The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-12-27

months In O Cretan fort, and then returned like
omar IN dismay 10 his master, enchanting that all
inns cletan struggle was due to the modern heresy
81 The right OF naionahties and to the inrmity OF
.iie Hellenic mind, which spurs it the restora-
.l1n anu extension OF Hellenic over. In the mean
Vile Wonuers oil heroism were displayed In Crete
tnat hlled the world with admiration The Greeks
IA the monastery Of Arcad, in imitation OF their
la,aers OF Missoonghi, blew up the place and them
selves rather than surrender the Mosem and many
SURFING incidents OF the kind revealed the ndomtable
resolution OF the Cretan people never again TO toler
ate the rule OF the Turk against which they had pro
tested and revoted ever since Il was unjustly i'm
posea upon their free country Yet the thousand
organs OF the M0slem party combined to assure the
world that the Cretan instruction was AT an end
anu lnat the Crean refugees returning to Crete
send out special correspondents and to publish their
faithful record OF the organization OF the provisional
consolidation OF national independence Il WAS no
use for those who returned here from Crete Athens
ana syria to record, as eye witnesses the fact of the
suuerngs III Crete and OF the presence in Greece OF
10000 refugee Cretan famiies, chiefly women ana
children, aged and inhrm men, and their unwilling
ness TO return TO Crete before its independence was
fully recognized useless to attest 10 the truth
when thousands of voices. hired to tell flsehoo
arose nom every organ OF the Moslem. But all OF
sudden came the news that there was nospeace that
there was war; Surely IL the lnsurrecton were at
an end, and II the Cretan women and children had
returned 10 Crete. the Turk would not have declared
war 10 the Hellenic government. The fact is that it
couiu mol be any longer concealed that Crete had
ACTUALLY achieved her independence and that the pro-
visioiial government OF Crete was indeed more safely
rooted IN the affection OF. the Hellenic than even
tne provisional governments OF Venezuela and Spain
In the affection OF their respective people. This fact
being no longer conceivable it was still hoped by the
tory Napoleonic and MOsem party that by declara-
ton ofwar the Helenes might be frightened to such
an extent az to advise their Cretan brethren to
overthrow their provisional government. to pardon
the outrages committed upon their women, the
desecratlon Of their churches the OF their
non.combatant citizens, and to submit again TO the
Moslem usurpatlon, unlawful as 1t had been In its
inception and runous and murderous in its results
. BUT TINS hope was also doomed to be baf1led, and
the inference OF all this Is simply this-that in this
age the spirit Of liberty cannot be crushed by The
manipulation Of It's enemies, and that whatever may
De sad OF the fral tenure OF Turkish rule in other
Christian regi0ns IN Crete since 1921 it was never
tolerated by the people as a lawful government.
Further, II the European Powers are involved in
war III consequence OF the Hellenic determination
TO support their Cretan compatriots, they are
SIMPLY punished for having consented to wink at the
bargain which resod a free people into Egyptian
and Mosiem bondage, and for having sided with the
usurper when even those conditions upon which
they themselves made his lease Of usurpati0n con-
tingent were hagrantly violated Crete, though q
small island, has thus been tine means OF indicating
the imperlshable claims OF human rights ana liberty
and Of giving lesson to European Diplomacy which
history is not likely to forget.