CARDINAL MANNING AND THE BULGARIAN ATROCITIES.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume IV, Issue 190, 17 November 1876, Page 8

CARDINAL MANNING AND THE BULGARIAN ATROCITIES.

His Eminence has sent the following letter to tha secretary of the Working Men's Committee formed for the purpose of holding a great demonstration on the subject of the Turkish atrocities in Bulgaria : — " Lancaster, Sept. 4.— Sir,— No man who will attend the proposed public meeting on the Bulgarian atrocities will have a greater abhorrence of them than I have, nor will any man desire more ardently than I do to see the Christian population, not in Europe only but in the East also, liberated from the Turkish rule But I am unable to see the benefit of holding public meetings which propose no definite policy. And I can see no policy in any movement which may convert the war in Servia into a European conflict. Heartily abhorring with you all atrocities, and bavins no sympathy with the Turk, nor any fear lest any should, think so, I am sorry that I am unable to take part in the proposed meeting —I remain, Sir, your faithful servant, (Signed) Henry E., Car-dinal-Archbishop." On Tuesday evening, Sept. 4., the Mayor of Lancaster gave a banquet in honor of the Cardinal. Replying to the toast of his health, his Eminence said all Englishmen must be horrified by the recital of the Bulgarian atrocities. There was a time when the united powers of all Christian nations were unable to dislodge the Turks. But now one power might do it to-morrow if the mutual rivalries and jealousies of the European powers did not bind their hands. We were possibly upon the verge of a terrible European conflict, and we must look well to what we did. He did not hesitate to saj> man of peace as he was, that if the European powers would unitlT to liberate the Christian populations of Turkey and the East from the horrible abominations of the Turks, he would be glad to see it — (applause). But let it be done so that the secret and burning ambition of no power should disturb that which was a high Christian duty, and not an occasion of aggrandizement. He deplored the disposition there was to make this profoundly afflicting sub. ject a political question. They must have one broad basis of argument. They had common interests, duties, and instinctsand what was needed was the union of Christian hearts and wills for one great purpose, under a sovereign to whom all ou<» ht to render loving and loyal allegiance.—' Westminster Gazette.'"

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