The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1876-02-24
NUMBER 81.

of the Homeric heroes TrEe her streams are
dried up, her soil barren. her oliye-trees crt II,
by the roots for fucI and the yery Grass mad,
the food of her nomadic goats bnf if is MOI
Greece? Some cynic NAV ask before voting an
propriations for our minister who honorS The
dead past and the great heroes of that deaf
past. What is Cithera's isle TO tbe Grass hon
per despoiled West? What is MlOs. from
whence the famous statute of Venus came. ol
Salamis with the fame of Themistocles. when
Nissjssippi is under the ban and its nlantation
are oyergroWn with sedge-orassy What tht
Pirpus. where Socrates questioned the sailors
or what the academy under whose oliye-trees
the divine Plato sat while the bees of IIymottus
settled on his Inns when the Texas border is
rayaged by greasers and American cattle driven
to Cortina's ranches bv the thousand? What
are Morca's hills with their Golden and DurnIe
sunsets, when beyond our sunset. contractors
cheat the Government ana Indians on meat and
flour? What the yiolet-wreathed city of Miner.
va, when in the great mctropolis of New York
''farther vest the tenement-bouses teem with
skeleton starviings? Let Imagination paint in
rainbow colors the ycrIureless and yellow isles
of Greece and sing them again in Bvron's muse.
but what are these to the demoralized and
overlooked bacon of Alabama? When there is
sung the gories of Bacchus and the mazy
dance OF the Bacchuntes, who is to tell the mys-
terIcs of the crooked tices of the maize of lii
nois, Wisconsin, and Missouri:
And if, further, the same cynic asks why
King George of Greece PLAYS with his bet birds
Mlie W 'ne oahI'lts proWi, puhder; ana murder
4 y y salu Ihat oreece i tle lahd OF runs,
anus ana DeSSais' ana lne niue kihSet OF
Sehleswig- -Holstcin is held on his throne by
other powers, may we not respond, s'It is
Greece of Aristotle and Homer, To which we
eeiu EN- cApfnsNe eilipassadoia'
We ousht 10 20 iuftnef III cur pflaG ana pro
gectloh ioi thiS gray" VI greatness We ouShl 10
3rlhS our OF tue RUNS oi the Acropolls some OF
those rare works of art that were left Nv Iicrtl
Eisln Wnen ne :GrrepuuouSiy carried OH so
many 70 the brltlsh museum; =, pleau LOT lhe
poor lnnabilahls OF Greece. Iney ought 10 be
u y some way OF other protected by our munster
Li4auSIiter' 4iu
mere are many new members mere VINO prob
aoly 40 hot hnoS Ii'aI tWo wears ago we nitu al
l. ENtcutNc ilotoilieht' -Ho: - ol the secohu sGs-
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" Hoio.Gi 1 2Ieiiioel 81 WY "eliI ~ "h'l Is
talle'i ne NalSalol lslaiius' he was On Il
special mission from our Government. | d0
not know luSt what II was Tor. Perhaps there
was a land lob in it. Omne ignOtum pro miri-
tico lnurhter But he went ont to these
isIands mi thnra h. ,v,s soon hanI ami giovo
yith L;nl '',,nliI II ,o,,, ,ra,,,iN,. r no,.o
he il now sittin~ under thr brend-fruit frees
with th, Ettla monkey ,Inuinn with nrehensiIn
Grin TO their limbs. ana he III do not mean fine
monkey wrapppd around with fine stor-sl,an.
oiled banner Of olIr country. only sevrntv-6yr
hundred miles from san Francisco. EIGHT thOu.
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laughter
Mr. Chairman, have seen much promlScu-
Gus dancing. byron refers 10 the l'yrrhlr dances
of classic Greece. but that dance is Obsolete.
nave seen the huDNIG~ IN Northern Africa VIII