Litchfield enquirer., 1867-01-17
Turkey and the Greeks.

Turkey is spreading, and when we consider how small a proportion of the population of Turkey are Osmanli or real Turks, it is easy to see how such revolt may prove fa- tai to that feeble government.
 In Europe the Canadian rebellion has ex- cited by>no means the amount of sympa- thy aroused by former instructions of the Greek race. The reasons for this apathy are partly political, partly personal. So jealous is England of the progress of Rus sia that, when, during the Crimean war, the sympathies of Greece were so evident ly against the Allies, and the labor of sus- taining the falling Ottoman dynasty so heavy; feeling of regret often found ex- pression for the part Great Britain had ta- ken in dismembering the Turkish Empire, and in inficting fatal blow upon the Turkish naval power at Navarino Then, too, there has been reaction against that sentimental admiration of everything Greek which prevailed forty years since. The poetical and classical enthusiasts who flock ed to the assistance of the Greek patriots during the war, or to admire the remains of Greek art after it, came back complain ing that the modern Greek was humbug, o swindle; and asserting that the race want ed both the industry and integrity neces- sary for real success The well-meant at tempt of the intervening powers to trans plant German prince and constitutional monarchy into soil adapted to neither, resulted in absolutism, national bankrupt cy, and other indications of national fail ure
 It is not necessary to dwell on the manifest injustice of expecting that 8 sla- very of twenty centuries would leave no mark upon national character, that popu- lation suddenly enfranchised could at first govern itself wisely, especially under a ruler of foreign birth and culture That, in spite of these difficulties, the people of Greece have made great progress, goes far to justify the eulogy of MT. Phillips which we have copied on another page. Still less ought our opinions to be influenced by those selfish political views which make England so tender of Turkey, that most atrocious of European anomalies.
 How widespread this insurrection may be, and attended with what success, re- mains to be seen. If the insurgents can hold their ground even for short time, foreign powers must intervene. Civilized Europe will not long endure the spectacle of Christian women and children massacred under her very eyes, by Asiatic and Egyp- tian barbarians. Strong as our sympathies may be in favor of the oppressed Greeks, we cannot think with MT. Phillips, that their could be any propriety in American intervention. Our interference with strict ly European affairs would be particularly ungracious just at the moment when we are most loudly denouncing European interfer- ence with the affairs of this continent.
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 A6r Judging from the report of the pro- ceedings of the New Haven Convention which we publish in another column, and