Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-08-22
REPUBLICAN, PRoPAGANDZSA.

p EPUBLTCAN PROPAGANltxSm.
Among the TRADITIONS" which 90, 'nus' (
DAr in, our history, to have sttAcl'e9 mem
n ~ this edgi1ss y thst g csrpml non
u ence n 3 feiIi aaairr from the time
4 y bippto1 afllhg aeStnst sntsnglinsiE
IN ~ Il N 4 Sesns Admits as ons of our
DrIS lcs az ~ Apship neyr % ss'.
bardor foot Yn behalf of anybody except
our oub citizens, or in defence of anybodys
,,rorsrtv except that which we either already
p ,,ossss. or ,haae to ,scqpirA i has been I'M
safs for fOrissn gentlshen Of ambition 70 at
temnt feats Of chivalrous invasion on the
Northern half Of the Western Continent as
New Orleans and Queretaro can testify from
their local records, but beyond this expression
of the Monroe Doctrine we have never pro-
crossed. To those who asked our assistance,
when suffering, we have sometimes sent food
and clothing, but we have oftener contented
ourselves with bland expressions Of sympa-
thy, and civil words of regret. While we
have perhaps, never helped to rivet letters
on foreign captives, we have never raised
our arm to strike them of.
All this was well enough while the United
States was young, and though vigorous and
growing, not really able to establish, in the
last appeal, the Justice of a protest against
tyranny. II may have been wise to dip Into
no foreign quarrel, while we were so weak
as to be liable to injury for our temerity. 1t
NAV have been the perfection Of justice to
look on the dismemberment Of Poland, the
rending of Hungary, the systematic oppres-
sion of Ireland, the murder of Greece, the
msltreatment of Italy, with quiet eye and
cool pulse, if our anger could have served
no good purpose and availed nothing In
their behalf. 1t, doubtless, has seemed tt
the struggling patriots Of some Of these un
happy lands, that a nation so powerful SC
immense in resources, so successful In en-
counter, so safe from foreign dangers, might
have recognized q wider kinship than its
own citizens, and have sent soldier to theii
aid who did not need to sneak away; or
gun without receiving its highest marke
value. Remembering the days of Lafayette
Rochambeau and their French regiments
of Montgomery and his Irish countryman
of Koscuisko, Pulaski, De Kalb, Steuben
and their compatriots, it has doubtless occur
red to many bold but dispairing Republican
of Europe that America was slow in repay
ing, in her days of wealth, the liberal he'll
she had from his fathers, when her necessitie
were greatest. And now that our gristl
has hardend into bone, is not the time com
for greater breadth of view, for more e,
tended grasp of patriotism If we are
disposed, the opportunity is at hand. 1t
an old and well-known appeal to our hi
mainly, which Greece makes, and we ha'
/ already a record on the subject of Turks
barbarities on Hellenic soil, whether old {
not whatever may have been our previous
ton, there are to-day thousands Of Christie
: men hunted for their lives, or rended by to
lures, of Christian women suffering shame ar
: dishonor, of helpless age and infancy slow
perishing by starvation, in the Mountains
Crete, and the prison pens Of their Turki
: assailants. From every one of these praye
are rising for help. To every quarter thu
n look for assistance, and most of all, douh
d less, to the free people of the West, who
= voice alone is powerful, and whose arm
no less mighty.
v But If the Greeks have looked for aid fri
= America, none has come, except the ex
lie tions of private philanthropy. Boston
lie humane, the liberal, the prompt, has 81
succor to the refugee families Of the fig
- ing soldiers, but that is all. We "cultiv
W. friendly relations" with Turkey. Our q
At bassador pays his court at Constantinople
lee America smirks in the face OF the Suit
ess while Omar Pasha is hunting, murderi
.w burning, crucifying, mutilating, outragi
" The free Christian Republic is arm-in-s
81 with the Pagan barabaric despotism.
eel nation whose future existence depends VI
III their wisdom, and her prosperity upon IL
,cc welfare, turns its back on the struggle
,he another people, to be polite to cour
:, where every characteristic Of sensuality
'he crultey insults all that is pure, Christian,
The civilizing.
m There is mistake somewhere. We
ess leve it will be remedied by relieving
:. needs Of the wor,hy by helping the do
. 20 troddcn, instead Of saying polite things
lust the tyrant. The policy of non-interven
tent has been long enough strictly construe
.ure Let us rather propagate liberty and sp
lars the influence of popular rights. lie
~ a.. = a.
'Ae ground than present our compliments II
the heather whose foot is on his neck. L.
that interfere foolisllly and unnecessarily il
nti- mans quarrel, but when Justice suffers,
,on liberty langushcs, let us remember tina
mission is to be the friend of the "
~ world, and that wherever humanity la
aspiration to rise there are our country