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Westheki, Friday, July 120, 1827. YT v;! _v ijiM.f, CHACTAIO.CK CO. .N. 'i HIU^L &SSBBSSBP mirm^tJ?- S To Tillage snliseribers, £2,n0. X»«ftoe*n»lmail»abs4;rib4 rs £l,50,cash jhsdraaCC—$3,00 if paid within ill- \ear. loniRli...l ; • i|t,| lo d«>) H»rt«h Willi I piil.Ik k* sentiment operating in an op posite direction, but with H powetfol, from war the known maxim* of Turkish ic. nwr the menaces which have L>:n haro is, una desputick government, [rem atedly been made uj the Th« strength and eftcary «tf the pub-(but we see it exempHai . i'\ the lick aie e«*ntnnei.t «>! the civilized world new therefore to be put to the test gad d-2,50, it delayed VI! the end oftbe year, j »« To companies of 13 or more, who reccire m their papers at the oilioc. $1, 50, if paid with- iotbe year—if not paid till the end of tin v «ar, 42,00. My/ kinds of country proibjce received in payment, if delivered by tbefint sf Feb- ruary next. m .i large scale, and npon a most nv>- Ptttons issue. It is now to be seen, whether mankind, that is, its civilized portion,—whether enlightend Europe or enlightened America will standby, and-behold a civilized and Christian people massacred—whether a people •I that cultivate the arts which we culti- vate,—that enter into friendly inter- their chil- ADVERTISEMENTS Not exceeding a square, will be inserted course with us,—that send three weeks, for £l. V'or every subsequent dmn to our unertion,S5 cents. A liberal deduction will an( j rea( j „,, r be made to Chose who advertise by the year. <£>j:crcc. schools,—that translate historians, philosophers, and moralists,—that live by the same rule of faith, and rii\ in tiie hope of the same Saviour, shall oe allowed to be From tue4ulyKo»ofthe North Ameri- can Review, are extract the following ap- peal in behalfoftbe Greek*—N. P. SW^ffa We now see the Greeks, • gajl ox' race, struggling sing! handed for inoe- pendence; an extraordinary spectacle to the world ! H ith scarcely a govern- ment of their own. and -vnhout the as- sistance of any established power, they have waged, for six years, a fearfally contested war against one of the great empire* of -lie earth. When Mr. Can ring lately field out the menace of war, grains', those continental nations, who shoald violently interfere with the En* rlish system, he sooght to renrttr the menace more alarming, by calling it n hewc dowu to the earth in our sight, by R savage horde of Ethiopian and Turks. For ours \fives re do not be- Porte. island cfseio. On the soil <>f Greece, thus swept of its present population, will be settled the Egyptian and Turkish We aie not kit lu collect tins merely [lower ol strengtn. it will make ilsell *' ' \ '\ * '*' ' felt, by n thousand manifestations. It will be heard in our senates and am pulpits; it will be echoed from fire- sides. Does anv on\ dribbt that the causeof America was mightily strength- ened and animated by the voices of the friends of liberty in the British pnrlia- W&w CttowMts. Vn inward is.>.;iance tells us | with the rest of Enrage by every moral that i' cannot be. Such an atrocity ne- and intellectual association; and capa- ver has happened in be man aflairs, and ble of being reared up into a prosper- will not no« be permitted. As the hor- ous and cultivated state. Final!}', in rid catastrophe dr ws i.^ar, if draw near [them will perish one whole Christian it--iinst, tin Christian governments will; people; and that the first that embra- a waken from their apathy. If govern-'ced Christianity; churches actually menu- remain enchained by reasons! founded by the apostles in person ;— • >f state, the common \< eiing of human lahnrrars for whose direct instruction a hy among men v. ill hurst out. in some'considerable part of the New Tesia- efiectua] interference. And if this fail,'meat was composed, after abiding all «hy shonld not Providence graciously.the storms of eighteen centuries, and troops, by whom it shall have been ment ? Were not the speeches of Subdued. Thus will have been cut off,(Chatham and Buike worth a triumph- obliterated from tb? map of Europe, j ant battle to our fathers ? And can any and annihilated by the operation of wh itever is most barbarous and terrif- ick in the military practice of the Turkish government, an entire people ; one of those distinct social families, in- to which Providence collects the sons of men. In them will perish the de- scendents of ancestors, toward whom we all profess a reverence;* who carry in the language they speak, the proof