The Litchfield County post., 1828-02-21
TO THE NETWORK GREEK COM
 MITTEE.
Quarantine Ground, Feb. :. 18Q8


 Gentlemen,-Amid the various contradic- tory and exaggerated accounts which are cir culated about Greece, you may naturally ex- pect some authentic information from those whose residence in that interesting country has enabled them to know the truth. As far as relates to the distributing of the contribu- tions which New-YOrk so literally sent out, your immediate agents, Messrs. Miller and Stuyvesant, will doubtless give you full and satisfactory information; allow me to remark, that they have been the means not only of relieving innumerable cases ofindvidual mis- cry, of feeding the hungry, and clothing the naked and hOuseless; but they have produ- ced good moral effect upon the people,: they were spread far and wide, not only to these in the large towns,an along the sea coast but penetrated into the interior, and were parta- ken of by thousands of those wretches who have escaped massacre, and fled from their burning villages to the caves Ofthe mountains; those who did not partake, heard of them, and were cheered in their misery by the thought that their sufferings were known and commis- erated, ,and that they were considered worthy of having the hand of charity stretched out to them acrOss the ocean.
 This wide spread feeling could not fail to do
 
 their noble cause nor was it unaccOmpanied by gratitude toward the donor; thousands who had never heard the name of America. learned to pronounce it for the first time with blessing; and Greece will never forget the kindness done her in her hour of bitter ad- versity.
 viOus to the battle of NavarinO, was most alar- ming the overwhelming superiority in num- Der, strength, and equipments of the Turk ish vessels, enabled them to pour in supplies and endorsements from Egypt and Constan- tinople to the MOrea, and lbrahm Pacha, with his disciplined Arabs, was preparing to sweep across it. and join the hordes of the indefatigable Cutayhi, the conqueror of A. thens, before Corinth. And what had the Greeks to oppose ?-nothing-not the shad- ow of resistance: without money. erms a nu- nitiOn, or provisions, how could the slightest force be kept together? The Peloponnessus must have been again laid waste, and would have been useless to both parties; for though the Greeks could not have defended it. they would have retreated to the fastnesses of the mountains,and long kept up from them par tizan warfare but most of the people must have taken refuge in the islands. Here was the last hope of the Greeks. and here it is probable they would have made good their stand, and constituted small but free peo- pie. But the battle of Navarino has changed all; and it is probable that the future fate of Greece will be decided in the Cabinets oi Europe if left to continue the struggle sin gle handed with Turkey, she will probably come of conqueror; her fleet will be able to resist the enemy's, and if the supplies are cut off from Egypt only three months, Ibrahim Pacha mast quit the Morea or starve; and in six,every fortress in it,nss.st fall into the hands of the Greeks. As for renewing the attempt to conquer it by force from Romelia, acros: the Isthmus of Corinth, it would he beyond the power ofthe Sultan it would require g force of thirty thousand men, whose line O communication would have to be keet uE