The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-04-01
!THEExTiNCT!CN Of ARMENIA.
Survivors of Massacre Face Inevitable g
Starvation in Desolated Homes.

Starvation in DeSOlateu homes.
BosToS, March 2S.-U nder the title
;Armenia's Farewell" highly edu
Gated. prominent and influential Ar
menian in Turkey has written docu
ment declaring that the extinction O.
his race is not far distant.
Following are some abstracts from {
translation sent here by the author
We are evidently a doomed people
4 hundred thousand Of us have beer
butchered and more than million O
US are in extreme suffering from hun
ger and cold and nakedness.
''Multitudes beyond the reach Of for
eign aid must inevitably perish before
spring.
las to the rest Of US, our supplies o
food and money are rapidly diminish
ing. We can prosecute no business
we are not at liberty to earn our daily
bread and for even the most fortunate
the future has the only prospect O.
starvation little later than our pool
brethren.
I'VE hear the announcement tha
order and peace are being restored, bu
to US these are empty words.
The terrible and wholesale massa
ere at Oorfa and Birdiik occurred Ions
subseoent to the most solemn and EN-
phatic assurances that nothing more
of the kind was to be apprehended-
long after the commission sent ou
from Constantinople to carry the mes
sage Of peace and reform to Armenia
had reached its field Of labor.
"MasSacres are not now SO frequen
as they were a few months ago, bu
the attitude of relentless hostility OF
the part Of the government towards US
the ferocious aspect of our Moslen
neighbors, has not whit improved
May we not then rightfully offel
our farewell message to our fellow
men?
''First-To our &oslem fellow coun
trymen:
I'VE desire to express our deepes
gratitude to those of you who have
sympathized with and helped us il
these days of calamity and bloodshed
Towards those who have robbed
and massacred US and plundered anc
burned our houses, we have chiefly
feelings Of compassion. You have per
haps done these terrible things il
what has seemed to you the service o.
your religion and government.
''Second-To our Sultan-mos
dread and potent Sovereign:
apparently you have been per
suaded that we area rebellious people
deserving only utter and speedy ex
termination. For such as you thi:
work of destruction is no doubt an
easy one, the more SO as we have hac
neither the means nor the disposition
to resist it.
"Third-To the European Powers:
I'VE have not been an importunate
nor turbulent people. We did no
incite the Crimean War, nor any o.
the subsequent wars which have
stricken this empire 1t is not OF ou,
will that we were begotten to a new
political life by the treaty of 1856.
Our complaints and appeals have
been based solely on the sentiment ot
humanity and the common rights oI
man. 1t was you who arranged the
scheme of reforms and urged it upon
our Sultan till he was irritated to the
extent that he seems to have adopted
the plan OF ridding himself finally Of
this annoyance by exterminating US
as people, and now, while he is re
lentlessly carrying out this plan, you
are standing by as spectators and wit
nesses of this bloody work.
I'VE wonder if sympathy and the
brotherhood of man and chivalry are
wholly things of the past, or are the
material and political interests divid,
ing you so great that the massacre OF
a whole people is a seccnday thing
In either case We who are about to
die, salute you.
''Fourth-To the Christians OF Am,
erica:
Although we have cherished strong
prejudice against your mission work
among US. recent events have proved
that our Protestant brethren are one
with US and have shared fully our
anxieties and our perils. You have
labored through them to promote
among US the peace and prosperity of
the Gospel. 1t is not your fault that
one result of their teaching and ex-
ample has been to excite our masters
against US.
The Turkish government breads
and dislikes nothing so much as the
ideas of progress which you have sent
US.
Millions Of Soldiers.