. The Turk and the land of Haig; or, Turkey and Armenia: descriptive, historical, and picturesque . ims. In order to attain this desired end,they have set out to diminish the number of theArmenians by wholesale massacres, and are invokingMohammedan bigotry and fanaticism in the work ofextermination. The Turkish version of the causes of this reign ofterror throws all the blame upon the Armenians,of course. They endeavor to pose before the worldas being desirous to preserve the peace. The Sultanat first with unruffled nerve denied the entire affair ofthe Sassoun massacre ; and when it had been t
. The Turk and the land of Haig; or, Turkey and Armenia: descriptive, historical, and picturesque . ims. In order to attain this desired end,they have set out to diminish the number of theArmenians by wholesale massacres, and are invokingMohammedan bigotry and fanaticism in the work ofextermination. The Turkish version of the causes of this reign ofterror throws all the blame upon the Armenians,of course. They endeavor to pose before the worldas being desirous to preserve the peace. The Sultanat first with unruffled nerve denied the entire affair ofthe Sassoun massacre ; and when it had been too wellauthenticated to be denied, he came boldly forwardand laid all the blame upon the Armenian revolu-tionists as a justification for his cruelty. I do notdeny the existence and the active propagandism ofsuch a movement. I do not even deny that, to someextent, the religious war has been stimulated byArmenian political agitators. But I contend thatsuch a movement, though hostile to the existingadministration, was intertwined with the growth ofgovernmental oppression ; and that some Armenians,. 366 THE TURK AND THE LAND OF HAIG. driven by long years of Turkisli barbarity and cruelmisgovernment into a frame of mind akin to nihilism,have made it their patriotic duty to preach the policyof insurrection as the only means of calling the atten-tion of the Powers to their grievances and urgingthem to fulfill their promises of decent government inArmenia. Moreover, while there have been at timesovert acts on the part of the Huntchagian revolu-tionists, for some of which they deserve our con-demnation ; yet the extent to which they havesucceeded in stirring up actual revolution has beengrossly exaggerated by the Turkish government. Iconsider it cruelly absurd to point out the fewsmoldering fires of revolution as if they were charac-teristic of the whole nation. The Huntchagian move-ment is not and never has been a national movement;its membership is small ; and for its acts, whether wi
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