The Litchfield County post., 1827-02-09


much more SO than the Turks This comes
from mercantile men, who are the Judges
in point of trade. The Turk is the mas
ter, and has not, perhaps, the same induce
ment to overreach in trade as the Greek
has, who is the slave, and obliged to de-
wise every means in his power,t gain sub
sistance. But in civil and political point
of view. / do not think there is more
hypocritical, faithless nation under heaven,
than the Turkish. Had | time, l could
adduce multitude of facts to prove it.
s'But allowing the Greeks to be ever so
bad What, / would ask can be expected
from nation that has borne the Turkish
yoke for four hundred years? wonder
that they have so many virtues, as they
possess genius and talants in a high degree
this, their bitterest enemies readily adj
NIT and they are ready to receive the two
grand means, and / nigh say, perhaps, the
only means which can render nation civ
ilzed, noble and happy-the light of
science and the light of the gospel. The
Greeks are every where ready to receive
the word of God. What might not be ex-
pected from such nation in twenty or
thirty years if they had their liberty :?
Where should the tree of science best
thrive, if not in the soil which first produ-
ed it Where should the fine arts flourish
more than in the land, which gave them
birth Where should the religion of Jesus
find more welcome abode, than in the
hearts of those, who, with all their eros,
are ready to die as martyrs for his name
For the Greek has only to say. "There is
no God, but God, and Mohammed is the
apostle of Cod" and he is free--he is
pardoned-he has all the rights of Mus
SUMMARIES at rather than deny their God
and Savior, they welcome the poinard,
that pierces to the heart, and bow under
the scymetar which separates their heads
from their bodies. Is there nothing no.
bic in such nation Is there nothing
that can excite the sympathy of the Chris
tian, the compassion of the phlanthropist?
Can the scholar, can the painter,the sculp-
tor, the poet, the orator, the law-giver, the
advocate, the divine, all of whom must feel
their obligation to Greece, stand and look
on cody, and see her butchered A war,
ferocious, horrible, exterminating, has been
lighted up in Greece, and it has gone so
far that she must now be butchered, or be
free. A little band of men, poorly fur
| nished with arms, without money, without
discipline, have for more than five years,
braved the fury of the storm of war, and
they are determined still to resist. The
courage of Leonidas, and the fortitude of
the first martyrs, dwells in their breasts.
THE children and the sucklings swoom in
the Streets they cry to their mothers for
food which is not to be found. The beau
tiful and delicate woman seeks death, as
favor, from the compassionate hand of her
husband, rather than to be left to fall into
the hands of the brutal Turk, whose gar
ments are stained with the blood of her
kindred. What eye does not weep at the
remembrance of Ipsara, and Scio, and
Missolonghi? Whathear is SO adamantine
as not to feel on seeing thousands of beauti-
full damsels, with tears in their eyes, bid
ding farewell to their native land, wet with
the blood of their fathers and their broth
ers, going to drag out wretched life in
Mussulman haram
eff Greece falls it will be an everlas,-
ing shame to every Christian nation.
II ask not for war, ask that it NAV
be prevented. I desire not that streams of
human blood should flow more copiously,
but that the fountains opened should be
stopped. The gospel ofJesus Christ GER
tainly breathes peace. But does it COM
mand me to look quietly Oh, and see my
brothers blood shed by the hand of an as
sassin, when I might interfere and rescue
him p
Bells London Weekly Messenger, of
the last of November, says
cit has happened to us to pass through
some of the distressed districts recently,
and we can add our own personal testimo-
ny to the wretched air Of nearly all the
manufacturing towns in the west and the
north. Whole streets nearly closed, and
the signs Of deserted public houses creak-
ing loosely in the wind. Men, women, and
children, all wretchedly clothed, and all
squalid with the filth and hopeless desola-
ton of famine. Where is this to terminate?
We fear to give the answer which our own
mind suggests. In plain words, our own
decided conclusion is, that. under the Sc
ductive facilities of our former currency,
and the imprudent encouragement furnish
ed by the discounts of country bankers,
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