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"Since my letter of yesterday I have supped full of horrors. Nothing has as yet been said of the Turks that I do not now believe; nothing could be said of them that I should not think probable and likely. There is, it seems, a point in atrocity beyond which discrimination is impossible, when mere comparison, calculation, measurement are out of the question, and this point the Turks have already passed. You can follow them no further. The way is blocked up by mountains of hideous facts that repel scrutiny and investigation, over and beyond which you can not see and do not care to go. You feel that it is superfluous to continue measuring these mountains and deciding whether they be a few feet higher or lower, and you do not care to go seeking for mole hills among them. You feel that it is time to turn back; that you have seen enough. But let me tell you what we saw at Batak. We had some difficulty in getting away from Pestara. The authorities were offended because Mr. Schuyler refused to take any Turkish official with him, and they ordered the inhabitants to tell us that there were no horses, for we had to leave our carriages and take to the saddle. But the people were so anxious that we should go that they furnished horses in spite of the prohibition, only bringing them at first without saddles, by way of showing how reluctantly they did it. We asked them if they could not bring us saddles, also, and this they did with much alacrity and some chuckling at the way in which the Mudir's orders were walked over.."

J. A. MacGahan on Turkish Atrocities in Bulgaria

• Passing of Rebecca Jarrett
   From The War Cry (1928)
• Rebecca Jarrett's Narrative
   (c. 1928)
• J. A. MacGahan on Turkish Atrocities
   (August 22, 1876)
• Presentation of the Petition to the Queen
   From The War Cry (1886)
• Up to Easter
   by Mathew Arnold (1887)
• The Death of General Gordon at Khartoum
   by Alfred Egmont Hake
• Campaigning against the Acts
   From The Shield (1871)
• The Bitter Cry of Outcast London
   by Andrew Mearns (1883)
• Madame Novikoff
   by Rev. W. Tcikwell
• Gladstone and the Bulgarian Atrocities 
   by George Horton (1926)
• The Citizenship of Women
   by Kier Hardie (1905)
• The Double Standard of Morality
   by Josephine Butler (1886)
• The Lovers of the Lost 
   by Josephine Butler (1870)
• The Present Aspect of the Crusade
   by Josephine Butler (1874)