American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1824-02-06


TrLtow.CrrIzENs,-Ibe subject of this address is one
Which carries with forcble appeal TO the heart of every
American. 1t is i'll favor Of people who's after ages OF
slavery in its most odious form, are now making NOBLE
and we trust successful effort for freedom Greece. that
land interesting aud sotear to every friend Of letters
aud Of eedom-he land of Leonas Of Aristides and Of
phocon-he cradle ST those principles OF civil liberty
under whose benign influence these states have reached
their present degree Of happiness and prosperityths
favored land has been doomed to witness her glores
nhorcd her liberties prosrated and her holy temples
tcd BY tie hand OF balbarous and infde oppressor
Nearly four centuries have ela sed since the cities and
plains Greece have been subject To the iron sway OF the
% and the descendants Of the heroes OF Ibermopylae
and Marathon have been treated as strangers and oucass
their native land Protesting the faith with our
selves, The prosecutions Of false religion, have added
weight to the burden of their CHAINS. IS, indeed, be-
hey Christians that they have been oppressed
because q rradherence 10 the faith OF Their fathers,
tal they have been regarded with deesation by the
Gady enemy Of the Christian haine. Driven to despera-
6 by arcs of sierng animated 100 by ancient recol-
GnOs they have shaken off the yoke OF tie oppressor,
and Tie cry Of freedom IS once more heard on the moH-
as and in tie vaes % Greece The hazard OF the at
tenr been a,ested by the unprecedented mseres
Nlrh have attended H. All the horrors Of an eXterml-
hating war; al he crehcs fiocous and ydictiye sol
dcy Gould nHic have been let loose upon this devoted
land Greece has seen her cities wlapl ~ iames her plans
m waste her people nasscred and where the sword has
been stayed by the hepessness ct age or the tcebleness
1t una HE wrechcd survivors, IeserYedt tate more
haplss than death itself have been sold into slavery
Amid tle da' gers which encompass them' me .reeSs
and Of their cause. Undsmayed by the gigantic
power Of their tyran unsupported by foreign aid, t'ei
Struggle regarded with Indifference not with hostile
feeling BY that unlallowed association of despots winch
SOW rucs the desnes Of Europe, and by proane abuse
ahnguage is styled the H!i alliance, they have main
ueU The contest with unabaed ardor, and, in many in
Stances with brilliant Assuming their equal sta
Ton in The family of nations they have declared their ~
dpnlt Ne and adopted constitution and form OF cSi
government, of which, happy institutions consi
tute the model.
1t Is for this I'M resting people, fellow citizens that We
invoke your aid and sympathy. For people, Who in
sprcd by example, desire tread their native soil
ancr the protection of equal laws unmulesed by barha
tyranny In this extremity, the Greeks have nau al
and nvolnarily turned their eyes towards us, for tina
assistance which has been coldy withheld by the Christian
powers OF Europe The trccan Senate has addressed t
an affecting appeal invoking MS by the tender appea
lions IL brethren and Christians to remember them il
1hs period of their utmost need. The Chief Magistrate
Of the Union has declared in the face Of the world, tina
ihe cause Of the Greeks is entitled to the best wishes
lhs government and people and the generous sentmen
o that venerable patriot has BEEN re-ectoed from every
quarter of extensive Republic, Our fellow citizens
IN different parts OF the Union have caught tho generous
impulse, and are extensively engaged in providing
pecunary aid for this suffering people, Let it not be said
that the people of Delaware sensble to the feeling
which, we trust, cherished by this whole nation Tina
they regard with indifference, the suterngs of galn
nation combating against the inveerate enemy OF the
Christian fsth Of helpless age and feeble woman sur
rounded by the horrors OF famine and desoaon.
10 ,at highly respectable portion Ct our fellow CITIZENS