Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-02-08
The Cretan Rebellion Unretiability of
Advices-Folly of American IntervemtiUn.

NetC6e7n Jour. Com.
The Cretan Rebellion UnreiiabiIity of
Advices-Folly of American Intervention.
Since the establishment of the ocean tel
| egraph our morning presses are furnished
daily with what is termed "news from all
parts of Christendom across the seas. Like
| the telegrams of our continent, some are
| facts of impOrtance; others aro of a warped
political character, and therefore unfit to
be sent or published; and others are vet
thoroughly trItling and insignificant to the
intelligent reader. One of the ablest news
paper publishers of this country once Justly
remarked that hosts of items got general
publicity through the telegraph, which
! would never be republished had they come
through exchanges or by correspondents.
While it is the duty of the press to give
the g age and body of the times," it is not
less true that multitudes of items are un-
worthy of record.
Recurring to the subject of ocean tele-
grams, in connection with what is before
said, it may be stated that they are especi-
ally full of phrases like the following 50 1t
said ''-' it is thought ''-''i it is felt
"events indicate 90 Government un-
doubtedly has knowledge" These, with a
host of like phrases, SO confuse the mind
that the public rarely cares to read the sub
stantial and reliable European newspaper
articles that reach us a couple of weeks
after the dispatches in question. Besides,
in the meantime everything becomes mud
died in the mind by the receipt of other
dispatches. Therefore person to be well
and thoroughly informed as to European
and Asiatic affairs, should confne his read
ing to the newspaper accounts received by
steamer.
Applying this matter practically to the
Cretan revolution, or the Greek aid to it,
the question arises as to what the Sublime
Porte has asked of the great powers, and
what has been the action of the latter.
We recollect to have seen an amnesty
proclamation by Turkish commander of
some sort to insurgent Cretans which was
replete with sentiments that it were we'll
for the destructive element in Congress to
read and ponder for profit and instruction.
The true cause of the insurrection, and of
what has transpired, is more or less en-
shrOuded by the gloom cast over the whole
matter by the sort Of accounts that we get
by telegram from Europe.
The supposition would be that, if there
has been remarkable atrocity or barbarity
by the Turks, or much in the hostillries out
of the ordinary run of the wars of the
Christian nations of Europe, there would
be summary armed intervention by one or
more of the gre 1t powers. At any rate, as
things stand, the disturbed, divided, har-
rassed, and distressed United States of
America ought to be relieved, just at pre-
sent at least, from interpOsing, in any
manner, in what the country SO little un-
derstands.
The superabundance of service in words,
not acts, that was exhibited by the people
of the Un- ted States during the Greek re-
volution, the Polish revolution, the Hun
garian rebellion, and the Irish rebellion,
should be lessons to VAIN us of the folly of
our taking up any cause Of quarrel between
nations several thousands of miles off,
across the seas. Our Radical brethren are
most forward in this sort of thing yet, if
their statements be true, worse rebellion,
with more cruelty, bloodshed, and other
atrocities, exists in the South than is all the
world else.
MIR. Ashley, of Ohio, thinks the present
"counter revolution, led by the President
in the South is worse than the last armed
rebellion" He wants existing State gov
ernments there destroyed for sixty days at
least, and cares not for what may happen
of crime in that period. He desires that
the army and navy shall execute laws-of
their own making, we suppose.
Leu us dSh Cuo COul SGdUoSudu
from the Toledo district in Ohio question:
If the present "counter revolution led by
the President be worse than the armed
one which called into the field according
to reported conversation of Mr.. Stanton)
10000 of men, exacted 300, 900 lives, and
made 300, 900 cripples, at cost, according
to Mr.. Thaddeus Stevens, of S., 900, 900, 900,
how many of soldiers, how many of lives,
how many of cripples, and how much of
treasure will be required to put down the
"present counter revolution led by the
President, which is worse than the armed
rebellion ?"
But if the statements of the destructives
be entirely unsustained by facts as to the
alleged atrocities at the South, yet it is GER
tain that enough of sad affiiction, privation,
desolatlon, disease and destitution do ex-
ist to call for the entire attention and aid of
the country rather than for what relates to
the Cretan rebellion with it's complications.
Nat. LateAigencer.