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Show THE EXODUS OF THE TURK. It is juat about live hundred yean since the first terrible Turkiuh invasion inva-sion poured into Europe in the very districts where thewar is now carried on. In eleven years it will be precisely pre-cisely 500 years since Amurath I. overthrew, on the borders of Hervia, the whole power of the then mighty kingdom of Servia, in oue oi the "world battles that of Kohsova a bloody struggle wtiioh eo imprceacd itself on ttie miugiuatious of men, and was followed by such immense consequence conse-quence to tiiat porti' n uf Europe, tbal the Servian and Bulgarian peasants peas-ants etill reler 10 it as an evunt wnicb allects even now their deetiuies. And they do not eiaggerate its conse-1 quences. After Amurath followed Bajitzet, suriiained the "Lightuiug," and in bis track was desolation and hills of human heads. Ttie Turk was then no "sick maD," but a barbarian of unsurpasfied vigor and valor, witb, it must bo allowed, a certain ulout for command. He swept over all eaBtern Europe, and but f ir the long and heroic defense oi Hungary, would, no doubt, have conqusrad and held Southern Germany, as he alterward conquered and neld Tnrace and tlie Dauubtan countries. It was more than half a century from the battle of Kosaova before the Turk wrested from the decayed de-cayed Greek empire the city of the Golden Horn, which he has held ever since. In the long empire of lust and blood by the Odmanti, whether in Europe or Asia, it will be difficult tor the most ardent admirer ot the race to find a single blessing or benefit which it has conferred on humanity. In Thrace, Epirus, Macedonia, tbe Bosnian Provinces, Bulgaria, 8ervia, and tb.6 Wallacno-Moldavian districts, the rule of the Ottomous has been nothing but repression or plunder and violence. Liberty, of courae, has never flourished under them, nor science, nor agriculture, nor commerce, com-merce, nor trade. Where they have been, there hae been the slightest procrees in all material things. Generation Gen-eration after generation of misery and submission lo grinding tyranny has passed away. The Christians have been pressed to the earth, while the Mohammedans have not advanced. One of the fairest portions of eastern Europe has been rendered poor and half barbarous by. this long-enduring tyranny. In fact, even in the neighboring neigh-boring districts now under Chiistmn away, the scars and relics ot the former for-mer Turkish domination may be seen, in barren fields, poor roads, miserable villages, a degraded peasantry, and a want of all tbe best appliances of civilization. Turkey itself, in Asia, Beema out side of all modern progress, and unnatural un-natural vices, such ab consumed tbe pagan empire of Komo, have eaten away the vigor of- the people. Nor does this corruption and degradation eeem an effect of religion alone, though that, do doubt, hae had much influence in causing it; it belongB also to the race. For one Mohammedan Moham-medan people, the Arabs, encamped for some four hundred years in Europe Eu-rope as the Turks have done but when they were driven forth, they left schools, colleges and places of learning, palaces, and an architecture which still delights the eye, and pormanont traces on the arts, science and learning of Europe. When the Turk departs from EaBtern Europe, as soon he muBt, there will be no monument of his five hundred years of residence but smoking villages, piles of human bones, a peasantry imbruted by his government, and a fair oountry made almost a desert. The great ancestor uf the sultan's family entered Europe over burning townB, and marked his way with pyramids of human heads. The degenerate de-generate descendant departs amid the smoke of peaceful hamlets, and with his line of retreat covered with the maimed and defaced corpses of prisoners pris-oners and of tho unfortunate peasantry. peas-antry. No sentimental sympathy will follow the Ottoman, &b has attended at-tended the Moor in his defeat. Even England will soon forget him, The historical scholar will rejoice at the just retribution; tbe legislator will look for new advances in that miserable miser-able region; and the curses and hate of populations whom the Turk for j centuries has plundered and op-pressed op-pressed will go with tbe last battalion ' as it carries the crescent back from ! the hills of the Balkan peninsula to j the Sea of Marmora and tbe Goldon I Hern. New York Times. |
