The Litchfield County post., 1827-01-02
BY s. Fs. STTTH, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
From BIacktcOod's Maga=ine.
 GREECE.

We have long been anxious to make some observations on Greece. The na- tional interesttfelt in the fates of the coun- try, the deep political questions involved in the contest, and the formidable proba- bility that the -insurrectionary war may light flame Hthat will spread through Eu- rope, urges it upon us. But there was a general deficiency of facts; the friends and enemies of the cause had equally. given themselves up to romance, and it was es- sential to truth to wait until those mutual misrepresenlations had been, in some measure, cleared away. This has been lately accomplished some travellers, led only by a rational and intelligent curiosity, have within short period visited Greece. Their works are now before the public, and from those sources, and such others as our personal knowledge might supply, general view of the question may be formed, free from romance, partialty or fiction.
 We disclaim all renthusiasm. Yet we do not hesitate to pronounce the cause of Greece the cause of human nature. We allow the greater part of the imputations on the Greek character-that 1t IS rash, given to quarrel, suspicious, inconstant, and7 careless 'of blood. But the Crock has not had his trial. He has been for al- most five hundred years.fA broken man, His place of birth has beeA only larger prison; his education the bitterness of heart, the subteGfuge, the sullen treachery, and the furious revenge of the slaye.- What estimation can we form of the I, ,L Of decrepit and barbarous servitude Even the vices of the character may be an indi- cation of the Sigor of its capabilities. The perversion of the best things is the worst. The fiery element that, ill its rage, lays waste the land, is the great and exhaust less instrument of comfort and abundance. But the question may be decided at once we know what the Greeks have been If they are now barbarians, we must re- member that they were once the lights of the world.
 But the Turk is barbarian. All his vices are thoroughly and incurably barba- ate for plunder, and "a lover of blood ,-his tastes are barbarian, eXtravagant splendor, gross indulgence, savage indolence of mind and body,-he enjoys none of the resour- ces of civilization,-he has no national lit- erature,-he cultivates no language,-he produces no picture, no statue, no music. Greeks are his linguists, ,and the navigators of his ships,-foreigners discipline his ar- my, and carry on his diplomacy. He re- sists the civilization of Europe with utter scorn, and even when forced upon him by circumstances, he resists it till it's nature is changed, and he is again the Turk of Ma homet the Second ,--he answers religious conviction by the dagger. He sits among the nations with no other instinct than that of the tiger, to seek out his prey, and hav- ing found 1t. to gorge and sleep.
 Yet no nation on earth has had such ad- yantages for the most cunsummate civiliza- ton. It has been seated in the central re- zion of the temperate zone,-the' master of its central sea on all it's borders from Syria to Italy on the one side, and to Mauritania OH the other. In the richest, most magnificent and inspiring realm that was ever under tho dominion ofsman-the land filled with those splendid remcmbran- ceS which have been the seed ofknowledge and highmindedness to the ends of the SdTtH llS pidilS anu iHouHtoHio o SuSSOS- sion of trophies to the civil or military glory of tho most illustrious spirits of mankind. Of all this superb dominion, the Turk has been the lord for almost five centuries. Yet he is barbarian still with all the ferocity of the old dweller of the Imans, cyenhis hospitality and bravery are but the virtues of barbarism; and wild, fierce and bloody he will remain, until the purpose of desolation, for which he was brought from his deserts, shall be done.
 The greatest and last of all the prophe- acies had declared that the light of the ear- ly Church shnqiassbe extinguished, and pure:G fstiaAity removed to lands remote from its original, throne. The noblest form that Christianity has yetsbeen per mitted to assume, was in its early state on the shores of the Mediterranean. The whole of Asia Minor, then the most four ishing, opulcnt, and' peaceful. portion of the Roman empire, was filled with Chris tian temples. The seven great cities to which the. Apocalypse is directed, were the heads ofthis commonwealth, and the foun- da,ion laid by the Apostles was finished by the work of the hands and blood of a long succession of pure and vigorous followers in the same services and the same glory AL. .I