New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-11-12
HOPE CHAPEL LECTURES.
Modern greece. BY A. RicoeovLo..

Modern Greece. BY A. RiGoeoULos.
Mr. A. RIcoYorLos this patriot OF Young
Greece on Wednesday evening commenced series
% lectures NJ Hope Chapel OF Modern Greece The
eetser ehout 81 years old of rather small stature.
arc was alfred in the picturesque costume Of bis native
country - the occasion The audience. although not
very large vas highly respectable The subject OF his
discourse Was general view Of Modern Greece. We
give only two extracts:
was In the yer ISIS that war Of independence
was concluded. portion of our Provinces had thea
been delivered from tyranny The Turks bad been
driven out and Greece hsa come down from her cross
in which she had hung suffering and insulted durax
whole centuries. Then. ir0m the mountains and tho
reghboring sles. returned crowd oi women. child
and old men, who had been able TO escape death
during TIE eight years that cur gigantic and terrible
struggle lasted they returned into the bosom Of their
beloved Greece ike the children OF Israel TO their Zion
in order to behold the rivers the hills aud
the fields other childhood snd to embrace their fathers
their husbands, their brethren, and their sonsin
word. all cur surviving heroes who had fought for lib
erty, like the sncients and delivered our dear native
land.
Oh what joy then rcigned among Our cities
had been destroyed, from rooftree 20 foundation.
branches sprung up in the streets in the midst of the
still smoking ruins our plains had become deSred
and solitary heafhs trees. ohves vines and dowers
in fact ythng that formed the bcsuty and wealth
Of The country-had been cut down. and the niyhtin
gale found place wherein sing her psadve lays
except some lowering laurel forgotten near hidden
spripg-Sn emblem of Greece. yet living in the tomb
We were poor, we afflicted. had no place
which lay head slept the ground, scarcely
having hut OF straw OF wood Every one had loss
to lament-a husband, brother father, or child.
In truth the life of the Greek up to that monen had
been compendium OF all the suferings of humanity.
Aud yet though melancholy JOY filed souls.
Our hearts palpitsiing with frsternd love and
celestial enthusiasm. because we found our country
free ard gloricus-because future OF new beauty
,presd itsolf before The idea that we had sacn.
iced everything-that we had suffered everything for
Liberty dear to the Hellenic race-and the legit-
mate pride tina we show ourselves worthy Of our
sTcs consoled u, and made happy. Tears OF
joy then she'd pslptGtions of faith and love- where
are ye nowi fatal blast which arose from the west
and from the north OF Europe came and dried up
those tes OF JOY and poisoned those beatings OF the
heart but the winds pass and the rose dropping
for a moment raises her lovely head more fragrant
and more brilliant than before.
In The course of his lecture he rccited couple OF
Greek songs 100 years old of patriotic character Tho
olympus"
Olympus ard Ossa, these two mountains are quarrel
ing Oymrus then turns and snys to Ossa, dispute not
wih me, thou that art hoddcn down by the teet
OF the Turks ! am that old Olympus so renowned
through the world have forty two SUBMITS and sixty
two springs; and every summit has its banners; on
every branch of every its Kle and my highest
peak an oase is perched holding in s tsons tho head
of wurIor 20 head sad the eagle 10 the head what
hast tho done TO be treated thus Eat bird answered
the head, feed upon my youth feed upon my va,or
thy wing will BECOME thererom ell long and thy talon
palm Armatol at Louros and ut xcromeros, and
twenty years Kleit Olympus and on Kss-a. have
killed sixty Agas, aud burned their villages rs to the
others whom have left the field Abanians or Turks
they are tco numerous bird, they cannot be count
ed but at last my also has TO fall In the com
bat"
In this song you the heroic deeds OF a warrior.
and J. the son Of Greece, see in Mount Olympus, tho
great focus of the creative force OF ancient Hela aud
the syml ocal center Of modern republican aud Christ
leu Greece In this eoge this bird embemstical of the
thought of the Most High zee the genius aud the lib
ery OF Greece taking refuge the peak Of the noun
TOMS and sitting in solitude and sayng to Greece per
secuted crucifed and illuminated by tho ungrateu
world What hast thou done, poor Greece that thou
by the nations of the earth and this head of the hero
IL II not Greece wounded but living, itreated, but
hoping and which although persecnted and suffering
feels in itself much life, so much creative power
~ to be able to nourish humanity yet, and to say
10 H. az the head said TO the eagle, through ms
you hall make your wings longer by an ell
when Iruhli.hed In Sreece few years ago an ora
ton on the degeneration OF the Hellenic World, re-
coived some letters of congratuation and sympathy
from come young Greeks friends Of mine. One Of them
in bic letter casting glance at coming events In which
our great revolution will be completed ard the unity OF
the whole Grecian accomplished, he expressed to
me wi.bthaf nigh; Of heroism should enVsiop me
beneath the walls Of jerusalem. That which rnyscL
desire like every Greek aud that God should permit
me one day 10 be able s rase, the last soldier OF
my country the banner Of the great Hellenic nationality
Oh the summit OF Mount Olympus, and then expire.