The Morning herald., 1878-03-02
WELLINGTON. Del. March ?. 1873.
GREECE.

the Independence of Greecs was guaran'
teed BY the great powers by the treaty G
1927. Three years later it was agreed
on the death Of Capo d Istrios, to offer tn
crown to some European prince. 1t wa
first offered to Prince Leopold Of Sax
Coburg Gotha; but was by him refusod
1t was afterwards offered 10 and accented
by Ohio, younger son Of the King o
Bavaria.
For full four hundred years, previous It
its independence, the land of Pericles an'
and Meltiades was trodden under thu
hoofs of barbarian Spahis, and robber Pash
az. Every lover of the heroic were il
high hopes that Greece would rapidly
rise in importance. To do so was impos
sible. The holy alliance, as the syndicate
ofcrowned Williams was called, who regu
lated the the affairs Of Europe half cen
tury ago, determined that the success OIL
Greece, shouldnot be example to encourage
other people to rise. Because if the seem.
ing failure of the Greeks their cause has
almost faded out of sight, and now wher
they are again in arms they are lampooned
by Reuter- and his ariels.
The radical causes of the weakness Of
Greece is to be found in the treaty of 1927,
end the principal INSTRUCTORS Of her pro-
gress have been the high contracting Pow
ers. The treaty which secured her inde-
pendence made her progress impossible. It
10 no exaggeratien to say that the infant
State was strangled at its birth. 1t was
manifestly the duty of the contracting Pow
ers when they gave Greece her independ-
snce to grant her territory corresponding
to her necessities-so as to give her limits
that she would include in her terri,
tories all the countries in which the Greek
race was still predominant. Nature had
made it plain to all what those limits
should have been. They should have in>
cluded all the islands of the Archi-
pelago. The northern boundary line
should have been drawn from Cattaro. on
the Adriatic, to Salonica, on the Aegeaen.
Such an arrangement would have brought
the Greek people together into one com
pact homogeneous whole; and such a
Kingdom, because it would have given ac-
tivity to the Hellenic race, and because it
would have secured scope for activity and
expansion, might have been success.
How different was the arrangement which
was actually made The territory of the
new State was to embrace all the islands
Of the Aegean, known as the Cyclades, but
neither Gambia nor Cyprus. The northern
boundry line was drawn not from Cattaro
to Salonica, but from Arta to Cape Army
ros. in the Gulf Of Volo. Such an arrange
msnt, as we have said, carried death with
it from the outset Such territory was not |
only inadequate for the requirements of
Greece; it was inadequate for the require.
nents of any State which was to be honor
ed with the semblance Of Inde pendence l.
shut up section only Of the Greek race ic
a piece Of territory SO contracted and con-
fined that prosperity was impossible. 1t de.
MED to many thousands OF Greeks, both or
the islands and on the mainland, the priv
ilege of associating with their brethern
and sharing with them the blessing, ,fI
freedom and independence. It was a cruel
wrong to those who were shut out. That
only one million and half of Greeks
are within the dominion of Greece, even
after the cession of the Ionian Islands |
by England in 1S43 and that her terri
tory IS limited to 1900 square miles
furnishes the best proof of tie wretched |
policy Of the Holy Alliance.
An opportunity has again arrived, and |
1t is to be hoped that, that State to which |
the world Is 80 greatly indebted, land which |
in times gone by, commanded the sympa-
thy Of Christendom, will not be found |
without friend. 1t is no. too much to |
say that if the Congress Of Verona in 1928
had listened to the supplicating voice of
Greece the vexed Eastern question might |
long since have been satisfactorily settled.
1t has been we'll remarked that the settle
ment which was ultimately made, while it |
weakened the Mussulman barrier against
Russia, failed to set up Christian barrier
in it's stead. The success of Russia has
revolutionized all the old arrangements in
the East. servia, Bosnia, Bulgaria and
the other Slavic proTinces will all be
emancipated from Turkish rule. This
much Is certain from the peace prelimina-