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possessed the love and confidence of her husband, and little by 

 little the poison imbibed circulated through her veins." 



The writer continues, that as it is impossible for a reaction to 

 occur in a country without its rushing to the opposite evil, in 

 Turkey the leap from ignorance to knowledge had the first effect 

 of so dazzling the Turkish woman that, in casting off the ancient 

 trammels, she also in many cases abandoned the code of honor 

 existent among women in every country. " Of our old customs, 

 as well as of our old faith, very little remains, and it is only in 

 the lower orders, or the most secluded harems, that some vestige 

 of them can be found. At Constantinople women hardly hide 

 their faces, and think it no shame to appear before the public in 

 habiliments which would be hardly considered decent with the 

 lowest dregs of European society." 



But, as Adalet sagely observes, " All this is a secondary ques- 

 tion." She rightly appreciates that freedom is a gift which can 

 be wisely used only by practice in the use of freedom, and does 

 not forsake her faith in freedom because its first possession has 

 intoxicated those unaccustomed to it. Perceiving that slavery 

 is the corner stone of polygamy, she urges that the women of 

 Turkey should strive with all their force for the abolition of 

 polygamy by themselves enfranchising their own slaves. But 

 she also declares that, however good, as far as negroes are con- 

 cerned, may be the result of the action of the English Govern- 

 ment in Egyp't for the enforced abolition of slavery, the*effect 

 upon the Circassians has been only evil, and that continually, and 

 for these reasons : " No Circassian would ever condescend to go to 

 the slave-home, or work as a servant. What has, then, been the 

 result ? Hundreds of white slaves have gone to the police court 

 for their freedom, and from there have gone to the bad. In fact, 

 they only took their papers with that intention, as no Circassian 

 ever thought that slavery was a shame, or that it was irksome in 

 any way. Freedom to them means nothing unless the freedom is 

 accompanied by a husband and a home, and they know very well 

 they can not expect these from the police court, as no marriage 

 can be valid with the paper taken from there. . . . They have 

 given a bad repute to the police court, and now no slave who 

 respects herself will go there." Thus Adalet concludes : " I 

 frankly own that I think, in the case of the Circassians, no 

 efforts made for the abolishment of slavery will be successful, 

 when coming from the outside. It is we, we alone, who can, by 

 enfranchising and marrying out, little by little, those we possess, 

 and buying no more, end a custom as bad to ourselves as to them. 

 Every scheme in which we do not participate will end by doing 

 the slaves more harm than they will ever suffer in a harem." 



The extreme of injury done to the body politic by a mode of 



