The New York herald., 1869-01-09

pieanre or SAILING around that beautllui lsano ana
Stopping at various ports on the Mediterranean,
IN ireece and the Levant. But l was
able to gather some opinions from those
to fom some opinions OF my own in regard to the
Importance OF this question. In spite OF what our
excellent Mayor-I hope he may prove TO be excel
ientin spite OF what he says that the whole city or
New YORK Is or opinion In regard to the Cretan
question, am afraid that American intelligence Ia
Of tht great question; for have had 1t before the
publi, mind more or less prominently for the
last tree years. During all this time we have
seen out little impression upon the American
mind outside OF Boston, where Dr. Howe warmed
the population with the ferv0r of his own sympathy
for tt struggLng Cretans. Boston sent $4,000 in
throughout America, tendency TO apathy and in
direr1ce to the vastness and merits OF this strug
upon avilization and Christianity In the Eastern
worlds perhaps understood, and q its impor
lance . this respect perhaps we are all OF one
Mayor has said. We sympathise with the
cause ,f Crete as the cause OF liberty In every part
Of the world. We may say Crete Is only a little
place md great way OF Ii Ia not so far away as
our own New Orleans was fifty years ago, when
jackson and his brave volunteers met the forces OF
communicate with New Orleans then as quickly as
we cal with Crete to-day. When we consider
that We are here tonight in receipt OF
direct teleeraphc despatch from that far-
on islald we can realize the fact that we have not
right tuck this little country away in crack, on
Of sigit, and treat tile subject with indifference.
You VII begin TO realize that such rapid and re-
markane changes have taken place we can no
longer throw ourselves back upon the Monroe
affairs interfere In the affairs OF other people.
In this day of railroads and telegraphs this day
OF natDnai @ & ana hternacna !. s Soo
has hrunk in size now there Is no part far dis
tant as 10 be beyond our sympathy and interest We
part OF the world influences us-tapplausel-and
any Injustice which we can help, or sympathy which
1nva n M n Wpfh n M wit in
for the blessings OF liberty which we enjoy
rated B. national lnes but nations cannot nj s'f BE-
sepanted not to be responsible for each other.
As nation, enjoying the blessings that we do 1t is
duty to secure to others as far as possible the
enjoyment OF the fundamental principles OF justice,
OF humanity, OF almighty goodness and truth and
and every part Of the world The welfare Of the\
great common humanity requires Of MS something
more tian the duties and restrictions Of inter
see that the eternal principles Of justice.
honor. truth, mercy and charity are recognized
represents portion OF the world on which every eye
turned with deep interest, not because the island
OF Cretestands at the mouth Of the Egean Sea and
represents at this moment an Illustration OF the
bravest Ind most dtsnterested sefsacrice and love
of liberty the world has ever seen; it Is
their wives and mothers and old men away,
that the young men might more efrectuallv confront
the power OF the whole M0hamedan country; not be-
cause Crete thus bears Its bosom against the tre-
mendous strength Of the associated barbarism and
heathenisn Of Turkey but 1t is because Crete repre-
s se % Us Of onsapes We sans s
part Of that magnificent and brillian!
Greece, which once lay ,. IKE diamond 9;ni
to the whole world; Greece the mother Of the arts
and sciences, and OF philosophy. and OF . purer re.
il on these considerations that 1t becomes our duty
as far as can, to testify against the dismember-
ment OF this mother Of civizat!on ana TO see tLat
tiful Greece, to which she naturally belongs,
Greece, thus consolidated, becomes the outpost OF
the encroachments OF Mohammedanism, which now
controls nearly three-quarters OF the whole world
fact which It becomes US not to consider with ndif
ference While there are three hundred millions Of
Christians we must remember that there are
nine hundred millions OF heathens, and they
may in time threaten us, as Mohammedanism
once threatened the civilization OF Europe. It
does not become rs as Christian nation, 1t does not
become the Christian nations Of Europe TO shut
the whole world, and to be 80 careless and thought
less Of what is going on amid this Of
silent Christianity has for her opprobrium that she
makes no headway and that the civilization which
she represents s Indifferent to the interests the vel
fare and may say the fate OF such large part OF
the Christian race. (Applause.) II l had no other
interest than this in this Cretan question that she
3 : rspresentatve Of the whole Christian world,
facing Oriental barbarism and Oriental hca-
thensm should believe that her cause would
tion the cause Of Christianity itsef( Applause.
have been lately in Oriental and Mohammedan coun-
ose anSMn SYRIA IN Eyp Asia MINOR and
IN that portion of Western Turkey which lies so
atrociously this side OF the Hellespont-that they
have but very little idea of the horrid customs the
abominable vices, the polygamy and the taxation
the grinding Of the poor BY the rch and Of the cru
power to-day but the power to crush Christian Crete
and the will TO crush the life blood, without the
power, out Of the whole Christian race say my
hotln whoy1 u fho
that prevail in regard to those countries. the
selfish indifference OF France and the more than
were the sole Jealous arbters Of the fate OF Crete
The whole Eastern question is with them o mere
question OF supremacy. aqueston Of national supre
not question OF the nrst importance to the whole
Christian Church and TO civilization. The thought
oher ~ tss
should put forth hand to stay this unjust persecu
tion-this say, presents one of the most heinous
appsuse., such ,TI were my opinions s when saw saw
for pisstre day building railroad for the Pachs
pean markets-for he II the chief tradesman
OF Egypt-to see those thousands night after
banks Of that river and see that tyranny has con-
verted that people into such spectacle OF subjuga
ton and unhappiness g was never seen even in the
time OF Pharoah. 1t filled me with the intensest de-
sire TO see the Czar OF Russia seize that wicked Sui
tan and have him sewed up In one OF his own bags
ana cast IutO the bO6pnOrus. tLauRnter and ap-
plauseI While nations looked az long as they dared
and saw ab0minable Druscs slaugntering Christians
by thousands, burning villages and laying waste
whole towns. devastating fields, cutting down the
forests and all the fruit Trees and after while per-
hitting itself TO demonstrate against these out
RACES. And then the Turk professed to
be ignorant OF all that was going on
and 70 prove hrs sincerity he commenced by hang
ing three hundred OF his own subjects in Damascus
and to proptiato the Christian world. Why he kills
more ta: number every day for far less cause In his
own dominion. But Turkish power IL now nothing
but the eete inert wornout and detesable civiliza
tion 1t represents-sick and dead-and ought to have
been buried long ago, ana would have been 40, but
that It is bolstered up and kept alive with sort OF
galvanlc twitch by foreign Powers that the Sultan
may guard the Hellespont and lest forsooth should
pass into the hands OF Russia. I say here that
wish that Russia possessed the Hellespont to-day.
tGreat applause) Russia, ct least, had some
claim upon all Christian peoples acting under Chris.
tan civilization Christian inspiration and principles
IL has elevated itself in this century and In rs own
history has written Its glory by giving liberty to-I
dare not say to how many serfs and slaves ZAP
plause) Russia ia at least Christian nation, and I
say again would sooner see the Hellespont under
the guardianship Of Russia, u even Great Britain
and France robbed OF their hopes OF Egypt and
SYRIA so long az o Christian Power with some viror