The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-05-28


kingdom OF Greece-the brigandage exercised by
Greek ncendiary smissares in the Turkish provinces
nearest the Greek frontier-and the piratica atroc
ties r. N the ~. Sreei az all in
lies" which weak but wellmeaning minister's and
diplomatists are apt to indulge in. From an early
period in the present century till $780, the Greeks
excited considerable sympathy throughout
Europe. There can be no doubt that they, in CON-
mon with most of the other subject races were
cruelty dealt with under the old Turkish regime,
and the associations which literary Europe attaches
to ancient Greece predisposed the inhabitants OF
the West TO take more nvely interest IN us
modern inhabitants than in Armenians, Kurds,
Arabs and other more alien tribes. There is more
over something very fascinating about the Greek as
a companion. With many weaknesses-and among
the most prominent a sad addiction to falsehood-
he is kindly creature, vivacous, subtle in intellect,
graceful in the intercourse Of society The party Of
progress all the continent devoted to the cause
OF the Greeks those aspirations and Efforts which
were so sternly and relentlessly repressed when
directed to reforms at home. A Philhelenistic pro-
pagandism sprang into active existence in France,
Germany, and England, and was connived at by the
Holy Alliance, as sort Of lightning conductor to
divert danger from their own heads. Russia laughed
in It's sleeve and allowed things to take their
seryient to its own views Of ACKNOWLEDGMENT. At
last the Greek revolution the internecne strife
between Turks and Greeks, the swarming Of Klephts
tas the
islands It soon became apparent that the excitable
Greeks were little amenable to the control Of sober
reason. They fought bravely as guerilas,
and eneed sSs .sa
last man but to bring them to submit to civil
organization or military discipline was found to be
impossible. A pr0tracted bptchery and the final
extinction Of the Greek race appeared to be the only
summation the humanity of Europe shrunk aghast;
ard the consequence was determination. on the
part of it's governments to intervene in behalf of the
Greeks. But to this end the cooperation of two
liberals as represented by the Canningites, who had
broken loose from so many old tory preudices; and
of the Holy Alliance, as represented by the then
reigning dynasty of France, Russia, and the powers
Of Central Europe. England could not be brought
to tolerate the perversion Of Philhellenism into
means Of extending the power and influence Of des-
potism; the continental monarchs were equally reso
Lutte not to recognise any liberal principle of govern
ment The two parties agreed therefore, to take up
neutral ground in their Intervention on behalf Of
the Greeks. They alleged that their commerce In
the Levant suffered from the piraces which sprang
from the endless strife; and they insisted upon the
Portes allowing the war to be put an end to, either
by recognizing Greece as q tributary vassal State
(like Wallacha and Modavia,) or by recognizing it
as free, independent State. The result is notori-
GUS: the establishment of the kingdom Of Greece,
not by the ason-guided valor of its inhabitants,
and not in accordance with their republican aspra
Oed themselves that they had achieved master
stroke Of policy, in thus creating an independent
Greece, at the trifing cost Of keeping silence re-
garding the great principles upon which national
independence ought to be based and assigning as
the sole motive OF their conduct simple regard to
the security Of their trade in the Levahs. England
and Europe, are now paying the penalty for this
/" white lie."
The battle Of Navarino gave birth, not to Greek
nation, but to q Greek monarchy. The excitable
and rfica1 Eroako with oil
means of educating themselves to act as nation.
A Greek government, In which silly German king
and vain, romantic German queen constitute the
nucleus around which all the mercenary intriguers
and rufians Of the Greek race have gathered has
been upheld against its suicidal olies by the strong
hands Of foreign governments. France (since the
three days of l830) and England have acted in good
faith, though often with little wisdom; Russia has
assiduously fostered the Greek bureaucracy as the
permanent staff Of an organized Greek insurrection
throughout Turkey, whenever the time should arrive
for making o clutch at Constantinople. The EN-
peror Nicholas imagines that the time has come
of his property and his Athenian condottiei
have accordingly received instructions to complete
their levies and prepare for active service. The
Athenian bureaucracy are ready enough to respond
to the call their mbecty, corruption and avarice
have exhausted the of the uckess kingdom
of Greece and they are eager to add to it new and
unplundered provinces. The white lie " which was
made the preext for establishing the dynasty in the
name OF which they rule has not been forgotten.
They reason with themselves thus elf Europe
made us rulers of the kingdom of Greece as bride
to put down Greek piracy in 1880, Europe may add
Thessaly ana Epirus to our territories bride to
put down Greek piracy in 1854. Upon this hint they
have acted. Throughout the whole of the kingdom Of
Greece the jas have been empted OF the felons and
brigands pent up therein. These worthless have
been regimented and their ranks filled up by levies
from the klephts In Greece, Thessaly, and Epirus.
Some detachments of them have been sent across the
kish frOufior fho Aofoe suuhc
recently held commissions in the Greek army, and
Others have been allowed to resume their old maraud-
ing habits in the waters Of the Levant. The Porte
and its allies while engaged in repelling the Russian
invasion from the banks of the Danube, have their
attention distracted and their efforts partially neu
tralized, by the necessity Of extirpating robber
hordes In Thessaly and Epirus, and clearing the
Archipelago OF pirates, both Of whom find re-
cruits and refuge in the territories Of indepen-
dent Greece.
To prove that this is the real state of affairs in the
Morea and the surrounding mainland, isles and
waters we need not now refer to the reports of pr
vate individuals 1t is unequivocally and forcibly
declared in the letter Of the French resident at
Athens to the Greek Minister Of Foreign Affairs,
which we published yesterday. On the authority Of
the French Consul at Chacis, and the Admiral Bar
bier de Tinan, NJ. de -Rouen explicitly declares
that the sweepings of the Greek jas, let loose by
the Greek authorities, have been countenanced and
supported by those authorities in making marauding
incursions into Turkey, in capturing and plnnder-
ing merchant vessels, and in threatening (lke our
own rockies and ribbonmen Of Ireland) the French
Consul, and the peaceabe British subjects resident
in EubRa.
Though the marauders have experienced check
In Turkey, their Vaccinations throughout the Mo-
rea, Attica and the Greek Islands, and their robbie
ries and murders at sea, are apparently on the in
crease. How much credit is to be given to the
reports that the government at Athens has openly
taken part with them, a short time will show: but
the growing audacity and activity Of the insurrec-
tionary committee at syria is placed beyond doubt
landing has been attempted by their emissaries
on the island Of Ssmos, and an English merchant
vessel has been found at sea, plundered, without
living soul on board its boats on deck and its SOUP
pers drenched with blood. This state Of things can
not be allowed to continue. The resuscitated Con.
RAIDS and Zambres Of Independent Greece must be
put down. But how ? The mind recos from
the idea Of undoing what has been done-of
giving the Greeks no opportunity Of eleyating
themselves to the dignity of q nation. And
yet the Greek government cannot be trusted,
and under its misrule of well nigh quarter
of century the Moreote and island Greeks have
lecome more inveterately and profoundly democrat
lied than they were before 1870. To allow free ar