The Litchfield County post. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1826-1829, 1827-11-08

60 lans 80 tgwcrs 81 10 SrTago, aad again llt up
ysc gsrtI"p,iOE ~ 70 maketh deSoiqfe over the
bcc1 rcrgi circl II the Athenian AcrOpniis. But
ihouph Eill eilnits may delay they viii not, cannot
ult.ins.c, defeat Ire progress Of knowledge. The
rrVp ly witness attest this IN voice Of
thradct ne e, eat circle OF improvement e.
nai.v be- ryu'ae'c. The Euu which shines at Lisbon,
will sil.H", ,t,!i, nj Cairo and IsiambOui. We may
disa u, U. 'l,tch Of mighty events. II Europe do
not gases rrpose the scimitar Of the ruthless OF
toman wd lain be bathed in the choisest blood of
Greece. i&ussia has been completely tOiicd m her
attack Oh Persia. The proud hopes OF the Northern
Autocrat OF scattering the Greene Lrbancd squadrOns
of Tells, at the first charge of her Georgian cavalry,
and opening the road for her calmucks and Cossacks
to the heart OF Persia, have been bafe tor The pres
ent, thus ends the march to India Of the Northern
COLOSSUS. But her long INDUCED day-drcam, of plan
ting the Cross OF the Gears on the Crescnt-crOwned
dOmes oil COnstantinop!e, appears the eve OF ac-
compiIshment According to letter from Portland
great activity is employed in fitting out the Russian
fleet on the Black Sea,-a measure regarded as an IN
dlspenslbe preliminary to with the Porte. These
preparations, are told, hitherto dsregarded
by the Dvan because they confined to the es-
adjustment of a military force on the Danube. But
as soon as orders sent equip fleet upon the
Black Sea the intentions of Nicholas stood revealed
and he was considered as DESTROYS of commencing a
war, in which the desnies of tho world might be IN
volved. Without fleet upon The shores of the Black
Sea, Russian army, advancing into Walachia might
be cut off, by landings in the rear; whereas, if the
Russian feet commanded the Sea, the army may pro-
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nacing appearance, de not think have we ever
thought that the fall Of tire Otoman's throne will be
so easily accomplished some presume. Turkey
will perish with the convusive throes of dying giant
Her uud;scipIned Spahs, Deihis and Schockdars,
will be driven back by the regular charge of the
Russian cavalry: but not without reiterated resistance
Like the retreatng Greeks around the body of Pa
troclus, their retreat will be protracted defea-step
after step strpt OF armor ami spoilst at last the dis
membered and naked carcase will be flung into the
last trench of Mussuman empire. The time is passed
since lsamsm poured her whitening tnrbans, like
sea foam, round the mghtiest capitals of Christian
Europe: and when her ferocious sons beheld the Ca
ph leader urge his horse into the sea, and lifting up
his hand to heaven invoking the Prophet to witness,
" that nature, and nature only, resisted The propaga
ton Of his la,os." The time for that burning zeal has
long past But who can tell whether it may not again
be re-kinded by collision with the rival bgotry of
Russia. To our view there still materials in the
Mussuman creed, for creating an enthusiasm equal in
character, and perhaps in degree, to that which
bed the Saracens to resist and battle the shock of Eu
ropes most warlike chivalry, with Englands lion
heart at his head preciptated the shores of Pales-
tine. We are on the eve, az we began with saying,
of tremendous crisis; and time only can decide,
whether the consequences of the vial of military
desolaon, which is about to be poured out, will be
pregnant with evil or redundant with good,