Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1823-12-30

governments. Their entanglng alliances, their
.nvolsed policy, their chimerical balance of
power, must at present, and perhaps forever.
forbid their interference in her behalf: and
another series of centuries may, for all they
VIII do, behold this farest portion of the earth.
nallowrd by SD many glorious re colleciiuns-
nus gallant and intelligent race, descendants
oi The brarest, the wisest, and the most polish
ed of their tinie-still gr0aning under the bar
barnus domination of the scmitar.
But To the people uf every christian coun-
try, the Christian Greek confidently appeals
aud does NOT, and shall not, appeal in vain.
England, Germany, France, have seen THEN
citizens some of the highest rank, proud ofa
raging themselves under the banner of the
Grecian cross and money and munitions of
war; food and clsthing have been literally con-
tributed by the generous people of these ma
tons. And shall America alone do nothing !?
America, who should, in such n cause do most.
from whom Greece expects more than from
nations, less free and less generous, whom she
beyond all Others, with REASON invokes Can
we read the address from the Messenian Sc
nate "to the Citizens of the U. States" aud
still shut our hearts To the appeal2
We possess in you," they say, friends,
fellow citizens, and brethren, because YOU are
Just, humane, and generous {; Just because free,
generous and liberal because christians. Your
liberty is not propped on the slavery of other
nations, nor your prosperity on their calami
lies and suferings. But on the contrary, free
and prosperous yourselves, you are DESTROYS
that all men should snare the same blessings:
that all should enjoy those rights, to which ALI
are by nature equally entitled. 1t is you who
first proclaimed those rights it is you who
have been the first again to recognize them
IN rendering the rank of men To the Africans,
degraded To the level ofbruies II is by'ynur
example that Europe has abolished the
shameful and cruel trade in human flesh; from
you that she receives lessons of Justice, aud
learns to renounce her absurd and sanguinary
customs. This glory, Americans, is yours -
lone, and raises you above al the natlons which
have gained name for liberty and laws.
:" IL is for you, citizens ofAmerica, to crown
THIS glory, in aiding us Ia purge Greece frim
the barbarians, who for four hundred wears
have polluted The soil. It's surely worthy of
you to repay the obligations of the civilized
nations, and to Danish ignorance and barbarism
from the country Of freedom and the arts
You will not assurediy initiate the crh,able
Indifference, or rather the long ingra,itude nf
some of the Europeans. No the fellow citi-
Gems of Penn, of Washington, and of Franklin,
vii! not refuse their aid to the descendants of
PhocIon, of I'hrasybulus, of Aratus and of
u HiiopUntn.
No, we dare answer for you, fellow citizens,
No the countrymen of Penn. of Washington,
and ofFrankiin, will not refuse their aid. We
do not ask much: and although we cannot
and would not, restrict the munfcent in the
measure of their voluntary offerings, we limit
our solicitations to sum within the means, we
trust, of every citizen. There are, we know,
theoretical phanthropists. who will sheer al
the humble and partial efforts to relieve extern
slve misery. But we also know how much
under certain circumstances, even little NAV
effect. There are veterans of our revolution
airy war still alive, who could tell the true va
Tue OF the coarsest meal, or the toughest gar
ment, IN the dark day of that conflict there
are chIldless rnatrons yet living, whose freez-
InS and furnishing infants in that dreadfultr i-
al, the scaniiest blanket might have preserved
from perishing, the smallest morsel might have
saved from starving. We ask you, then, for
what you can with perfect convenience be-
stow, and, on behalf of our brethren of Greece.
we will be grateful for the smallest donation.
Geo. M: Dallas, Langdon Cheves,
VIM. Meredith, Richard w Mead.
Joseph Parker Norris, Chandler Price,
Nichoias Biddle, John Sergeant,
James n. Barker, Horace BInney,
Mathew Carey, John Nj. Scott
Joseph II. Ingersoll,