Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1826-06-30

Greet Ladies, to the PhIaeHens Of their 0,un
ser ia the rest of Europe.
TRANSLATED BY GEORGE LEE)
We extract with pleasure the following passages
from this interesting appeal -
FRIENDS Or GREECE :-Phe destruction 6
The flames Of Cydona the inhuman and most bar
barous massacre Of the Scots, the unexpected cap.
iivity Of Gambia, Cassos, and Euboe1, the sudden
catastrophe Of Ipsara the confagraion of different
villages and towns of Greece, The leading of their
Inhabitants into slavery, and the unhappy victims
Of all those misoftunes, are still present 20 our
minds. Nearly all Of US have seen mothers dying
in the arms OF their daughters daughters yielding
their last signs their expiring parents, infants
sill hanging at the breasts of their ileless moth
-ers. Nakedness, famine, cold, AMI the death
which those privations occasioned, evils of an
inferior and lighter consideration, compared with
those which have often presented themselves 10
our eyes OVERLOOKING with tears Many of US
have lost our brothers and sisters others have
been readeTed orphans, deprived Of every ASYLUM.
Perhaps no misfortune has ever been heard of, to
which either ourselves, or others of our country
women, have not been subjected. Poetic fiction
would be al a loss to describe distress so deplorabe
and so prigyous as we have seen others suffer- and
have ourselves Undergone.
- But we assure you, friends Of Greece, none Of
ilfe caIsmilies we have just mentioned, have so
much lacerated our hearts, as the inhumanity, or
rather absolute barbarty, shown towards our nation
by many Of those who bossteh that they were born
In the more enlightened parts Of Europe that they
had read admirable books on morality written by
our ancestors; and, what is still more astonishing
that they disciples of the gospel, and had lis
tened to the precepts oil the most enlightened teach
ers Of virtue
Yes, friends ofGreece, thee woes were indeed
oppressive, they were overpowefiog (; but, by the
Independence OF our country, we declare that the
unexampled courage, with which many Of our
conntrywom0u have resolved rather TO Re precipi-
ta,ei into the depths Of sbysses, to be cast into
she fauaes, TO become the prey of wild beasts, to
contend with famine in deserts and csverns than
arrain TO undergo the inhuman slavery Of the Turks
- the idea that oil we suffered was occssioned by
Che love we bore our country made our rBisior-
tunes not alone supportable, but even in some
fneasnres acceptable, amidst our tribolatons. Be
sides, had veto wonder that such misiorlune5 were
inflicted upon US by such enemies
&c But who, we say not OF our countrymen, but
of the Turks themselves, could have ventured to
imagine that he would see millions of Christians
regard with apathy and Indifference, as If in Ro-
man smphithestre, the wbols Of the Turkish hordes
united and allied, prepared TO rush on a few
Christians in order TO extirpSie them with fire and
sword And on what account because they
had resolved to redeem from slavery the land that
gave them birth, and to prevent in future the Turk
ISL tigers from feeling her enirails. Who could
have thought tina. the Koran would have more in
hueBce in rousing the Turks unanimously against
u.s. than the voices Of the sages Of Europe, and The
admonitions Of the expounders Of the Gospel, have
hitherto had 10 exciting the sympathy Of the Chris
ti2ns to avert the many evils TO which ne bsye
Zen snd sill continue 10 be sxposud.