The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1876-12-01 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

MORE TURKISH ATROCITIES IN BULGARIA. The special commissioner of the Daily News, writing fro.n Philipoopolis, dents-re. that acts of violence of the most flazrant kind are still occurriog all over the country. A number of such cases he cites, giving the names of the perpetrators of them, and the dates of their occurrence. His closing argument is that threats and remo.nstrances are thrown away on the Turk. In the course of the writer's narrative occur, the following t— " Do you believe in God ?" I asked of a man at Otluk-keui, whore house had been burnt, whose wife had been outraged and billed, whose children had been slaughtered, and whose little daughter was so brutally maltreated that she died afterwards in a condition too fearful to think of without a shudder. 'Yes," be replied, with a wild look, " but I believe he is the Devil. • This loan, as I have since learned, committed suicide, and he was then evidently going mad. And this is the condition of the Bulgarians now at this moment. Anarchy, oppreesion, tyranny, brutality, barbarism on one side ; wretchedness, misery, humiliation, terror, dishonour, despair on the other. And there are people —educated, enlightened, civilised persons—who tell us that this must go on, that things must remain as they are; that everything is as it should be; people, it would seem, who are without heart, without feeling, and withont pity. Was there ever before such a spectacle given the world ? Heee is a people weak and feeble, in its infancy, without a history and without a name—an orphan, a foundling among the nations, to whom it looks iii vain for help and protection ; a slave, an outcast, a miserable, wretched child, with a noble longing for something better—that is trying to educate itself, trying to improve, trying to learn, trying in a weak and feeble way to be something better than the slave and savage it has hitherto been, but in the power of a brute by whom, in niece wantonness sad devilry, it is humiliated, outraged, beaten, lashed, until its shrieks reach , the dull ears of a startled Europe. On one side is a , nation of a kindred race and language—a nation that ' has itself only just emerged from a state of serfdom and tyranny, a nation that is yet suppled to be in a condition of barbarism, but whose heart is moved by a noble and generous impulse to help a feeble, wretched brother, and moved, perhaps, all the more easily by the near remembrance of its own sufferings and its own tears. But on the other side is a nation mighty in its pride of strength, enlightened, civilised, relined, and Christian, standing at the apex of civilisation, with a history glorious for its science, art, literature, and deeds of arms, but, above all, for its liberty and its free instititutions ; a country whose proud and just boast Is that it not only guarantees liberty to its own citizens, but that every human being who crosses the charmed circle of its frontiers is likewise free. And the leaders of this nation, professing that religion whose cardinal doctrine is love for humanity, and pity for its sufferings and its woes, come forward ancl say. No. This struggling people shall receive no help ; they most remain in their present condition of degrading bondage ; they must be robbed, beaten, maltreated, their wives and daughters outraged, their homes desecrated at the will of the }brutal savages who rule them. This infant outcast nation, this child slave whose eyes are turned with imploring looks to the mailed giants of Europe, shall receive no succour; it must remain a slave to the irunken savage its present master, because—becanse—