nner truth" of
Pan-Slavism, while begging its protector to concern herself with the
"outer truth." The Bulgars were, for these reasons, to have the
preference in the allotment of the spoils of the Turkish War; and,
owing to the conflicting demands of Russia and Prince Milan, Serbia
did not declare war against Turkey until several days after the fall
of Plevna, so that she could not hope that the Russians would show any
special tenderness towards her national aspirations. It is difficult
to see what Serbia could have hoped to gain from the elder brother,
if she had been less dilatory; she gained from this intervention no
vast gratitude from the younger brother. Men may still be found in
Bulgarian frontier villages who were prominent there during the
Serbian army's regime. Some of the officers seem to have told the
people that they ought no longer to call themselves Bulgars, since
they were Serbs; but the propaganda was very mild. Serbian schools
were opened here and there, but if no pupils wished to attend them,
the schoolmasters had a holiday; and the occupying troops limited
themselves to collecting signatures on addresses of loyalty to Prince
Milan. No one, probably, thought that the addresses and petitions were
very serious--no one, that is to say, except a Dalmatian publicist
called Spiridon Gop[vc]evi['c], who printed a large number of them in
his handsome, illustrated book, _Makedonien und Alt-Serbien_ (Vienna,
1889). With regard to Gop[vc]evi['c] as a savant--he says that all the
Macedonian Slavs are Serbs--and there are equally uncompromising
Bulgarian authors--the celebrated Slavist Jagi['c] says that he is
sorry for the good paper which was used for Gop[vc]evi['c]'s book.
Another of his wonderful discoveries was that the Macedonian Slavs are
Croats. And one of his severest judges is a Croat, S. Jurini['c]. He
gives, as if they were most valuable, these fatuous lists of
signatures and informs us that some Bulgarian priests and agitators
tried to prevent them being collected. A Turkish official did, it is
true, show in too Oriental a fashion that he disapproved of these
collectors--on July 16, 1878, he quartered one Cvetkovi['c]-Bo[vz]in[vc]e
on the road between Skoplje and Kumanovo for having obtained 5000
signatures; and after quartering him, the Turk nailed the four parts
of his body, each with a quarter of the petition tied to it, on to
four posts at a place where four roads met. But many of the more
reasona