The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-01-10
A Letter from Victor Hugo ON the Struggle

A Letter from Victor Hugo on the Struggle
In Crete.
NJ. y1cron EUao has written letter, of which
the following is translation, in reference to the
revolutionary contest in Gambia:
CRY reaches me from Athens. In the City OF
Phidias and Eschylus an appeal is made to me.
my name is pronounced. What am 10 deserve
such an honor2 Nothing but van9uished man.
ed. ed Yes, heroic Candiotes, the fallen OF to-day,
yo, are The yictors Of the future Persevere: Even
Ii you are prostrated, you will triumph Inc pro-
testaton Of dying agony is bppe p9Ser Kinsa NJ II
Thosa mighty ones who are now against
Won. those coalitions Of blind force aud stubborn
Prejudice, those armed antique tyrannies have as
their principal attribute a remarkable facility or
making The al oa is On 1aG pGoR ois
leaking. It is at this very hour laundering In
Mexico, IL austria, in Spain, in Hanover, IN Sax
ony, at Rome, and elsewhere Perseyerel a5 iou van
is not a principle destroyed. There are no more
fats accompEs; there is only Right. Fact is never
completed. It's perpetual incomp!eteness Is the
opening which is left to Right. Right cannot be
!, submerged. The waves Of events pass over it.
: II reappears. Drowned Poland floats on the sur
: face, For ninety-four years European pohcy mas
torn this corpse, and the world has seen its
soul floating above the taits dccompets. Greeks
cand have rghs On s6ar shod apa ys
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 oelng
restored to the other. That which ls there
resurrection, cannot be here q sepulchre. But ID
the meantime blood is flowing, and Europe per-
nits It. She gets accustomed to it. To-day 1t ls
the Sultan's turn to eIterminate nationality. 1s
there Turkish divine right venerated as the
Christian divine right2 Murder, robbery, VIOLA
ton, are at this moment sweeping over Candla as,
SIX months 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 murder, this ls called
statesmanship. It would seem that religion
is interested in what the Turks are quiet
" doing-the cutting of Candian throats
and that society would be shaken if, between
scarperto and Oytherea, little children were not
put to t.s sword. There the ravaging OF crops
and the burning Of villages is useful. The motive
which explains and tolerates these e1terminatio
Is beyond our penetration. Alas one OF the
humilations Of men whom q long exile has made
stupid (I am one Of them) is that they cannot
comprehend the great reasons of the present as
sassins. Never mind. The Cretan question is
henceforth clear. It will be solved and solved like
all the other questions Of this age in the sense OF
deliyerance. Greece complete, Italy complete
Athens at the head Of one, Rome at the head Of
The other-shis is what we-France-owe to our
brothers. It is debt that France will acquit it
is duty that France will discharge. When ?
Persevere. VICTOR Hugo.
Hauteyille House, Dec. 2, 1866.