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We have been favored, but one of our friends and correspondents, with the following translation of a Proclamation of Demetrius Ypsilanty, the celebrated Greek Chieftain, published in the Paris paper in July last. It is written in true attic style.
"Rejoice ye friends of Greece! That noble country of value and genius is raising up from its reins. The Phenix, emblem of regeneration hovers over the mountains of Epirus and Peloponessus. With the spirit which animated her Themistocles and her Leonidas, her new bands are marching towards Thracia and Thessalia. Like the sacred battalion, they call for the enemy; but the enemy, degraded by superstition and struck with terror, thinks that the last day is come and it flies before them.
"Rejoice then, men of learning, friends of literature, of philosophy, justice and humanity; you have wept enough over our sorrow; but do not remain cold hearted spectators of our struggle for independence and liberty; for we are fighting in the holy war of innocence against tyranny- of religion against fanaticism- of law against violence- of light against darkness. Oh, admirers of our ancestors! Assist then their children, and do not suffer them to beg what they are entitled to expect from your wisdom. At least enlighten us with your advice- become defenders of the rights of Europe- before the world. Vindicate our cause and show to the Christian powers what they will gain if they have for neighbors a people polished and illuminated by the gospel, in the room of fanatics and murderers. Oh! If the only result of our holy insurrection, was the expulsion from the continent of Europe, of pestilence and Muhometanism, we should have deserved well of mankind.
"Eloquent orators, able writers, our friends, and Greece in freedom will number you among her beloved children; and engrave your names with those of her defenders on the pillars of the temple of immortality."
Signed,
DEMETRIUS YPSILANTY
Odessa, April 1st, 1821
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