American watchman and Delaware advertiser., 1827-01-09

~ HELM TClIl<o w NJ i4lANSs
IT is now three years since you were addressed
on the subject Of the suferines Of your brethren OF
Greece. Many Of you then stepped forward
promptly to their aid, while some were startled at
the supposed hazard Of nyosng our government
in its foreign relations; some, perhaps, shrank from
the apprehended violation OF religious scruplc 10
feeding the fame OF war; while others yeied their
indifference towards an unhappy people, whose
fate seemed sealed and certain under the assumed
hopeessness Of even the partial alienation OF their
miseries. The heroic Greeks had just then ended
their third campaign. Three years Of conflict have
since elapsed and after period OF warfare equal
10 duration to that OF our revolution, they still re-
main possessors Of the Morea, with renewed hopes,
judciously applied, would, in the opinion Of the
Greek bond holders in England, after inquiry and
deliberalion, Immediately change the aspect OF al
fairs in favor Of the Creeks, and perhaps secure
aheir emancipation Greece ,ciH erentnatly be free
But in the mean time, the women, the children
,he superannuated perish. II is for them, Tor them
only, we now solicit your COMMUNICATION. Let the
warriors OF Greece work out their countrySs tree
dom. They ask not our aid. " We no longer lear
The Egyptians writes the Greek Nlkitas, in Octo.
Der last " but while we are lighting with them
We ask our Christian brethren for bread for our
Wres and children and the old men who have frd
10 the mountains -
The enemy has been defeated, and will be de
fested" write The Ephori OF Sparta; but procure
food for our riues and children. mho hare subsist
ed roots, since every thing has been destroyed By
our cruet eaemy. NIe ten,hs Of the lair and fer
Tile regions Of Greece lie waste AID desola.e; ard
while her sons are pouring out their blood like wa
ter in her defence the maron the maid, the infant
are wandering houseless and famishing among her
desert hills, or budding together under her ruined
walls in eI wre hedpeaa Naar NaDoti
de Romani there lie at this moment, more than
thousand families, eneamped in the open air, in
state OF the most lndesctibable misery.
Win it be said that this distress is too extensive
TO DC remedied For six years they have endured
prvation and woe with hefoic with Christian !ortl-
tude and because we cannot at once restore them
to peace and plenty, Shall We withhold helping
hand! Is this the calculation OF humanity, OF rea.
son, OF Christianity! The twelve cargoes Of pro.
visions, sent by the committee. of France Holland
and Geneva" observes our brave countryman,
Jarvis, in his letter to Nj, Everett. haze prerent
"a the final starvation If the country. Let not the
United States" he adds, smong so many states
and nations be Indifferent to the sulfetings Of this
dreadful but not desperate conflct' The foe
has lett us no agriculture, commerce. no arts,'
writes the chiel Kooooroni 10 MIR. Everett. - he
people OF America he adds, "a people Of Chris
aians, people devoted to liberty, Of whose friend
sup ahH sttHpdtHy ". ATcSIS VIC HdFS Hau ample
proof are, TO cur great misfortune, the far,hcst re
moved from US. Bu remote as they ave, sir, the
irends OF freedom and humanity may vet eontu
butte 10 the relief OF our country; nor will their aid
be the less efficient servcrahle, particularly in
our present emergency. MIR Everett, than whom
no one is better qualified to Judge adds his lesmo
ny, that great amount Of suffering might be re-
iereG, by The despatch Of vessel loaded with pro
VISIONS Fellow crizens, II i. this and only this we
have in view; and 70 accnm1sh which, We ask
we enircat, your z, slous, your prompt co opera
lion. Twelve cargoes Of provisions saved Greece
from starvation. France. Holland, aud Geneva
furnished them. Cannot, then, the Unied States
iutnish twelve rnore-cannot Pennsylvania furnish
osE What Pennsylvania but would blush to
answer 10 the negative?
We do not fellow citizens, address ourselves 10
your fancy but to your hearts. We do not endea
7or to revive your classic recollectons nor awak
en- your lrulless chvalry We do not ask you With
the Messenian senate, "as the fellow cirxens OF
Penn, OF Washington, and Franklin not 10 be in
different to The descendants Of Phocion, of Thrasy
buius, oil Socrates. and of Philnpemen.' We do
no invoke you, by the names Of ancient heroes and
philosophers, or OF modefn martyrs--by the past
siorles oi Marathon and Salamis. or the recent
horrors or heroism Of Seio and Missoonchl: but
we appeal to you as Americans, as Christians as
men-a, husbands and fathers as sons and brothers
we ask you 10 succor and save from famine the
acomeh and children of Greece. Our cnile citing
committees will be with you witbou, delay; for be
tore the river closes our vessel must be freight d
and hoatlng, or il will be too late. VIII The genial
current OF your philanthropy be chilled and con
gealsd trs God forbid. Who Of you can refuse
on what plea, under what pretenee Have you no, all
plenty and TO spare Can your sending bread to the
iamshiDg children Of Greece. involve yout govern
1neni viii i, not relieve, extensively relieve them
and we ask our esteemed fellow cltizens, who shrink
from The slightest connection with any thing of
war IS there war in thisP Ye who, IN the first wear
OF our revolutionary conflict in this city, con,rbu
'ed largely to the reliei Of your destitute fellow
men, Of another province, although soldiers-w
you tor the first time, halt now in the work Of hu
mpniiy!
And shall We anneal il vain fnr ,rhat y eaal !.