of their national identity. In them will be exterminated a people, apt and predisposed for all the improvements of civilized life; a people connected •in ,.. * , New-York, Jul), C. 1 he hiacks in this ci'y and vicinity had yestetday, in pursuance of a previ- ous arrangement, a celebration of the day of their emancipation throughout the state. An oration had been deliv- ered on the 4th in Zion Church, by Mr, William Hamilton, when the various u :r?.r of opinions,*' in which the dis- contented of every country would rally against their own government, under the banner of great Britain. On this interpose, to prevent il'e extinction of surviving so many vicissitudes, are now the ia..'y people, in v hose churches the at length to be razed ; and in the place New Testament is uscu in Uia original]of all this, an uncivilized Mahometan tongue ? Is if not a p* ninent subject of horde is to be established upon the ru- inquiry with those, who administer the j ins. We sav it is a most momentous religious charities of this and other j alternative. The character of the age Christian countries, whether the entire Its concerned. The impending evil is menace, which, considering the quartet caHM 0 f t hc diffusion of the gospel is not tremendous. To preserve the faith of from whence it proceeds, comes with ni()re closely connected with the struggle; certain old treaties, concluded we for- a revolutionary and disorganizing tone, j n Greece, than with any thing else^in'get when, the pailiaatent of England we have now no comment to make.— nnv part of the world? Is not the qnes-i decides by acclamation to send an ar- Thewar now raging in Greece, is, in a t j on> whether Greece and her Islands my into Portugal and Spain, because much higher and better sense, a war of s | 1H n } H , Christian or Mahometan, a'Spain has patronized the disaffection opinion, which is actually begun ; and morf . j,;iportan» qutstion,than any other, ol the ultra-royali in which the unarrayed. the unofficial, j n { |, P decision of which we have the change in the gove and wc had almost said the individual remotest :gencv patro sts. To prevent a government of Piedmont, Might not a well'Naples, and Spain, Austria and France one doubt that the Grecian patriots will!societies of coloured persons, in their hold out, so long as the Christian woildj uniform dresses and various badges were will cheer them with its sanction ? present; but the procession was aefer- Let then the publiek mind be disa- red for evident reasons. The concourse bused of the prejudices, which mislead was yesterday very great I* is sup- U on this question. Let it not be ope posed that about fifteen hundred joined rated upon ^y tales of piracies at sea, the procession, which was conducted and factions on land; evils which be-1 with a degree of sobriety and decorum long not to Creeks, but to human na-, highly honourable to this class of peo- ture. Let the means of propagating: pie. \ Another oration was delivered at authentick intelligence of the progress Zion'« Church by Mr. John Mitchell of the revolution be multiplied. Let its j The procession passed through all the* wed women and childien. The banners, which were numerous, were also neatly executed, well wishers and well helpers declare] most publiek streets, and was f themselves in the cause. Let the tide by vast numbers of ne^ro ot pious and Christian charity be turn- ed into this broad and thirsty channel. Let every ardent and high spirited Iand appropriate to theorcaston. A*non\e young man, who has an independent!them were the paintings of Daniel D. subsistance of two or three hundred dol-j Tompkins, Gov. Jay, Wilberforce and* lars a year, embatk personally in the, president Boyer. The musick was un- cause, and aspire to that crown of glory j usually good\; there were four or five never yet won except by him who so bands, comprising a great variety of in- lateiy triumphed in the hearts of the struments, played with much skill as entire millions of Americans, be done, and Greece is safe. Let this will readily be believed, from the ack- nowledged talent of the African race for musick. An incident took place in the course of the procession, which is not only di- verting, but will serve to show the ad- mirable subordination of this band of While passing Constantinople, April 28. The Ramazan has not hindered the ambassadors of England, Russia, and France, from making application to the Reis Effendi on the subject of the pa-j new made freemen cification of Greece. On the 1 Sth, the through Greenwich