New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-12-27
THE BUTCHERIES IN ARMENIA.
historical PRECEDENT FOR INTERFERE
ENCE-HOW CROMWELL PREVENTED
ENCE or THE TROOPS.

n
ENCE-How CROMWELL PREVENTED
MASSACRE.
At the dinner OF the New E.n gland Society OF
Brooklyn. on the evening OF December 81. the fol-
lowing remarks in regard to the duty Of America
toward Armenia made by H. 3. Sprague:
Most glorious Of all, perhaps, was the attitude
In which Cromwell, and England under his leader
CIR s d wRen gave IN thu the dr S the Virtual
termination of his dissenting subjects with firs
into chains and all were driven from their homes
and treated Ike mountain wolves
In eloquent language Cromwell instantly protest.
ed. by the pen Of his great secretary John Milton;
and with intense earnesness b9sought and con1ured
subjects their pristine liberty, command their losses
to be repaired. and an end put to their oppression.
peared the Dukes Court to enforce the appeal In
the name Of God ar and humany r. cus,.s Adolf,
plus King OF the Swedes: to the Prince OF Tran
Ge cs 20 Of a 10 "s' XIV King
France; to the King Of Denmark and others ne i'm
summoning all whose sympathies were on the side
OF Justice to JOIN their entreates instantly with his
ing Prince and State in Europe he added an ear
nest adjuratop that If these entreaties and inter
Duke Of Savoy SAVOY the sympa hsins Powers should at
Of England to secure and enforce the right '''
From his own S pnrse Cromwell heavily
$4,000 for them and commanded national day OF
fasting ana prayer to be observed In their Dehan.
These energetic measures successful. The
Duke did not wish to see Cromwelrs Ironsdes.
on. for an hour OF Oliver Cromwell now. when
butcherles and ou;rages n hundred-fold more
tensiye and horrible have been and still going
among Christian brothers and sisters In Ar
menia. But America IL dumb, selfish. cowardly
No protest s made; appeal by President Con-
gross; resolution Is passed. committee of in
vestgat.on appointed; no National fast, money
contribution, no solemn appeal to the great Powers
to join America In ntercesson 10 the Sultan and
that falling to join America in forcing a passage
through the Black Sea, and Immediately pushing
cavalry. infantry and artillery to those bloody
spots, where for no crime but that they are Chris
tians the Armenian men still slaughtered by
the hundred, their crops and dwellings st
burning. their women and children still starved
outraged, bayoneted. hupted like wild beasts
An opportunity yet offers to save perhaps hun
ing. America can yet interpose, do her duty and
cover herself with glory. No treaty stipulation
stands In the way. Even the diplomatic forms are
al prepared made 70 hand in the noble language of
Milton.
The effort would not be in vain But II 1t were
utterly useless for immediate effect. ii would be no
small honor for America to have taken the lead In
this great movement.
When John Trelawney Bishop of Bristol was
ing his duty. cry through his native shire OF
Cornwall, whose echoes have hardly yet died away
And shall Tre,awney die. and shall Trelawney die?
Then thirty thousand Cornshmen will know the reason
why
Let us change that song. Let America make it
read:
And shall the Arnenans die million Christians die
Then seventy million Christians here will the reason