Christian Rising in Turkey

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 12, 1858

Christian Rising in Turkey

APPREHENDED RISING OF THE CHRISTIANS IN TURKEY.

There are most alarming reports current in Paris, as to the general rising of the Christian population, not merely on the frontier of Albania, but throughout Servia, Bosnia, Thessaly, Macedonia, Roumelia—in fact, through all European Turkey. Whether Russia is trying a desperate stroke, or whether it be the spontaneous impulse of long compressed impatience of Ottoman rule, time alone will tell; but the Greek soldiers are deserting en masse over the frontier, to form guerilla troops within the Turkish territory, and this summer will be remarkable by an outbreak of unprecedented importance, of which the Montenegro victory gives the signal.