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Excerpt from The Cause of the Greeks: A Discourse, Delivered in St. Paul's Church, on the Evening of February 26, 1827, at the Request of the Committee for the Relief of the Greeks
From the year 1453, A. D. Greece has bowed to the horrible yoke of Turkish domination, compared to the cruelty of which, the savage ferocity of the wild beasts of the forest, 1s absolute tenderness. From the period alluded to, a dark and dismal cloud has hu'ng upon this unhappy land, which for no less than four centuries has excluded the glorious light of freedom. During. This long period one fe'eble effort was made by' a gigantic power to rescue Greece from this dominion but it failed. Had not the close of the tragedy de veloped so much perfidy and horror, we might amuse ourselves With the idea that the descendants of the barbarous Scythians, scarcely then less barbarousa: than their fathers, should have felt the classic desire of restormg the republics of Solon and Lycurgus. But this was Russian policy, under the Czarina Catharine, and she found no difficulty in rousing the dispirited Greeks by the promise of effectual succours. When the locked for ¿eet of Russia was seen, as it came round the tenar ium promontorium, freedom seemed to ride on the very bleez'e, and for a moment the Greek thought that the day of his emancipation had arrived. But Russian succour was as deceptive as the south W1nd, which softly blog, enticed the shipmaster.
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