The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1856-12-03
CADIz OHIO WEDNESDAY: DECEMBER 3 1856

De5du by loIlullg StIlleS anu ulFisiOhS DSN"SN~A
the bastarIs or foreigners and the native citizens
of Greece; they represented, by the means OF
corrupt orators that the foreigners who had set
tied among them were hostile to the liberties OF
the Republic; that they wished to overthrow |
the Government, erect the country into mon !
achy, destroy its temples of religion and insti- |
tuto the worship of Ormusd in the place Of Jupi-
ter. As unreasonobe and preposterous as these
charges would seem to appear, they yet found a
favorable hearing among the susceptible Greeks
who never once dreamed that those charges
grew out Of the malice Of their ancient enemy,
the King of Persia, whose money had corrupt
ed the orators, and who, by this means, sought
a two-fold vengenae in distTacting the States of
Greece by internal broils; in exciting persecu-
ton against the adopted citisens, and in raising
a spirit ofrebelion among the latter against their
prosecutors in the lard of their adoption.
But all these machinatious of the Court Of
Persia proved inefectal to shake the devotion Of
adopted citizens to the Republic; but on the
contrary, it exalted in them more earnest desire
to prove to the Greeks that as Persia was the
common enemy Of both, they had foresworn all
allegiance to the great King, and were willing to
make any sacrifice to humble his pride and per
petuate the liberties of their adopted country.
The Court of Persia failing to accomplish its
n purposes in this direction, sought to reach its
e aims through another channet When Greece
was first coIonized by the Phonians and Egyp-
st- ,t,Nl1f fn
|, slayerv the latter, in connection with the prls-
oners taken in war; whom it was customary III
ancient times to sell into bondage formed near
ly three -fourths Of tie population OF Athens
and Sparta. Slavery and freedom are incom-
=, patable with each other; and as the Greeks were
ardent lovers Of liberty, strong sympathles
were entertained by many of them for those
who were held in bondage, The Court of Per-
sia taking advantage Of this sentiment among
the Greeks, by means of its emissaries had
money conveyed privately into the hands of the
W most corrupt politicians and orators Of Athens
and Sparta--fguratively speaking North
and South" Of Greece.
" These orators and politicians formed and pla'
ced themselves at the head of two distinct par
ties; the one consisting of those whose interest
made them favorable to the institution ofslayery
and the other by those who had no interest il
the matter, but who considered slavery in til
abstract, as an evil and were thcreforc layora
bic to its immediate and total abolition It ma.
seem somewhat singular that Persia should LEM
its influence, both TO destroy and perpetuate sla
It, verv at the same time; but the Court of Peisi
cared nothing about slavery: In fact, th
most abjcct slaves in the world were thos
poor Taxpayers who were forced to comply Wit
the enormous exactions Of the satraps OF Persis
The great king had another and mere momen
tous object in yiew he and his predecessors ha
waged an offensive war against the Greek
through long period of tittyone yeaus, an
had lost much and gained nothing. Having
therefore, signally failed to suljugate the Greel
by force Of arms, he determined to effect the
ruin by the force Of money.
This damnabe plot, which was carried on wit
so much secrecy that neither party knew tbs
the other was supplied with money from Pers
seemed to anticipate The ruin Of the republic
'u' These parties gradually becoming more hosti
to each other, at length had recourse to ann
at The same time, 470 years before Christ an IL
surrection broke out among the slaves, whle
threatened the ruin Of every fIee-born citizen
ed, Sparta. The slaves, joining the Nessenan
who were then at war with Sparta, determine
to exterminate their masters! In this deplor
bic emergency, Sparta sent deputies to Ather
- mploring their assistance. The Athepians b
day tween whom and the Spartians spirit Of jea
ousy and distrust had been kindled by CORFU
ose orators in both cities, refused at first, to comp
with the deputies request; but Cimon, who
name, and whose life and actions should
written in letters of gold, and should be hand
down to posterity as a model for statesmen al
patriots, through all coming time, forgetting
sectional anl private wrongs, and intent only
lad the general good of the republic, induced t
Athenians to march to the assistance Of Spar
by where for the time being, they put to rout
abb insurgents
80 Shortly after these things, the Messenio
ing and slaves sized upon Ithoma, when the Athe
he ans were again called to the aid of Sparta;
nav the formidable appearance of the Athenian WI
ash riors, and the distrlst which the Spartans
Per- tertained of the Athenians, excited the fears
de. the former to such degree that they reiuS
heir the corporation of the Athenians, but sent tn
bird back unto Athens, as if they were more feai
ifty- Of the profored aid they had sought than
4 . -, ,,,ta
rXes enemy they were called 10 ehcouh'ef' I
Of a act on the part of the Spartans so afronted
rlces Athenians, that at last the two States beca
with the deadly enemies Of each other, and plum
ated the nation in civil war; the history Of VIII
hich and its fatal consequences to the Liberties
tory, Greece, most readers are acquainted with. (
4 in 1t should bc borne in mind that while Pc
and was thus corrupting and running GIeece,
At Court of Persia pretended to entertain the
part possible feelings for the Greeks, and expires
9 to great sympathy for the distracted condition
raian the Republic; it even went so far as to fur
liv- large sums Of money TO carry on the war wi
dom followed; and the populace blinded and dec
an oil by corrupt politicians, never dreamed
lpply money which caused them to view the Bin
and Persia in the Light of a benefactor, was
ia source of all their domestic disturbances,
a the was gradually working the ruin Of the Repu]
war As incredible as these things may appear ie
ating see i we can find no parallel n moasrn W
other In the month of April, l774, during the reig