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balance of power in Enrope, forbidding the acquisition of farther territory in Europe by any of the great powerfl an dangerous to the peace and safety of others. It has long since ceised to be a self. existant and self-suppoi ting monarchy or empire. T’;e Ottoman Church and the Empire ought both to be notified that they arc no L nger a power to persecute, that they can no longer proselytize with the sword, that they must erase from the book of discipline and practice of the Mohammadan Church those precepts which make use of arson and muider as means of suppressing the Christian faith. We have mi de a notification, I would have with the word already sent the blow to follow it. I would have the message on the wings of lightning sent aqd the shot to follow it. What a shot that would be crashing into the grand seraglio, traversing the waters of the Golden Horn, to avenge the Christian life and Christian faith of the subjects of that Empire. I know that this fiu t of the groat decadence of the Ottoman power is well known to the grand vizier and to the chiefs, the aivisers, of the Sublime Porte us it is to any member of this body, but the great bulk of the citizens of that Empire do not knowit. The grand vizier is informed of it. I would have the slave of the grand vizier know it and feel it, I would hove the teachers in the schorls of the Mussulman and in the mosque know it and realize it. I would ave the muezzin on tte minaret know t and prodaim it to tue fait fill as they .re gathered in t e mosques for their devotons. Sxc. ritn ies g th' state of the Caliph in Bag a t was very uillerent from hit m>w exi ting on the Bosphorus. He reigned supreme in ell the great countries of southern Asi i. His lieutenant ruled with more than regal magnificence Egypt and northern Afric i. Spain itself vias, as it was said, the second garden of Mohammed, and hundreds of thousands of armed Mussulmans met the united aimies of Christian Europe to contend north of the Pyranees—nortu oi that great mountain range—as o which should have the primacy and supremacy in .hatquar er of the globe. All this has passed, never to return I am not aware, sir, what particular prerogative and privileges are due to iw tional infirmity, to a decaying power, or to a moribund sovereignty, but if there be any such due andlowing, and if it be still asked upon our part that we should allow this onstrous, bloody game as the mere play and pastime of the old age and decrepit u e of the Ottoman Empire, I for one am in favor of giving the ick man of the Bosphorus a coup de grace and ending his 1 fe and ex stance by dissolution and destruction. I have read, Mr. President, in some story of these blood-staii ed relations, of a Kurd er Turk, armed, engaged in the massacre of the Arminian villagers, hearing from the boys and > iris w o were being slain by his hand, hearing f.om the wives and mothers who were being hurried to dishonor and death, the same cry, the same supplier ion,and I have read that thi fiend turned to tne demons who were his comrades in this work of bipod and asked in a tone of derision, “Who is Jesus of Nazareth. that these penpie pray to Him?’’ Sir it is time that these murderers and assassins • v 'ould know who He was tuat was born into the world at Bethlehem and roared at Nazareth; that they and t eir masters should learn also that when that Divine Ruler returns t vax the reprobateness hud wickedness of the world and to punish such wretches as these, He brings with Him n: t peace but a sword. It may be, sir that we are destined to reorganize the Crusaues of eight and nine centuries ago. It may be that we flhall send again around the summons of the fiery cross upon a greatly lengthened circuit. It may be that we shall be called upon to effect the final deliverance of the Holy epulchre and of all those who revere its memories in every clime, under every sky, In such a warfare, ns. in tne peace which would foliowit, one touch of Christ wo d make the whole world kin. Kook into the dntnkard’B home, if you would see trucks that have been made by the cloven hoof.