Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-01-16


New York World conveys "a power Of satire
on the matter involved:
Whlleswe have q ralerswho does Anot know
what TO do with his realm, Europe has a realm
which is at q loss for ruler. The refusal Of
the great powers 10 assent 70 the election TO
the Greek throne Of the English prince, Al
fred, throws both GreeceHnd the great powers
into predcament from which we happily can
relieve them. American Intervention in the
affairs OF Europe can hardly be now regarded
as impertinent; and it we can succeed in set
Ting the Greek question, we may recover d
respectabilty and an influence abr0Rd'iwiliUh
whole diplomatic corps Of editors, with alt
their efforts have signsly failed to secure for
us. u
The Greek question is a simple one The
Greeks want king, but, like the old augurs
who bothered Lysander and Sparta, the great
powers interfere aud insist upon the choice Of
u sort Of royal Toots, who shall "be Of no
consequence" and give no umbrage to the
officious officials who 50, kindly care flor the
descendants OF Deucalion.'
1t is in our power to put an end to this di.
plomatis dilemma at once by an act Of mag
unanimous selfeaorhce 10 qgivelto sS5feeeea
our shining blade, would hardly, perhaps, be
safe, while Semmes keeps the sea; but we
can do better than this, We can, secure TO
Greece u sovereign whose Homsric simplicity
and HISTORIAN garrulonsness would recall TO
her the earliest days of her history, when her
kings we're the joest of all possible gossips,
and her priucsssesa the most unaffected of
washerwomen. We propose that Mr.. Lincoln
have leayeto resign the Presidency and 9ac-
cept the vacant throne Of Athens. The ar
rangement oughtto satisfy all the parties con
cerned. ...-.. ......l.
The great powers cannot object TO it, for
as Mr.. Lincoln has proved himself to be dan
gerous to nobody but, his friehds he would give
them less trouble than any stray German
prince they can. possibly pick up The Sui
tan of Turkey, his nearest neighbor, would be
greatly treasured by it, for Mr.. Lincoln has
already shown byjthe cordial greeting Dwhrch.
his organs are extending to Brigham Young
and Utah, that he has no prejedices against
the peculiar institutions at leastof the Mae
selman. To the Greeks themselves his un
failing facetiousness would warmly recon-
mend him, unless the charlottesville traits OF
that people have greatly changed since the
days when St. Paul rebuked them for their
trick Of ''stshdlng about aidle,ps aud Aristo-
phanes immbrtaiized their passion for title
tattle. Col Muir has noticed the odd resem-
blance between the style of the Jokes most
popular with the Grecians and that of those
western stories in which Mr.. lIincoIn partic-
ularly excels. The Kentucky tale of the ten
penny nails which are planted over night to
be gathered as crowbars the next morning,
is an exact reproduction Of an old Ionian gag,
and we have no doubt that thepeculiar )nc-
dents Of which Mr.. Lincoln is invariably re-
minded by anything particularly horrible which
happens to the country, would sound infinite
ly better in Hellenic than they do in English
Tho friando nd in, ~ NJ
Lincoln would rejoice in the transfer, and
those of them whose hope OF suppauting him
makes them particularly devoted to his person
and his policy, would no doubt insist upon
accompanying him to his new field Of opera
tiOns.
Vice President Hamlin who now sees no
way of getting into the Presidents shoes save
through the slow and tedious process of a rev.
olution, hampered as revolutions always
must be in this country by embarrassing re-
straints of law andobstinate popular prejudi~
ces in favor of the "quiet dogmas of the past, I"
would rejoice to find himself in land over
which the spirit Of oriental ruthlessRess and
energy has moved so long thRtthe work Of
four years and indefinite ballot boxes in Amer
ics, may perhaps be done There in alsingle
night with stout piece of whip-cord. For it
will never be said Of Mr. Lincoln, as PIutarch
says Ol ABebllhusJ tnAt ne surTOunnRq splunAfll
with unnecessary constitutional } restrsints.-
Sumner, Wendell Phillips, Chandler, Wade,
Hewe the philhellene, whose love Of the
Greeks is only equalled by his hatred Of hia
own peple, and the philanthrop!st who holds
that all Americans who are neither black nor
blind deserve TO be extermiDated, would doubt
less 60 with their chiefs, each man bearing,
after the classic fashion, his bowie knife in a
myrtle-bongha Wells, we fear cannot be
spared from the efficient protection of our
commerce. and the brilliant character of their
successes in the West and in Virginia, will
probably compel us to detan Stanton Lnd
Halleck. till their services can be adequately
rewarded
Lycurguses and Solons we have none to
give. But such as we have we freely offer to
the mother of. repnblicsa Let Greece take
Mr.. Lincoln, and learn under his benignant
sway how the Pkfygian cap may be made so
like crown as to deceive the keenest eye
We will pay King Abraham's expenses5 oyt,
and send with him that fine body guard Of his,
which need only to be dismountsd snd,trained,
say under the orders Of Satfap Butler, to add
the pOmp Of Persia and the state of Rome TO
the grace of Greece, and surround the success.
sor Of 0tho with such show of lictors as Tar
quin might have envied, and such silence OF
submission as Sapor never enjoyed
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