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THE CRUSADE.
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THE INDIAN REBKLLIOX.*
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with a discharged non-commissioned officer a mean and paltry plot for bribin" - electors , and getting up a sham demonstration of public opinion against his Parliamentary opponents . Sergeant Bkodik must have thought-Mr . Nicoll credulous indeed , to believe such a monstrous- ' story .. ^ nr i e The fact '' . is , it might have , happened to any other Member of Parliament who tookim interest in Sergeant Bropik , to be represented as acting the same part . It might have been Lord PAiiMERSTOx , Lord Paxmuue . or Mr . SidnevHekbekt , for linonie had made his case known to all three personages , and all of them were more or less inclined to sympathise with him , and obtain him redress , or , at least , employment . Mr . Disuaem , like others , felt for his misfortunes , and was anxious to serve him if he could . Mr .
Earle ' s version of the lobby conspiracy reveals what no one can doubt to be the true state of the case . Bkodie , having been denied access to Mr . DrsRAKi-i at his private residence , lay in wait for the minister at the entrance to the House , and importuned him fora recommendation that would obtain him employment . Mr . Disraeli told him to go to Mr . Rose , the Parliamentary agent , and mention his name , and possibly that gentleman might employ him in connexion with the general election . Brodie , with characteristic pertinacity , asked to have this recommendation in writing , and Mr . Disraeli , in an unguarded moment , was induced to go into the library and write a note to Mr . Hose . And it was the envelope of this note which Brodie flashed in Mr . Nicoi / r / s face as the evidence of Mr . Disraeli ' s guilt . The note itself ; which Mr . Disijaei . i says
might haA'e been read out at Gharing-cross , was never shown to any one—^ of course not . But we want to know how this man ever came to be tolerated at all in the lobby of the House of Commons . Why did Lord Paxmurk interest ' himself so much in the Brodie fortunes ? Why did Lord Palmerstox introduce him to Mr . Sidney Herbert P Why did Mr . Disraeli allow him the liberty of saying , when he offered him a verbal introduction , ' Ohr that won't do , vou must give me something written" ? Were they really so deeply interested in tlie Sergeant , or is their solicitude to be attributed to the predilection of their class for a ., " . party with a grievance " ? That any one of them is capable of making a proposir Bbodie to Disrait entirel
tion like that ascribed by Mr . ^ , we y disbelieve ; nevertheless , we cannot help seeing- in the favour shown to Brobie , and the liberties he was allowed to , take ,. the leaven of the political party tactics of a bygone age . If ministers and public men will condescend to patronise such paltry agents , they must put up with -all the annoyance that naturally results from such a connexion . Agents like Sergeant BRGPiE _ can only serve a minister or a Member of Parliament , as a messenger or a courier can serve him ; and no Member of parliament -would permit a messenger or a courier to -waylay him , and take him by the button-hole in the % bby of the House of ' Commons . Whether justly or not , such connexions suggest suspicions , which it cannot be the interest of aiiv public man to incur .
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former are impudent extortioners ; and on one of the finest empires in the world , and the richest in natural productions , the sun shines in vain . With the moral , and if needs be , the physical force of the first nations in Europe to back him , the Sultan has not had the courage to keep his promise , and to make what we believe to be his will on the subject of toleration felt and known . Turkey wants a will such . as that which put down jannissaries and mamelukes , such a will as has been exerted by some of the Czars of Russia , oftener perhaps than by any other potentates in Europe , and at greater personal risk ; such a will as that which "burnt , one after another , the title deeds of an unruly nobility ; and again , in a later instance , curbed the patriarchate and disbanded the iStrelitzes . The Suxtan " acts like a man in bodily fear of the bow-string , and such men are never to be trusted : they are the puppets of the merest and most pressing * fear , and where this is paramount all the minor virtues are in vain ; they may exist , but not stand in the face of an enemy , unless fortitude is their captain . ¦
There is one fear which thd Stri / rax need not add to his other panics , that of the charge of being a renegade , if he is not , indeed , '" almost a Christian" already . Intolerance to Christians , "Jusque a la mort . " was no part of the original profession of Islam , as he ought to know well . Let him reduce the practice of his creed to its original principles , and teach his bigoted subjects what is the theory of their belief , often as it has been violated in practice ^ The Times , if we mistake not , a week or two back , offered some remarks on the uniformity of Mahometanism ; we confess we have read history somewhat differently .- ' Kb religion has been so varied and inconsistent in its conduct and morals ; they have been as shifting as have been the fortunes and dynasties of its representative monarchy : tolerant in one country , tyrannical in another ; truculent Alis and Ottomans are mingled with courteous and chivalric Saladdins and Saphadins . If it was exterminating in
Arabia and Hindostan , it was courteous and civilized in Bagdad , Cordova , and Grenada . All that we ask of the Scltax is . to insist on the adoption of one of the milder phases of Mahometanism , with full liberty to punish Christians legally , when they interfere with the person or property of the Mahometan , or even grossly insult his creed ; and , at the sairie time , to adopt what is becomuig gradually the creed of Europe , that every man has the right , bv reason and argument , to attempt to diffuse his own religious convictions as- . Widely as he can ; for from this degree of light no European monarch has any right to exclude himself' or his subjects ;—not merely to think but to act on this principle , the Sultax must be made * We look with anxiety to see what will be done with the criminal Pachas , and the ringleaders of the Turkish troops : —if he has not the epurage to . hang them somebody else must . The Christian nations have already shown much
patience , andbeen counting ' political reasons on their fingers considerably too long . If Christians had been thus ruthlessly massacred in old Oliver ' s time he would have known why before this We fully believe Louis Napoleon to be sincere in his indignation , with no ' more at-ricre-pensee than every potentate of Europe must have in the present complications . The French are often firsjt ¦ ¦ and foremost where a grand and noble act has to lie clone , especially where it is likely to bo attended with historical eclat and theciapping of the hands of future generations , though French patience does not last so long as ours , and French PifTT . TPa . liinvft , English IticiIAKDS to fight out the crusade , having pocketed the glory of the commencement . May the present Louis be commencing his crusade with ns much honesty as the ninth of
that name , arid come out of it with-more honour and greater benefit to the . Christian cause . Just to look back further again for a moment ^ may we have no selfish petty quarrels about / jrutef / ce Guys of Lusignan , or Coxr . vps of Moutserrat ; and may what we sincerely believe lias begun in a good cause , and in all honour-and friendship , hot end in distrust , rivalry , and alienation ; and in finishing the crusade as England finished ( as usual ) that ol tho Lion-Heart , I > y the payment , 'in somo shape ' ' , other , of . a good round ransom . " Even tlie little putty ' tSyrum kingdoms of tho Gudkjjeys and the Bokmonds , iii tho establishment of which the first and most glorious crusade teniihintoil , never turned out well ; and we should bu sorry to boo potted and patronised viceroys appointed ovi : r what are now Turkish pvuvim ^ s . uomhv . illy protect ing' the interests of Greek , Komii-h . or Provoslant interests , and really niuking mischief , ¦¦
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Aug . 25 , I 860 . ] Tlie Saturday Analyst and Leader . 749
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iss ^ T ^^ s ^^ ^^^ p ^^^ ss ^ ssr ^ AilldrUM SlIl ' llilTh ( dill MlllOI'rt . 1 , OIIH ' i » iMU llllil < " .
