Armenia and Her People; or, The Story of Armenia by an ArmenianFilian, George H.
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Armenia and Her People; or, The Story of Armenia by an Armenian
Filian, George H.
Armenia; Armenian question
I believe it will be the Americans who will finally put an end to
the Armenian atrocities; but the time has not come yet. It will take
two years more, then this 70,000,000 of people will be aroused as one
man and stop them. I should like here to give an account of the many
mass meetings held here for our cause; but I can only take space for
two, one which I organized in Baltimore, and one held in New York,
at which I was present.
Mass-Meeting at Levering Hall, Baltimore
[Report From Baltimore Sun.]
December 11, 1894.--An enthusiastic meeting of Baltimoreans
was held last night at Levering Hall, Johns Hopkins University,
to make an emphatic protest against the Turkish outrages upon
Christian Armenians, and to urge the United States government to
do all in its power to remedy the existing evils.
The meeting was called by a committee of Baltimore ministers. It
was presided over by Attorney-General John P. Poe, and the
Rev. T. M. Beadenkoff was the secretary.
Addresses were made by Mr. Poe, Rev. George H. Filian, an
exiled Armenian Christian Minister, Rabbi Wm. Rosenan, and
Rev. Dr. F. M. Ellis.
Cardinal Gibbons and Judge Harlan sent letters regretting their
inability to be present, and expressing sympathy with the object
of the gathering.
Mr. Poe, in taking the chair, said:--"The accounts which have
reached us of the indescribable atrocities recently committed
upon the Christians in Armenia have stirred the indignation and
aroused the sympathy of the whole country.
"At first the nameless outrages inflicted upon them were received
with incredulity, for it seemed almost impossible that they could
be true. But there is now no reason to discredit the harrowing
details. Indeed, denial is hardly any longer attempted, nor is it
claimed that the reports of the cruelties of which these helpless
people are the victims have been exaggerated.
"Conscious that the facts cannot be suppressed or belittled,
the representatives and apologists of the ruthless perpetrators
of these atrocities are endeavoring to palliate and excuse the
enormities which they cannot truthfully deny. In order to shield
themselves and their governments from universal execration, the
world is asked to believe that the Christians of Armenia were
themselves the aggressors, and that the horrors of massacre and
rapine which have been visited upon them with such relentless
fury were but necessary and pardonable measures of punishment and
repression. The long record of the patient and submissive sufferers
is a silent yet unanswerable refutation of this falsehood.
"In their misery and woe these sufferers lift their eyes to us,
and ask us to extend to them such sympathy and assistance as will
rescue them from total ruin.
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