The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-05-25

would vouch for the genunenes of the Address,
OF It's alleged authors especially the journal from which
quote nothing the of the communication
The document however, reads paub and conveys decid
ed Greek view of that Eastern question upon which great
variety of interests besides those of the Hellenic nation are
centred In the opinion of the Greeks themselves charge
SO brought against their people of be-
the bottom of all the disturbances periodically breaking
out the Christian population in the various provinces
the Ottoman EMPIRE would scarcely to deserve serious
reuaton. If to believe them is only emancpated
Greece that the instruction ensaved Greece
this free Greece which small has been
the earhs surface it this Greece often abused
sandered that acts interpreter of the policy of the
European Powers makes for the shorcomng of doc
dwelling diplomacy, and by exercising strong control
the patriotic energies of suffering people conves to keep
the in the East The Greeks of Greece check curb
their brethren but they protest in their name while they
conceive to be their duty plead the general their
they think they well make the best of their
tuny and put in word for themselves They that
the world is swayed by the theories of nationality
and those sacred principles they believe that nowhere could
the smpathes of the civilized world be better bestowed
the Eastern Christians They acknowledge that the tr
intervention OF foreign naon and they anxious
that the aid extended to them ayhed upon undeserv
ing Objects that the hopes of their wewishes have
disappointed and that the small portion of their heritage which
they enabled to from Turkish thradom
turned by them little is generally asserted
They cali upon those witnessed their first national strug
gle bear in mind the misery and desoaton in which their
country plunged, bleeding and exhausted
from the hands of their vanquished oppessor They wish
that fair comparison might be drawn between its past and
present condition No European people, they sure
advanced with rapid strides have done during
the ALI cities which
eled with the earth have been rebuilt have been
founded the population is trebed there village in
the kingdom without school, child unable read
The crowded -Four thousand Greek vessels
manned by 900 Greek Sailors engaged the European
trade Greek harbors improved roads opened
Greek their counting all over the world
Owing to the individual effort intelligent association
Greek husbandmen agriculture is rapidly advancing and
of the branches OF Greek industry might be set models
anywhere Finally for country barely issuing from the throe
of violent revolution Greece strives reconcile order with
the enjoyment Of all civil political and religious Liberties"
not for all this that any would grudge the Greeks
the full independence they have obtained whatever
may be putt it not that any would prevent them from
extending the blessings of their institutions such they
to Crete to Epirus Thessay Consannope itself if
the Greeks could achieve their object by their unaded effort
when they ask Europe Question for
their sole benefit is natural that doubts should
the bearing of the the end The Greeks us
that Italy owed rise to the successive help of two great
Powers but it must be remembered that Austria Italy
only and that when her flag struck, hardly
trace of her long dominion left In the East it is not
army merely but whole nation that upon the Chris
n people, 1t only through mountains of slaughter that
Cross could drive the from the lands
which the creeks 1ondy claim as their own According to
the computation of Athens correspondent there may
population of about $4,000 Mussulmans against 900
Christians in those regions of Crete Epus and Thessay
which Greek ambition for the present processes limit itself
What may have to become of the hussumans
whether it be easier them Christianity
them Greek rule to kill them to man. The further we
60 towards the centre Of the Empire the harder the
problem how to dispose of the immovabe epresb indie
structibe Turk The Sultan will hear concessions All
have failed to wrest Crete from his grasp Hencefoth the
Greeks shall get from him than they manage
take by main force and is clear that sngehande
little that Greek force achieve The very fact that the
Cabinet of Athens bues itself with Notes to the protecting
Powers the very fact that the conspicuous among
Greek clergy and ay have other than appeal
European sympathy be taken proofs that great
confidence entertained in that quarter about the efficiency
less pacific Without the meddng of foreign Govern
men there would be why the solution of the
question might not be indefinitely adjourned and just
this moment there is something of far greater importance
engoss the attention of Western Europe Should the Lux
embourg complication as but too possible lead out
break between France and Germany the GrecoTuksh quar-
rel hardly fail subordinate incident But
long there peace the Rhine the very jealousy by
which the great nations bordering that river,
needs neutraze another will have the effect of proong
state of which possibly settle into perma
nent peace.