The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1876-02-24

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ships and clippers no longer plow the historic
| waves, rendered classic by the prows of Clys
| ses and the pinnaces of Agamemnon. True,
our shp-building is myth; but Greece Is the
land of myths. True, the decadencc of our
shipping calls for little or no men-Of-War: but
what an interesting study for our minister are
the men of war who went out to take Troy
| lorty-tive hundred years ago and besought and
| bcsleged that city till the young men went west.
| But it is not strong reason for the encourage
ment of our navigation? If we had our olden
| commerce, there would be no need of It's foster
| ing. We must have ancient Greece 10 teach US
| the art of navi igation and revive our shipping.
BY the latest returns up to September 30,
| 1Sll, for three months we had only two ships,
with eight sailors apiece, which cleared for
! Greece. 1t is not recorded that they ever
| turned. But no matter for that. Let us en-
| courage emigration. During the past tifty-tive
| years, from 1921 to 1879, we had two hundred
! and eighty-three descendants Of Epamnopdas
| and Socrates come to our shores, being four
| personsranl four-fths of person on an aver
| age per annum distributed from Passamaquod-
| dy to PaSo del Norte. Now, when immigra-
ton is falling off, it is high time to reach out
| the hand to the heroes of Thermopyle and Mis-
| solonghi. Let US bring to our shores the hon
| ored scions-thus gloriously quoted by Mr..
Read, our minister, in his dispatch, to wit:
Mayrocordato, kolokotronis, Batzaris, Capo DIS
| tria, ami many more which long ago became house
hold words i'll America have now in Greece living
illustrations III the second and third generations
beneath tbc naintin@s With tell n rpnbic waVs
Their ancestors heroic story.
We can make Solons out of them when war
does not summon them to its CORY field
l SAW in the gallery remains of Greece in plaS-
me here state tbat he hears stron+s resemblance
| tn NV frionJ frn,, Penn rian;o III. Itoiier
fian9htrr And now coma @, ha, tn tbn H",s
| of Renrescntatilns ! 500 tnot Grnecn il NOT
dead. nat shn is Sin Iiv.na Greerr Iiving in
plaster ot paris rioht in the ,itv nf Wa.Linoton
win 20 fnrtbnT think we oucht tn h,,ye n
minister to ali nthor ohSnInta an 7JIao r,Ircns
Whv NOT have = minister Of tha same rnnk ot
| IIercuI.naum at Pomnaii AMI ,f oil thnsn
,Ioces to ,yhb ~ ,.1lI,.t as ,,otto,, ~ oomrsn
md .,rinsitvs 80
Mr. SnrinGnr To Nineveb
NJ COY Who're
Mr. Snrincer Eirntcb
Mr. On Yes to Tfnrveh nnrbous tbe mos,
eliuiIln situation on tla ,sInhn RI nn,,htnr1 /
| WORLD nref.r a ,nnsnI IN \iravah a., ,ari[o;,
| reasons which ! ne"d uot nnrtinn fi:nnal,,ad
| lauuhtnr
! That reminds mo of sounthip, intnnJaj IN
| discuss nas saddnncd to rp1I in thn.e ,lis
| natfhps that onr friend Mr. MAYNARD had hnnu
| rather snnhbcd nv the state Department he
| cause of n little matter to which briefly cali
the attention of tLe IJnusa II il onr dutv ber,.
~ wnIl to nrntcrt nrr absent members ne thoe1
present iust n. nv friend rom Injiano tNIr
| Holn,a,,1 nroto,.tnJ iu,lo Rimal,an, thn otha,.
| d,v in surh an elonnrnt 7n,nunr I yvnmId nrn
| tect MI Maynard from the harsh criticism
| passed upon nm IN one OF these papers. How
| fell Won Thcrr is = SORT of IrrmnnbroJit,
country called lfpoll; IL GOES NOT KNOW
| whether 1t Is part OF Turkey or AlSlers or of
the Desert Of Sahara, which is soon to be
| flooded.
| We have no minister there, but we have
| eonSul-9eneral, Mr. ldaI Last year or wear
| before last he wrote dispatch, which was
| quoted in this House to show that our ProteS-
tant missionaries ought not to waste their time
III Irlpoh or III the territories OF the on barbaroi
OF the Greeks. lie Sad the place for Protestant
! pr0paganCtlsln was IN bulgaria The Old New
York PRESBYTERIAN Observer came out and read
| tins consul lesson. 1t sald: my 10 YOU as
4 consul of the nited states undertake to di-
| rect our missionary enterprises? What Is that
to you: Where DO you get your power: Mt
| lde had urged that there were 4 great many
sa! !ettauels otiislls siaNcS llol oouun anu
t'ntii " i 'A' ut.,7 t'''
irl iq m'icie NJ Gn W. vi tty 'iis
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