The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-14
CALIFORNIA. ARMENIANS
Translation of Their Address to the
Chairman of the Great Mass
Meeting.

The following letters, received from the
committee of native Armenians resident in
California. are quite pertinent at this time
and also self-explanatory. The latter of
the two was read at the mass-meeting last
evening by George Edward Walk:
To the Editor of The CdIl-DEAg SIR: On be.
half of all Armenians in this State delegation
OF TWO resident Armenians of this city waited
on DR.. Williams of the committee for the mass
meeting with an address and translated copies
of lately received letters, the copies of which
you will please to find enclosed.
On behalf of all Armenians we beg to express
our sincere gratitude to you for the services
your paper so bravely rendered to this human
cause. For the delegation, respectfully,
NJ. ANANoUN.
SAN FRANCISCO, January Is, 1896.
Hon. Adolph Sutro, chairman mass-meetinq for
the ArTpenidnS-DEAR SIR In behalf of the
Armenians OF this State l beg to express our
thanks and sincere gratitude to you and
through you to the movers of this great mass
meeting for the Armenians in Turkey and to
the public in general whose sympathies are
and have been with US, and to the editors of
the papers in this City In particular who have
stood by and advocated the rights of the perse-
cuted and denounced with one accord these
outrages as stain on the nineteenth century
and we ask Gods blessing on this great meeting
that it may result in some good to our afflicted
dear nation.
Allow us on this occasion to submit to YOUR
and the public attention q few facts in this re-
gard.
Many who have read the reports in the pa
pers may have thought them exaggerated, the
nature being too inhuman and brutal and too
outrageous to be perpetrated in this century
But we who have been born and lived q great
part of our lives among them, and all who
know closely the nature OF the Turks and their
faith, which is hatred and prejudice against
all other religions and faiths, and who believe
in the person of the Sultan the representative
of God, will then believe that nothing is too
atrocious or terrible for the unspeakable Turk
to do SO long as commanded by the Sultan, the
cruel Nero of the age.
The present Sultan. Abdul Hamid Khan, dur
ing the Berlin Congress. when delegation in
the persons of Archbishop Khorean Mar Bey
and Minas Tcheraz was sent. and on their
pleadings the Sixty-third Article was adopted
then and there vowed and swore to extermin-
ate the Armenian nation, and this he boldly
declared to that Patriarch as a reproach of his
task. Now, he is merely fulfilling his VOW,
profting by the jealousy of the European
powers.
We Armenians, born in Turkey under the
yoke of oppression and persecution, now en-
Joylng the pure sweet air of American liberty,
we know more and can feel more what this
liberty means, and we have well learned the
great principle of this country, which moves
and rules this country and which we trust will
soon rule the world, that is, 'The Peoples
Will is Gods WILL" So we believe the Ameri-
can public can do much more than is thought
IN the rescue of the oppressed, which is a ma
tional holy duty.
This is rather human cause than Armenian.
nationality or religion they belong to in the