Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1867-03-23
IDfidel VS. christian Injustice.

Governments of all Christian nations. The
fact that SO many millions of Christians are
subject to infdel rule, seems of itself to be
sufficient cause for chronic irritation among
Christian people, and the several nations
which practice oppression at home seem to
think that sympathy for the Greeks, like
charity, will cover multitude of the sins of
tyranny at their own doors. Russia fulmi-
mates against the Tmk her anathemas for the
oppression of her co-religionists, and sweeps
Poland with fire and sword. Austria never
had more sympathy for the oppressed Greek
Christians who were suffering under Turkish
ally and Hungary. France can feel for the
Greeks while she holds fast her grip on inf
del Algiers, and attempts the conquest of
Mexico and Cochin China. America shed
tears of pity for the horrible suferings of the
Greeks under Mohammedan rule, and wiped
her eye with pocket handkerchief saturated
with the blood of the African. England, the
defender of oppressed nationalities, has al
ways had an abundance of sympathy for ev-
cry case of suffering except those of her own
infiction; and while she has insulted the
world under the plea of humanity, by her
intermeddling with the affairs of others. she
has, in her rapacious government of India
and Ireland, exhibited her real disregard for
the rights of man with brazen effrontery of
which none but the dominant classes of the
'fast anchored isle' are capable. In truth.
the Turk is the orly honest one of the whole
crowd. He sympathizes with nobody, and,
like the South, only asks to be let alone in
his deviltry. The cheap sympathy among
nations of our time, which enables them to
see only the cruelties inflicted by their neigh
bors or the stranger, and precludes the per-
ception of their own domestic denominations.
is as hollow sham as the tears shed by the
ruffian over some yellow backed tale of woe
who goes home to whip his wife. 1t may
add sting to the reproach and to the bur-
dens of the servitude of the Greek Christians
IN Turkey that their masters pray to Allah
instead of the Holy Trinity-at least the
Christian nations seem to think so-but we
suspect that the Turkish Christians them
selves feel most keenly the actual and visible
acts OF despotism under which they bodily
suffer from the hands of their infidel masters.
We do not think that the creed of tyrants
has much to do with the weight of the chains
which they impose upon the limbs of their
victims, and we believe that a Government
which calls itself Christian can be guilty. of
as gross and deyilish acts of oppression as
any in the world. A nation which is so yery
Christian that its sovereign is the head of one
of the branches of the Christian Church, can
have its eyes so intently raised in pious de-
votion that it cannot see the desolation and
ruin of nationalities which follow in its foot
steps on its march to empire. So obtuse to
domestic justice have the rulers of Great
Britain become by long course of continued
oppression that they commit blunders in
government which, John Bright declares, are
without parallel in civilized nations. He
lately said. in speaking of England's inius-
tlce to Ireland: "There is party in Eng
land which speaks of justice to Ireland as if
1t were merely catch-phrase for the popu-
lar ear in that country, and as if it had no
real meaning. Now, hold that to sustain
in country foreign and hostile character,
and to conGscate all the ecclesiastical resource
es of that country to that church, and that
church including within its borders but
very small minority of the people, say that
it is an act of injustice such as believe
craftsmanship or misstatesmanship has never
committed in any other country. And say
further, that to maintain laws which are ad-
where the whole soil has been confiscated, as
it has been within the last two hundred
years, is to perpetuate the exclusion of the
people from the possession of their own soil
and to create and make perpetual pauperism
and discomfort. If fthat were done in Poland
in Hungary, in Venetia-if it had been done
there under the influence of a conquering
government believe there is not single
man or woman in England who would not
have been ready to condemn such a state of
things" Just SO. England can see what is
done abroad in Poland. Hungary, Venetia,
the United States, and other distant places,
but she is getting old and far-sighted, and
cannot see what is going on under her nose
without putting on her specs. No one doubts
that the Greeks have suffered greatly under
the Ottoman rule; but they can hardly have
had to submit to worse treatment than the
Irish have received at the hands of Christian
England. The Turkish Janizaries have
scarcely been more bloody than the ..lambs'
of the English army in suppressing revolt.
In modern times the rule of no infidel coun-
try has been SO destructive of population as
that of Great Britain. She alone can boast
of having driven millions of her subjects into
foreign exile by her misgovernment, and her
dependencies are the only parts of Gods
footstool that an habitually cursed famine
occasioned by her selfish system of making
them contrbutary to her centralized system
of manufactures. Give the Greeks all the
sympathy they need-but do not spend all
you have upon them save portion for the
others in God image who are oppressed,
wherever their lot may be cast throughout
the world.
THE innocent, unsophisticated youth"
who weekly enlightens the good people of
Calaveras through the columns of the Req
lister, says she cannot believe that the .legal
protectors would sell themselves for