The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1822-11-22

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this hour with accumulated horrors, NO,
only amidst the indiscriminate slaughte,
ofbastles, but in cold blood upon the
most innocent? Committed, my lord. Is
il is reported and believed, BY the perso-
nal command ofthe Sultan himself, BY
the command Of ruffian, if the fact be
SO, who, in assuming the character Of
insgistracy, debases and brutifies all hui
man authority, bringing imperial sway
and sovereignty into utter abhorrence q
contempt. Veto shame this Infamous,
barbarian at the head of barbarians e..
qually Infamous, continues to be the
scourge OF the fairest portion of once
Christian Europe, because Christian Eu.
rope, in the meridian of its power and
civilization, sleeps over its 1u,ies,and be-
trays its trust!
Nothing, indeed, is more surprising
than to look back to the earliest periods
Of our history, and to contrast them with
the times we live in. When we were
but small island on the margin of the
world, without power or resources be-
yond our own shores, those too, very lin
lied, and without any commanding infiu.
once over distant nations, then also in their
nfancies, yet our subjects then, with
their king at their head, went forth with
thivalrous, but ill-directed piety, to deli
yer the Holy Land even from the pollu.
ton Of being trodden by the steps of inf
dels, and sacrificed our treasure and blood
by expeditions rash in the extreme being
accompanied with no adequate force. Yet
now thar we have extended our domin.
ion to the very ends of the earth, spread.
ing the light ofthe gospel in our glorious
paths, and although we have nosy only to
raise our Commanding voice amongst the
nations, yet we shrink back from the dc.
iverence OF this injured people exposing
ourselves to the hazard of future wars.
by preserring the false security Of neu>
trality even in so just and sacred cause,
| 1t may be said, my lord, that l am
preaching crusade filter for the times
of Richard C9ur de Lion and his harons,
than that of George the Fourth and his
parliament IN the 18th century; but the
difference is obvious. The justice of
God cannot exact from his creatures
what He has not given them strength to
perform, and as thousand years is but
as one day in the fulfilment of divine dis
pensations, we ought not irreverently to
complain ofthe greatest evils until hu
man means have been bestowed for their
removal. II is then, and not until then,
that the duty Of exertion begins, period
SO nanifestly arrived, that all christendom
is called upon to stand forth; and it is
binding upon US above all other nations
to take the lead.
maintain that our not exerting our.
| selves to deliver the Greeks from the ty.
| rannous dominion which so grievously
| Expresses them, is not only the breach
ola moral duty, but dereliction of the
sacred object of spreading the gospel,so
zealously and, l believe, SO sincerely pro-
| NOTED throughout this whole empire, and
! which have already expressed and now
repeat, my firm belief that you are your
sell anxious TO accom- plish.
/ You cannot but know, my lord, that
christianity, reyiled, trampled upon, and
at last blottcd out from so vast an extent
OF territory. had not only, as have al
ready observed, its original seat within
the first shades Of this disastrous eclipse,
but was spreading itself over immense
regions on every side; and if the savage
atrocities Of the Turks were effectually
controlled, and well arranged establish.
ment Of the Greeks were duly protected,
theCbristian religion and civilized gov.
eminent worthy Of it, might be brought
to flourish together, extending their in
fluence all around The extent of coun,
try through which the Christian scrip
tsres might then, by degrees, be circula.