New-York tribune., 1841-09-08

GREECE IL Her GtoRY.-"We are told toy the amer
Of History says Mr. Mitchell in his a'lc introduction 10
rhe AcharnanS that when Crrsus, king ct LYDIA was
prc,rng 10 make upon the mighty monarch OF the East
and anxonsl looking about for such assistance as might ld
him in his perlous enterprise lie heard W would seem io
rhe first mc) of peoples the opposite shore OF
Greece the one Dorc the other of Ionic race the latter
with several minor states, submitting to sort oi supremacy
on the part the former To this state as supreme inc
jydan king condcscended be courteous TO an equal
with ne condescended to conclude treaty, ana from 10
receive such might demonstrate rahe ue g"u
wishes than the power of his foreign ally before however
these could arrive the Lydian had been defeated ny
his al-powerful opponent, hardly rescued from rghnl
DEATH and reduced the condition OF an humble follower
of his conqucror The over thc entire Last mad passed
the hands of king and he the bravest, the no
polite of his age whilst Greece neglected ana
despised, bid look hnme ard beware no" slc IN
rerered, in words with the will OF The KING Pass
but few years, and how changed the scene Sparta
The former ally of the foreigner holds herself aoo from Inc
East temptations and lis dangers whilst Athens. by her
hasty and advsed OF the lOnans in their re-
volt against the Persian brings back on her own land all tine
horrors of Eastern INVASION and involves the cniiie con-
sf Greece in the consequences OF her lndiscrei
And then with what rapdty do events hurry On We pass
from Sadis in flames the plains Of Aca covered With
the myriads of the East from the well touShten held OF
Marathon the pass OF Ihermopyte from Athens
the fa,r the beautiful deserted and burnt the andocked
bay of SalanS and the homeless Ahcnuns commencing III
that narrow sea destruction of that host which the bat
ties of Pa,ca ana Mycac completed. What would have
been the Lydian capves asonshmcnt as he hunby fol-
lowed the footsteps of Cyrus had magic mirror dis
closed him the which few succeeding years were
bring pass Would he have credited that those two
nations Of whose existence he had hardly much as heard
would be found measuring their strength with the
Lord of Asia coping with that power before which ne had
fallen defeating It's countless myrads and last pre-
scrbng to its now Submissive lord how far his vessel might
be permitted to SAIL beyond what limits they should NOT
espass and within what distance of the coast the horsemen
of the king should dare to rdcI
The stubborn patriotism of the younger OF these two ma
,on had achieved this great victory Yes TO the eternal
glory of Athens be ii recorded She and she alone was the
dcverer of Greece Had she faered, every thing
must have gSne down before the nvadcrs power 1t can
DO denied that the glorious struggle which freed
Geecc from the power of the Persian, almost the entire
praise not only of courage bur of nebcnes wisdom and
dsnterestcdness lies on the side of Athens. The gratitude
which she reaped proportionae And who can doubt
but that gratitude wo,Ad have been asllns-who can sup
pose that Greece would have forgotten what she owed
10 Athens how ac Atheus had been 10 her had Athens but
have continued herself rraer Magazine for August