APPENDIX VIII. OUGHT WE TO HAVE SAVED THE CIRCASSIANS?
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Sir H. Bulwer to Earl Russell.—(Received May 20th.)
(Extract.)
Constantinople, May 3rd, 1864.
You are aware of the large and sudden immigration of Circassians into the Ottoman dominions.
The Russian Government has now acquired the territory of that brave and devoted race, who have only prized one thing more than country—liberty, or at least the life which is free from the domination of a foreign foe. They are flying the shores immortalized by their defence and seeking an asylum in a neighbouring Empire. In short, Circassia is gone; what yet remains to SAVE IS THE CIRCASSIANS.