Chapter XXII · THE ARMENIANS.—1845-1846.
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The Grand Crisis.—The Persecuting Patriarch.—Mention of Bishop Southgate.—The Patriarch's Mode of Proceeding.—His Treatment of Bedros Vartabed.—Priest Vertanes.—The Chief Persecutors. —Persecution at Erzroom.—Its Effect.—Central Position of Erzroom.—Progress at Trebizond.—Persecutions.—The Patriarch resorts to Excommunication.—Temporal Penalties enforced.—The Patriarch and the First Protestant Pastor.—Appeals of the Persecuted.—Charitable Aid.—Good Resulting from Evil. —Intervention of the Government.—The Patriarch's Subterfuge.—Case of Priest Haritun.—A Temporary Triumph.—Cruelties at Adabazar and Trebizond.—A British Consul interposes.—Effect of the Persecutions.—Barbarities at Erzroom.