The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-04-30
MEMPHIS APPEAL.
FRIDAY, tt: APRIL 80, 1855.
aprrrE ON HER DIGNITY

GREECE ON HER DIGNITY.
The "poweis" do not find Greece
the plant, plastic, yielding subordi-
na,e under their might that they ex-
pected. There is spirit, and vigor, and
bravery yet among the descend
ants OF the old classic heroes. For
them Homer's song still sparkles With
living FIRE, and the story OF the history
Of past exploits has to-day livicg in
Auence, warming their heats, ANNA
ing their souls, and filling their breasts
with adamantine determination. The
mighty war.ships Of the "poWers"
have filed the Grecian seas and
threatened the seaports. The powers
have sent an ultimRtum ID the Greek
nation, requiring disarmament, sub
mission and obedience. How could
little, weak Greecs refuse humbly and
instantly TO perform what overpower-
ing might ordered? The powers be-
lieved might TO be everything. The
Greeks have taught them tina. God
hiss given his creatures powers that
bsflle might and that parAlyze the arm
stretched out TO Cypress. 1t is power
arising from and inspired by selt-re-
spec. The Greek Ministers refuse TO
obey dictation by ceasing to be minis
tiers, by abandoning positions that
threats from foreigners have made in
tolerable, and leaving the ty rannical
powers nobody to treat with, nobody
TO command, nobody upon whom
to enforce obedience. II is even
rumored that the King himself will
leave bis throne, give up his state and
renounce his authority rather than lie
a subseYvient instrument in his couu-
try's degradation. The Greeks know
how 10 make right battle might, and
what can might do under such cir
eumstances All the bullets OF all
the cannon in all the ships owned by
the powers cannot batter down the
force Of human resolution when 1t is
maintained in the breast Of patriots.
The powers have the might, but the
Greeks have the right. At the con-
ference OF the powers in Berlin the
right OF Greece TO certain territory held
by the Turks was distinctly recognized
and acknowledged. With much
reluctance and some resistance Tur'
key surrendereda portion OF the terri
tory, and up to to-day II retains the
rest. The portion 80 long withheld
the Greeks, arms in hand, now de-
mand. The powers without Offering
any redress, without requiring Turkey
to do the justice 80 long delayed--or-
der Greece ITO submit to the wrong
to leave portion Of IFS own country
in the hands OF an oppressive power;
to retire it's feet, lay down its arms,
and aoquiesce in wrong and injustice.
Greece refuses, her government re-
fuses. her people refuse. They hold
up.no weapon, they load no guns, but
with all the force OF patriotic resolu-
ton, watchful and determined, but
without forcible resistance, they re-
fuse. The spectacle approaches the
sublime. II rivals the proud days
when the thunder OF Demosthenes
stirred every heart in Athens, and the
tramp Of the patriotic legions Of Greece
resounded in every street as they set
off TO win victories by the force Of a
bravery that has won admiration from
the world in every succeeding age, and
whose fame to-day, rs ever, pouTs liv-
ing fire into the utterances Of the ora
tor and the poet, and helps to nerve
with uncomfortable vigor the patriotic
arm in every century and in every
cline. Is there patriot heart in these
United States that can refuse its re-
Spouse to the noble attitude OF the
Greeks, who stand erect, deiying OPP
preston and refusing an obedience
that would humiliateP
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