The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1825-07-20
SUorrcster:
WEDNESDAY, July 90, 1925.
GREECE.

place within few years past, none perhaps
has more deeply excited the sympathy Of
Americans than that of Greece. Nor is it
wonderful that it should be so, for there are
The scenes our earliest dreams have dwelt
upon !"
On her we have looked as the great source
and fountain of literature and the arts, from
which those streams have flown which have
refreshed and fortified the moral world. On
her we have looked as the early abode, and
for ages the only abiding place, of liberty in
the earth and, as we have thus viewed her,
we have been ready to believe her still
" Unchanged in all, except foreign lord"
The sympathy which has been felt toward
her has, undoubtedly, derived considerable
of IFS force from the consideration Of her pro-
Tossing the Christian religion, and that her
oppressors are, not only strangers, in the land,
but the unrelentipg opposers and persecu-
tors of the Christian faith. For ages past
Greece has been borne down by their oppres-
sion, degraded, humbled, and dispirited,--
"Het are Thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild;
Sweet are thy groves, and yerdsnt are thy fields,
| Thine Olive ripe as when Minerva sml'd
And still his honed wealth Hymettus yields;
There the bright bee his fragrant fortress builds,
| The free-born wanderer OF thy mountain air;
Apollo still thy long long summer gilds,
Still in his beams Mendels marbles glare;
Art Glory, Freedom fail, but Nature still is fair. :"
Yet while longer is she destined to drink the
cup of suffering while longer those groves
and fields are to be polluted by the foot of the
destroyer, and drenched in the blood of her
children. But, we trust the time is not far
distant, when wars blast shall cease and DESC
lation sheathe her sword, when Greece shall
again raise her head among the nations of the
earth, and again enjoy her former glory, the
| glory Of being free, virtuous and happy.
The belief that Greece must triumph, in
the present contest, is not built on slight or
unsubstantial grounds. Each successive year
the Ottoman has redoubled his efforts, and
each successive year has seen him defeated
more signally than on the year preceding
During the winter he raises and concentrates
his forces, and has endeavored to strike a blow
IN the spring, which shall be decisive. In the
spring. of 1929 the campaign was opened by
the destruction Of Scio, an event which will
long be remembered and deplored by every
friend of freedom and humanity. Yet. in the
course of the season, the Turkish force was
irittered away, and the result of the campaign
was decidedly favorable to the Greeks. In the
spring of 1928 the Turks were enabled, by the
great force they brought into action, TO over
run great portion of the Morea, but they
were, as before, cut up and destroyed piece
meal, BY the Greeks; and in the fall the
ormieo, on which they had placed their de-
pendance, were no more. So, in 1924, for a
while the Turkish and Egyptian fleets rode
triumphant in the Archipelago, and Ipsara, the
great rendezvous of the Grecian marine, was
captured and desolsted. Undismayed by this
reverse and by the odds with which they had
to contend, the Greeks omitted no opportuni-
ty of attacking and harrassing their adverse
ries; numerous successes attended their eff
forts, till the Turks had not only lost all the
advantages which they had gained, but the
Greeks had made themselves masters of sew
eral important places which had before been
held by the Turks.
| II, then, the Greeks have not, as yet, this
season, obtained any decisive advantage. it
affords no reason for encouragement. There
is, on the other hand, abundant cause of con-
graduation, that they have not, as formerly.
experienced any reverse. The whole strength
and power of the Ottoman Empire has been
put forth, and the army which they landed in
Greece, instead of overrunning the country, is
itselfcooped up and surrounded by the Greeks.
with but doubtful chance for its escape
/ Every day that the contest is protracted the
chances in favor Of Greece multiply. Dissen-
sions spread far and wide among the Turks.
their finances are in ruipous condition, and
many of their tributary princes wait only for
favorable opportunity TO throw off the yoke.
We may therefore look forward with conf
dence to the final triumph of Greece; and,
while we deploro the sufferings which, in the
mean time, she is destined to encounter. we
are consoled in the belief that brighter day
is dawning upon her, and that she may here.
after receive some remuneration for them. in
the enjoyment offreedom, and in the establish
ment of institutions, which will guarantee TO
her portion, at least, of the blessings which
we, as people, enjoy.
Since the above was in type, accounts Of
further successes, on the part of the Greeks.
have been received, and will be found under
| our mail head.
Rssusestation from, DrOwning I'm our pa
per of this day we publish the account of the
drowning Of person, whose recovery was
prevented by his having been rolled on a