The Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1818-1824, 1822-11-19
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If | were called upoD," SAYS Mr.. Calf 10
his Letters from the Levant, {" to give general
opinion of Greeks as they are at this moment,
should fni myself obliged to declare, notwith-
standing my partiality for nv own country, that
~ point Of capacity they are the first people 1
haze mad an opportunity Of obserUiag. They
have generally more acuteness and talent than
can well describe. | do not mean informa-
ton or wisdom; but only this that their ac-
tons are to a surprising degree Of minuteness,
guided by Judgment. They do nothing without
having reflected on its consequences"
The spirit in which the Greeks have entered
on the present contest must raise our ideas of
their courage s Capacity. The simultaneous ex-
plusion OF the Instruction in the isles, and all the
parts OF Greece, confirms what we have heard stat
ed on respectable authority, that il was the result
OF an organised plan, prepared two or three
years before II broke out. They have not like
the Aibanlans and Servians, rushed to arms IN
der the bind impulse of animal sentiment; but
having weighed their means and their dangers,
having sunk tLeir differences, and united their
counsels, they have deliberately staked present
happiness and future safcty-property. honour.
and life, in great effort for their deverance
This is not the mode in which rude. ignorant
and debased people seek redress Of their wrongs.
They have been asked,
VINO now shall lead thy scattered children forth,
And long accustomed bondage uncreate
But the achievement which poets and travel
lers SO ardently desired, bat scarcely dared 70
hope, IS already half accomplished. The Greeks
have vlndlcated their high descent and proved
to their traducers, that they are not " changed
IN all save form alone" but, that with the Ian
guage and physiognomy, they inherit the soul OF
their ancestors. Byron's Grecian Bard can no
longer exclam,
My country on thy voiceless shore
| The heroic lay is tuneess now
| The heroic bosom beats no more.
Greece is no longer :" nations sepplchre
the foul abode Of slavery, but the living theatr.
Of the patriots tolls, and the lero's achieve
ments. Apollo and Minerva, with virtue
knowledge, and patriotism in their train. revisit
their long-dsserted shrines. The Genius O
Freedom, f" seated once more on Phyle's brow ;
exuts to see her children at last disdainino
, the bondsman's peace" and flying to arms
burning 70 aYenge the wrongs of ages, TO expe
the tyranny that has SO long dimmed the "rreeL
beauties of her Attic plains" and TO raise ur
again the name and the honour of Greece. Hel
; banners once more float on the mountains: and
the battles she has already won, shew US that in
every glen and valley, as well as on
suli's rock and Parga's shore,
Exists the remnant OF a line,
| Such as the Doric mothers BORE
, While the Holy Allies growEout their chagrir
at these glorious events, Europe at large hal
with delight the revival of liberty and the art
in the land that gave them birth--the restora
ton OF Greece hersefto the enjoyment Of those
blessings which her immortal genius first pre-
/ pared for the happiness and dignity of the hu
man race. When we see her rising from he
ashes, and resuming her place in the circle o
civilized nations, in which she once shone as th,
morning star in the host of Heaven, while young
Republics in new world are commencing tn
same glorious career under happier auspices,
is as if ancient and modern civilization had a
last met and embraced, and conoined their ef
| forts to Danish barbarism and renovatc tn
world. L0Hd. ". Chron