The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1896-02-15

husbands and brothers before them, they
nobly answered. we are no better than
they; kill us too, = and they died. : =
! CATER the above mentioned events the
Governor attempted to persuade and COM
pei the Armenians to sign paper thanking
the Sultan and himself that justice had
been done to the rebels.'
I mis- is but a sample of hundreds, the
sickenng details of which we could scarcely
| believe devils in hell could be guilty Of,
did we not know they were performed in
the open daylight OF the 10th Century and
III the name of religion.
Take this pathetic appeal brought 10y
! DR. Dillon from young girl, Lucine by
name, pupil of the American Missionary
| school at Erzeroum, and whom her parents
like many others in Armenia, had sought
to protect from abduction and outrage by
giving her in early marriage
lone night, during her husbands absence
from home, she was seized by some men.
dragged by the hair, gagged and taken to the
house of Hussni Bey. This man is the son of
, the Deputy q overnor of the place. He dis
| honored the young woman and sent her home
next day. In her appeal to the
, Women of England Lucine says:
! 1--WE suffered in patience when our corn
butter and honey were seized. and we were
left poor and hungry; we bowed our heads in
sorrowful resignation when our kith and kin
were cut down by the Kourds and the Turks.
| Are we also to be silent and submissive now
that our race is being poisoned at its source?
Now that child-mothers and baby-daughters
are being deiiled and brutalized by savages?
Say, Christian sisters, is there in truth no
remedy? Weask for no revenge for
no privileges: we ask only that but
need be more explicit to England matrons,
wives and sisters? Although we are
Armenians. we are Christians. For
the love of the God. then, whom we worship
IN common, help H., Christian sisters, before
it is too late, and take the thanks Of the
mothers, wives, sisters and daughters of my
peopse. and with them the gratitude OF one
for VIII }ln. in spite OF her youth. death would
come rs happy release.
LUcINE MUssEGH.
DR.. Dillon then continues. Three hun
dred and six Of the principal inhabitants of
the District of Kh"ouss gave me Il signed
petition when | was leaving Armenia and re-
| quested me to lay il before tine humane and
noble people Of England In this document
they truly say:
I'VE now solemnly assure you that the
| butchery OF Sassoun is but Il drop in the ocean
of Armenian blood shed gradually and silently
all over the Empire since the late Turko-
Russian war. Year by year, month by month.
! day by day, innocent men, women and child
rem have been shot down. stabbed, or dubbed
to death i'll their houses and their fields, tor
tured in strange flendisa ways in fetid prison
cells, or left to rot in exile under the scorching
sun Of Arabia. During the progress OF that
| long and horrible tragedy no voice was raised
for mercy, no hand extended to help US.
That process is still going on, but it has
already entered upon its final phases, and the
Armenian people are at the last gasp. Is
| European sympathy destined to take the form
OF a cross upon our graves'
II have also received piteous appeal to
the women OF England from some hundreds
of Armenian women of the District of