Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-12-05

been unsustaiied by almost any OF those .orins
OF privilege and emolument which seem neccs-
sary for The performance Of religion In the con-
hlcting and worldly urgency OF human pursuits
and professions, and even with a vast proper
ton OF lis most productive subjects, nearly the
entire OF its tributaries, its merchants, its 10,
reign agents, and its manufacturers, Christian.
1t is an extraordinary thing that a cruel and
despotic Domination over whose utter ruin eve
ry heart in Europe would exult-for which not
a voice would be raised from one end Of the
earth to the other, to whose tall the most patri-
otto and enlightened philosophy look as TO life
from the dead, 10 the restoration Of Asia, TO
the recovery Of The l~oveliest region Of the globe
TO knowledge, peace, and religion; should be
still undiminished should cover that glorious
land, like the mass flung out from the volcano,
the fiery torrent checked indeed in its headlong
career, but there hardened into in%corrigible
rock a huge and sullen heap Of sterility,
to be neither cultivated nor removed by the
power Of man.
The Greek Instruction assumes 10 US an as
pect Of loftier importance from those conside-
%rations. Whatever might be our sympathlcs
with the fortunes Of a brave and unhappy peo-
pie, striving with their naked hands to tear OIL
the manacles that have cut them 10 the soul,
we feel a still stronger interest in this generous
struggle, from its giving the signal Of mlghtier
changes perhaps throughout the whole extent
Of the civilized world: 1t may be ex,inguished,
and the time, which shall yet surely CONES, may
be thus deferred; but if it should succeed, 1t
will have made the only actual aggression on
the fabric OF the Turkish power, the only per-
manent inroad into that great interdicted de-
sert, it will have stricken the first blow on the
Talisman on which is engraved the spell that
has tor ages kept the Ottoman throne lnacces-
sibIe to the hostility Of human nature.
1t is impossible that this goddess, corrupt, &
in6del% kingdom should be tolerated but for the
purposes Of Furnishing. There have been other
the benepolence Of Heaven, on whom the Otto
man has been brought as the locust, to destroy
the living vegetation Of their strength and pros
perity.-The oestilence and famine are the in
ferior agents of wrath, but the time for the ces-
sation Of punishment may be as deeply deter
mined as for its infection; and then comes the
retribution on the punisher. Human violence
was used in the whole course Of the Jewish
Annals for the castigation Of the crimes of Is
rael. The Assyrian idolator was made great
for his day by the fall of the chosen people
But when the hour Of deliverance was ordaln-
ed, there was ordained with it the ruin OF the
instrument of slavery and blood, and Assyria
was cast from her golden supremacy, and Ba.
bylon was condemned into the haunt OF the
vulture and the lion forever!
The Geographical Division of Greece adopt
ed by the Provisional Government as follows
INHABITANTS.
Eastern Hellas, containing $4,000
Western Hellas, 10000
The Morea, 100000
Crete and the Islands, $4,000
Epirus, 100000
Thessaly, 100000
Macedonia, 100000