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THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE. 1/7 was thrown during the centuries of Turkish bond- age, of the wonderful rising of the Greek people from the lethargy caused by slavery, and of their spiritual and political resurrection. Now we come to the strangest and the most incom- prehensible of all the wrongs done to this noble race, the treatment received from the European powers while she was struggling for liberty after long centuries of terrific vicissitudes, un- der circumstances which presented more diffi- culties than any other nation had encountered. Toward the end of the year 1822, the Euro- pean sovereigns and their ministers were assem- bled in the council at Verona to consider the Greek question. In the spring of the preceding year the mon- archs, assembled at Lay bach, had deliberated already over the news of an insurrectionary Greek movement. Alexander I. and the whole of Europe disowned and condemned the Hel- lenic war of independence from the very mo- ment it began. The Greeks in their assembly at Epidauros on January 15th, 1822, proclaimed: "Our war against the Turks is not the outcome of seditions and subversive forces, nor the weapon of party ambition. It is a national war, undertaken with