street, a violent dragomans of these ministers waited on | shower overtook them. The heavens the Reis Effendi, and after hearing him seemed for a moment to pour out their invoke the justice of God, and the as-'wrath on the procession ; the whole sistance of the prophet, received for an-1 band disperssd, and sought temporary answer, that <: the words arrange-1 shelter under the awnings and stoops ment, pacification, and suspension of j of the shops. The marshal found him- arms, employed with respect to the (self, with his aids, suddenly left without Greeks, appeared to the divan to be i a single follower. He faced about un- efforts ard charities oftbe friends of lit'- devised and active concert among Chris-1 invade those countries with large armies ertv, 'hroughout Christendt m, are com- t ; a „ charitable societies in Europe and] Can these great powers look tamely on, for the sak' .i. of rescuing this! and see the ruin of Christian brethren bat'ine iod thus far successfully, the Am barharoas hosts of the Turk. Dt-serKd Christian people, present the mostaaa-l in Greece ? Is there a faded parch as they have been by the governments pj c ; 0 ns prospect ot success, and form!ment, in the diplomatics archives of to whom they naturally looked lor aid ; a *, organization adequate to the impor-; London or Lisbon, that binds the Eng- by Russia, who tamely sees the iiead tnnc< and sacredness of the object?—ilish government more imperiously, than of the Russian church hung up nt the \ Vl door land, the champion of liberal principles pfiei in Europe, and the protectress of tin },;. a Ion.an iies ; by the holy I r;ui .,r.y man rho has humanity,{the great originai obtigahon tu fescue his own catbbdral; by Eng- liberty or Christianity nt heart, feel jus- an entire Christian people from the his voice, scimetei ? Can statesmen, who profess in forbea ;riT ', his . yui to give expressions out of place; that the re- volt of some Greeks scattered through- out the Ottoman empire would have been put down long ago, but for the as- sistance they received from Europe, &c This answer did not appear to the dragoman to be of a nature to be redu- ced to writing ; but they inferred from another equivocal declaration, that for- mal answers in writing, might be ex- pected of the Potte, after Bairam, 1st of May. Nevertheless the English am- mindful of the pelting storm, and ex- claimed in a voice of thunder, \ For shame, gentlemen,—for shame! you behave like boys ! form and move on!\ This appeal had the desired effect:— the men returned to their posts, the banners were again raised, and the pro- cession moved forward under increasing showers of rain. Jn relating this incident, we by no means wish to throw ridicule on the ceremony. Too many of our more fa- thy, to this cause, in ' to be, who are, influenced by the rules: bassador invited the other two ministersjvoured race are disposed to contemn sustcirn-d by the sympathy d\ the of Europe, heen waged a war, in which 'stiew the plains of Attica with bloody volunteers have t be results, in the worst event, could izeti world. Gallant crowded to their assistance, aiu' some have been so calamitous, as it must be of the best blotd in Europe has b a en allowed by every reflecting mind, that shed in (heir dffer.ee . Libera! contri- the subjugation and consequent extirpa- bations of money have oeen sent to i, 0 n of the Greeks would be. The them aciu-s the globe ; and, while we srars that are waged between the states write the sentences, supplies ase des-'of Christendom, generally growing ant patched to them i\< m various parts nfjof me disputed titles of princes, or state ourowa country, sofictent to avert the quarrels between the governments.— honours of famine, for another «ason.; Serious \hanges no doubt take place, The direct effect of these contributions,, as these wars may be decided one way- great as it is '-nd it is this which has j or the other. iSations, formerly well enabled i.hr Greeks to bold out thus governtd, may come under an arbitra- far.) is Dot its best operation. We live .y sway ; or a despotick be exchanged in an age of moral influences. Greece,'for a milder government. But, inas- iu these various acts, feels herself in- much as victor and vanquished belong corporatcd into the family of civilized j to the same civilized family; and the nations; raised out of the piison house same social condition, the standard of of a cruel and besotted despotism, into, morality, and the received code of pub- the community of enlightened states.