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' Greece Asks for Justioe. /
We have recently witnessed an extraordinary
pnenomenon. In the face
of history, absolutely without the
slightest fonndation, even in legend
or rumor, running quite contrary to
all ackuoYvleu&c fad, a lone Demosthenes
hae risin in America who declares,
not that - the moon is green
cheese or that the nataral propulsion
of water is uphill; no?more incredible
still?he claims that "the Bulgarians
have been for centuries the defenders
?* a*,,} fVia r>hamnions of
UI UUUSIIIOUI'J nnu UUU W?- L -
civilization.''
At what fountain head of authentic
history has he imbibed this idea? Is
he, perchance, a student and pupil of
the renowned Baron Munchausen, or
have his geographical and historic researches
led him to the archives of the
equally notable Mr. Gulliver? These
authorities, while entertaining, are no
longer considered authoritative. Any
other book of reference in any language
will divulge conditions that
bring his theory to naught. "The pen
is mightier than the cword." we have
been ro!d but a stroke of the pen,
while it may seek to blacken a page of
history, can never cleaiise the bloody
Tartar scimitar that'has for ages been
steeped in Christian blood.
innocent errors in spelling, history
or geography may arise from two
causes, ignorance or carelessness, but
neithtr is excusable in the teacher.
The Balkans are very far away. The
history of her many races and her frexr-ara
ia nnt r>?.rfc nf the CUrriCU
U n Ll U T> M i O 44 V w jk^ w ?r > v? - _
lum of the American public school
system. ODly whpn such a war as
that which involved Turkey and the
Balkan allies arises is there any inter
est roused in America in these countries
so remote as to appear almost
legendary. Only when the whole
wor.'d ehndders in horror at snch atrooitie9
as were committed by Bulgaria
in the seoond war does the United
States take thought that over there
on the borders where Orient and
Occident touch there are men and
women, human like themselves, suffering
martyrdom in the cause of liberty.
Tnen the public interest awakes suddenly
and asks for facts and information.
Is it fair that these questions
should be answered by lies? Are these
Bnlgaiians, indeed, the "defenders of
Christianity aDd the champions of civilization?"
Let us for a moment contemplate
the authentic history of these champions
of civilization?''
The Bulgars of today are the lineal,
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nn&muieu uiuuu uu^ui-o w* ?uU
Tartars who originally drifted in
wandering predatory bands over the
great plateau of Tonran, whpre the\
formed a branch of the TonraniaSl
race, from which also the Turks are
derived. Their first European occupation
was upon the Steppes adjacent
to the River Volga, and it wa9 from
this district that they invaded the
Byzantine Empire in A. D. 499.
A. D 502 they again pushed farward
t^eir border outposts until in A. D.
517 a third and more important invasion
took plaoe. Upon this occasion
they slew without mercy thronghout
the invaded territory and took vast
booty both in treasure and pr s oners,
exacted enormous ransoms and enslaved
thousands upon thousands of
tue cap'ore 1 inhabitants.
Marcellinus, a contemporaneous historian;
mentions in his chronicles that
1,080 000 drachmas was paid in ransom
to the Bulgars for the non-oombatant
prisoners taken in thi6 raid, mainly
womeD and children. The Bulbars,
dissatisfied with the amount of the
tnhnte, retarned only part of their
captives, withholding the rest as
siaves.
When Justinius, Emperor of Byzantium,
ascended the throne, A. D. 675,
he fouod himself forced to repel these
invaders, who after a fnrious resistance
were finally driven back to their
original point cf aggression. The defeated
hordes allied themselves with
th^ Hagac, c.r Chief, of the Avars,
another Tcuranium tribe, and, thus
reinforced they descended anew upon
the Christian empire devastating
Macedonia and Thrace and even investing
the city Salonica, which they
besiged without succ ss.
8t Demetrius, Bishop of Salonica
(let-.pr martyred hv the Turks,) relates
iu detail the horrors of the seige of
Splenica the Sulgais and Avars,
givi s a drsadrui account of their
treachery, oriiflty and Savagery.
The Avars, furious at thjir defeat
and rheir failure to secure the lich
booty of Salonica, turned upon their
allies, the Bulgars, m-de them prisoners
and forced the wiole tribe into
slavery. For ne -riy hundred years
the Bulgars aou uieir c.egcenaams reiruiued
subs; quout to the Avars and
were liberattd only after the wars with
the great Byzantine Emperor, Heracliua.
Until A. D. 679 the Byzantine armies
succeeded in holding bank the Tarrar
t-'ibes in the territory north of the
Danabe, but at that date the Avar?,
with tneir Bulgar slaves and allies
surgo? southward again and succeeded
not only i" occupying, but in holding
the country between the Danube and
the Euios (Balkan; Mountains. This
-tu
j incursion was marked as usual, ly
barbarous deyastation, rapine, pillage,
abduction and massacre of defenceless
inhabitants.
Tbeopianes, achroniclerof the period
characterizes the Bulgars as "the
abhorred race."
From their n6w vantage ground the
hordes daring the years that followed,
that is, to say, from 679 to 687, pushed
forward iu marauding bands through
the adjoining territory, pillaging
Macedonia and Trace, exacting ruinous
ransoms and taking slaves.
They had no agriculture, no productive.
trades ot any kind, no learning,
no civilization. Their wealth was
extorted or stolen. Murder and looting
were their only professions. At
last the Emperor, Ju9tinianas the
n ^ k _ J . . * . V X51.5
ij-reai, was rorcea to taae tna n^ia
against them and their new* allies, the
S.aves, to whom he administered a signal
defeat.
