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Show " WHO AIlE THE DRUSES!. From .the tone or the puMc journals in Etigland niid the dtbatei In raVlianlent, as well ns frorn the preparations; for iiiter-vciition.iii iiiter-vciition.iii Turkey which are being, made by Era'occ,, tireat Britain .Russia niid the other Christian Towers, it is, highly probable that the. land of Islam will soon become the scenq of a new crusade. The massacro by the Drnscs of the Maronito Christiansls the cause of this new movement move-ment against "'the sick man." But it will be found on inquiry that the Bruscs are as much sinned against as sinning, and that they wt're not. the aggres qora in this war of religion. Twenty ycair ago, in the struggle between Mchcmet Ali and tho Saltan, the Mnronitcs espoused the side, ef 'the .Turkish Emperor. The .war agoJnstrtheWi.Whichi then',' for the-Jirsttime. the-Jirsttime. lnv .their history, became a re-ligionswar. re-ligionswar. It harbccn'rcftewcd at in-i in-i tervals "since, and the enmity then created. Iras never died away. Bcyrout whose; Chrisyan.inhabitants are how iio full with tcrrorf, was destroyed ,jn 1810 .by the Angl6-'Anstrinns-llect because ' llehemct Ali; wtho "thcii; swayed that country, would nccede'to-tlie. prdpojsitioris of the Snltan ami the fonr, allfwl ,'1'owcrs. All Clirisicn'ddm' seems.' now' to be tlur?ting Tor the tyood of tlio Druses and. 'the .Tnrks-, toVliom they 'nro tribiitary, nuil wonld nhcliaritably send tliiin all to (ltd IjOttotnless jiit.with their sins and their errors on their hcu'diu It U a enripas Tact in the history ;of tlie Drnwa, tliat tyvd cCntnrics ago they awak- cned tiie sympathies r all Chtistendpm lrarmly as they now exeife its iildfgTm-' iildfgTm-' tton aud wrath. At that tttne the intclll-; intclll-; gaHjcryac hed Western Europe that a bold and gallant rat e in the mountains of Syria Syr-ia wast niato'tainlng' a desperate strnsjilf against the overwhelming force of the Ottoman Empire-. It was known tbitt lby I did not belong1 to t)ie followers of M o-hnmntnl, o-hnmntnl, whence it was crrojKously con-tiuileil con-tiuileil that they mtist'be Clinstiaiw, The I orijiu of tliC'iinmc Druses' beiSima n uu-ijcct uu-ijcct of iiivtigation, aiid affurilrl ample ' 5COw for L-otijectnrc. At longth nn ingt-i ingt-i nfous ctyrtiolojist snggestwl that they had descended from the followers of the Count tie Drenx, who was snppbsed to have settled set-tled in Palestine during the first Crusade. FakhreddiOf the able chief of these stdr-dy stdr-dy mountaineers, taking advrtutngo of thk dclos'itm, laliprcd bard to propagate it, in the hope of gaining, assistance front En-rope, En-rope, lie visited Italy; nnd represented hlmteir as allied by descent to tuo'powcr-f tuo'powcr-f ol hbrtse of "Lorraine. The.yornian origin ori-gin of tho Druses Was Instantly received throughout Europe ns an established ract. It is ctcii lntrodnccd into thegraph-ic thegraph-ic description' of this Interesting people! given in Bjshop lienor's poem of "rafes-tintC "rafes-tintC fierce, linnly, proud, la contdous freedom' told, Tbrsa"ttnriri)'seat the warrior Draws trotdj From Norman Howl tlitir lofij- liaes the tract,-Their tract,-Their ltn courage proves their generous ruce. Iliey, only they, while all arouml them kneel In ulfen lioraag to the Thrnclau s-el, Teach their pals doepot'a waning toon to fear The patriot terror of tho mounUIn vpear. It was soon proved that the theory of their Xorraan origin was a fable, and that they were a remnant of the widespread Isinaclians. They call themselves Unitarians, Unita-rians, asserting that they alone rightly understand the doctrine of the Divine Unity. The Chief difference between them and the other Ismacliun sects is the authority they attribute to their prophet, Al Uakcm, for, thongb. they believe in the Koran, they are ao far fr$m reverencing Mohammed that they never pronounce his name without cursing his memory. They are divided into the initiated audi profane, and all the ceremonies of their religion" ate studiously enveloped In mystery. mys-tery. 'TheirIiWtf;dr lodges, are'fsola-; ted, usually built on the tops, of bills, and none but the' Initiated are admitted to, them. Allwrlters'c'ompUln of the difliJj edlty 'of 'getting accurate iaforraitton abeat them, and their Turkish neighbors andtulersr art just as fgnfcjlnt On. the jub-jecV;Aher'Christlan jub-jecV;Aher'Christlan trailers, for the ;Dr'ose. buiwarfly'. conform' Ig tln tal lishcdrcligiott of jhejenutry whrc they may liappenJt0'1 lieV while ithey practice their.own pecnliar rites ouly jo their secret meeting . . ,. ? ' Thcy.nw thoroogh Democrats fn their iocial habits and, doniestld, cbrmmtnt, The rciationiibctweea thi chief? and the peopfo.nre of n.;very.rcpdblican cliaracter. Their chief timit.wfluld npt'decmitideg-. radation.tcf admit lhe.rocajiejt ppasai to his tablc.. fltjncfl'.thclr.Jiittrcnitrs-iS rtfiirke'd bj itiostf VpaTta 6f fr tt plScl t.y winch reeafrthe .memory fV,t iatrla1rcti-agci iatrla1rcti-agci llif-.'D.rnsflin.rtWtis tlier1 for?, u, ipccics -jor aris tpcratlc fsderal ire' !pnuUc. . One-btji'e.cJuefseiijfiysriiQattAal 'fiuprtmacyjniid.has tiicirrhilegopl assessing assess-ing the trij)iitq"pat4 lotlii'furts oiKth'o different chiefs of districts' In proportion to tlieir wealthy - t - Cpwparctl, with thcSc. wild, waicriofs.tho' LMarOnite ChriUiaiii) nre'n fceblcj pnsilan-Imons, pnsilan-Imons, race. Tlijfi present, (tcgdly . "strife : ' has. been fomejitbetwpn; tlictii by.vthc agents pf pthet'I'owqrs,.iii order tor give them nn.Opppxttinity to all' p in aud Alivider ,tbq posscsslbna of thfilyiag jilan whn , cannot keep his Subjects Su ordcr-riV, |