— 'lick law are substantially the same in Let an individual fall in with and be all the nations ef Europe; no irrepara- assuiled by a superioar force, in the ble disaster to the cause of humanity lonely desert, on the solitary ocean, or! itself can ensue from any war, in which beneath the cover of darkness, and his they may be engaged with each other. heart sinks within him, as he receives Had Napoleon, for instance, succeeded blow after blow, and feets his strengthiin invading and conquering England wasting, in the unwitnessed and un-, (and this is probably the strongest case cheered straggle. But let the sound of, that can be put,) after the first calarni- fiumnn voices swell upon his ear, or a; tics of invasion and conquest were past, friendly sail draw nigh, and life and J which must in all cases be much the iiope revive within his bosom. Nor is hu-j same, no worse evils wcuid probably |nan nature different in its operation,! have resulted to the cause of humanity, in the large masses of men. Can any j than the restoration of the Catholick r>ne doubt, t'.iat if the Greeks, instead of] religion, as the religion of the state, the Mug placed \here they are, on a re-[introduction of the civil in place of the Downed arena, in sight of the civilized common law, and the general exclusion wor'.d,—visited, aided, applauded, as [of the English nobility and gentry they have been, from one extreme of from offices of power and profit; an Christendom to the other,—had been i exclusion, which the English govern- Buirounded by barbarism, secluded in i ment itself, since the year lf>GS, has en- th»* intptionr of the Turkish empire,!forced towards the Catholick families, without a medium of communication'among which are some of the oldest and with the world, they would have been richest in the kingdom. Whereas, where Mons. Ribeaupere has resided j SO long denied them—a long oppressed ashes ? ever since the answer given him at the j race added to the ranks of freemen, is, If they can, and if fhey will then let beginning of the Ramazan. No farther! to the eye of philanthropy, a sublime the friends of liberty, humanity, and re-j step had been taken, and this accident i and grateful sight. With such feelings ligion take up the cause as one that! appears to have occasioned some dis-| we looked upon the celebration of yes- concerns them all, and each, in his ca pacity as a Christian and a roan.— Let them make strong the publiek sentiment on this subject, and. it will prevail. Let them remember, what ere now has been done, by the perseverance and resolution of small societies, and even individual men cussions of little importance among the European ministers.— Ausbnrgh Gaz. The Greek government has publish- ed the following declaration of admiral Miaulis, relative to the chief command of the naval force, which has been giv- en to Lord Cochrane. u Chiefs of the government —I come terday, and the difference of colour was forgotten.— American. Hartford, July 10. Afi ican Celebration. —The African population of this city celebrated the 5th inst. in concordance with their brethren of New-York on account of Let them remember how small a com-! hither according to the orders which I j the abolition of slavery in that state, pany of adventurers, unpatronized,| have received, and I expect new ones ; i Their proceedings, as far ss we have scarcely tolerated by their government,! but 1 first think it my duty to express . learned, were conducted with much bar- succeeded in laying the foundation of. to the superiour government my tho'ts,mony and decorum. They repaired to this our happy country, beyond a my sentiments, and my desires, that it j the African church, and after attending mighty ocean. Let them recollect, that'may be able, as well as the nation, to i to prayer, the reading of the scriptures, it was one fixed impression, cherished • judge of me and my intentions. Fori the singing of hymns, and the delivery and pursued in the heart of a humble i these seven years, I have combatted, 0 f three orations, two of them by men swept away m a single campaign f— They would have been crushed; they should the Turks prevail in the present contest, an amalgamation of victor and and friendless mariner, through Ion years of fruitless solicitation and faint- ing hope, to which it is owing that the vast American continents are made a part of the heritage of civilized man.