Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1823-11-29

NORTH American Review. contains a
powerful and eloquent appeal in ia
vor Of the oppressed inhabitants of
Gasgcs. Weregret that our limits
will permit as to transcribe the fol
"x,ract only. which forms the
CONCLUSION Of the article:
Petersburg Int.
Eve have seen, on the wharves OF
Boston. the household utensils Of
brass and copper. gathered up from
the desolate hearths of the butchered
Sciotes, bought as old copper in
SMYRNA, and as such sent to this
country. Does not this bring home
to our minds picture Of distress to
awaken our deepest sympathy To
see reduced to old copper in our stalls,
the furniture of line firesides of men
and Christians, who have themselves
wearied the Turkish scimetar in their
slaughter. and wi4se wives q daugh-
sers have been sold into an accursed
slavery to the number OF thirty thou
sandl We know not whether the
sight of these handle wrecks Of house
HID existence be romantic enough
for the sentimentalist; but We ask
our readers by aO effort of magma
finn, 70 make the case their own; to
fanr, an overNh lining force of bar
barians. speaking another language.
follau ing strange faith. let loose
,rpnn one of our largest cities, for
Scio. now desert. had a population
of 100. 600, to put its men to the
swnrd, and sell its matrous and vir-
gins IN the open market, into the
most re,olting and hopeless siaver,
We would ask our readers but to con-
cei,e Of a fate like this. as in reser, e
for one of the cities of our own Coun-
try, and then say what claim the
Greeks have on our sympathy?
In the lew remarks which We
have taken the liberty TO make on
Sbis occasion. We have not insisted on
the topic Of the glorious descent Of
the Greeks; Of the duty Of Fastening
10 the suCcUr Of those whose fathers
we're the master OF the world. in the
school of civilization. 1t is not be-
Cause We are not sensible nf the pow
er OF this appeal also; but because
We think a much stronger appeal
NAV hr made. To take an interest
in the fate of a people whose ances-
tors fill SD important place in the
history of the World aud of the hu-
man mind. is certainly natural, The
geographical names. which fill the
accounts from Greece, excite an IN
terest of themselves; and we feel a
double eagerness TO hear that the
Turks have not only been beaten,
but beaten out of the Acropolis OF A
thens: and that Odyssrus is still sue
cessrul on the sides ut the eta
White. however, this kind Of sympa-
thy IS perfectly natural. and nothing
ought to be neglected. which helps
the cause of suffering people, we
believe the Greeks have strpnger and
more imperious claims upun us. than
an, that grow ont of these ass0cia
tons. We ma, ditier as to the de
gree Of respect to Wbi b their anres-
tors are entitled. We may differ as
Ia the degree in which the modern
Greeks are really the DIS, endants of
the ancient inhabilanys of the soil {:
and more than one ira, e!ier thinks
be- has settled the questions. whether
the Turks have a rIghl 10 hold the
inhabitants of Greece IN bondage. b,
maintaining that the Greeks are d
mingled race. descended from the
barbariaus VINO IN different ages have
ove,ruu The land. The aim.ion To
antiquity. moreover. often borders Oh
the ridiculous, ant We entirely agree
with DR.. Coray. in cUndemning the
namr Of .4reopagas. as gwen To The
juGicjar, OF the new State. This ie-
viz nj nf classical names, in an ap-
piication totally different. was one of
the practices la bad taste which pre-
vailed IN the French Re, olutIon. and
though more excusable in Greece, is
better avoided there. There is e.
nough without these names to awaken
our sympathy. They derive their
power from book learning-they be-
long TO scholars and diletanti; but
there is that in the cause of the
Greeks, which ought to speak to the
heart of every freeman in Europe d
A .>....lx, II,