Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-01-18

sent to COnSlantlnople asking II the
Turkish government would grant me
protection on such an errand of mercy.
A cablegram said the Turkish govern
ment wished to know to what points in
Armenia I desired to go with that re-
lief. In our reply four cities were nam
cd, one of them the scene of what had
been the chief massacre. A cablegram
came from Constantinople saying that I
had better send the money to the Turk
ish governments mixed commission,
and they would distribute it. So a cob
web of spiders proposed relief COM
mitteo for unfortunate flies. Well, al
man who W I'D start up through the
mountains II Armenia with $50, 900
and no governmental protection would
be guilty of monumental foolhardiness.
The Turkish government has in every
possible way hindered Armenian relief,
An Angel of Mercy.
Now where is that angel of mercy,
Clara Barton, who appeared on the bat
tlefelds of Fredericksburg, Antietam,
Falmouth and Cedar Mountain and un-
der the blaze of French and German
guns at Metz and Paris and in Johns
town floods and Charleston earthquake
and Michigan fires and Russian famine?
1t was comparatively Of little impor-
lance that the German emperor decorated
her with the Iron Cross, for God hath
decorated her in the sight of all nations
with glory THAT neither time nor eter-
nifty can dim. Born in Massachusetts,
village, she came in her girlhood to this
city to serve our government i'll the pat
ent office, but afterward went forth
from the doors of that patent office with
q divine patent signed and sealed by
God himself to heal all the wounds she
could touch and make the horrors of the
flood and fro and plague and hospital
fly her presence. God bless Clara Bar
toni Just us I expected, she lifts the
banner of tho Red Cross Turkey and
all nations are pledged to respect and
defend that Red Cross, although that
color of cross does not, in the opinion of
many, stand for Christianity. In my
opinion it does stand for Christianity,
for was not tho cross under which most
Of US worship rcd with the blood Of the
Son Of Gcd, red with the best blood that
was ever shed, red with the blood pour
ed out for the ransom of the world!
Then lead on, Ch, Red Cross, and let
Clara Barton carry it The Turkish gov
eminent is bound to protect her, and
the chariots of God are 20, 600 and their
charioteers are angels of deliverance,
and they would all ride down at once to
roll over and trample under the hoofs of
their white horses any of her ASSISTANTS.
May the 5000, 600 she seeks be laid at
her feet Then may the ships that carry
her across Atlantic and Mediterranean
seas be guided safely by him who trod
into sapphire pavement bestormed Cali
lee. Upon soil incarnadined with martyr
dom let the Red Cross be planted until
every demolished village shall be re-
builded and every pang of hunger be fed
and every wound of cruelty be healed
and Armenia stand with as much liber-
ty to serve God in its own way as in this
the best land of all the earth, we, the
descendants of the Puritans and Hol-
landers and Huguenots, are free to wor-
ship the Christ who came to set all ma
tions FREQ.
The Cry of Duty.
1t has been said that if we go over
there to interfere on another continent
that will imply the right for other ma
tions to interfere with affairs on this
continent, and SO the Monroe doctrine
BIO jeopardized. No, mol President
Cleveland expressed the sentiment of
every intelligent and patriotic Ameri-
can when he thundered from the White
House a warning to all nations that
there is not one acre or one inch more
of ground on this continent for any
transatlantic government to occupy.
And by that doctrine we stand now and
shall forever stand. But there is doc
trine as much higher than the Monroe
doctrine as the heavens are higher than
the earth, and that is the doctrine OF
humanitarianism and sympathy and
Christian helpfulness which one cold
December midnight, with loud and
multitudinous chant, awakened the
shepherds. Wherever there is a wound 1t
is our duty, whether as individuals or
as nations, to balsam it. Wherever there
is q knife of assassination lifted 1t IS
our duty to ward off the blade. Wher-
ever men arc prosecuted for their rell-
gion it is our duty to break that arm OF
power. whether it be thrust forth from
Protestant church, or a Catholic Ca
thedral, or Jewish synagogue, OF
mosque of Islam. We all recognize the
right on small scale. If, going down
the road. we find a ruffian maltreating
child, or a human brute insulting
woman, we take hand in the contest
if we are not towards, and though we
be slight in personal presence, because
of our Indignation re come to weigh
about 30 tons, and the harder we punish
the villain the louder our conscience ap-
plauds us. In such case we do not keep
our hands in our pockets, arguing that
if we interfere with the brute the brute
might think he would have a right to
interfere with US, and so jeopardi2e the
Monroe doctrine The fact is that that
persecution of the Armenians by the
Turks must be stopped, or God al
mighty will curse all Christendom for
its damnable Indifference and apathy.
But the trumpet of resurrection is about
to sound for Armenia.
American Sympathy.
Did say in opening that on one OF
the peaks of Armenia, this very Anne
mia of which we speak, in Noah's time
the ark landed, according to the myth,
as some think, but according to Gods
"say SO, as know, and that it was aft
er a long storm of 40 days and 40ni8hts,
called the deluge, and that afterward