The Brave Montenegrins.

New York Times 100 years ago today, April 13, 1913:
Morey Will Not Move Them to Withdraw from Scutari.
To the Editor of The New York Times:
    Referring to the special wireless dispatch from London in which it is stated that King Nicholas of Montenegro could be bought off from continuing the attack on Scutari, permit me to protest as a Serb and to say that the statement and other insinuations against the character of the old ruler and his brave Montenegrins are slander on their fair name and their true patriotism.
    The Montenegrins are the flower of the Serb race, and it is in their hospitable and never-conquered mountains that the Serb found refuge when in the fourteenth century the Turks successfully invaded southern Europe and conquered the great Serb Empire.
    Their history records only one traitor, and his despised name was Vuko Brankovitch, who in 1389 betrayed Tzar Lazar at Kossovo. The devotion of the Serbs to their country is not to be excelled by any other nationality in the world. Have they not for 500 years under the hated Turkish rule, suffering all kinds of tyranny, maintained their sacred Serb name, nationality, and religion? They have been taught from the very beginning that the greatest glory to be achieved is to die fighting for the noble Christian faith and liberty. (Za Krst Saeni i Slobodu.)
        TOMO SARGENTICH.
        New York, April 11, 1913.