The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-12-28
GAMBIA AND coREA.
letter 6ronl Victor Hugo ON the stru ggle
An Crete.

In Crete
NJ Victor Hugo has written letter, Of which
the following is q translation, IN reference to
the revolutionary contest in Candia:-
"a cry reaches me from Athens. In the city
Of Phidias and Eschylus an appeal Is made TO
me-my name Is pronounced. what am 70
quished man. And who are they who call TO
mel The vanquished. Yes, heroic Candlote',
the fallen of to-day, you are the yictors OF the
%tSfS PeJ'sEeFS yCH will tTsn amph SFRe pTo @
testation of a dying agoHy Is power.
II is an appeal to God, who crushes-what?
Kingsl Those mighty ones VINO, are now
against you, those coalitions OF bhnd force
and stubborn prejudice, those armed, antique
tyranLies, have as their principal attribute
remarkable facility OF making shipWreck. me
tiara Is on the poop, the turban on the PROV,
the old monarchlcal SHIP Is leaking. IL Is at
this very hour ioundering in Mexico, In Austria,
in SPAN, in Hanover, in Saxony, at Rome, and
elsewhere. Persevere! You vanqulshed! Inn
possible! The insurrection suppressed Is not
principle destroyed. There are no more fats
dccOnptls; there is only right. Factls never com
pleted. Its perpetual Incompetence is the
opening which ls left to the right. Right can
not be submerged. The waves OF events pass
over it. 1t reappears. Drowned Poland floats
on the surface. tor 81 years European policy
has torn this corpse, and the world has seen its
soul floating above the fats dcc0mpt.s. Greeks
OF Gambia, you have right on your side, and you
have also reason. Why Pasha should exist in
Crete is beyond comprehension. That which is
true of Italy is true also as regards Greece.
Venice cannot be restored TO the one without
Crete being restored to the other. That which
is there q resurrection cannot be here sepul-
chre. But in the meantime blood is flow
ing, and Europe permits it. She gets accustomed
TO it, To-day it Is the Su)tans turn to eXtermi-
nate a nationality. Is there a Turkish divine
right venerated as the Christian divine right?
Murder, robbery, violation, are at this moment
sweeping over Gambia as six mOnlNs ago they
dashed over Germany. That which would not
be allowed to Schinderhannes is allowed to
policy. To have the sword in hand and quietly
to witness these murders, this is called states
manship. 1t would seem that religion Is lnte-
rested in what the forks are quietly doing-the
cutting OF Candian throats-and that society
would be shaken if, between SoaIperto and
Cytherea, little children were not put
to the sword. There the ravaging of
crops and the burning OF villages is
useful. The motive which explains and tole.
rates these determinations is beyond our pene-
ton. Alasl one OF the hum Aation9 OF men
whom long exile has made stupid Il am one
of them), is that they cannot comprehend the
great reasons of the present assassins. ever
mind. The Cretar question is hencefOrth Gear.
1t will be solved, and solved like all the other
questions of this age, in the sense of deliver
ance. Greece complete, Italy cocnpr ete-Athens
at the head OF one, Rome at the cad of the
other-this is what we-France-oNe 10 our
brothers. 1t is DEBT that France will acqult;
it is duty that France Will discharge. When
Persevere. VICroR HUGO.
Hausvllle House, Decembe, 2, 1866.