Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1854-05-31
The Anarchy In Greece.

i From the London News NAVAL
Inc utter anarchy which pervade the kingdom
brgandage exercised Greek
saries in the Turkish provinces the Greek
and the piraical atrocities perpeuated in the Greek
tes-may all great part be traced 10 the habit of tel
ing white iies which weak but we.meanng ministers
and dplomass are apt to indulge in From an early
period in the present century till $780, Greeks uatu
rally excited considerable sympathy throughout Europe
There can be no doubt that they in common with mo-,
OF the other subject races cruelty dealt with under
the old Turkish regime and the associations which ,
y Europe attaches to ancient Greece predsposed the in.
habtans of the West take more lively nteres, in ;,s
modern Inhabitants than in Amenans Kurds Arabs md
other more alien tribes. There is moreover something
very iacinatng about the Greek a companion. With
many "eaAnesses-ahd among the most prominent sad
auueuon 10 asehood-he kindly creature, vivacious
subtle in Intellect graceful in intercourse of society
The party OF progress over all the continent devoted to the
cause OF the Geeks those aspirations Efforts which
were 60 steny and reenessy reprcssed when directed
toreorms at home Phhellcnistic sprans
into active existence in France Germany and E,s,rS
aud was connived at By the Holy Alliance as sor, q,
lightning conductor to divert danger from their own
heads. Russia laughed in its sleeve and allowed ,binc
to take their course confident that il would ums,ev
render them subserven to its views OF arsrandi,e
ment At last the Greek revolution the
strife between Turks aud Greeks the swamng Of Klepb
throughout the Greek provinces, the half patriotic half
patca daring Of the men OF Spezza and other islands
Ii became apparent that the BILE wore M,
tie smenabe TO the control of sober reason They ongb
bravey Suerlas and eyinced a pertinacous d.terni
nation to tght the Turks the last casp of the
las but TO bring them submit civil Organization
or military discipline vas found to be impossible pro
tracted butchery and the final extinction of the Greek
appeared be the only possible result of their
luton. From such consummation the humanity of Eu
nation on the part of its intervene in be-
half of the Greeks. Bu this the CO operation of
two alien and opposed parties OF the line
rails, represented BY the CSnnnges who bad broken
loose from many old tory prudces and of the Holy
Alliance represented by the then reignng dynasty Of
France Russia, and the powers OF Central Europe Eng
land could not be brought tolerate tie peryerson Of
Philhollenism into Of extending the or and
Influence of despoism the continental monarchs wero
equally resolue not TO recognise liberal princpe of
government The two parties agreed therefore 70 take
up neutral ground their on behalf of the
Greeks They alleged that their commerce in the Levsnt
suffer ed from the piracies which spang from the endless
sre and they insisted upon the Pores allowing the war
to be put end TO, either by recognizing Greece "a
tributary yassa State like Wallachia and Moldays or nv
recognizing il free, independent State The result
notorious: the establishment OF kingdom of Greece
not by the reasonguided vaor of its and not
in accordance with their republican aspirations The
Canuugites and wings Of England hlteted themselye,
that they had achieved stroke OF policy in thus
creating independent Greece, the triHng cost of
keeping silence regarding the principles upon which
national Independence ought be based and ASSIGNING
the cole motive Of their conduct staple regard TO the
security of their trade in the Levant England and Eu
rope are now paving the penalty for this "shite ie"
The battle Of Sayarno gave BIRTH not to a Greek na
tion but to a Greek monarchy. The excitabe and inn
practical Greeks have been withheld from all means of
educating themselves to act as nation. Greek go
yernment, in which silly German king and vain ro-
mantle German queen constitute the nucleus around
which all the mercenay niriguers aud ruian. of the
Greek have gathered has been upheld against ts SUI
cda foes by the strong hands OF foreign governments
France suce the three days of 1880 aud England
acted in good faith, though often with little wisdom; Rus.
a has assiduou oseIed the Greek bureaucracy az the
permanent staff OF an organized Greek instruction
throughout Turkey whenever the time should arrive for
making a clutch Cobstantinope. The Emperor Mich.
olas imagines that the time has for burking the
sick man" aud taking possession OF his properly and
bis Athenian condote have accordingly received in
sructons TO complete their leves and prepare for active
service The Athenian bureaucracy ready enough
respond to the call their mbecity corruption and
svarice have exhausted the of the luckess
Kingdom OF Greece and they eager 70 add 10 il new
end unpundered provinces. The white lie which was
made the preieIt for establishing the dynasty in the
name OF which they rule has not been forgotten.
They With themselves thus :-"If Europe
made rulers OF the kingdom Of Greece as bribe to
put down Greek piracy in 1880, Europe may add Thes-
sally and EPrus to our territories brbe put down
Greek piracy in 1854 Upon this hint they have acted
Throughout the whole Of the kingdom of Greece the ais
have been empted Of the felons and bgands pent up
therein These worthless have been regmeoted and their
ranks filed up by evies from the Klepths IN Greece
ThessoY, and Eprus. Some detachments OF them have
the Turkish frontier under the command
Of officers who recently held commissions ia the Greek
army, and Others have been allowed their old
rnaaudng habits in the Of the LevanL The Porte
aud ts aes, while eogaged in repeUg the Russian ia.
vasiOu from the banks OF the Danube have their
ton distracted aud their efforts partially ralized by
the necessity Of eNpAng obber hOrdes in Thessiy aud
Eprus, and clearing the Archipelago Of pirates both Of
whom find recruits and refuge in the territories Of iu
dependent Greece.
To prove that this is the real Of affairs in the No
and the surrounding mainland, ISLES aud waters We
need refer to the reports Of private Individuals
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the French resident At Athens TO the Greek Minister Of
Foreign Affairs, which published yesterday. On the
authority Of the French Consul at Chacs and the Admi.
raj Barber dc Tinin NJ de Forth Rouen explicitly de-
cares that the sweepngs Of the Greek s let loose by
the Greek authorities have been couuteusnced and sup
ported by those authorities 10 making marauding incur
sions into Turkey in capturing snd pundetiug
vessels and n threatening like rockites aud rib.
bonmen Of Ireland the French Consul and the pelceabe
= British subjects resident 10 Euboea
Though the matauders have experienced check IN
Turkey their Vaccinations throughout the horea Atca
aud the Greek Islands and their robbces and murders
sea, apparently or the increase How much credit is
to be given to the reports that the government Athens
has openly taken part with them, short time will shoW
but the growing audacty and activity Of the usurrection-
ary committee syra s placed beyond doubt. land
ing been attempted by their emissares the island
Of Samos and Engh merchant vessel has been found
ses pIundered without living soul board its boats
on deck, and is scuppers drenched with blood. Th,
Of things be allowed continue The
susctaed Conrsds and Zambres Of independent Greco,
i must be put down. But how The mind recoils fror1
the idea Of uudoing what has been doneof giving th
Greeks opportunity Of eevatng themselves the dig
nifty Of nation. Aud yet the Greek government csnuo
be trusted and under its misrue Of well nigh quarter
a century tho Noreote and Island Greeks have becon
more inveterately and profoundly demoraEed than the
before 1880. To allow Tree action u these citcun
stances Greek government is out OF the question:
there danger even 10 trusting 'hapeope And 70
the experience OF all history tells thai people hsy
become a. for sel government under foreign don
nation Tbs psrplesi,y, Ia which hnd ourselves To-
vOlvsd, he n,tur. aud necessary fruit Of 'hs uid pol