stefano, tho sixty first of Berlin, az well as the Cyprus convention guarantee auton- omy to Armenia, and religious liberty to her ancient church, which tradition dates back to the Apostle Thaddeus.
 Van, the center of Armenia, whose peo- pie refused to worship Ahura Mazla, at | the command of Persia, and who would | not change the constitution of her church at the ukase of the Most High Czar, may yet be the van of the nations.
 kI4 1o.k king was killed, this Christian nation has been subject to Turkish tyranny. Under the exclusive rule of Russia, Mr. Lanin ! thinks the Armenians would fare worse. This Is not the general opinion. It is not necessary to dwell on the suf- ferings of Armenia, 'tthe most wrstchedly misgoverned land on the face of the globe" :" The Ottoman empire Is an absolute mon- archy, ''limited only by assassination" |" Knowing that light is fatal to darkness, the Sublime Porte opposes in Arme- ly free religion, freedom of inter tects the rape, robbery, imprison- ment, and murder of Armenians because they are a oivilizlnR, Christisnizing, and therefore, from the standpoint of the ''pal- ace ring" a dangerous and seditious ele- ment. The climax of Turkish effrontery consists in the recent frmsn from the mighty sultan (who seeks in the nineteenth century to arrest the apostle Paul for Gal atian eelitien) expelling Armenian Amer | lean citizsns from his domains.
 Is there any help for Armenia3 Armen- isns do not want revolution. They ask | only obedience to international law. By the Berlin treaty of 1878 measure of au- | tonomy was granted to Armenia. and the British government was given the right of 1 c protectorate over her people. Why does | not Great Britain protectq The Gladstone. l Bryce party claim that the treaty should | be respected and carried out. England could be true to this treaty Gt is all the Armenians ask); for she Is not afraid ot Turkey. What is the matte1a
 Well, Turkey allows England to have
 virtual dominion in Egypt, and gives he1
 the key to India. Constantinopls ii
 nominally in the hands of Turkey, bu
 really in the hands of England. Turkey fish merchants are favored by the Ottoman
 bureaucracy. England was required by
 the treaty to give Armenia good govern
 ment. Armenia has, however, no com
 mercial g,fts to bestow.
 The British premier, and also certain
 bishops and members of parliament in tn
 Armenian society, London. favor justic
 and the honorable maintenance of tn
 treaty of '78. But MT. Gladstone wrot me November 25 that the British govern
 ment, in her opinion, cannot be said t'
 possess the rights of sole protectorat l over Armenia.
 If England is interested, and with he
 Germany, in the postponement of justica
 we must use public opinion in Amerios
 France and Russia. Bat it is reporte
 that the Armenian minister to Turkey, 8
 dinner with the Sultan, on the 24th ult
 promised not to oppose the expulsion o lArmenian-American citizens from Tu1
 key. President Cleveland, according
 his recent message, seems to think it hi : duty to refuse protection to Armenis American citizens in Turkey, because tn Sultan (to whom Christianity in Turkey dangerous) calls them seditious. Tn
 only Armenian journal in America ha
 always counselled loyalty to the Sultan ! Armenians ask only obedience to th treaty of San stefano and Berlin. ther, fore, as representative of the Internation | society, wrote President Cleveland Decen ber 20th, as follows:
 .sIs not the United States bound by tb ,, uniform policy of civilized nations to pr' tect its citizens in Turkey as we'll ss els where9"
 I respectfully call the attention of tt
 American people to the following languse 1 in President Woolsey's international lsv , "The nation which has naturalizsd an ! thus bound itself to protect person, ca not abandon its obligation, on account ( the views of civic obligation which anoth, } ! nation may entertain"
 Not for revolution, but for obedience
 the Berlin treaty, and to international la
 is the prayer of three million Christis people.