The Litchfield County post., 1827-01-19

every circle of this glorious realm, there was erected a point. round which the fires of heav- en played, till the whole region was light and electricity.
 The deficiency Ofthe higher species ofpub lie talent in despotisms may he solved on the same principle. DcspOtIsm is jealou' of all separate legislature. 1t breaks up all the lit lie local communities, and concentrates pow CT and fame round the single point of the court. It has one minister, with his few sub Ordinates. All pubic distinction IS m"nopO- lized by this i.,,iro" circle; and the whole remaining ability of the nation shrinks from the hopelessness of competition for public honors When has Austria, or Spain, or France, Or Prussia had more than one states man of emineace at d time The whole pub lie ability outside has perished away inlinac- lion. The finest policy of a state, anxious to raise its people to the highst rank of knowl- edge, spirit, and general capacity, would be to establish as many local images of its general government as possible. The Provincial Par haments of France alone kept the provinces from utter mental stagnation. There may be matters ofNmOre pressing interest, which com pei even the most generous governments to
 
 Scottish and Irish unions may have been com pulsory on England. Yet who but must la ment the necessity of the sacrifice that knows the value ot rallying point for the listless a. bility of all the remoter parts of great king dom, the importance of planting the seed of manly emulation in even the darker and more unfertile corners of land. the pa,- mount du- ty of keeping alive the sacred fire of patriotic zeal, of manly intelligence, of enlightened and generous ambition in every bosom of the cin- pire
 We now turn to the Greek war. Greece is country of mountains. The plains are few, and chiefly on the frontier. A mighty parallel of mountains closes it on the north running from sea to sea. From this ridge shoots off to the south, penetrating the entire of Greece down to the Mediterranean, where it ends in the Tanarian promontory, dividing in its way the Eastern from Western Hell las, and filling the region on both sides with perpetual branches of hills. Four rivers rise from the chain of Pindus, that great central elevation from which the southern ridge is projeted-the Aracthus, flowing south west, into the gulf of Arta--the Achelaus, flowing south among the mountains, and entering the sea near the memorable site of Missolonghi- the Peneus, tor Salympria,) flowing east
 
 to the Archipelago through the defles of Tempe-and the Aous, (Viosa) flowing north east to Tepeleni, and entering the Adri- atic very near the site of the ancient Appel lonia.
 The divisions adopted by the late and pres ent governments are important for understan ding the narrative of the war. The Turks governed by four chief Paschas. The pa shalik of Tripolizza included the Morea. The pashalk of Negropont included that island (Eubea) with Bpotia and the eastern district of Phocis. The pashiIik of Salonica included the southern portion of Macedonia. The pa shilik of Joannina included Epirus, Thessaly, and portion of Livadia. Athens, Livadia, and Larissa, had each it's own separate gover- nor. s...
 The first impulse of the Greek war origina- ted Tn the French Revolution. That great explosion, which for its time kept mankind in terror, was perhaps designed to be mighty agent of good as well as of evil; it has al- ready broken off the New World from Spain and may be at this hour renovating the ex- haulsted soil of the Old. During the Revolu- tion, commerce had unexpectedly fallen into the hands of the Greek islanders, and with it comparative opulence. The general excite ment of the European mind had reached c. ven to the vassals of the Turk, and spirit of education and improvement had combined with a sense of their wrongs, and hope of their ultimate liberation among the fortunate consequences of time of change. Greece had also assumed sudden interest with the great belligerents French agents had been despatched through the country. Russian agents had been sent to cOunteract them.- Greek students. traders, and military men, had occasionally returned, animated by the know ledge, the wealth, or the distinctions of Flu rope. The great Turkish ship still floated heavily upon the waters, without anchor or sail, but the clouds were gathering, and the storm was to come.
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