St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-02
Appeal FOR ACTION
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EPISCOPAL BISHOPS SEND AN EAR
NEST MEMORIAL TO THE
RI PRESIDENT
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In BEHALF OF ARMENIANS.
SOMETHING SHOULD BE DONE, AND
QUICKLY, TO END THE ATROC-
tiles.
FIGHT FOR RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
Strongly to All Amer
leans.

NEW YORK, Feb. 1.-The World
this morning says: This numerousIy
signed and earnestly worded memorial
has been mailed to President Cleve-
land:
To the President of the United States Of
America-sir: We, bishops Of the Protestant
Episcopal Church Of the United States of
tAm Tes beg most earnestly. and respect.
iully to address you. the chief magistrate Of
tho nation. in relation to the massacre of
our fellow Christians in Armenia The extent
Is 70 aey not t se H. Put
situation and to call for the Indignant protest
Of all civilized and Christian people.
In our country should not be allowed to stife
cur sympathfes or hamper our action In
case IKE this It should rather stimulate
them. 1t 10 case which especially appeals
70 us az men and Americans. As citizens of
this republic we have learned to know and
dared TO maintain that no form of religious
De!ie1 should expose its adherents to perse-
cution.
y is estimated by those well acquainted
with the facts that not less than $50, 600 OF
our fellow Christians are now suffering and
are In danger Of perishing In consequence of
the msseecres In Asiatic Turkey. and that
at Least 90 900 have been already murdered.
In Ireolzond and Erzeroun, in the provinces
9. Bitns, Van and Harpoot. and IN the whole
DISTRICT OF Siyas. the people are given over
70 indiscr1bable miseries and outrages. VII
lagos are sacked: property Is destroyed. and
men, women and children are tortured and
put to death for holding to the faith and
practice OF the Christian religion
IL ie as representatives and mantainers
OF This essential American principle that We
appeal FOR national action in this matter of
9 foreign persecution whose details are too
horrible to depict enumerate.
We sincerely trust that some measure or
measures consistent with the national ira
oitions and the national dignity may be de-
the whole force Of the national sentiment
to bear upon the solution of this subject;
the cause the instant suppression of mas
secres to succor the unhappy and impover-
ished survivors Of them and to secure for
the future ample guarantee for the safety
OF Christian people in the exercise and
maintenance Of their faith.
We feel profoundly that our nation should
cease to recognize the Turkish government
as a civilized power so long as its barbarous
treatment OF the Armenians continues. and
that 1t should bring every influence to bear
upon the civilized nations Of Europe which
may cause them to present united front in
demanding that such atrocities cease at once
The memorial is signed by the following
named bishops:
John Williams. presiding bishop Of Rhode
Island; Thomas March Clark, Rhode Island;
Richard Hooker Wilmer, Alabama; Charles
Todd ouintard. Tennessee; Henry Adams
Neeley, Maine; Daniel Sylvester Tuttle, Mis-
souri,; Francis McNeece Whittle, Virginia.;
AbIam n. Littlejohn. Long Island; Frederick
aker, Pennsylvania; Henry Niles Pierce, Ar
kansas: William Woodruff Niles. New Hamp-
shire; John Franklin spaulding, Colorado
Alexander c. Garet, Northern Texas; Thomas
Q. Dudley. Kentucky; John Scarborough, New
Jersey; George D. N. Gillespie, Western Mich
igan; William Edward McLaren, Chicago;
Alexander Burgess. Quincy ILL.,; George Will
lam Peterkin, West Virginia: George
Franklin Seymour, Springfield, III; Cort-
n Iand whitehead Witch, Pittsburg, P. A;
Henry Goldman Potter, New York; William
David Walker, North Dakota; Alfred A. Wat
son, East Carolina: Nelson s. Reulison, Central
Pennsylvsnis; William Paret, Maryland; Will
steptoe Johnson, Western Texas; Abel Leon
ard, Nevada, Utah and Western Colorado:
Leighton Coleman. Delaware; William Andrew
Leonard, Ohio; Thomas Frederick Davis, Mich
igan; Arson Rogers Graham, North Platte,
souri,: Henry Melville jackson. Alabama
Isaac l.. Nicholson, Milwaukee, wis.,: Charles
Rhenben Haze. Illinois; William Crane Gray
Southern Florida; Francis Key Brooks, Okla.
g. A. Hall, Vermont; Frank R. Millspaugh
Kansas: Joseph Blount Cheshire Jr, North
Carolina.
To these names will be added the
signatures Of Western bishops, who
have been communicated with but have
not had time to answer
The memorial Is the outcome of
recent meeting of the church club, at
which DR.. Peters, of ST. MichaePs
church, presented letters from reliable
persons in Armenia, whose disclosures
were SO impressive that committee of
three was appointed to confer with
Bishop Potter. A similar communica-
ton is to be sent to the archbishop Of
Canterbury. the car of Russia, the en-
peror Of Austria and the emperor of
Germany.