Eighty years later the Bulgars, having
regained their freedom, entered
Macedonia and were once again defeited
by Constantino V. Tne empire
of Byzantium was then exerting all its
strength to hold the eastern gate of
Europe against the hordes of Moslem
invaders, both Tarks and Arabs, daring
a succession of terrible religious
wars. Did Bulgaria rush to the defence
of Christiandom? Let history
answer. Rapine, pillage, invasion into
the sorely tried provinces, who were
draining their blood and strainiDg
their sinews to hold back the armies
of Jsiam. A. D. 679, 687, 758, 659, 762,
765, 773, all dates of ruinous invasions
by the Tarbar Bulgars into Christian
territory. They were not even Christians
at that time. It is a marvel of
th? ages that each time they were defeated
and driven back to the Balkan
mountains. Not for one moment did
thoy join forces with trie Christian empire
fcj repel the infidels who clamored
nt the fates nf "Enrone. The ODDor
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tunities for exercising their profession
of slaughter and pillage were too good
to be lost; little they knew or cared
for the terrible fundamental struggle
that set Europe and Asia at each
others' throat9. They cared as little,
iu fact, as they cared for their own
oaths and promises.
History has presedved Bulgaria^
black record.
After the defeat of these barbarians
in 773 A. D , while yet the delegates
of the Buigar chieftains were in Constantinople
suing for ' peace, the
Christian emperor was informed that
an army of 12,000 BulgarS had assembled
on the borders of Macedonia
and Thrace preparatory to a renewel
invasion in order to replenish by ransom
and loot their excht quer depleted
tbeir last disastrous campaign
The emperor immediately took the
field against them and once more they
were put to flight.- *
A fx nAn il _ 1 lAH?n
?\. L>. OW, ILKJ DUl^iUB, uayiug icoiued
where the treasure destined to pay
off the Byzmtine army was then
located, made a sadden raid into
Christian territory and seized 1,100
Livres of gold, a sum tqual to 1,188,000
drachmas. They then invaded
Tnraoe under the Leadership of Krum,
their chieftain, and slew 6,000 soldiers
and vast numbers of the unarmed inhabitants.
The Byzantine Emperor,
Nikiforos, came to the ret-one, defeated
the enemy and captured the tents of
the leaders, where enormous treasures
of loot was found.
While Krum was discussing the
Treaty of Peace wi:h the Emperor his
troops treacherous^ attacked their
conquerors. They succeeded in isolating
the Emperor and fifty of His escort
from thereat of his suite, who refused
to surrender aud fought an til the lass
WI11 A * ' fK a ol
iuau w no auicui ui tuc
and atrocities that followed Theophanes,
the historian, has left a long
account. "All .beautiful Christian
girls that were captured in the proviaoe
were ravished. Tne barbarons
Krum cut off the head of the treacherously
slain Emperor vTitn his own
sword when he found the dead body
lying among his slam dignitaries, ana
of this gaastly trophy he had fashioned
a crmkiug cup. 8trauge con uct. i*
it not, for a "Defender of Christianity, '
bat not in the least unfamiliar to the
annals of the Hun and Vandal.
In 813 Kruca again invaded Northern
Thrace (Eastern Ruine.ia) and
captured the inhabitants ot Zagcra.
The entire province was pillaged and
devastated, a work to wnien ihey pr.
oceded with painstaking ihor, n^hnets
from July to Octub i, according o the
chronicles. Tue filloaiug yearKium
communicated with ih? E-^p^ror Leon,
offering to Conclude peace, but demanded
the ehuicrst maidens of Cons
antinople to be beat to him. His demands
were refused. aim in reprisal
he ordered that eviery building in
Thrace be raz-.d. Tins second devastation
he accomplish* a at hie leisure, according
to the Chrome.i r Symton Magisi.rus
iiu.ltiiiir t-n 4he Huuni mvri<*ds
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< f wen, women and children. Tims
be appeased his fu v ai ti.e li<st defeat.
All the world knows how the empire
of Byzantium, nfu r centuries of
resisience lo infidel onslaughts, fell at
last before the irre.-istable onrush of
j Moslem luiy that, surging onward,
threatened to overwhelm aU of CoDti- j
neatil Barope. Bat the world does
not seem to realize that the Bulgars,
! far from coming to the assistance of
threatened Christianity, seized theop.
portonity to barn, sack and pillage anI
resisted and to their hearts' content,
offering a hideous picture to all humanity,
hardly suggestive of the title,
"Defenders of Christiandora and
Chamninrm r>f Oivili7.afcinnI
Indeed, the Bulgarians from their
first authentic records to the terrible
history of yecterday have offered a
I continuous spectacle of barbaric savagery.
They have conclusive1 y proved that
a few centuries of residence in Europe
and the political makeshift of the
adoption of th*1 Christian religion
cannot make a civilized European ji
people out of a horde of Tartars.
The massacre of 50,000 noncombatant
Greeks and Turks in Macedonia
during the Greco-Bulgarian war and
of 150,000 Turks iu Thrace and Macedonia
during the Turko-Balkan struggle
shows that, the history of the Bulgars
repeats itself.
Never have thcrs wild hordes created
anything. Ou the contrary, destruction
has been their pastime. Nothing
is attached to their name save odium;
nothing good, nothing human, nothing [
intellectual, notbirg noble have .they !
ever contributed o hunianiry; .,n y J
that wnich is base, shameful, treach- |
crous and barbarous In her passing j
she leaves only trade* of ruin and de- J
stroction, and the words of her mouth
are lies To her religion, houor. tiuth
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