1. Skip to Menu
  2. Skip to Content
  3. Skip to Footer>
Monday May 21

Circassia: Speech of Stewart E. Rolland - 1862

PDF Print E-mail

 


CIRCASSIA

SPEECH OF STEWART E. ROLLAND, ESQ.,

AT A PUBLIC MEETING HELD AT THE

CORN EXCHANGE, PRESTON, OCTOBER 1, 1862,

TO RECEIVE THE

DEPUTIES FROM CIRCASSIA

LONDON:

HARDWICKE, 192, PICCADILLY.

Circassia, Russia and England.

The persistent efforts of Russia to subjugate the Circassian nationa have led to the presentation of the following Memorial to her Majesty: -

TO THE QUEEN FROM THE CIRCASSIAN DEPUTIES.
August 26, 1862.

As you Majesty is aware, since the world existed, nonation has attempted to conquer our country. Russia only some time ago, under the pretence that she got our country by treaty from the Ottoman Government, invaded us with an overwhelming force, and began against us a war of extermination, which she has waged for forty years, and which she is still waging, at the cost of many thousand human lives.

The Ottoman Government, never having possessed our country, had no right whatever to give us over to the Russians. There is no other affinity between us and the Ottomans than the similarity of creed and faith which makes us look upon the Sultan as the successor of our Prophet.

>>Download the full-text document in PDF format (3.24 MB)

 

Related Items