The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-06-18
The Greeks.
TIE CHIeTIANs THAT ARE eTRueGLNd PoR

TIE CR1IeTIAm THAT AM bTRUe0LiNu ~"
LIBERTY.
The people that are now calling upon the Ameri-
cans for sympathy, live in the following coun-
tries
First-The inhabitants of all Roumelia, being the
greater part Of European Turkey AMI consisting OF
the following PROVINCES Macedonia, Ihessaiy'
Eprus, Albania, Thrace, Bulgaria, and all the prin-
cipalities.
second-The islands between Europe, ASA ana
Africa, east of Italy
Third-All Asia Minor, Syria to the Euphrates'
and Egypt with the adjacent countries.
Fourth-The Ionan Islands.
All these people are asking for the rights Of man.
They desire to be free, to live under laws. They
contend for the exalted rights OF human nature.
All these people, together with the inhabitants OF
the present liberated Greece, took up arms in the
year 1921.
It was then that, after long and bloody war, it
was agreed by the great Powers to free only small
"a very small-portion of the whole.
They freed only the Peloponesians, or Morea, the
southern coast of continental Greece that little strip
of land which lies north of the Gulf of Cornth, or
Lepanto, and south of Thessaly and Epirus.
line drawn from the Gulf of Volo and that OF
Arta forms the northern boundary line between the
little kingdom of Greece and the Turkish empire,
NOW tneSe people are cOnIenulDg LOT Wud6 tney
did in 1921. They contend for that which was
granted only to a handful Of Greeks, inhabiting
small portion Of rocky country called the kingdom
| Of Greece.
whole 1t is equally just for the rest to become free
and united into one powerful nation under free
| constitutional government.
1t is to the interest of the world for this people to
be free It s to the interest Of commerce, religion,
and Of 1t is just that these people should De
| free.
If the inhabitants of liberated Greece laboring
under SO many disadvantages, have been the means
| OF spreading education SO far, what might we not
| expect from the whole millions OF their brethren
now contending or signing for what is noble!
1t is this people that will carry light and ciyiiiza
| ton into the heart of Asia and Africa being next
| door ueighbors, through the light of the Gospel
commerce and education and not the arms OF the
| mighty.
Il was grevous mistake to free only very
small part of the country that so herocaily fought
| with population Of less than million. BY 80 do
ing they created feeble kingdom, 10 the sorrow Of
it's free inhabitants, for 'to be weak IL miserable.
The independent Greeks have had mighty pro
tectors-protectors with interests Numerically op
posed.
Some ask, why did you not fight against thc
Turks before the present war between Turkey ant
Russian
We did, Americans, take up arms often before
this, but we were prevented, and they will Away:
prevent US, and misrepresent us until more gene
rous power steps forward, and, like the angel IRON
Americans the sorrows Of the Christians Of thu
East are very great. We are wronged. We are al
injured people.
They say that we are paid by Russia. They sa
that we received Russian gold. They say that tn
present revolution is the result of Russian intrigue
Americans if they that write these things b:
lieve them, they mistaken; if they do not the
are very wicked. Sooner or later truth mus
triumph. Americans, we are wronaed, we are III
jured, we are misrepre scented.
Who killed President CapOdistrias?
Who prevented our attempt when we took u
arms in 1910?
Who destroyed The commerce Of Greece in 1857
and capture ed all the Greek vessels, and blockade
the ports Of Greece Independent?
Who are now in swe ct alliance with the enemie
OF the Bible, and the tyrants of the Christians!
Who are now sending their armies in lberate
Greece to crush down The feeling of sympathy {
the free Greeks in favor OF their brethren strugglin
for life? We all know who they are.
But what is more wicked, is that though the
are the perpetrators of such crimes, they scorn .
the Christian, and devise arguments to throw apo
us the odlum and contempt they merit.
G. EvANGELIpEs.