Mower County transcript., 1869-12-23

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all probability, the signal for the COM
known that he is the advocate of the most
directly, but as the object of an union of
the Sclavonic tribes, who, in their utter in
eapacity to organize themselves into sep.
arate nation, will fall into the hands of
Russia at no distant period. General Igna-
tieff has been the soul of this combination.
and if the means at his disposal equal his
remarkable ability and energy, the critical
moment for the Ottoman Empire has ar
rived. .,s..~s -
RUSSIAN POLICY TOWARDS GREECE.
The Greek element is carefully avoided
in the new combination, Greek progress
terly incompatible. The Creten insure c.
tion, stimulated and favored by Russia as
long as it could weaken Turkey and Greece
simultaneously, was treache,ously suppress
sed by the Russian pressure ut Athens, as
soon as it became evident that it must lead
to complications, and a general movement,
in which the initiative would belong to
Athens and the progressive and constitu-
tional party in Greece, and in which
the republican element in Italy and
elsewhere would take part. .-..;
This has always been the Russian policy
toward Greece, to use her against Turkey,
and at the same time exhaust her by inter-
M! troubles and external embarrassments.
The constitutional statesmen of Greece,
aware of this policy, have long since been
earnestly opposing Russian influence in
Greece, but the King being in the hands
of the Gar, they can accomplish nothing
without revolution, which no one desires
at present.
THE CRErANs AT THE END OF THE INsURREC-
TIoN.
Having been intimately connected with
| all that related to the Cretan insurrection,
anu competant to declare that at the time
of the actual end of the Cretan insurrec
tion the Cretans were, relatively to the
forces which could be brought against
them, in better condition to resist than
| they had been at any time previous, and
that the new and complete reorganization
| of the insGrrection ON better basis than
it had ever before had, was being prepared,
and only demanded q sum Of $4,000 to
complete and carry through the winter,
when the instruction, nearly ready in
other parts of the Turkish Empire,
would have broken out, notably
that of the Lebanon. whose. chief,
Joseph Karam, was waiting at Athens the
signal to move. The then governing Min
istry in Greece, (appointed virtually by
Russia, whose control over the King was
absolute, which had been for year man.
oeuvring to compel the insurrection to break
itself down, but dared take no direct steps
to that end from fear Of o popular rising,
| finally planned and sent the famous Pctro-
| poneaki expedition for the express purpose
Of breaking the insurrection down, and, at
the same time, by apparently favoring it,
to save themselves from popular indigna-
ton. The plot was SO transparent that,
Ministry fell with it, and the King was
only saved by the dread of the consequences
of revolution ip the critical state in which
Greece then was.
ENGLAND, AUSTRIA AND GREECE.
Russia hopes to paralyze Austria, which
is the party principally interested by
Prussian hostility and Sclavic insurrection,
and in the present inert disposition Of Eng
land to catry the question through without
| dangerous struggle, or delay which would
enable the Republicans of Europe to enter
into the contest The only combination
union of England, Austria and Greece in
| support of Turkey, with neutrality of Pr,ls.
sia and Italy. This combination Russia
hopes to prevent by using the influence OF
the United States to paralyze England and
prevent her from making any direct resist.
ance to the intrigues of the Gear, and to
menace retaliation for the offences commit
ted against us during the great insurrec-
ton. =.
THE INFLUENCE or AMERICA.
! AS q question when, for the first time,
the influence of the United States enters
into European combination, it behooves
us to consider we'll the effect of our exer-
else of it and casting aside all petty hostil-
ties aud momentary irritation, to throw
the weight of our moral influence in favor
Of progress and civilization. 1t is, per-
haps, the first time in this century that the
English policy has been in perfect accord
ty, and no nobler satisfaction for all the in
Guiries wehave received at her hands could
be taken, then to assist her to do the
working out of our own principles. No
human interest requires that Russia should
make new Polands on the Mediterranean;
that she should extend the order
of Warsaw to Athens, and Siberia to the
Himalayas. Russian predominance in the
Levant is the death of all the rising re-
publicanism of Eastern Europe, and equally
of American influence there. As an earn
est watcher, if not active participant, dur
ing the Cretan insurrection; as infinitely
convcrsant with the inner history of the af-
fair from beginning to the end, can posi-
lively assert that there was no political in
duence to which the Russian agents were
so hostile to as that Of America, and though
they employed it to the furtherance of
their netarious plans, and do still employ
it, through the diligently circulated state
ment that Rnssia and the United States are
in accord on the Eastern question, they
were invariably opposed to any step which
would increase our hold on the popular
feeling.
THE RUSSIAN CHURCH.
My known sympathies and trials on be-
half of the Christian subjects of Turkey
leave mo in no doubtful color, so far rs
that Empire is concerned. I clung to
Cretan liberty while it had shadow of
hope, hut, now that the struggle is over,
and the sod covers our common dead, anu
equally earnest in saying that the interests
OF Christianity and humanity demand the
support of Turkey as against Russia, and
the gradual development Of the civilization
of the East through Greek rs opposed to
Muscovite ecclesiastical influences. We
all know what Russian political progress
means, but we do not all know that the
Russian Church is being built up into q
Papacy more formidably organized and
moro strongly iron-clad thnn that of Rome
can ever have been; IN intolerable
and despotic appliance of the State
to tho individuality Of its subject. while
the Greek Church preserves the municipal
character and freedom Of thought by which
it has always been distinguished from that
of Rome, and which it borrows from the
republican character of its people in tho
days when it was planted there by the
Apostles. Its gradual development cannot
fail to develop large, healthy Protestant
ism, when popular education is sufficiently
advanced to become tho basis of religious
freedom. The Turk, again, is, with all his
barbarism and fanaticism, tolerant OF rell-
gious teaching, and too weak to prevent
political progress. His Empire will yield
in time to system of republican states
growing up in it's decay. and confederated
one day in an Eastern Switzerland, UNITED
in religion and interests, u not IN tongue,