The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-01-16
EUROPE.
va EAsTERN oUEgTInN-
The Relations Of Greece aud TURK

THE EASTERN QUESTION.
The Relations OF Greece aud Turkey.
The position Of affairs between Turkey and
Greece attracts great attention, and much
speculation as to future results.
The Paris Pays says that the news, according
TO which a rupture between Turkey and Greece
is imminent, may unfortunately be considered
only too probable. European diplomacy which
fortunately is now relieved of a certain number
of important questions, may yet, the Pays
maintains, avert danger; but it must be quick,
as there is not moment 10 be lost.
The London Morning Herald announces chat
the British Cover nment will pursue 0 rigid
neutrality, and have refused TO station British
man-of-War off the Island of Crete for the pur-
pose of receiving the sick and wounded of the
insurgents. On the other hand, they have not
interiered to dictate the policy of the Greek
Government, but they have informed it that if
its policy should eventuate in rupture with
the Porte, Great Britain will not intervene to
avert from it the consequences ofts own action.
Interesting Letter from Gen. GaribaIdi.
General Garbaldi has addressed the following
letter upon the Eastern qdeston to a friend
near LondOn:-
OAPRERA, December 49, ls66.-That I love
England with the affection Of a son you can
not doubt, and that II Is ever the desire of nv
heart to see her in the first rank among nations
is equally certain; but to caress the errors OF
her MinIsters-to that | cannot lend myse1F
! repeat. therefore, to your statesmen that
which have stated to our owu;--Do well, and
you VIII receive epraise; but to lavish praise on
those who do evil Is servile adulation, and /
never Halter In the war of giants waged by
England against the FIRST Emperor, l search in
the pages OF those histories of your country
which narrate 1t for one single expression of
condemnation at the expenditure OF millions
of lives and millions OF money sacrificed TO
combat one despOtsm, indeed but certainly to
susten another not less eXacting. Who how
ever, on the other hand, will not confess, with
me, that the services rendered by England TO
the cause of human progress have been i'm
menseE And i IN particular bear testimony to
the benefits received from you by Italy in
1861, without which we should not now be
exHlting in the embrace of every member of
the Italian family. But when / see the Gov
eminent OF this, my adopted country, allied
with Austria and with Turkey, ] must tell you
the truth, namely, that l inhale the fumes of a
charnelhouse, which all the national vitality
may be unable to dispel, if Great Britain places
herself in contact with these dead corpses. l
would rather see her using her power and in
fiuence TO support those oppressed natonalities
at present going TO decay in the putrld atmo-
sphere OF despotism, but who remaining con-
slant to their desire of purifying themselves
must certainly rise, one day or another. to their
natural places in the fraternity of free nations
Let us leave Austria, whose Emperor ought
to receive the fate of his brother Emperor of
Mexico, and which exists only through the dis
sensons of the nationalites checkmatng each
others efforts towards emancipation.
Let us travel TO Turkey cosmopolitan as |
am, and believer in that God who desires not
factions and discOrd, but, on the contrary, that
men should love eacn other as brethren (Which
determination can only be possible, however
when we send the dervish to the spade and the
Romlsh priest to the mattoCE). Believing fully
al this, can make no difference between the
natives of the plains of Tartary and my coun-
trymen born on the sunny hills Of Rome.
But have you any idea what this despotism of
the Turks protested against by you really is? 1
VIII give you an example.
One day, in the port of Olveri, in the Island
of Mitylene INQUIRED of a Greek peasant the
reason why he did not gather up the olives, i'm
stead of permitting them to perish the
ground. Because" he answered, "the Pasha
buys ul all the olives, and we are compelled to
1t would not pay the expense of gathering them
in"
Behold how the interest of this poor remnant
of Christians is neglected in temporal matters
and for the rest, for all that concerns the pros
titution of the body and of the soul, how am /
to relate it to you, who have so kind heart,
and who have son and daughter? 1t is most
horrible. And if do not speak of it, oh for
give me- it is for the sake OF decency, and from
detail to you such brutalities.
Well, now have laid before you the cond-
tion of the Christians under Islam; and Britain
the classic ground of human rights. the pro-
tectress of the oppressed, the emanClpatress of
the save-persists in upholding these fruits of
despotism the most nhuman and the most
monstrous.
In 1927 England, France, and Russia, in one
of those outbursts OF generosity which God
one of those facts which in the history of nations
are followed by universal gratitude. Let them
complete the su blime task-let them spare to
humanity a fresh torrent of blOod-and they
will receive from her thousand benedictions.
G. GARlBALDI.