The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-06-30
- my 30 GREEK REPUBLICANIsM,
BRITISH ho 1SSu iFtScouRAGEMENT or TURKISH
TYRANNI.


TYRANNl
SYRIA, (Greece) May 20, 1854
demand has been made, by Turkish Ohris-
l1AA =" Go 10 acknowledge within hVe DAYS me
tAn Ss'eis .,,n,blnq empire Of the ottomans Two OF
g"g ro,ers or the earth are holding up WIN aii,
Inc ascoyed and already dismemoerea oouy
ou,s VA forsbly requiring poor Greece 70 s"si 'ua
PoNN .t;y.t II said that ONO REFUSES 10 s"e -
turkey .'.,;onI Truly tyranny of late has cum
the na = "a tanles out the sparkles OF our ashes
ming so"p 80 satires on this age q bronze have mol
ieu ~" Iined TO oppressed nations what lnisior
!, Il mai the revolutions for liberty IN Ioiaiu' ti
49, and Hungary were delayed so ions ny uia ','e
os moi strike in season, together WIN inc 'ieeA9 -
,aaI When will the friends OF equal laws " uite
do4i ".,ions should sting us TO endeavor TO make
mn for lost time. Let the irehus VI "o,iv
~ a. tbair 1allaaium and America as Their rosT"'
80 saactinr ANYTHING through England what
- ,b result of all the young Italics young polandS
"' , uungaries organized under the Argus gaze OF
n-..L olicv9 A great deal Of smoke, ana niue hfe
tr,b and Garibaldi will tell you this. America takes
hl stand She practses what she PROCESSES She strikes
he the iron is hot and does not exhibit inconsistency
Wow her sympathy with the Greek exies through her CON
% But what have England and France done Dio 'hey
air from Constantinope when the northern bear put ms paw
an the Moldayan border of Turkeys robeF No pia ,hey
pish the Car for tearing away the Landmarks OF nature
and crossing the Danube in the face of parazed Turkey
No What did they do2 They attacked poor little Sfeece
and while Russia was statoning two hundred cannon pc
fore Shuma they stripping Greece OF eight thousana
nnkes purchased in Belgium and of a shipoad of mill
ary clothes made by the ladies of Greece besides perpe
trating many other pusanmous depredations. Why did
they not attack Russia before her suphurous breath had
scented the Danubian princpaltes Because they had
another foe What foe? Greece. But they had not
declared war against Greece but against Russia how
then should they assal Greece first? Ask the English and
French show less cowardy fear OF small State.
They ought they consider Greece dangerous her
as brealwater the northern torrent but all tyrants
have an understanding among themselves spare each
other and spend most of their rage in making good
Byrons accusation of apag out tie sparles of our ashes
Greece is free-minded State She has jury and con-
situion Turkey has neither therefore, England selects
Turkey her natural ally However in doing So she OK
hbed previously great deal of cunning to hide shame
What did she dof She employed her press in praisng
Turkish reforms at the very moment when the testimony
oftwelve millions of Greeks totally NULL and Turk
could With impuny bring in false debt against Greek
before Turkish mehkeme The press of England was
hired keep silence such disagreeable facts Engands
papers read not only in England but i'll America She
wished to appear liberal and she wished Turkey to ap
pear also Her minister at the Porte took to make
Tarker appear benevolent while he himself was the real
actor He made the Sultan refuse to give up to Russia all
Hunglrans who willing to embrace the Mahomedan
dogm and he made the poteutae Danish America
only uch as remained stubborn Christians. This policy
raised being earnest of The redemption of the
Turks from barbarism England felt herself prepared when
Eussians came accept the serhood of Turkey The
mantle of Hungarian sympathy thrown by Englands
enyoy over the shoulders of Isamism. The bloody caan
Of Macedonas wrongs thus concealed The torn scarf
Of Tbessalys torture out of sight The threadbare
iavar Of the suerngs Of Epirus allowed to dis
please the eye through the lens OF the British press Eng
land perfectly in her novel companonship and
Turkey herself did not expect that her friends would do
less than take useful hints from her longtred system Of
despo,ism. America, in the time was not prepared
for the farce that follow and which has reached tho
depth of ridiculous absuriy in the Peiraeus Let the sons
Washington learn these facts and how the Greeks who
proclaimed equal laws 10 European Turkey where they are
the majority opposed by Turco-English minority As
for heFench they too much blinded by their archbishop
and his Jesuits to that they only slaves England
IN this affair 1t to be hoped they viii learn their
before il is too late and postpone their crusade as they call
\ to more convenient II may delight the car
bigot TO hear Of crusade but France has too many
rcd republicans TO be satisfied with crusading when in
stead Of winning the holy 'spuchre she finds her State
mere football for the sport of England on one side and
Of Russia on the other
England and France TO make some show Of boldness
boast Of the bombardment Of Odessa as great rerbuton
TOR the Russians destroying Turkish squadron and the
a Snope But what have they done towards occupy
ng single inch Of Russian ground Ask the ghosts Of
he Turkish armies slaughtered by Russian cannon Ask
liner Pasha-for he il wns who promised 10 entrap the
enemy IN triangular array Of iorresses aud he then
ayed the way for by massacre Of innocent Christian
subjects OF the Sultan The press in France and England
eceyed soon instructions TO announce that the
hd been exaggerated This new report was circulated
WIN great zeal though instead Of xcusng the cruelty of
me turks and their allied Christian brethren IL only min
shed little the number Of the harmless beings whom the
Vtonan buchered in revenge for having been unable 10
Puse foreign foe Shame on the press Of England and
france II throws black mantle over Americas Shout
oef ana white mantle the shoulders of the false
prophet and sets the Bible prop to the Koran Liberty
Wad IN blood through Macedonia and Allah has the ,not
u e lighting to do in crusade in which the Archbshop
far ntimaies that Chriss cause is concerncd Search
me dark ages for darker picture than that which 6 Tho
oacS ground Of this brilliant golden era Of allied Chris
uans and Turks armyed against ono Christian sect that
sved Europe from falling under the sway Of barbarsm
nese tunes afford questions for Americans 10 consider and
uey arc the only nation able to save their iaf,U,ct,J
mOner Greece from the rage Of their pLgsieoI mother
england Which geneology shall Americans regard al.
democracy the daughter Of Greece
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