The Crusade.
THE CRUSADE .
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npHE night is darkest a little before dawn , tlie fruit sweetest a L . little before ripeness . ' ¦ ' " Even at the instant of repair and health , The fit is strongest ; evils " that take leave , _*_ ' ., » ,, At their t 1 pn 7 't "' ' » mnsf-. r > f nil a 1 > o \ v evjl . " We quote one of SiiAKEsriCAKE ' s deepest , and least hacknied moral aphorisms , and we would fain hope that ; these fearful Mahometan outrages are the first violent tickings- and lungings which precede coming dissolution , though religions die hard , and their death-pangs are affairs not of days , or years , but of centuries . For the persistence of religions effete , ' practically disproved , there are various causes ; sometimes sheer antagonism , and the spirit of resistance keeps them on their legs ; sometimes the advancing religion which is gaining on their territory is infected by them , and loses its vigour by the corruption of their neighbourhood ; sometimes the holders of the worthier creed-arc teasing , JVetful . and provocative ; again there is-tlie ' stimulus of the real . mmiso of danger . We boast of thorough toleration in England , and imqr . estions ' . bly there are few genera of religion , rational oif irrational , which might not be indulged with a reasonable allowance for- thi'Ir vituhl , if not too -demonstrative , in this island , But let the ^ cncroaclnnont be really serious , let tho'alien creed . threaten predominance , and . claim anything more than the mere liberty of existing undisturbed , and the children of tho original faith , with power in their hands , would not be very nice as to their measures of suppression , All thoso oauses have been at work in Syria and Turkey , and we need scarcely wonder at this sudden and ghasitly outbln / . e of fanaticism . Ciivistianity . we arc tolrl . has betMi making rapid progress in tlie Sit . tan ' . dominions j lie himself is u Bible reader , having 1 tho Christian volume in las hands , it is » ai < l , oftener than tho ivor : ; n : and the true Turk tvembles with rage and fear , like the Hindoo Ncp . jy ; nnd wild tales uvo told , which to him suein not impiobabk 1 . < jf a violent univer . ial suppression of iNlaniiHiu . Again , the old Christian tribes , for we do not speak here of tho now converts , are , wo aire tohl , '( iir mTp ^ the religion of which they are the bittor ouemies . Indeed , uolhing bus been wnnting cither to lay tlie mine , or spring it . A nnn limul and keon eye only could haw . t'tnyi'tl tho miscnief , and ' unfortunately the present ruk ' r of Turkey has neither the one nor thb other . Weakness is . all very well iii it monaivli whore roads ure level or waters smooth , but where inferior agencies are malign and multiform , it is almost as bad as the quickness and violence which it is incompetent to control . Tho Hrivr . v . N is powerless among his pachas and Noldicr .-i ; tho hit tor ure unruly boggnivt ; because tho
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rIP . MK horrovs of the Sopoy inutiny still continue to live in books , JL and thosit still bear innrks o ' f the- excitement that jilniost maddened tin . ' Ui'itish mind in 1 ^ 57 and 1 M 5 S . Mr , Lowe , a medical oOicer , at Madras , to tlw . ' corps of Sappurs siud Miners , yet an Hera under the iuipivssions hv t \ w \\ rc : ! civctl , and s < ,-os in the natives , on whom vengeiUU'O was tukou , only the nuinlovovs of his countrymen , not humaii bonnes having rights and a land of birth . He sees only tho rebel , cunning , hypocritical , lying , treacherous , filthy , insolent , bigoted ; not " tho mi ' Hindu" disputing with his conqueror . Nor can wo wonder at it ; for the atrocities on tho part of the . latter were ' . excessive . Vet ho fools it necessary to excuse the greatness of " 1 tritisFvlIH ^ ausworod tho . omlsj and though a drum-head court-uiartml is a Hhort allhir , and soldiers long accustonKid to scenes oi bloocl wt in iudginont . vet justice i . s duno . Tho people wore tlniiik with the blood of our countrymen , mad with excesses , blind to everything
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 25, 1860, page 749, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2362/page/5/
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