Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1862-11-26
The Creek Revolution.

No political undertaking was ever NOR
rapidly executed than that which has jus
been done in Greece. under the Leadership
of Mavrocordato. In the space OF on
week from the time of its first outbreak
a revolution has been finished and dynasty
driven from the kingdom. Taking ad
vantage of the absence of the king anC
queen, on an excursion. the people ros'
at various points, beginning on the Iftl
of October. By the end of Il week not 1
vestige of the Bavarian dynasty remained
A provisional Government was fully es
tablished, King Otho was deposed, and ht
and his queen, with their few faithful fol
lowers. had fed He had previously gonS
through the empty form of an abdlcatlor
in favor of his brother, Prince Luitpold
of Bavaria The revolution thus sum
marily brought about appears 10 have
been bloodless. Atall events no conflicts
of arms are reported. The people seem
to have been unanimous in opposition to
the king, and the army made no serious
resistance to their movement.
No one can feel any particular sympa-
thy for the fallen dynasty of Greece. The
Greeks never liked their German king
and queen, and it is safe to say that the
king and queen did not like the Greeks.
Otho is little better than an imbecile; he
is the weakest son OF the ex king Louis, OF
Bavaria. His wife is strong minded and
ambitions. She has, indeed, been the
ruling spirit of the Government, and has
sustained it when her husband 5 weakness
would have suffered it to sink. But she
never made herself popular, and has had
as little sympathy abroad as she has at
home. The selection by the Western
Powers of Ohio, as king for Greece, in
1882, was pis aLLer. A king was wanted.
Leopold. of SAKE Coburg, now King of the
Belgians, had been chosen, but he was
wisely abdicated at the end of four months.
1t was then thought safe, at least, TO take
a boyish prince of third-rate German
power, and 0tho was available. Greece
has ever since been restive under this
imbecile foreign rule. The King and
Queen were of different religion rs well
as different race, and through they pro
fesSed conformity to the Greek Church,
no one had any faith in their sincerity
The Court of Athens was little more than
colony from the Court of Munich. and
the Attic spirit revolved at the Beotian
system that was forced upon them by the
Western Powers. The
Greeks have at last thrown off the yoke,
and even the Western Powers seem to be
satified. No revolution has ever been
more quickly achieved or more univer-
sally acquiesced in.
But now new sovereign is to be chos-
en-; for the monarchy is retained, though
a dynasty is banished. Mavrocordate is
only the President of Provisional Gov
ernment, and National Assembly is con
voked to elsct a King. Prince Alfred, of
England, and second son of Queen Vic
toria, is most generally recommended,
and he would probably be as acceptable
TO the Greeks as any other. The Objec-
ton, in his case, is that he is a Protestant,
and even if he were to abjure his.religion,
it is not likely that the English Govern
ment and people would consent that he
should accept a crown ON such condition.
He is said to be a manly, intelligent, high
spirited young man, and having spent
some weeks in Greece, within year or
two, he knows something concerning the
people over whom it is proposed that he
should reign. Greece, under him as king,
would be virtually colony of Great Brit
ian, and it remains to be seen whether
the other Powers, France in particular,
would approve of an arrangement that
gave them no advantages. Tho British
protectorate would secure peace to the
Greeks, and promote their commercial
and political;prosperity 30 thatthey would
better under Prince Alferd
than any,.other foreign prince. The ques-
ton of a selection does not seem to cause
much excitement. Every one seems
we'll satisfied that the German dynasty
is at an end, and there is an apparent
confidence that: whatever succeeds to it
must be for the advantag of the country.
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