The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-02-02
APPEAL FOR ARMENIA
BY the American Bishops Of the
Episcopal Church
TO PRESIDENT CLEVELAND.
They Want Relations With Turkey
Broken Of-The Gar VIII Also
BE Addressed.
70 PRESIDENT CLEVELAND.

New York, Feb 2-The World this morn
ing says: This numerously signed memo
rial has been mailed 10 President Cleve-
land:
To the President Of the United States of
America: We, the bishops OF the Protes-
tant Episcopal church in the United States
or America. beg most earnestly and re-
specuuiiy to address you. the chief masis-
trate Of the nation. in regard to the massa-
ere OF our fellow Christians in Armenia.
The extent OF these massacres is not fully
known. but enough is known to reveal the
horror of the situation and TO call for the
indignant protest OF all civilized and Chris
tan people IT is estimated Sy those well
acquainted with the facts that rot less
than 35a,oe0 of our fellow Christians are
now suffering and are IN danger of perish
ing In consequence Of The massacres IN
Asiatic Turkey, and that thousands have
been already murdered. In Trebixond and
Erzeroum. in the provinces of Biths. Van
and Harpoot. and in the whole OF the other
districts the people are very miserable.
Villages are sacked. property as destroyed,
and men. women and children are tortured
and put &c death for holding TO The faith
and practice of the Christian religion.
The entire severance OF church and
state in our country should not be allowed
to stifie our sympathies or hamper our
action in case like this. IT should rather
stimulate them. 1t is a case which espe-
cially appeals TO us as men and Ameri-
cans. As citizens of this republic We have
learned TO know and maintain that no
form of religious belief should expose its
adherents 10 persecution. II is as repre-
sentatiyes and maintainers of this essen
tial American principle that we appeal for
national action in this matter OF a foreign
persecution whose details are too horrible
TO depict or enufnerate. We sincerely
trust that some measure or measures con-
sistent with the national traditions and
national dignity may be devised, and that
speedily, which shall bring the whole force
of the national sentiment to bear upon the
solution of this subject; to cause the in
slant suppression of the masSacres; to
succor the unhappy and impoverished sur
viyors of them, and to secure for the fu-
ture ample guarantee for the safety of a
Christian people in the exercise and main
tenance of their faith.
I'VE feel profoundly that our nation
should cease to recognize the Turkish gov
eminent as civilized power so long as
its barharous treatment of the Armenians
continues, and that ii should use every
influence TO bear upon the civilized ma
tons of Europe which may cause them TO
present uniform front in the demand
that such atrocities cease at once and for
ever"
The memorial Is signed by John WIZ
Jams, presiding bishop of Rhode Island
Thomas March Clark, Rhode Island; r. II
Wilmer. Alabama: Charles Todd Quintard.
Tennessee: II. NJ. Nicely, Maine: d. S.
TutLe. Missouri: Francis McNeece Whit
tie, Virginia. A. N Littlejohn. Long Isl
and; Frederick D, Huntington. New York
OH William Whitaker. Pennsylvania;
Henry Niles Pierce, Arkansas: William
Wocdruff Niles. New Hampshire; John
Franklin Spaulding. Colorado, Alexander
c. Garrett. Northern Texas: Thomas u.
Dudley. Kentucky; John Scarborough
New Jersey: George D. Gillespie. Western
Michigan; William Edward McIaren, Chi
cage; Alexander Burgess, Illinois; G. VIII
lam Peterkin, West Virginia: George
Franklin Seymour. Springfield; Cortandt
Whitehead. Pittsburg: Hugh Miller
Thompson, Mississippi. Henry Cod
man Potter. New York: William
David Walker. North Dakota: Alfred
A Watson. East Carolina: Nelson
s. Rullson. Central Pennsylvania; William
Paret. Maryland; William Forbes Adams.
Easton. Nd; James s. Johnson, Western
Texas; Abel Leonard, Nevada, Utah and
Western Colorado: Leighton Coleman,
Delaware; Andrew Leonard, Ohio; Thomas
Frederick Davies, Michigan; Arson Rogers
Graves, Nebraska; Edward Robert Atwil.
Western Missouri; Henry Melville Jack
son. Alabama; Isaac l.. Nicholson. Mil
waukee: Charles Reuben Hale, Illinois:
Nt1iam crane tray. southern flor.das
Francis Keybrooke, Oklahoma; Ellison
Capers, South Carolina: Arthur c. A. Hall.
Vermont: Frank r. Millspaugh, Kansas;
Joseph Blount Cheshire. jr.. North Carolina.
To these names will be added the names Of
the Western bishops, who have been COM
mun.cated with but have not had time to
answer.
The memorial is the outcome of recent
meeting of the church club at which DIR.
Peters. of 81. M.chael's church, presented
letters from reliable persons in Armenia.
whose disclosures were so impressive that
a committee of three was appointed TO con-
fer with Bishop Potter. He brought the
matter 10 the notice of the church deaconry
of Westehester two weeks ago, and Arch
deacons Tiffany and Van Kleek and DIR.
Peters were appointed a committee 10 OBJ
tain the signatures of all the bishops OF
the church TO the appeal addressed 10 the
president. A similar communication is to
be sent to the archbishop of Canterbury,
the czar of Russia. the emperor of Austria.
and the emperor of Germany.