The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1821-1823, 1821-10-24

ward. But the Greeks have never shown
themselves ungrateful, or wanting in the duty
OF acknowledgment. And as they formerly
crowned the friendly cities with crowns Of
gold, and honoured them with precedence at
the assemblies and games, so they will again
honour and crown their friends and allies"
This letter is subscribed by P. Epites,
" Deputy of the Grecian Generals, and
by A. Koray, A. Bogorides, and N. Pix
kolo. The letter is in the handwriting
of Koray, and is written from Paris
The Proclamation is as follows -
Caisers Of the United States of America!
In taking the resolution to live and die for
liberty, we feel ourselves drawn toward gon
by a natural sympathy. 1t is among you, that
liberty has found her abode, and she is wor-
shipped by you as by our fathers. In invok-
ing her name we invoke yours; feeling that in
initiating you we initiate our own ancestors,
and that we shall show ourselves worthy of
them, in proportion as we resemble you.
Though separated from you, Americans, by
mighty oceans, we are drawn near to you by
your virtues. We feel you to be nearer to us
than the nations on our frontiers, and we re-
gard you as friends, fellow-citizens and breth-
rem, because you are just, benevolent and
generous. Just, for you are free :-Beveyo-
lent and generous, for your laws are the laws
Of the gospel. Your freedom does not rest
on the slavery of other nations, nor your hap
piness on their oppression and woes. On the
contrary, free and prosperous yourselves, you
wish that all men should partake these bles-
sings, and enjoy the rights which nature in
tended for all 1t is you, who first asserted
these rights, and you who have first again re-
cognized them, in restoring to the oppressed
Africans the character of men. 1t is your ex-
ample which has led Europe to abolish that
shameful and cruel trafick in human flesh /;
from you, that she learns the lessons of justice
and the duty of reforming her absurd and san
culinary customs. This glory, Americans, is
exclusively yours, and exalts you above all
the nations renowned for good government and
freedom.
1t is now for you to perfect your glory, in
aiding us to purge Greece from the barbarians,
who for four centuries have polluted it. Surely
1t IS worthy of you to discharge the duty of
all civilized nations, in expelling ignorance
and barbarity from the native soil of the arts
and of freedom. You will not initiate the
culpable indifference, or rather the long-con-
tinued 'ngratitude eff some European nations.
~ '1AC SOuuA1y VI CliIfS VI anu Oh
Washington, cannot refuse her aid to the de-
scendants of Phocion, Thrasybulus, Aratus,
and PhilopGmen. You have already evinced
your confidence in them, by sending your
children to their schools. You know with
what joy they have been received, and the
steady kindness and attention of which they
have been objects. If they have done this
in bondage, what will not be their friendship
and attachment to you, when by your aid they
shall hare burst their letters. Greece will
then offer you the advantages which you
would seek in vain from her ignorant and iero-
cious oppressors. The ties of fraternity and
kindness will forever unite the Grecians and
the Americans; and our mutual interests are
such as to strengthen forever an alliance
founded on liberty and virtue.
Kalamata, May 25, [Jnnae 81 1921.
Signed-The Messenim Senate of Kali
amata-Peter Mavromichales, Com
mander in Chief.
Such is the Proclamation issued from
that portion of the Morea which has
ever been the least subjected to the
Turkish Government. The little town
of kalamata, standing at the head of the,
ancient Messenian Gulf, and not far
from the ruins of Messene, is separated
only by brook from the Province of
Mama. Of the assembly convened at
kalamata, under the name of the Mes
senian Senate, we have no satisfactory
information the publication of Proc
lamatlon like this, and the mission of an
authorised Ambassador 10 Paris, with his
possession of the confidence of the most
respectable Greeks in that city, seem
/ to authorize us to attach some impor-
lance to the character of the body in
question 1t may be inferred, we think.
from the Proclamation and the letter
from which we have given an extract,
that the Greeks despair of assistance
from the great Continental powers in
their neighbourhood. We are at ii loss
to understand that part of the PROCLAIM
alton, in which America is said ssto
haze sent her children to the schools of
Greece, where they had been kindly re-
celved." Nothing occurs to US to
which this can refer, unless it be the
circumstance that the American Mis-
sionarles to Palestine stopped at Scio,
for the sake of acquiring the language
OF the Greeks, and were instructed by
one OF the Professors in the Academy
there.
From late London Paper.T