The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1828-02-14
TO THEN YORK GREEK COMMITTEE

TO THEM YORK GREEK COMMITTEE
QUARAsTfsE GROUND, Feb. 5, IS2s.
GentIemen-Amld the various contra.
dictory, and exaggerated accounts which
are circulated about Greece, you may nat
urally expect some authentic information
from those whose residence in that inter.
esting country, has enabled them to know
the truth. AS far as relates to the distrib.
utng Of the contributions which N. York
so literally sent out,your immediate agents
Messrs. Miller and Stuyvesapt. will doubt
less give you full and satisfactory infor,na-
ton; allow me only to remark, that they
have been the means not only Of relieving
lnnumer,ble cases of individual misery, OF
feeding the hungry, and clothing the ma
ked and houseless ; but they have produc.
ed good moral effect on the people: they
were spread far and wide, not only to those
in the large towns, and along the sea coast,
but penetrated into the interior, and were
partaken Of by thousands of those wretch.
es who have escaped massacre, and fled
from their burning villages, to the caves
ofthe mountains; those who did not par
take, heard of them and were cheercd in
their misery by the thought that their suf.
| ferings were known and commisserated.
and that they were considered worthy of
having the hand of charity stretched out
to them from across the globe.
The wide spreading feeling could not fail
to do good, and encourage the people to
persist in their noble cause; nor was it un
accompanied by gratitude towards the DO
nors thousands " no had never heard the
nama ofAmerica, learned 10 pronounce it
Tor the frst time with blessing; and
Greece will never forget the kindness done
her in her hour If bitter adversely.
The situation ofireece, gentlemen,pre-
vious to the destruction of the Turkish
hect at Navarino, was most alarming: the
overwhelming superiority in number, in
strength and equipments, Of the Turkish
vessels, enabled them to pour in supplies
and rclniorccmcnts from Egypt and Con.
slantInople to the Morea, and lbrahim Pa.
cha with his disciplined Arabs. was pre-
parng' to sweep across i, and JON III,
hordes Of the indefatigablc Cuiuyhi, the
conqueror of Athens, before Cornth. And
what had the Greeks to oppose?--uo;hinp
NOT the shadow of resistance: wi.hon,
money, or ammunition, or provisions, who
could tie slightest force be kept together:
The Peloponesus must have been again
Iald waste, and would have been useless 10
both parties: for though the Greeks could
not have defended it, they would have re
treated to the Businesses of the mountains,
and long kept up from them a partisan
warfare: but the mass Of the people must,
have taken refuge in the islands, Here
was the last hope of the Greeks, aud here
It is probable they would have made good
their stand, and constituted small, hut
free people. But the battle of Navarino
has changed all, and it is probable that the
future fate of Greece will he decided in
the Cabinets Of Europe: if left to continue
the struggle single handed with Turkey,
she will probably come off conqueror; her
fleet will be- able to resist the enemy's.
and it the supplies are cut off from Egypt
only three months, Ibrahim Pacha must
quit the Morea or starve; aud in six, every
fortress in il must fall into the hands Of the
Greeks. As for renewing the attempt to
conquer it by a force from Romelia across
the isthmus of Corin,h, it would be beyond
the power of the Sultan; il would require q
force Of thirty thousand mon, whose line
OF communication would have to be kept
up through vast tract of country, inter.
sected by rugged mountains and difficult
defiles, most dangerous in the hands of
mountain warriors; such an expedition
would probably share the fate of Dvoma
AIS in 1928. who only saved a miserable
remnant Of his army, which OH entering
the Morea consisted of2J,0O0 men.
As for Romelia, il is lost, irrecoyerably,
tor the present; but Gambia, Cyprus, Scio,
and Mytilene, will be recovcred-and
these with ihe Morea, will constitute an
important nation and should the cry of
the people be heard. their government will
be republican one.
The Greek feet under Lord Cochrane,
is daily assuming more respectable ap-
pearance, and will soon be able to make
head against any naval force the Turks
can send out.
But, though as have stated, the re-.
sources of Greece are nearly exhausted,
and government has seldom a dollar at
command-yct, the spirit of the people is
not crushed: and only few days before
the battle Of Navarino, there was fitted ou,
perhaps the best regulated and most ra.
tional expedition that has sailed during the
war--l mean that for the retaking of Scio;
principally got up and regulated by Cara.
kis. This excellent patriot, and shrewd
statesman, on the first rumors Of the in
tended interference Of the European Sove.
reigns in favor Of Greece, saw that they
must include all those parts Of il ac tually
in arms; and in order to have Scio lnclud
ed, resolved 10 attempt the raising Of the
standard Of revolt there. His powerful in
ffuence over the Sciotes induced them 10