— Let them recollect that, in the same ge- neration, one poor monk dismembered | the ecclesiastical government of Eu- rope. Let them bear in mind, who roused the nations of Europe in mass, to engage in an expedition against the common enemy of Christendom ; an expedition, wild, indeed, and unjustifia- ble, according to our better lights, but lawful and meritorious in those who embarked in it. Let them, in a word, neves forget, when on those lovely isl- ands and once happy shores, over which a dark cloud of destruction now hangs, the foundations of the Christian church were first laid, it was by the hand of private, poor, and persecuted individuals. It was the people, that took up the gospel, in defiance ot all the patronage, the power, and »he laws of government. Why should not Chirs- without any interruption, alone with of colour, proceeded to the shady and my brethren, and with all my force, a-1 pleasant retreat, commonly styled the gainst the enemy of our country. Nei- j Scat of Happiness, near the foot of ther the consciousnesss of my incapa-j East Rock. Here they sat down to the city, nor ths greatness of the burthen! convivial board, unmolesting and un- imposed on me by the country, have : molested. As they were marching cn- been able to terrify me or make me hes-j ward to well-timed musick, some ill— itate. I consider it as the first duty of j starred teamster, thinking to vex them, a citizen to do the utmost for the salva-jkept his team at a slow pace directly tion of his country; and I have always; before the procession. The train halt- endeavoured to fulfil this duty. If I led, in order to give their unwelcome have not always succeeded, it has not leader time to clear the road for them; been for want of good will. ' { As well as all the nation, I have iong founded my hopes on the arrival of that would have been trampled into the vanquished would be as impracticable dust; and the Tattar, that returned'now, as when Greece was first conquer from the massacree, would have brought i ed by the Ottoman power. The pos the first tidings of their struggle. J session of the country has been prom This is our encouragement to perse- ised to the bey of Egypt, as the reward jbelieve^it is'the strong and decided vere in calling the attention of the pub-'of his services in effecting its conquest sentiment oftbe civilized world, that lick to this subject. It is a warfare iniThe men at arms have already been'the cause of the Greeks is a good cause, which we are or ought to be enlisted, doomed to military execution of the and that they ought not to be allowed It is a war of opinion, of feeling, and most cruel kind, and the women and to peri.<h, it cannot be that this scnti- of humanity. It is a great war of pub- children would be sold into Asiatick ment will remain inoperative. The JtcU semimfnt; not conflicting (as it is and African bondage. very existence yf this HRfimfDt j| gi but he, likewise, came to a stand ; and when they advanced, so did he. Some of the company then politely requested great man. whose preceding splendid ; hjm to proceed at a quicker pace or fall deeds promise our country a happy is- j Q the rear,but all to no purpose. Hodge sue out of the long and arduous strug- 1 would drive just so as to keep the best gie which it maintains. This man bas| 0 f the road and the front of the column, arrived, and I congratulate the govern-! am i so as effectually to prevent the lat- men! and the whole nation on it. I tor from passing by. Such conduct, at \The Greek marine may justly ex-j^d, a time, was not to be brooked by pect every thing from such a leader; our sable heroes. So some ot the most and I am the Orel to declare myself; valiant of their number stepping for- readv again to combat, and with all my ; ward, turned over and out of the path might, under his command. The task j the obnoxious vehicle, when the whole moved on leaving the teamster to right age at his - tianitv be sustained \in the same awn- wiH doubtless be difficult forme, on ac-j moved on leaving the teamster - tr- and bv the same' means, by which it count of my age and want of experience, i i, is cart and gather up his baggs - was originally established? If-as we yet my heart is contented, for it has ne- leisure.—Co/m. Journal. ver desired any thing but the happiness of the country. Begging the supreme Government not to doubt the sincerity Rochester, July 10. Celebration of Independence. —On of rov sentiments, 1 remain, with the j the Mb inst, in accordance with previ- most profound respect, the very obedi-ons arrangements, the people of colour om n4»i£.i tin this vicinity, celebrated the day, ANDREW MIAULIS. J commemorative of their freedom, in the
